No man is an island – especially @mehdirhasan – who gives thanks to *you*, and to his team, at the end of an exhausting and thrilling year of news:

“Women did save democracy in many ways...[but] Black women have been the canaries in the mine,” @Dr_CMGreer tells @mehdirhasan about stopping the “red wave in the 2022 midterms, “alerting the country and the world as to the dangers that lie ahead.”

2022 saw a wave of women worldwide protesting for their freedoms — and even in the midst of violent crackdowns, @mehdirhasan says, they’re showing no sign of slowing down. “Women everywhere are saying, ‘Our bodies are ours. Our choices are ours. Enough is enough.’”

It’s important to remember the small things that brighten up your day, and for @mehdirhasan – who covered a LOT of pretty memorable moments on this show this year – three in particular stand out. WATCH:

When Russia launched its brutal invasion into Ukraine, the forecasts were bleak for Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his country. But the Ukrainians upended that narrative, much to the surprise of @juliaioffe and @lieven_anatol. Hear what they had to say to @mehdirhasan:

.@PatRyanUC tells @mehdirhasan that bipartisanship can’t coexist with an existential threat to democracy: "I took an oath…to support and defend our Constitution ... And when there are domestic threats to the sanctity of our Constitution … we have to call them out."

It’s been quite a year in news, but the biggest story on this show has been the threat to American democracy. But as @mehdirhasan reminds us, the election deniers, conspiracy theorists and fascists who pose that threat will still be here in 2023:

.@Sulliview spoke to @mehdirhasan in October about how the news media is “overly responsive to criticism from the right” in its quest to be seen as “fair and unbiased.” “Democracy and anti-democracy are not equal things," she said, "and they shouldn’t be treated as such.”

Nancy Pelosi has undoubtedly been the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes. But despite her image as a resistance hero, a new book detailed her slow-walking of both Trump impeachments — and @mehdirhasan spoke to its authors in October:

A lot of reporters caught flak this year for saving huge revelations about Donald Trump for their books. @SteveSchmidtSES and @speechboy71 made their cases to @mehdirhasan about where these journalists are going wrong — or if they are at all: