Jen Psaki

If you were in Texas, today's the first day.

Now, both she and her Democratic primary rival, James Tallarico, are nipping at the heels of their would-be Republican opponents in the polls.

So uncomfortably that a lot of people are paying attention to this race from the Republican side.

And now, James Tallarico is also at the center of a new censorship controversy after CBS pulled his interview on Stephen Colbert's show just before it was supposed to air.

The network, and this part is just something, laughable is one way to describe it, is somehow trying to shift the blame for that decision to Congressman Crockett herself.

And let's just say I'm very much looking forward to getting her reaction to that, as I'm sure you are.

Congressman Crockett will also be joining me from Ohio, where she and other members of the House Oversight Committee are going to be deposing disgraced billionaire Les Wexner, who is a central figure in the Epstein files.

And that's set to take place tomorrow.

So, yes, there is a ton, a load of stuff to talk to the congresswoman about.

Before we get there, I just want to start tonight with the Trump administration's attempt to silence and intimidate their critics.

Because every day, and today was certainly one of those days, we get more and more evidence that those efforts are backfiring spectacularly.

They're trying really hard.

It's not really working.

I mean, take, for example, the fact that today was the arraignment in the criminal trial of independent journalist Georgia Ford, who the Trump administration charged for covering a protest that took place in a Minneapolis church.

And you probably saw her last night right in this hour talking about that.

It's clear that the arrest was intended, of course, to intimidate journalists like Georgia Fort in an effort to prevent her from doing her job, in an effort to silence her reporting and her voice, to scare her.

But instead, all this trial has done is draw more attention to Georgia Fort and to her excellent reporting.

And she is using this moment and all of that increased attention to call out attacks on the free press.

That does not appear to be a woman who is being silenced by the Trump administration.

Remember, she was arrested in her home at night with her kids there, and that was her after that.