You may recall that Johnson was the only member of the Tennessee Three not to be expelled from the state House last spring for participating in a demonstration for stricter gun laws – in the wake of a Nashville school shooting that killed three children. By wild coincidence, I’m sure, Johnson is also the only one of the three who is white.

Now Johnson is running for the U.S. Senate against MAGA doyenne, Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

Johnson starts the ad with the school shooting. She asks, “When will enough be enough? When will we elect leaders with the courage to stand up for us, instead of a bunch of bullies and cowards who only do what their party says?” A photo of Blackburn appears on the screen.

But Johnson is running on more than just gun reform. The ad continues with her saying that she had to sleep in the hallway as a child to avoid being shot because her father “brought the KKK to justice.”

She goes on to note that politicians don’t like her much “because I speak my mind. And when it’s bullsh*t, I call it bullsh*t."

Then she tackles affordable health care, abortion and extremism: “We deserve health care and prescriptions that don’t make us go broke. We deserve the freedom to make our own choices with our bodies. And most importantly, we deserve a leader with the courage to stand up to extremists and billionaires that have taken over our system. That person ain’t Marsha Blackburn, but it is me,” Johnson says.

“Look, I’m 6’3,” I’m not afraid to stand up to anyone when it comes to doing what’s right for Tennessee, especially Marsha Blackburn,” Johnson adds as a finishing touch.

Tennessee is so ruby red that it hasn’t elected a Democrat for statewide office in nearly 20 years. But I think this is the kind of message that just might do the job.