arne duncan: thank you.ou. ♪ amna: next month will see the release of a new album by nashville artist called peter one. but to call him simply nashville artists doesn't cover the half of it. and though he's known as peter one, he is soon to embark on a most extraordinary second act playing at the grand ole opry. special correspondent tom casciato has that story for our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ tom: here at rockwood music hall in manhattan, nashville's peter one and his band are making nashville sound. how peter arrived at that sound, well, that's a story. peter one, musician: i started loving country music before i came here. but i would say i didn't know that it was called country music. tom: the 67-year-old grew up in ivory coast, a french-speaking country in west africa, where he says the radio exposed him as a kid to all kinds of great music from the region. peter: g.g. vikey from benin, eboa lotin from cameroon. tom: from france. peter: claude francois, mike brant. tom: and from the u.s. peter

arne duncan under obama and senator dick durbin supported vallas.senator warren and bernie sanders coming out for bernard johnson. juan: brandon johnson. absolutely. this is a battle within the democratic party between progressives and the more conservative and centrist forces in the party. we will see now who is being able to reach the masses of the voter and turn them out and today's election. amy: we want to thank you, juan, for that briefing. we will ask you about what happens tomorrow. coming up, finland joins nato. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "shelter" by vic mensa, chance the rapper, and wyclef jean. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. finland has probably joined nato today in a move that doubles nato's border. russia and finland share in 800 mile border. they joined a week after turkey's parliament voted to ratify its membership. turkey and hungary have yet to approve sweden as a member of nato but the turkish president has rejected sweden secession to nato after acc

more moderate democrats like illinois senator dick durbin and former obama education secretary arne duncanmuch of alice's rise has come from an emphasis on public safety when i talked to the business groups in the business associations, public safety is the dominant issue, which would you prefer to have your crime solved or your crime prevented. it's a mayoral race that could provide key insight to future political battle grounds, especially on the democratic side. similar dynamics between candidates have played out in mayor's races and the two other biggest cities in the country. but with mixed results in los angeles, the more progressive congresswoman karen bass, beat out the more moderate rick caruso for mayor in new york, the more moderate democrat and former police officer eric adams beat out other progressive candidates to emerge from the primary and become mayor. we will make chicago the safest city in america. now chicago voters have a chance to set a new direction for their city a better, stronger safer. chicago is just moments away, and it's a race that could be a lesson for othe

endorsed nationally by longtime illinois senator dick durbin, former obama education secretary arne duncan more of the moderate democrats. so both democrats? yes so why, then is the democratic party looking at this as a sort of signed for the future? well it's really sort of a test of two democratic ideologies here. we've actually seen this dynamic play out in some key mayoral races and the other two biggest cities in the country. in los angeles, the more progressive congresswoman karen bass defeated her moderate opponent, rick caruso, to take the mayorship in l. a. and then in new york, the more moderate eric adams, former police officer beat out a progressive field in the primary to take the mayorship here. so we've seen mixed results there. and while we don't know just yet what will happen here? that's why this race is being watched so closely to see what sort of dynamics are resonating with people, and that , of course, politically could have implications down the line as well. we talked about possible bellwethers. if you can look just the other direction and wisconsin there is a race