for what Alex Russo and the rest of the crew are up to in the future. “If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter. His was a reality-based presidency.” After spending hours training with tireless UNITE HERE organizers, rehearsing hypothetical conversations with apathetic voters, reviewing Kelly and Biden’s political platforms, and learning the talking points for Prop 208, we promptly dispatched into Phoenix’s tidy suburbia. Carrying stacks of flyers and clipboards, we donned large plastic face shields over our masks, resembling what we would later call “democracy aliens.” Black voters backed Biden nationally by nearly 87%