>> The countdown to the midterm elections is on... >> At stake, control of Congress.

>> NARRATOR: On the eve of the midterm elections, a deeply divided country.

>> President Trump is helping to give Republicans a boost... >> Can Democrats flip the House and Senate?

>> NARRATOR: Over the past six years, a team of filmmakers across the United States has been documenting the views and experiences of Americans.

>> When they step outside their jurisdiction... >> (crowd chants): Renée Good!

>> What is your take on all this stuff going on?

>> (crowd chants): Power!

>> NARRATOR: From the earliest days of the pandemic.

>> I love you so much.

>> NARRATOR: To a summer of protest.

>> We are the free people of America.

>> As long as they catch one dirty cop at a time, I’m happy.

One at a time... >> NARRATOR: And economic woes.

>> Groceries are skyrocketing.

Healthcare is out the roof.

>> NARRATOR: The hopes and fears about the last elections.

>> I want the values to be what the people are voting for, not the person.

>> NARRATOR: And the current one.

>> The state of this country now, it’s messy.

People are angry.

I think I am, too.

>> NARRATOR: Now, a FRONTLINE special presentation: American Voices 2026.

>> How can I love America?

I can't, I don't think I can love America, I can't put that into words.

>> Are we any more safe now than we were before?

>> The cost of living, it's gone up.

>> I'm fearful that people will forget how to work with people that you don't agree with.

>> NARRATOR: These are the voices of Americans.

>> People are getting angrier and angrier.

>> I want to be in charge of my own life!

>> NARRATOR: Gathered from across a divided nation.

>> If America doesn't repent, America will be doomed.

>> NARRATOR: In this film, Americans reflect on the past six tumultuous years.

>> Can someone clap once for me?

(claps) >> This ain't the American dream I thought about when I was in middle school.

>> I wish there wasn't as much hate in this world as what we have.

>> The midterms are definitely gonna be very polarizing.

>> NARRATOR: A pastor, a barber, an aspiring politician, an activist, a mother, a retiree, the owners of a nail salon... ...and of a construction company.

A doctor... ...and a patient.

Each experiencing changes happening in the country and in their own lives.

(dog barks) >> So we're new to Missouri.

I'm seeing all the signs about, like, no on four and five, you know?

Do you have an opinion on those?

>> Um... ...not enough to be able to speak one way or the other.

>> It's, it's tomorrow.

>> Is it tomorrow?

>> Yeah!

(laughs) >> All right, well.

>> Go and take a look, but I will, too.

It's good to be informed.

Awesome, thank you.

(voiceover): I'm trying to talk to locals about the issues that are on the ballot, but so far, nobody near me knows what they even are.

Okay, so look there.

Objective versus subjective.

My kids sometimes will just blurt something out that they got from a meme.

I would be like, "Okay, why do you feel that way?

What are the facts?"

And they can't even explain it.

Opinions versus facts.

And this is why I hate the mainstream news now.

(voiceover): My name is Amy Garner.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I am a mom of six kids.

I don't trust any news source.

All these people are getting a lot of money from advertisers.

I would never say that I blindly, or fully trust any of them.

>> (on cellphone): Go bag is exactly what it sounds like, it's a backpack or a duffle bag designed to have everything you need, so in case of an emergency you can easily and quickly grab it.

>> My name is Dr.

Christine Edy Mann, I am a family practice physician in the central Texas area.

Politics in 2020, COVID in 2020, Kamala Harris in 2024, it has led to me more thinking, take care of myself, take care of my friends, take of my family.

This is our solar crank radio, so if the grid goes down, you can use solar or you can crank it.

Sewing kit, antibiotic ointment.

This kind of prepping makes me... ...have to think about the idea that some of my fears could come to fruition.

>> Our men have been emasculated.

American men are soft.

I mean, honestly, if we do not hold the line in 2026 and 2028, Minnesota is gonna be ground zero for rounding some of you people up.

(voiceover): My name is Royce White.

I didn't get into politics for it to be a job.

I only got into politics to speak a truth that I thought wouldn't be spoken unless I got into politics.

Our political reality in this country is, the future of this nation rests upon the edge of a blade.

Good to see you guys.

>> (on TV): Oh no, so close, but no... >> I don't even look at the news anymore, because I don't want to see him.

I'm just so tired of seeing the president.

>> Okay, I have the answer.

>> And it is?

>> Frank Sinatra.

>> Ah!

I got it right!

Tell you, I get lucky every now and then.

My name is Carran Lewis, I live in North Chesterfield, Virginia.

I'm retired.

And I'm a homeowner.

>> ♪ Praising my savior ♪ ♪ All the day long ♪ >> Amen.

(applause) My pastor even said, he said, even if we're not happy with the person running the country, we still have to love him.

>> Say it!

Say it.

>> I guess I, I still have a lot more spiritual guidance to have to do, because I'm not there.

(indistinct chatter) >> My name is Mark Curtis, I am a father, I'm also a business owner.

I own a construction company.

My political leanings today are very much conservative libertarian.

As an American that has no ties to Israel, and I don't mean for this to come across as being insensitive, but... I don't like how much money or the involvement America has in the foreign war.

What is your take on all this stuff going on?

Because I don't feel like I have an educated, a true, full sense of what's happening.

>> October 7, and the fact that, you know, we had people that invaded, the images... >> Coming from Palestine.

>> ...coming from Gaza.

>> Yeah, which is, which is horrible.

>> And Israel had to stabilize itself.

>> (voiceover): I am not sure how everything shifted from being America first, and our economics improving, to needing the support of a foreign nation.

>> Tough times are coming.

The next few years might be rough.

There's going to be ups and downs.

There's gonna be turmoil.

(voiceover): Our culture has drifted so far away from Christian ethics.

But he will hold me fast.

And he will hold you fast.

You got two choices in American politics.

You can have bad or you can have worse.

Republicans are bad, Democrats are worse.

You get evil or you get more evil.

My name is Cary Gordon.

I'm the senior pastor of Cornerstone World Outreach.

I've told my kids at home that this world is cruel.

You have to maintain compassion for other people and want to help other people.

And at the same time, keep a defensive posture so that you can survive it.

♪ ♪ >> ♪ I'm staying on that time they thought they was ♪ ♪ Like it was déjà vu ♪ ♪ Draco 7.62 with some green dip, that's my favorite round ♪ ♪ Said catch her on the chop, crowd raps support ♪ ♪ The shells were never found, 100 about the ounce ♪ ♪ I never lied, they music really whack ♪ ♪ I said we be slicing through the app ♪ ♪ And we don't even got a deli.

♪ >> Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now you got bars, man, you can rap.

Just make sure you mean what you say, you know?

Music and like art and stuff like that is just self-reflection.

And if, you know, if you're mad at the time, get it out on the music.

If, you know, feel heartbroken at the time, get it out on the music.

(voiceover): My name is Tayo Daniel, I'm from South Minneapolis, Minnesota.

I am a human first and a community member.

You know, I don't really like to get into politics even though politics gets into all of us, right?

All right, my man?

All right, for sure, y'all be smooth, man.

I'm contributing as much as I can to the people that I love and the community I love.

♪ ♪ >> When I was in high school, I always tell my friend, like, later on in life, I'm gonna do some kind of business.

Like, I am gonna open a business.

I don't know what it is, but something, something.

My name is Jamie Dinh.

>> My name is Jason Tolentino.

>> When I tell Jason I'm going to get a nail salon, and then he was like, oh my God, you know how much you have to pay for rent, insurance, and then how many pedicure you have to do?

I was like, "Jason, I don't know, but I know that I have to get that."

The government have their job to do, and me, I'm just a follower.

We work hard to keep the life, the life that we are right now.

(clippers buzzing) >> Just don't seem like... ...something in the air.

>> This is the year with a whole lot wrong to it.

>> Hm.

My name is Bryant Moore, I'm a barber from Portland, Oregon.

Gotcha, you can have a seat and we'll be right with you.

Peter, you are on the wait list as well.

My business, it's not like it used to be.

There's not really regulars anymore, and that's why I chose to do a part-time position at a franchise.

I keep reiterating to myself that it's gonna get better, because the economy's gonna get better, it's going to go back to where it should be.

I don't think we're coming out of this.

I don't think that we're gonna come out of this one unscathed.

>> If you asked me in 2020 if any of these things would've happened, I would've not believed you.

>> I guess I am very different than I was back then.

>> There's been a lot of things that changed from 2020, but I don't think nearly enough has changed.

>> My heart hasn't changed.

But my political views have changed.

>> How did we get to this point?

>> The CDC says there are now more than 4,200 cases of coronavirus.

>> Mass gatherings are restricted to less than ten people.

>> All the people, the nations, and the languages fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

(book shuts) My father pioneered this church in 1982.

This is my 25th year of pastoring myself.

How do I water-baptize someone in a virtual service?

How do I bury the dead?

How do I have a wedding?

How are people supposed to have me lay my hands upon them and anoint them with oil and pray over them to be healed in the midst of a pandemic when I'm told that I can't have physical contact?

They've said the church is not essential.

In a time of crisis with imminent death and a pandemic, the church is not essential.

It's offensive.

(bottle uncapping) >> ♪ Back and forth, and in and out ♪ ♪ And back and forth again ♪ ♪ For we are strong people and we will come out of this ♪ ♪ And be on top again ♪ I do believe.

The bills keep stacking up.

With no money coming in.

(music playing) >> I've got to get my hair done.

He's gotta get his money.

Gotta go back looking fly.

>> I'm just looking for the future.

I'm not gonna stop doing what I'm doing because I'm a provider so, my mind is set on what I have to do.

Be a grandpa.

You know, be a dad, be an uncle.

(clangs shut) >> The coronavirus pandemic is putting an end to the longest economic expansion in U.S.

history.

>> We are going into a global recession.

>> There we go, that's looking nice.

You look so happy about it.

Turn around so I can see the back.

(chuckles) Look as grumpy as you possibly can.

(singing) >> When we say economy, sometimes we just think of finances as a whole, of society.

But instead, I see my brother.

His business was going down.

That triggered the stress which triggered his health issues, which triggered his mental health issues, and he was gone in 60 days.

This is my brother, Brian.

Yeah.

(sighs) I wanted to save other families (voice breaking): from going through what we went through-- sorry.

So that's why I became so passionate about not shutting things down.

Letting people choose.

(car horn honking) >> Are we sheep, or are we people?

>> People!

>> Let's go to work!

(cheers) >> You take away people's connections, their hobbies, their friends, their worship, their work, and everyone's going to be depressed!

And I am so blessed to have a family of children and a husband.

But what about the people who don't?

It's heartbreaking.

>> ♪ God bless America ♪ ♪ My home sweet home ♪ (cheers and applause) >> Yeah, good morning, Second Baptist.

Praise the Lord, everybody.

>> Our seniors, amen, because of COVID-19 should not be out and about like some of us are.

>> That's right!

My immune system is weakened, so I have learnt to love being alone.

I have learnt to be pretty darn comfortable.

♪ And ever ♪ ♪ For all you've done for me ♪ I'm one of these people that still walk around wondering, do I have COVID?

One person that passed, I knew her very, very, very, very, very, very well.

And she was healthy as she could be.

Words just can't describe how this makes me feel.

>> (on iPad): Real reconciliation, uh, because they did this... >> Ammo.

Head to ammo.

Back right.

Do you want one of those targets?

>> Sure.

>> We're going to shoot later today.

>> Those targets look nice.

>> No, we're not getting that target.

How about each of you get to pick one target?

Um, here, let's check out here.

See if we can.

>> I don't need a mask, ma'am.

Thanks, I've already said it twice.

>> Who was that?

>> That lady, she mentioned masks when she walked by me and then she just mentioned masks again as we walked by her.

>> An employee?

>> No, a customer.

>> (voiceover): I want my kids to start looking at the facts across the board, and let them make their own decisions, even starting at a young age.

(gunshot) (gunshot) (gunshot) Wow.

I think overall freedoms are majorly at risk.

We should all have the right to make our own decisions for ourselves.

A good, firm grip.

Squeeze the trigger.

(gunshot) (indistinct chatter) >> Okay, I really hope this internet thing works.

Hey, Irene, can you hear us?

>> Yeah.

>> The freaking cat jumped right in the middle.

(laughs) I saw her picture on MySpace.

I don't know, we just started talking from there.

All right, one second, we've got to turn the table.

>> So, welcome Jason, welcome Nhung Tuyet.

We're gonna be sharing in the joy and the celebration of a very special occasion.

>> When I proposed, I asked her if she was going to marry me, and then she slapped me.

(laughs) >> You know, I always think, like, "Oh, if someone proposed to me "I will slap, like, him in the face," just to make sure that he, like, you know, he know what he's doing.

But then he got kind of scared a little bit, and then I was like, "Oh, yes."

>> And just look into each other's eyes.

Please welcome your marriage with a kiss.

(giggling, laughing) You can remove your masks if you want.

(coughing, laughing) >> I'm hoping that this whole pandemic, it goes away, then we'll be able to open up a shop normally again, and maybe we'll get a kid.

(chuckles) (sniffs) (exhales) >> When the COVID-19 pandemic started, we were left without any guidance.

Doctors like me, we kind of all had to make it up on the fly.

My hands are sweaty, I can't get the gloves on.

It took weeks looking at studies and data from other countries to figure out the processes to manage patients.

This takes between one and three days to get a result.

>> (coughing) >> Sorry.

Man, this is annoying.

We're suffering much worse than we would have had we had a competent, science-based head of state.

>> The number of death in the United States has now reached a stunning 50,000.

>> Had at least one underlying health issue.

>> A new effort to keep Chicagoans safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(glasses clatter) >> Come on, guys.

(dog panting) (coughs) You're wearing your mask wrong.

Cover your nose.

(voiceover): In early April, was when I started feeling lightheaded, dizzy, um, I was coughing.

I lost my sense of taste and smell.

One day I woke up, I was so weak, I just fell over.

(breathing deeply) I was like, "Okay, I really need to go to the emergency room."

(breathing deeply) They, like, immediately put me in a room.

Didn't even ask me my name or anything.

I remember a doctor came in and told me, "We're pretty sure we're "going to have to intubate you.

Do you have someone that can make medical decisions for you?"

Then, um, it's just kind of a blur, what happened after I got intubated.

♪ ♪ >> The day they told us that Mayra, um, it was her last day, we were all in the trampoline, just-- my mom was crying.

My sisters, all my aunts were there, they were crying.

They didn't know what to do.

And we were just planning to go pick up a corpse.

I was trying to avoid it.

>> I love you so much.

Uh-oh.

(chuckles) My name is Mayra Ramirez.

I'm 28 years old.

And I am the first, um, lung-- double lung transplant patient due to COVID-19 in the U.S.

(radio static) >> The attempted arrest was caught on camera.

The video of last night's confrontation shows a white police officer with his knee pinning down the neck... >> His name was George Floyd.

He's on video saying, "Please, please, I can't breathe," as a Minneapolis police officer holds him down... >> No justice, no peace!

Prosecute the police!

>> The outrage began with a video showing an officer kneeling on Floyd's neck... >> How many times have we watched police officers murder people?

(glass shattering) >> Crowds of protesters facing off with officers in riot gear.

(canisters exploding) >> Overnight protests left parts of downtown in ruins.

(people shouting) >> If just one of these oppressive pillars were to crack, the entire system will crumble.

(cheers and applause) >> We're already fighting a common terror, which is COVID, and now this now, you know?

People are just pissed off, like, this is just ridiculous.

How can you kill this man?

The fact that it happened in my neighborhood was what really pulled me into it.

As far as the volunteering efforts go, so far you're our go-to volunteer coordinator, right?

>> Yeah.

>> So we really have to get her engaged with... >> Them.

>> ...them.

(voiceover): A lot of guys from the neighborhood decided to get together and create the 10K Foundation.

We wanted to show that we could have a peaceful protest.

>> 10K is about mobilizing 10,000 people and the power in that, the sovereignty in being able to mobilize 10,000 people.

I grew up here in the Twin Cities.

I felt ashamed that this happened in Minnesota.

All at once I started to see, you know, the state as a real tyrannical entity, with corporations and state government and the police.

I was like, oh, these, we're-- it's us versus them.

This is kind of going to be, like, our pillars for 10K right now.

Safety.

It's really police and prisons.

>> Public health, we have the prison system.

>> Prisons, you have policing.

Um... >> I made a lot of bad decisions when I was younger.

Getting in fights, had an assault charge.

Um, things like that.

There was a moment where, you know, some guys broke into my house and tried to rob me, and they ended up shooting me.

I got shot three times, twice in my stomach, one in my back.

And I remember sitting there waiting for the ambulance to come, I'm sitting there bleeding out.

It still hits me to this day, thinking about that kind of stuff, you know?

Um... yeah.

I'm getting teary-eyed a little bit, thinking about it.

>> Every single day, I've been waiting for this moment, a time where we can stand up for what is right.

And for so long, many of us were always waiting for somebody else to do it.

People, the time is right now.

Can everybody say that one time?

On the count of three, say the time is now.

One, two, three.

>> The time is now!

>> Say it again!

>> The time is now!

>> Louder!

>> The time is now!

>> The time is right now!

♪ ♪ (chains rattling) >> If you think about the historical context of Black men, Black people in this country in general, when we wake up in the morning, there's no good reason for us to have any faith in the state.

(cheers and applause) Let's start the die-in right now, 46 seconds.

♪ ♪ >> Protesters have been on the streets of Richmond for several weeks now.

>> One-time capital of the Confederacy is in the throes of change.

The statues commemorating Confederate leaders come down.

>> I'm going in from over here.

You know, they really did these streets.

(laughs) I'm deadly afraid of COVID.

But I decided one Sunday and said, you know what?

I'm stepping out on faith.

I'm going down to see what it's about.

(drumming) I'm at the monument right now as we speak.

Having big fun, man.

(fireworks exploding) (whistling) Each experience I had out here has been different.

I come early, and I leave before it gets too late.

>> Get the (bleep) out of here!

>> (bleep) (people arguing) >> Relax, relax.

(people arguing) >> One evening, I didn't understand what was happening when I saw, like, 14 police cars coming up in front of the area.

(people shouting) And I just begged them to allow me to go to my car and leave.

I just want to go home, please.

I just want to go home.

My car-- how am I going to drive, I can't get over here.

>> You can go wait in your car.

We'll be out of here in just a second.

>> Okay.

(voiceover): And they were very kind.

They even helped me get out and I was gone.

Caucasian people, white people that I've known for years are very decent people on the surface.

I don't understand why they can't see... ...what we're seeing.

>> If anybody had told us this was gonna end up happening, nobody would have believed it.

>> No-- like I say, racism's out there.

That's what it is.

(bleep), I got more Black friends than I can ever imagine.

I got one Black friend that I specifically tell people that that's my brother.

(laughs) And we talk about it all the time, it's ridiculous man.

>> People that are doing all this are just out just to wreck stuff.

>> My same buddy that I call my brother, he said it too, he said, "Man, "it's crazy cause they say it's a 'Black Lives Matter' thing, "but yet they're going in and destroying old Black peoples' businesses that live in Richmond."

>> Yup.

>> You know what I mean?

>> I don't know how everything got so race-oriented all of a sudden here within the past year, honestly.

That kind of blows my mind.

So far as the platform or the cause that the Black Lives Matter rallies are for, I think raising awareness for police brutality, sure.

If you want to focus on any aspect of it that could have a positive effect on the American people, you could bring up that one aspect of it.

But, it doesn't just happen to Black folks, it happens to white folks, it happens to Asian folks.

It happens across all walks of life, no matter what color you are, no matter what race you are.

>> Are we jumping?

>> We're jumping.

>> We all need to work together on a common cause to defend our freedoms.

(water splashes) Not to fight against each other.

And empower more regulation against us.

>> Black power!

>> Black power!

>> Black power!

>> Black power!

>> All power to the people!

>> Power to the people!

(voiceover): The fight is real.

But it's always been here.

Now it's to the surface in 2020.

Now where do we go from here?

(sawing) >> It's mainly to just, for insurance purposes if it did get vandalized or looted.

It's not fair for someone like me who is trying to make this community better, and next thing you know, someone just takes it away and ruins the whole business itself.

There is still racism in America.

And at the moment I think it's just getting worse.

There's nothing wrong with protesting.

You can protest all you want if you live in America.

But when you start vandalizing small businesses, that part is wrong.

>> Overnight, chaos in the streets of Chicago.

Looting taking place around the city.

Store windows broken, intense police presence, and fires.

>> Officers now asking for the public to take a step back and work with police before more people get hurt.

>> When I first woke up from my lung transplant, I was a vegetable.

I couldn't move a finger, I couldn't, you know, I could barely wiggle my toes, I couldn't talk.

I was, like, really disoriented at the time.

And I didn't realize that I was intubated, sedated, for six weeks.

(police, protestors yelling) The TV would be on, and you know, they would talk about all these riots that were happening.

And George Floyd and protest.

The world was so ugly.

>> Millions of people all across America are casting their votes... >> It has been a campaign year unlike any other.

And now, 100 million people have voted on record... >> Record-breaking early voting continues.

>> I have someone else's lungs and it'd be like a slap in the face if I didn't try my hardest.

>> You're here to vote?

>> Mm-hm.

>> Okay, so you're going to go through the revolving door.

>> My number one topic of interest during this election is healthcare reform.

I started working one month after my lung transplant.

Now I shouldn't have to have felt obligated to do so, because, just because I needed my health insurance to recover.

>> I'm gonna have to put this on now.

You're supposed to find people that represent you, Donald Trump cannot represent me.

He does not represent my beliefs.

Of course, I can't vote for Joe Biden for the very same reason.

>> Okay, thank you for voting.

>> I will sleep good tonight, because some day, as a Christian, I believe Christ will return and all wrongs will be righted, and justice will prevail.

My job is to keep speaking the truth as a minister.

>> You have a pen?

You got to put your address, it literally says on the top.

It's going to invalidate if you don't sign it.

>> Oh!

(laughs) >> I would rather not say who I voted for.

I just want it to come back to normal.

That's all, that's all I'm praying for, really.

>> I just vote for myself.

Or I vote for the lady-- no, I vote for the lady!

>> You voted for that lady, you don't even know her name.

>> I don't know who she is, but it seems like she's the only lady, so I vote for the lady.

I vote for the woman!

(Jason chuckles) >> Well... you have a right to do that.

>> Joe Biden now in the lead in Pennsylvania, in the lead in Georgia... >> Putting him over the 270 electoral votes he needs.

>> Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States.

>> The people of this nation have spoken.

(cheers and applause) They've delivered us a clear victory.

A convincing victory.

(cheers and applause) (car horns honking) >> Hey!

I was relieved to the point where it's like, "Okay, "this step has been handled.

Now what's the next step?"

you know?

It's not over, this is just the beginning.

What do you guys think of the election?

>> Oh, yeah!

We're good, we're good!

>> Meantime, the Trump campaign is promising a new round of lawsuits today.

>> Trump tonight again falsely claiming victory.

>> Stil fueling his supporters, pledging it isn't over yet.

>> Across the country, pro-Trump protesters gathering at state capitals... (engine revving) (cheers) >> I really was just so sick of politics.

I wanted to write in "Jesus."

(laughs) But that doesn't do anything.

So I was surprised, I felt prompted to vote for Trump.

(cheers and applause) >> No, we're not standing down.

We're here, we're going to stand.

We're going to stand fast, we're going to wait for orders.

>> (groans) I have no regrets about voting for the Libertarian candidate.

I'm tired of people voting for the lesser of two evils.

Wouldn't really matter who got into office, I feel like they're one and the same.

I think our culture is going to stay divided.

The division that has been created here recently is, it's something that we've regressed to.

That's going to take generations to recover, I think our culture is going to be horribly scarred by this.

>> Our country is deeply divided.

We have class divisions, we have racial divisions.

It's like there's two completely different realities.

Anyone who thinks that the election getting called is the end of the work that needs to be done... (on-screen): All right, this is a nasal swab... (voiceover): ...is mistaken.

>> Kenny?

Look at me.

"Mírame."

(voiceover): I had to undergo this other procedure.

(on-screen): Oh, and this is what it looked like after.

Sometimes before, when I used to feel so bad, I would have these fevers and these night chills and it just feels so bad.

And I'm like, "What if I don't wake up in the morning?"

I'm grateful that I have my family, but I also want to have some sort of quality of life.

I don't want to live a life where it hurts to laugh.

There's just so much I want to do.

>> ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ (cheers) >> The White House says one million people have now died from COVID-19 here in the U.S.

>> The death toll is more than the number of American deaths from World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.

(people clamoring, shouting) >> Thousands of supporters of President Trump stormed the U.S.

Capitol building.

>> We need backup!

>> I will faithfully execute.

>> The office of President of the United States.

>> The office of President of the United States.

>> A federal grand jury has voted to indict the former president.

>> Second impeachment trial is set to start tomorrow.

>> Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts.

(cheers and applause) >> The state of Virginia... >> Bringing down the symbols of a hateful past... >> General Robert E. Lee... >> Roe v. Wade is overruled.

>> Thousands of people today turned out to take a stand for abortion rights.

>> The end of 472 days of COVID restrictions.

>> Warning, however, that the virus is here to stay.

>> Rising costs and recession fears.

>> Small businesses struggling to stay afloat.

>> Protests against Israel's war in Gaza continue... >> It's another wedge in America's political divide.

>> Donald Trump will be running for president again in 2024.

>> Shots have apparently been fired.

>> Failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

>> President Biden takes himself out of the run for the White House.

>> Kamala Harris became the first woman of color to accept the presidential nomination.

(explosion) (static) >> Has our America gotten better?

You decide.

Because I know it hasn't been better.

>> Polling was good to me, man.

I, you know, I paid my due.

>> Right.

>> And all that (bleep).

I pay more taxes than Trump paid up here, man.

>> Where does that tax money go to?

>> I guess the city.

>> City.

>> And the city, you know, supposed to keep the road repaired.

>> Well, the roads ain't been repaired around here.

(bleep) so many potholes and stuff around here.

>> Yup.

>> All right.

You coat it everywhere?

(voiceover): I think it's very likely that Hudson will end up in the military.

>> I think he's taller than you.

>> Yeah, 'cause he's wearing heels.

(voiceover): There's a bit of inner turmoil with Hudson being in the JROTC program as well as my distrust in the government.

(chuckling) >> You're so much shorter, Mark.

>> That's awesome.

I want to continue encouraging, not discouraging.

But there might be things that we don't agree with.

(door shuts) (insects buzzing) (indistinct chatter) >> Must you?

>> Must I what?

>> Make it all obvious out here?

You folded flags just fine back in your office.

>> I usually fold them in here.

>> Uh-huh.

>> (on TV): Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump... >> I accept your nomination to be president of the United States of America.

(cheers and applause) >> Maybe some of you guys know me, some of you don't.

I'm Tayo Daniel, one of the founders of this organization, Smart North.

And one of the reasons why I really am passionate about... (voiceover): How can you add value to your community?

Once you figure that out, it doesn't matter who's in office, you're always going to be successful, because you yourself are valuable and you're adding value to your community.

She's in the VR space right now, doing her thing.

>> Yeah, I can't see anything in the real world right now.

>> One of my solutions was creating a non-profit to help inner-city youth.

The 10K Foundation... had its time, and it ran its course.

And we went our separate ways.

I was more forward on helping the youth, I believe Royce was more on political moves.

>> ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ (cheers and applause) >> Good morning, good afternoon.

It's good to see everybody out here.

It's always good to see some, uh, some Trump supporters.

I'm one myself.

Yeah, good.

We don't like socialists, we don't like communists.

We don't like Marxists.

It's an unacceptable and incompatible form of government and ideology.

We gotta protect our borders first.

We can't defend everybody else's borders.

(voiceover): I'm running for United States Senate here in the state of Minnesota against Amy Klobuchar, and I'm the Republican Party nominee.

The mainstream media says, "Royce White represents "a dangerous evolution and movement of the Republican Party nationally."

So a lot of people who just read those headlines would think, "Yeah, I mean, you know, "Royce has nothing important to say or nothing "of value to say.

"You know, even though we love Black men, "we want to protect them, their lives matter, but this Black man doesn't have anything important to say."

The Second Amendment?

>> Yes.

>> I'm an absolutist.

>> Absolutist?

>> Yep.

No Second Amendment laws.

AR-15s, you should have them.

>> Nice to meet you.

You got my vote.

>> Nice to meet you, sir, thank you, sir, appreciate it.

Thank you.

>> I was, uh... ...I was not surprised, you know, that he would decide to pursue office.

I was kind of shocked that he went so hard on the Republican side because, you know, a lot of the Republicans are against whatever we were protesting about.

>> These are patriots here, man.

>> I love it, I love it.

>> People that like drinking beer, rock and roll music, and cooking food.

>> I love it, I love it.

>> That's America right there.

>> That's right.

>> For the Kamala Harris campaign, I got involved right away.

Are you planning on voting for Kamala Harris and Colin Allred all the way down the ticket?

>> Yes.

Yes, I am.

>> All right, perfect.

Can we count on you to vote for Democrats all the way down the ticket?

>> Yes, I-- you can count on me for that.

Yes.

(laughing) >> (chuckling): Amazing.

Amazing.

We have the opportunity to elect a progressive Black woman as the first female president of the United States.

It's a dream come true for me.

You can see right across here all the Trump signs.

>> In what is going to be the biggest political, phoenix from the ashes story... >> Former President Donald Trump has won the 2024 election.

>> This is a huge historic moment.

>> We will engage in a peaceful transfer of power.

>> Republicans will pull off a political trifecta, >> And now we prepare for the second coming, if you will, of a Trump administration.

>> America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

>> Trump administration's beginning mass layoffs of federal workers.

>> A record number of executive orders.

>> He's raising tariffs on some Canadian goods by another 10%.

>> The administration wants up to $175 billion to arrest, detain and remove more people.

(birds chirping) >> This is a, um, grapefruit tree, lemon tree and lime tree.

These are both for fun and for our health, post-apocalypse.

There is really a thing called scurvy.

It really does happen to people.

So having citrus is super important to that.

I'm still the same person who always wanted to be there and help, but I'm much more cynical about my ability to do those things.

There was a time where I was very hopeful that we could continue a path towards justice for everybody.

That part of me is pretty beaten down.

(door sliding open) >> No muddy boots.

What'd you see?

>> I had one squirrel, but I didn't... I shot it, but I didn't get it.

>> Really, you shot at it?

Good, I mean is your gun open?

Open chamber?

>> Yeah.

>> All right.

You don't have your finger on that trigger, do you?

>> No.

>> Oh, Ada.

How did school go?

>> Good.

Pops took us to school.

>> (laughs) What was that face for?

>> Dad, you know how he is, he's... a liberal and he knows that we're... Republicans.

>> Not Republicans.

We're-- we are just conservative-minded.

(voiceover): As far as my liking for Trump, since he's been elected the second term.

I'd say for the first six months, eight months, he really came in, stayed focused on policy.

With DOGE coming in, trying to actually clean up government waste.

I'm like, this is actually really cool.

>> Chainsaw for bureaucracy!

(cheers and applause) >> ...Barreling into vast swaths of the federal government and promising to divide and conquer what he sees as "the deep state."

>> To have an actual efficient government is the goal.

>> All righty, if you're ready, take card or cash?

>> It's gonna be cash.

>> Cash?

>> Have a good night.

>> Yeah, you too, all right.

>> Okay.

Jason, you want to get your nails done?

Yeah?

>> All right.

Our supplies got expensive, but what we did was we bought extra supplies before we knew the tariffs were gonna go up.

I mean, everything went up 20%, 30%, 40%.

The suppliers were just like, "We don't care how much the actual tariffs is.

It just went up."

Yeah, we're just trying not to raise any prices.

>> Because like our client usually are, most of them are senior, so they on their retirement.

The bigger nail shop, like they say that their customer is, like, stop spending money on, like, stuff like this.

>> Short term... ...it's not a good move because everything just goes up overnight.

Long term... ...it's supposed to help with the American manufacturing, it's supposed to... ...improve local economies.

But what we don't know if... will it actually work?

>> Are you going towards the trunk like we talked about?

Okay, okay.

Okay, you put it on, so we can see how far we need it to reach.

>> Why's there pine cones?

>> Do not fall.

>> It's a tree.

Ooh!

>> Julia, it's on wave.

>> Oh, I wanted to... >> And then does it just cycle through the colors?

>> Yeah.

>> Oh, my goodness.

How are we doing with rationing the frosting?

Do we have enough?

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

(voiceover): Around this time last year, I started the process of leaving my husband.

And that involved moving a couple of times.

I had no clue what our long-term situation was going to be.

And then a very kind family rented really cheap to us month-to-month until we ended up here at a home.

>> Out there.

>> Oh, okay.

He's here!

Do you have everything you need?

>> Yeah.

>> Okay.

I love you, and I'll see you Sunday.

>> See you.

>> I got married one day after I turned 19.

And so I was married more of my life than not married.

I basically went from obeying my parents to "obeying" or "submitting" to a husband.

People hate those words now, they're, like, trigger words, but you know, just being the wife that I thought I was supposed to be.

And I did not get to experience what life is like as an independent adult.

>> Everything seems to be falling apart.

I've been battling the house issue for a few years.

(grunts) All of this, what you're seeing now is mold.

So all of that has to be replaced.

This is a result of a leaky roof.

Water got in the attic, and once it dried, this is where it came out at, at the other end.

And now the consequences are very, very, very expensive.

My parents always stressed independence is home ownership.

My mother, she said, "I don't care if it's a box with one bedroom."

She said, "It's something that's yours."

I'm slowly getting on top of it, but it's definitely not easy.

You get down and out and you feel like the walls are closing in on you.

It's a quick thought, then you just shake it off, and keep it moving.

It's, it's rough out here.

It breaks my heart that people that genuinely need the help, they can't even get the help.

(clippers buzzing) >> What high school did you go to?

>> I dropped out of high school.

>> You mind me asking why?

>> Drugs and alcohol.

>> You said drugs and alcohol?

>> Yeah.

>> My son's on, I don't, he's, I guess, meth.

(clippers buzzing) But I hadn't heard from him in, like, a couple weeks.

Last time I seen him, I was right here.

Gave him some food.

Trell!

Trell!

>> I just want to talk!

>> You're trying to shove that in my face.

I don't have to say anything to you!

(indistinct chatter) >> Not gonna get into that.

You know Lytrell?

I'm looking for my son.

♪ ♪ I'm not going to give up, but it is awfully hard... to know that my kid... is, is down here.

You know Lytrell?

Huh?

He ain't, he don't-- he ain't been around here?

I'm his dad.

>> If I see him I'll tell him you're looking.

>> Okay, all right, thank you, thank you.

This is what my grandkids have to look forward to?

Groceries are skyrocketing.

Healthcare is out the roof.

(honks horn) (cheers) We gotta be supportive!

>> Thank you!

(honking horn) >> You gotta be supportive!

Yes, yes, I support you!

(horn honking) Everybody deserves a good life, you know?

(sniffs, sighs) >> My community center has taken a big hit.

There's youth that has reached out to me and said, "I'm scared to come there," because some of their parents may have a problem with immigration statuses.

It's just been a lot of divisiveness and I think that type of trauma just makes a whole community unsure and feel unsafe.

>> What about mass deportations?

Are they, is anybody considering mass deportation?

And do you believe that has to happen in Minneapolis?

>> 1,000% with no equivocations.

Now I shouldn't even be able to say that because I'm running for U.S.

Senate.

>> This is Royce White's second time running for U.S.

Senate.

>> White was the G.O.P.

nominee for U.S.

Senate in 2024 as well, losing that election to Senator Amy Klobuchar.

>> I'm going to run until I, until I die.

Because it would be dishonest if I didn't give the American people this message, and this option when they go to cast their ballot.

>> You gave an interview with Steve Bannon.

And you said, you said Somalis must be... you're in support of mass deportation of Somalis.

>> Yeah, I think the deportations must begin.

What the MAGA movement is saying is we don't trust the process by which Somalians have immigrated to this country.

We don't trust the paperwork.

We don't trust the legitimacy of the process because we can't even trust our own elections.

>> But that's all allegations, though!

>> You're triggered.

No, you're triggered because when you hear the word Somalian, it does something to you personally.

And I get that, and all of us will have those things that we feel personal about, but it doesn't change the facts if you're here illegally you're going the (bleep) back.

Bottom line.

(scattered applause) That's it.

>> (chuckling) That was, that was classic!

Holy cow.

>> My stepmother was calling me, and I'm on the phone, and she's like, "Tayo."

She's Nigerian, so she has this accent, you know?

"Tayo, be careful, be careful."

I'm, like, "What's going on?"

She's like, "They just killed somebody.

They just killed a woman, they just killed a woman."

I'm like, "Who?"

She's like, "ICE."

(video audio playing) >> (on cellphone): No!

No!

(bleep) (gunshots) (bleep) Oh, my (bleep) God!

What the (bleep)?

What the (bleep)?

You just (bleep), what the (bleep) did you do?

>> Minneapolis is about to go crazy.

Here we go again.

>> (chanting) Say her name!

Renée Good!

>> There are currently about 2,000 ICE agents in the Minneapolis area.

>> Get ICE off our streets.

>> The Trump administration says it's sending an additional 100 to the region this weekend.

>> Get the (bleep) out!

(blowing whistle) >> (chanting) Shame!

Shame!

Shame!

>> Get the (bleep) out of here!

(chanting): Whose street?

Our street!

>> My community center is actually right around the corner from where Renée Good was killed.

I probably should have brought some flowers.

Next time I'll bring some.

>> (chanting): Renée Good!

>> What's her name?

>> Renée Good!

>> My dad came from the slums, man.

He was born in Nigeria.

He came over here for the same reason everybody else is trying to come over here, for an opportunity and a better life for his future children.

>> Broad daylight, dog!

>> I was born here in America.

Otherwise, I might be in one of those trucks right now.

And it's just like a wake-up call, because everybody thought, you know, it started to die down and the whole George Floyd situation.

>> Yeah.

Yeah.

>> It's sad, man.

>> It's exhausting.

>> All right, so your table leader has got specific questions that they're gonna ask.

There's actually a biblical principle, and we want to talk about that, and it's called the natural law of jurisdiction.

(indistinct chatter) >> What would you do?

>> How is the idea of jurisdiction connected to the issue of legitimate authority?

Think about, like, in our world, legitimate authority that has been misused.

>> When the government tried to shut down churches during COVID.

>> Exactly, Jana.

They did not have the authority to do that, did they?

(voiceover): I don't know a ton about politics.

I... I don't care that much.

I mean, it's important.

It's very important, but it's not my forte.

It's my dad's thing.

>> Just a few days ago, the president of the United States ordered a combination of law enforcement and military to strike, in an act of war, the nation of Venezuela.

Missiles were launched, rockets exploded, between 80 and 100 people died.

And then our soldiers, in combination with law enforcement apparently went in, and they captured the president and his wife.

You have to think about that.

You have to know how to tell when someone is using authority in a righteous and legitimate way, but when someone misuses authority, and some authority is going outside their jurisdiction, and when they step outside their jurisdiction, you have to say, "Okay, hold on a minute.

All due respect, I'm not gonna be doing that."

This brings us to the concept of a big, fancy word called imperialism.

You stop respecting the boundaries and jurisdictions of all other nations, and you start forcing the world to comply with your national will.

And it's wrong.

And when you flip the table, and have that happen to your city, in your nation, you say, "Hey, this is America!

You don't have a right to--" that's, we would call that a what?

An act of... war.

(missile firing) >> The United States has unleashed Operation Epic Fury on several targets in Iran.

(chanting) >> Tonight, Israeli and American missile strikes lighting up the skies over Iran for a ninth straight day.

>> When you go into the Air Force, obviously you wanna go in and fly.

>> Yeah.

>> Everybody that's going into the Air Force wants to fly.

Like, have you given it any thought to what your backup thing would be?

>> Hm... Not necessarily... I mean, flying is really fun to do.

I mean, it's something peaceful, especially on the simulator.

It's very peaceful to do and, like, you get to go out.

>> Won't be that peaceful if you're being shot at while you're flying.

>> It's just more adrenaline.

>> (scoffs) So, now you're just an adrenaline junkie.

>> Mm-hm.

>> (voiceover): My wife and I have talked about this.

We've talked about it with him.

We don't like the idea of him going to fight a war, as a political pawn... ...you know, for what gain?

Let's just say you get sent to war tomorrow, in Iran.

And you're tasked with something that... maybe you don't necessarily agree with.

There's been stories about bombs being dropped on schools, you now, known civilian-- known civilian targets that are, you know, wiping out... masses of kids.

And I don't care on what side, I'm just saying in general.

>> Yeah, I've never really thought about that.

Yeah.

For me, going into the military, it's more about, like, the experience and what I can get from it.

I want to know that I can be there for my parents and my family.

Now, most of the times, all the guys that I see, they're scrawny, honestly, like, they look like they couldn't put up a fight, and I feel like, if you're going to be a man of a house one day, like, that is not how you should be.

Being masculine is taking your own path, and following in what you believe is right and what you want to do, yes.

>> I love seeing him proud.

>> (exhales) >> My boy looks good all dressed up in a uniform, you know?

He's confident, I mean, he's... ...I'm proud of him.

Very proud, and I'm... ...I'm not going to tell him he can't do something, but I also want him to be fully informed.

>> We're going to get dropped off at 9:18, is that going to give you enough...?

>> That's fine.

>> Okay, I'm going to message the guy that we're meeting.

Edmundo?

Hi!

Christine.

Okay.

(voiceover): Right now, my husband and I are pursuing residency in Mexico.

Okay, bye.

>> Good luck.

>> (kisses) Good luck.

We need a place to go if things just don't go the way we want them to go.

We are constantly looking and reassessing and watching and want to be ready, should that time come.

Yay!

Where's your card?

>> In my pocket.

>> Okay, awesome.

So excited.

>> Dear Heavenly Father, please be with the kids while they are away, that they will be protected and have a good time and feel thy love and guidance.

(voiceover): I have totally new compassion and understanding for the people I've spoke with that say they stopped going to church because they've lost trust in institutions.

I sought help from religious leaders in regards to struggles in my marriage.

And there was a lot of pain and bitterness involved when I was processing, um, sorry.

Just looking back at how much I was suffering and hurting.

And, um... ...it was minimized and not fully understood.

So when we talk about faith, I don't think about religion.

Religion has failed me.

Are you excited?

You know where we're going?

My former spouse, he hated dogs, so I love having a dog in the house.

I wanted one ever since I was a kid.

I'm going to school.

I now have a degree in mind that I want to get having to do with family services to help families that are going through tough times.

Okay, do you want me to throw it?

Get it!

I'm now Amy Kelly and officially divorced.

Mom of six kids.

Loving life.

(chuckles) >> Good morning.

>> How are you?

>> I'm good.

♪ ♪ (beeping) My dad hired me to oversee our educational operations at our church.

>> Class begins on Friday, November the 6, and then I'm going to hit "okay."

>> I love sitting with my dad and getting to learn from him.

He's so wise in so many areas.

I don't have a lot of experience with this, but... ...what needs to be done needs to be done.

(humming) I had wanted to be a doctor when I graduated.

(shuts door) At the end of the day, I would rather be in the will of God than... be selfish and do what I would prefer.

'Cause I would really be miserable if I was just only doing what I wanted, so.

>> Ella exhibits leadership and courage and confidence.

I think she would make a wonderful pastor's wife, and I think that probably, that's going to be her role.

>> ♪ Amazing grace ♪ ♪ How sweet ♪ ♪ The sound ♪ ♪ That saved a wretch ♪ ♪ Like me ♪ ♪ I once was lost ♪ ♪ But now I am found ♪ ♪ I was blind ♪ ♪ But now I see ♪ I'm supposed to serve my dad, and I think I'm supposed to marry a pastor and that is an honorable role.

I don't, I don't see that as lesser in any way.

>> Look at this.

>> Oh, my gosh.

>> My granddaughter, Coriel.

I want to be able to, you know, spend time with her and, you know, do ice cream.

>> Okay, I go, I go run.

>> Okay, well, go put on some socks and some sneakers.

>> (roars) >> It's just hard, man.

I never thought that, you know, life would be hard, but it really is.

And the people that think it's not... ...they got given some stuff, they got a head start.

I got... a second job.

(chuckles) Just to be able to be in position to help.

I'm praying for a break.

>> Yeah, there it is.

>> But at least it didn't get down... I'll go back to this photo.

It doesn't look like all that black mold on the ceiling, it doesn't look like it came down into the walls.

>> Yeah.

>> Look at all the mold in the insulation.

>> I saw a gentleman named Mark on the film.

>> (recording): My name is Mark Curtis.

I own a construction company.

>> And then I've discovered that he was from the outskirts of Richmond.

>> Oh, yeah, look at this all washed out over here.

>> Yeah, oh, yeah.

That washed out before.

>> Oh, good grief.

>> Huh?

>> That's bad.

>> Yeah.

>> You want to have stairs rebuilt in this thing?

>> What you think?

>> I mean, it'd probably be nice if you're trying to come down in the yard from up there.

>> I say yes, then.

I saw you in an interview.

>> Which one?

>> I don't know what one I saw, but, you know, (laughing): we don't agree on a lot of things.

>> It don't matter.

>> But at the end of the day... >> It's human nature.

>> At the end of the day, life is life.

I just personally have this mindset that anybody really wants Trump, wants America white again.

I said, but trust me, it ain't going to never be white again.

>> Yeah, see, I don't, and I don't see that, and I don't think that that's the case.

I choose... >> It's an undertone message sent to the white folks saying... >> You think so?

>> I clearly do.

"Make America great again," is clearly that.

(voiceover): I clearly, strongly believe, and I didn't budge from it, that "make America great again," it's make it white again.

We didn't agree.

My father served his country, and the best job he could get was a janitor.

It was that era where Black people just couldn't, you know?

We weren't on the spectrum to be much more than what they wanted us to be.

>> I think that still happens today.

>> Oh, hell yeah it happens.

>> No, no, I'm just talking about our service members, our service members, I don't care, you know, white, Black, different, whatever.

I think so many people... >> We agree that race relations is a problem, and it's been existing for a long time.

At least, I agree to that, that it was.

>> Well, it was supposed to be about controlling our border, getting fuel prices lowered, getting our interest rates down.

That's how he advertised it.

>> That's how he fed us.

>> Yes, but the real deal... >> That's how he advertised it.

Where is that going now?

How much does it cost you to fill up your car now?

>> (bleep).

$60, $70, depend.

>> It took me over an hour to drive here this morning.

Talk about the fuel I'm using up every day.

All right, Ms.

Lewis, I'm going.

I'm off to my next appointment.

I'll see you.

>> Bye.

>> Bye.

(door shuts) I would say, I am surprised at how... ...devoted she is, I guess you could say, um, to... ...the racial, um... the racial divide.

Um... you know, perhaps she... ...has a very different perspective of that, just based on her experience.

And people who do have differing opinions should be able to talk and listen, um, not just talk.

So I thought it was a good meeting.

>> 100 days until the midterm election.

>> Re-districting could bolster Republicans.

>> Democrats are pursuing five extra seats.

>> Rising support for democratic socialism.

>> Americans no longer trust the very industries and institutions that keep the country afloat.

>> I'm weighing out Republican, Democrat and Libertarian because those are the three options for the primaries, and going to select them according to which individual I feel is best, not the label.

Almost couldn't find it today.

(laughs) Our founding fathers built this country on independence, and they didn't just want independence as far as they agreed.

They wanted everybody to have their own beliefs, opinions and thoughts.

Freedom means being able to think, act, speak, wish, dream, breathe, anything as you want.

Uninhibited.

Thank you.

>> Thank you very much.

(seagulls squawking) >> Ooh!

Ooh!

(seagulls squawking) >> Uh-oh, I think you caught the whole, uh.

Oh, they're all coming for us now.

(voiceover): I haven't really paid attention to the midterms, really, like, because we have a lot of stuff going on.

Mm.

Thanks, Evie.

Mm.

Evie, come here.

But hopefully there is some sort of change that you can actually see.

Just a little bit of help here and there would help the middle class, really.

>> First in the beginning, all the parents first come here, they having a hard life, but then when the kid grow up in their life, it's going to get easier.

I want to give birth to a child that have an easy life, like, because I work hard.

Over the time, everything will be better.

(clanging) >> There you go, that's it.

(voiceover): I don't want government hand-outs for anything.

(on-screen): Where you had it before, there you go.

(voiceover): I want to know who is truly going to look out for the best interest of, not just my family, but it should be all families.

How can I best take care of my family?

>> M-I T-A-Y-O.

All right, let's do it.

We're gonna trade, I've got some hot commodity for you.

>> I can take that.

>> All right.

Here we go.

(chuckles) I watched my family work very hard.

Thank you, guys!

Not only for their citizenship, but to acclimate in this country.

And I want people to represent that.

I want the people who understand that and who support that to be the ones that are in office.

I did not vote for Royce White this time around.

I wish him the best of luck, and I wish him nothing but success, but I definitely disagree with many of his views.

>> The Republican Party of Minnesota calling on U.S.

Senate candidate Royce White, one of their own, to suspend his campaign.

>> A Minnesota judge ruled there were credible evidence of threats of harm toward his ex-wife and his son.

>> White has since gone on the offensive today, sounding off in several social media posts, denying the accusations.

>> No, I mean, it's a farce, though.

Asking me to step down from the campaign, um, has nothing to do with the case.

It's, you know, it's something they wanted anyway, which is that-- they're irrelevant, anyway.

Minnesota Republican Party is irrelevant.

(indistinct chatter, laughter) >> The biggest thing that's coming up that has my attention is the midterm elections.

It's going to tell us a lot about what the next steps are, and what the direction is going to be.

♪ ♪ "Buenos dias!"

I'm still in the wait and see phase in terms of whether or not I want to leave the United States permanently.

It's slower here.

I just have to make that conscious choice to turn the TV off, put my phone down... and breathe.

>> It might be my PTSD speaking a little bit, but, um, you know, it's almost, it's almost inevitable in these times not to have some form of hurt and pain and struggle that people go through, regardless of your socioeconomic status.

I think I figured it out.

I'm going to paint the lips with some of the smile open, so it's going to be a smile like this, and these white words will be like the teeth.

(laughs) One day, I'm going to make a piece that somebody else will feel those feelings, and it'll do something for them and it can live far beyond me.

You've seen artwork throughout history used for all different type of activism, you know, freedom of expression.

It's the pulse of the community.

♪ ♪ Just like a human body can have emotions.

>> (chanting): Hands up!

Don't shoot!

>> I feel that a body of people can have emotions.

(gunshot) (weapons firing, people shouting) (car horns honking, whistling) ♪ ♪ I feel like people forget how to be neighbors by somebody who may not have the same background as you, and people are forgetting how to love somebody that may not love you.

I think sometimes we look too much on a larger level, and we forget about the little things.

Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org >> NARRATOR: Go to pbs.org/frontline to read how the filmmakers found and followed their subjects.

>> You got two choices in American politics.

You can have bad, or you can have worse.

>> Take care of myself, take care of my friends, take care of my family.

>> I don’t think that we’re gonna come out of this one unscathed.

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