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A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Popular In Politics] Thursday, June 16, 2022 [1. What Went Down In The June 7 Primaries]( [2022-JUNE-07-LB-4×3-Nolive]( [Read more]( [2. California’s Primary Races To Watch]( [A vote sign in front of a library in California]( Welcome to the busiest primary week of the year. On June 7, seven states will vote, more than on any other primary date in 2022. As a result, there are a lot of races to cover, but one state stands above the rest: California. Because of the state’s size, we will dig into 20 — count ’em, 20 — races. And never fear, we’ll be back tomorrow with a preview of the six other states that also have elections on Tuesday. [Read more]( [3. The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century]( [US-POLITICS-CAPITOL-UNREST]( The carnage was impossible to deny. As the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol laid out its evidence that former President Donald Trump was the catalyst of the assault on American democracy, a 12-minute video showed the full consequences of Trump’s willful lie that the election was stolen. It was perhaps the committee’s most compelling argument. [Read more]( [4. Everything You Need To Know About the Special Election In Alaska]( [former Alaska governor Sarah Palin speaking into a microphone]( UPDATE (June 12, 2022, 11:35 a.m.): With 108,981 ballots counted so far, Sarah Palin (30 percent), Nick Begich (19 percent) and Al Gross (13 percent) are the top vote-getters so far in Alaska’s special U.S. House election. Mary Peltola currently leads for the fourth and final slot in the August general election with 8 percent, followed closely by Tara Sweeney with 5 percent. Additional batches of results are expected to be released on June 15, June 17 and June 21. [Read more]( [5. What Ireland’s Past Can Tell Us About A Post-Roe America]( [Abortion rights supporters hold signs to repeal Ireland's 8th amendment]( Before 2018, most women in the Republic of Ireland were able to get abortions only if they traveled to a clinic in England or Wales or had a self-managed abortion at home, but figuring out how to do either of those options was difficult. [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Forecasts How popular is Joe Biden? [How popular is Joe Biden?]( [See all polls]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Politics Podcast: More Trouble For Democrats In The Rio Grande Valley]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.