Sometimes relatively ancient political history remains relevant today. Such is the case with a masterful six-part podcast from Slow Burn, a project of Slate Plus, about the three-year peak of neo-Nazi David Duke’s political career. The series aired its final episode Wednesday.

Duke’s rise in Louisiana began with a successful special-election race for the state House of Representatives in 1989. It ended with a landslide loss in an infamous runoff election for governor of Louisiana, but only after he had pulled within the polling margin of error less than three weeks before election day. Slow Burn, hosted by Josh Levin, captures tremendously well, sometimes breathtakingly, a dizzying array of elements that contributed both to Duke’s rise and his ultimate defeat.