(NEW YORK – August 26, 2026) – MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes will sit down with Stacey Abrams at MS NOW LIVE: Together in Texas on Saturday, September 26, at 2 p.m. CT at the College Park Center at The University of Texas at Arlington.

Tickets are on sale now at ms.now/together.

The live community event will bring many of MS NOW’s most trusted and notable anchors, special news-making guests, and members of the MS NOW community together for a full day of programming as Texas – and the nation – look ahead to the consequential midterm elections.

Plus, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to the limited-seating We The People Community Dinner, featuring up-close-and-personal conversations between Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki answering audience questions, a live taping of the podcast “Clock It with Symone & Eugene,” and an interactive audience segment with Jacob Soboroff.

In addition to access to the live event on Sept. 26, each ticket purchased includes an offer for a one-year subscription to the MS NOW Membership, launching on September 9.

MS NOW Live was first announced in December 2023, featuring a first-of-its-kind, community-focused ticketed event series. MS NOW Live: Together in Texas follows previous marquee day-long community events in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York, which brought together thousands of loyal audience members from Maryland, Hawaii, Minnesota, Sweden, and beyond for in-depth analysis and poignant conversations on the state of American democracy.

MS NOW Live furthers the network’s rapid expansion and community building across digital, social, and audio platforms. MS NOW continues to lead the pack as one of the most influential news organizations on non-linear platforms, recording over 3.2 billion combined views across YouTube and TikTok so far this year, and more YouTube views than ABC News, CBS News and NBC News combined. MS NOW users continue to spend more time on MS NOW Digital than on The Washington Post, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal, and reaches more unique visitors than Politico, Axios, and The Atlantic. MS NOW also recorded over 140 million audio downloads in 2025, now with over 20 original podcasts and 22 showcasts.

On television, MS NOW reaches more than 30 million Americans every week and continues to have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television, with the average viewer watching more than nine hours each week, more than any broadcast network.

MS NOW Live: Together in Texas is part of VERSANT’s continued investment in the network’s original programming, premium content, and non-linear offerings.

Marcus Mabry is MS NOW’s Senior Vice President of Content Strategy. Lauren Peikoff is the Executive Producer of Live Events.

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