Parallels To 1940 October 12, 2022October 11, 2022 I voted! My ballot is in the mail. (Use Vote411 for help with yours?) Putin’s energy squeeze on Europe is failing. “Europe is securing enough supplies to avoid an energy crunch this winter.” Rachel Maddow’s podcast has dropped. Listen to the first episode. It started with a plane crash. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of 1940 left a scene of devastation in rural Virginia — and a series of unanswered questions. The cause of the crash was unclear. Among the dozens of people killed was a sitting U.S. senator. His presence on the flight and the strange circumstances surrounding the crash would end up revealing threats to American democracy itself. Riveting.