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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Praktivist Pond, the practice of activism made practical.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today we have 47 days until the midterm elections that will truly decide the fate of our American Democratic experiment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Democrats have the wind at our back and the Trump regime is as popular as a sewer rat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to overcome the Republicans' desperate efforts to stay in power, we will need every bit of effort we can muster to build an undeniable victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to talk about how we can make this too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trag.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Steve Pearson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jason Berlin.
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[UNKNOWN]: Oh no!
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[SPEAKER_02]: Stay strong!
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[SPEAKER_02]: It won't be long!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jason, great to see you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are totally going to make this too big to rig and we had a great interview.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure before we get into it, everyone checks out our interview show that dropped on Tuesday with Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are launching along with no kings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about this in our to-do list, but there's a October 17th, no kings vote early push to get folks involved early, to get people to get their voting plan and to vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we talked about in the last podcast, you know, as early as possible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and make this too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty simple formula, but it's what we got to do to counter all the Tom Fulery or Tom Fuckery or however you want to put it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Chicanery bullshittery, we need to win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not by a squeaker, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Squeakers are great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Been there, done that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to blow this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Technically if you do plus one as a win, but you know that's not going
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[SPEAKER_00]: right, right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to overwhelm them with numbers at the polls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just vote in numbers too big to suppress wind by margins too big to contest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't rhyme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't say it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good to you, Johnny Cochran, just a reminder also to everyone before we get too deep into it that we are on sub-stack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't found us there yet, please check us out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are putting the video, add free on there, and we really appreciate the support that's how we get support to keep doing this every week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you for helping us out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: yeah last time we we met and we're talking we were talking about the really shitty terrible Supreme Court decision on Trump's mail-in ballot plan now we have
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[SPEAKER_01]: a better decision on that with the Supreme Court blocking Trump's mail-in plan, and a once-in-for-all, and I'm always kind of dubious about whether Trump's going to actually adhere to some of these rulings, but the fact that he went on this, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: crazy tirade on truth social, you know, saying that these weren't the justices that he interviewed and this was politically motivated and the courts done so much damage because it won't, you know, sort of do whatever he wants them to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even though this court has given this president unprecedented power and authority.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That makes me feel good because when he rails like that, they tend to know that their hands are tied and they can't move forward with these nefarious plants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, this court is a dumpster fire and at least six out of nine are, but amazingly, amazingly, they did clearly the right thing in this one way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, with Kevin, I was saying, hey, just want you all to know my support is very tepid and I might go the other way next time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, don't give me too much credit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm terrible, and with, of course, the dread just as Alito and the silent justice Thomas dissenting, dissenting and saying, hey, for the record we would have sold out democracy completely if we had our way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we didn't need them to tell us that, we already knew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we knew we knew and that God this puts that issue of mail invoiting to bed at least for this election will probably have to re-litigate this for 28 but for now the threat to mail invoiting is dead for the 26 midterms so
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that is, that is a fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate when the news says this is a victory for Democrats and pro voting groups.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a victory for America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a victory for voters in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, provoting groups that should be every American should be provoting because we live in a democracy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like we said in the opening statement here, it's a democratic experiment that we have not realized we haven't even come close to the promise of what America could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what our job is as practice every day is to move us forward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know we've had some years here where that is being pressure tested like it never has before and pushing us backwards but you know this this is a win for yes provoting groups it's a win for all Americans you know we need our votes to be counted we need it to be easy
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, obviously, we can talk about, well, we'll talk about the New York Times see in a poll, we'll talk about how underwater, how it would like utterly in the sewer Trump and the Republicans are on every issue that Americans care about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: including affordability, health care, even immigration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Republicans signature issue, you know, they are underwater on that, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They know they're going to lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they're trying to go to any extreme measure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can, to cheat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the, the last thing that people have been worried about from the beginning is that he would send troops or agents or ice agents to polling places to intimidate folks and keep them from voting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Patel was being interviewed by, I believe, the Senate Judiciary, someone will correct me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... in the comments if that's wrong but uh... and uh... and suggested that FBI agents may be sent to the polls even though federal law does prohibit uh... federal officials are military personnel from being deployed to polling stations uh...
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is not against doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the kind of desperate acts that we expect to be seen more of in the run up to the election.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether they just say this to intimidate people to try to suppress the vote or they actually do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our job is clear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is vote early to drop off our, I still even though the mail-in voting is okay, I still don't trust the post office.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would recommend,
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[SPEAKER_01]: you drop your ballot off in person or at a drop box here in California or and rather than mail it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, many, many states have drop boxes that's a great, I totally agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just be as safe as possible, get it done early in a person if you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, drop it in an official ballot drop box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as early as possible if you can't, yeah, totally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, you didn't, and I mean, Lea and I talked about this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is part of the plan, part of the no kings vote early plan, because if they really are going to try to send FBI agents to the polls, well, the way we keep from that being an issue is for Democrats to just vote early, in massive numbers, get those ballots in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can't, they may show up on election day, but let's
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[SPEAKER_01]: have everyone already voted by election day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then all they're doing is discouraging Republicans who actually tend to vote on the day more than Democrats do right now anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, that's true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, also just to knock down, you know, crazy eyes, cash, but tell,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's all about hype.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're all about scaring us and you know the terrorists win if we give into that fear and if we despair, gap for bid or if we spread that fear to others then they win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just by the numbers, they don't have nearly a fraction of the FBI agents they would need to, do you know how many polling places there are in the country?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have 10 or 20, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like 18, even if they wanted to, even if these were competent fascists we were dealing with, which I think, they're not, they couldn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a fear tactic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they may send FBI agents to three places and have cameras there and try to use that to spread fear and look at this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact is they can't do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing that Americans of all political stripes
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[SPEAKER_00]: really hate just just as part of the American character the site are psyche we hate being silenced and if you want to know how bad the backlash can be let me just try a tent there and see what I was doing there I was I was silencing you
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, no, if you want to know how bad the backlash to attempts to silence us can be, ask our two Democratic senators from Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Georgia is no stranger to voter suppression.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there I would say the best at it of any state tied with Texas and yet and yet people rose up and delivered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Reverend Warnock and John Ossoft of the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredible to think about, you know, we see every election cycle in Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other states too, but, you know, Georgia's a great example of these incredible lines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These just long, like, people waiting two, three hours, more in some cases in line to vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: to do their civic duty to do, you know, to exercise the power they have as a citizen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, Georgia passing a law that they can't have water while they're in line to vote, you know, it's just desperation, it's desperate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so transparent and so desperate and that gives me a lot of hope too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I see them pull and shit like that and when I see them like you said doing these really empty threats to like I'm not against sending FBI agents to polls and stuff like that it just shows how desperate they are to hold on to power because they know
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[SPEAKER_01]: that they're failing and I was going to say any effort to govern, they don't have an effort to govern, they haven't effort to enrich themselves, they have an effort to self-deal and so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to stop doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Americans want them to stop doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why, you know, I think we're going to have a good, a great turnout and a good result of the polls, but you know, we got stuff to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to, you know, take that as a given.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to make that happen collectively.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just, it can't mention Georgia without just giving props to Stacey Abrams our hero and and say, Uffat and all the predominantly black women organizers in Georgia, who
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[SPEAKER_00]: who led us to that victory, supported by national, by organizations in Georgia, and organizers in Georgia, and then after that national organizations, but with them always taking the lead, pushing that forward, Stacey taught us that you, you know, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you can lose and lose and lose and then win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's where the courage comes in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You keep on fighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You narrow that margin of defeat over time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You lose better until that margin of defeat becomes a margin of victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 10, 15 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Texas sounds like Texas to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, closer and closer in Texas, every election cycle, and those organizers do take a page from the Georgia organizers and I love both of those women had the pleasure of interviewing them both on our podcast, both Stacey Abrams and and say, and hung out with Insay just last year for a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's the coolest, but I'm a weird name dropper.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, yeah, Texas, Tele Rico, he's up, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll see, you know, I always feel like we're close in Texas and then it doesn't happen, but it's going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These organizers are building that foundation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I cannot wait to see what happens in Texas, feel team six is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: contacting millions of unregistered likely democrats in Texas between three and four million is how many we have in our database and we are contacting the email and text and
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[SPEAKER_00]: postcards, and pushing anyone who wants to do live voter drives to our amazing partners powered by people, the better-over organization that does an amazing job at jumping through every hoop and getting a ton of people registered in Texas despite their voters' votes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, Texas being one of the most challenging places to register voters as you will know and and we were talking about New Hampshire too and the the one Senate race the one race that we've seen that was actually downgraded by cook just a couple of days ago or I guess yesterday as we're recording this from lean dim to toss up
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... mostly because of the you know institutional senunu name even though uh... this is a very bad senunu that's running uh... there's that's a new he's bad senunu uh... i'm i'm still like
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[SPEAKER_01]: guardedly optimistic about New Hampshire, but it does give me pause and think, you know, we could be paying a little bit more attention there and sending some more resources there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But as you and I were talking about before we started recording, New Hampshire is also a very, very difficult place to register voters, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: it's really insane is the word you can't register to vote online you have to actually physically go to town hall or do it in person at polls so it is completely resistance to all our normal outreach you can't really do it via postcard email text you have even in person so so yeah whatever you can do to help in new hamper will be great we gotta say so no no
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[SPEAKER_01]: Say, yes, to pop us, I was trying to come up with a good pop as thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pop out of pop set of their potatoes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, to that's a new, new.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm my sincere apologies to our long time listeners and we're getting, we're getting punchy here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But well, that's a good segue into our to-do list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking about some of your work at Field Team 6 and as we're recording this yesterday was National Voter Registration Day, you've got some stuff coming up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about Field Team 6's items.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, okay, for the to-do list, so field team six, you know, registered Democrats save the world is our mission.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are cranking, we're, we're hitting on all cylinders right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We held a text bank to over three million people a week ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have another one to another three, over three million people on September 20th, join us for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can, and the thing is, to text that many people, three million people caused $90,000.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we just raised the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It will cost pay for the September 20th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: text bank two days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like this is we're trying to build that funding bridge to November third as we're barreling towards the edge of the cliff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So any donation you can make absolutely helps us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need it to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have all the contacts we need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to wind up being able to contact more than 9 million unregistered likely Democrats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we need the
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[SPEAKER_00]: field team in the number 6.org, go there, click donate, whatever you can, will help us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And absolutely we need you to volunteer too, help us out on those text banks and with post carding and live voter drives are popping off right now, as it's back to school is the best time of year, it's fish and a barrel, it's burning man for voter registration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kids are signing up on campus to do everything, to be adults.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you're just like another part of the becoming an adult process.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how they see you and they you register a ton of kids and that is incredibly helpful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need them, need them registered because when they're registered over 80% of them vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, I've talked to a woman yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was at an event in support of the Ohio Senate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she was talking about her son just went to school in Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it Oberlin, just what she was saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the first thing that he did, day one, was register to vote there in Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he could vote in the election.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he'll be voting weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of you to do list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sign up with Field Team 6 and get involved in donate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, if you want to donate to our pivotal races, we've partnered Blue Wave Nation has partnered with MSW Media, our parent podcast home to bust out an impact fund that was very successful in the last midterm and the last election as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... this has four senate races and four congressional races and uh... you know if you're looking for where small dollar donations can really make an impact that's what this fund is designed to do so we'll have a link in our show notes to that uh... please donate what you can there
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the last to-do list item is October 17th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about it earlier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mark your calendars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the no-kings vote early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could sign up at nokings.org or indivisible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're partnering with this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: find an event near you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's not one, you can start one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're doing instead of these like mass protests, we're getting together to make sure that we contact people and get them to vote early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In some cases they'll be, you know, ballots already on people's tables like here in California, ballots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: get mailed out on October 5th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So depending on where you are, you could have like a, you know, fill out and return your ballot party, they're doing like barbecues, music, stuff, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's lots of fun stuff, just to make it exciting and make it a community event.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So sign up there as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Three important actions to take right now to help us win and make it too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My reason for hope is that, in addition to the huge victory we had with mail-in voting, there's another victory in the courts recently where Missouri, there was a...
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in St. Lee complicated legal battle, but basically the bottom line is the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled they could not use the new gerrymandered map.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had to use the map that's in place currently, which means
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[SPEAKER_00]: that Missouri's second house district remains a swing district so that's one of the districts across the country that field team six is fighting for Fred Welman is the Democrat there and he is running to unseat the terrible mega incumbent and Wagner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: cook rates this district are plus four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So with the swings to the left we've been seeing since November 24 of 14 to 15 points this district is a possibility and you know we've expanded the map to our biggest map ever because we need to take advantage of this historic opportunity where we have these huge tailwinds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we have the opportunity to win in places we could not have imagined six months ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so yes, very just psyched about winning in history.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get to see that often enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: this redistricting mid-decade redistricting battle that the Republicans kicked off in Texas at Trump's behest has, you know, it's been crazy and, you know, I think it's a net favorable for Republicans overall, but it's pretty negligible and because of the, like you said, the enthusiasm, the gaps we've had in terms of the elections we've had over the
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's huge and we need every seat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can't just win this by a few seats and have a tenuous majority.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to have a substantial majority going into 26 and make sure that we hold onto the house in 26 too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because that to represent 28.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because that, uh, that house will be swearing in, uh, the next president.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, very important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, my reason for hope, you know, I mentioned it before is the New York Times Seattle poll and just the, you know, the way we're heading right now in general, you know, despite all of the noise that Republicans are making and the well-founded fears that people have about their intervening in this election, we are kicking ass and we are looking strong,
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[SPEAKER_01]: keep building on that do everything we can one foot in front of the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The New York Times Santa Poles, you know, I'm not a big fan of Poles, but that is really one that is pretty universally respected and it has sent shock waves amongst Republicans who have looked at it too because it puts Dems at almost a nine point favorite, a nine point advantage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the generic congressional ballot, and, you know, the Senate is a true, true toss-up, you know, maybe even leaning dim at this point, which is crazy, and never would have thought that a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just keep at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very hopeful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All you can do is all you can do, but let's do all that we can do in the time that we have left so that we wake up on November 4th
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's about less than seven weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So every single day that you can do something, just about this whole getting into the specifics of it, it had,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trump underwater like crazy on every single issue, the biggest one being affordability, and the Iran War.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People hate this war, and the House actually, yesterday, Republicans did this, joined with Democrats to
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[SPEAKER_00]: order the stop to the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not, while it's not legally binding on Trump, it's pretty amazing that Republicans have done this repeatedly in the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe this was the first time in the House demanding the war to end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's not Trump to control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He can't flip a switch now that he, he made this historically terrible
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[SPEAKER_00]: we can expect that that is right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll continue to tank the hubris totally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's insane and so this is our moments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: time and time again, I don't want to digress, but time and time again to think, to think about these, you know, hawks that just are so impressed with their stockpiles of weapons and their military supremacy that they think they can go in and just bomb someone in its submission and come in and out with shock and awe and all of this stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just never,
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[SPEAKER_01]: prolonged suffering, more loss of life and, um, and, you know, it's almost like war is bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to say it right here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's controversial, but, uh, war is bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is what you get when you have a madman at the White House and a, and, you know, a fox morning host, uh, more weekend morning host as their Secretary of Defense,
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, I think that's quite enough from us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have your marching orders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have some good to do list items.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you do listen to that interview with Leah Greenberg and Jason, I will see you next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Praktivist Pond, the practice of activism made practical.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Today we have 47 days until the midterm elections that will truly decide the fate of our American Democratic experiment.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Democrats have the wind at our back and the Trump regime is as popular as a sewer rat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But to overcome the Republicans' desperate efforts to stay in power, we will need every bit of effort we can muster to build an undeniable victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to talk about how we can make this too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trag.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Steve Pearson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jason Berlin.
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[UNKNOWN]: Oh no!
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[SPEAKER_02]: Stay strong!
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[SPEAKER_02]: It won't be long!
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[SPEAKER_01]: Jason, great to see you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are totally going to make this too big to rig and we had a great interview.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure before we get into it, everyone checks out our interview show that dropped on Tuesday with Indivisible co-founder Leah Greenberg.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They are launching along with no kings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about this in our to-do list, but there's a October 17th, no kings vote early push to get folks involved early, to get people to get their voting plan and to vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we talked about in the last podcast, you know, as early as possible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and make this too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a pretty simple formula, but it's what we got to do to counter all the Tom Fulery or Tom Fuckery or however you want to put it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Chicanery bullshittery, we need to win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not by a squeaker, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Squeakers are great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Been there, done that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to blow this out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Technically if you do plus one as a win, but you know that's not going
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[SPEAKER_00]: right, right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to overwhelm them with numbers at the polls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just vote in numbers too big to suppress wind by margins too big to contest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't rhyme.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't say it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Good to you, Johnny Cochran, just a reminder also to everyone before we get too deep into it that we are on sub-stack.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you for helping us out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: yeah last time we we met and we're talking we were talking about the really shitty terrible Supreme Court decision on Trump's mail-in ballot plan now we have
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[SPEAKER_01]: a better decision on that with the Supreme Court blocking Trump's mail-in plan, and a once-in-for-all, and I'm always kind of dubious about whether Trump's going to actually adhere to some of these rulings, but the fact that he went on this, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: crazy tirade on truth social, you know, saying that these weren't the justices that he interviewed and this was politically motivated and the courts done so much damage because it won't, you know, sort of do whatever he wants them to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even though this court has given this president unprecedented power and authority.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That makes me feel good because when he rails like that, they tend to know that their hands are tied and they can't move forward with these nefarious plants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, this court is a dumpster fire and at least six out of nine are, but amazingly, amazingly, they did clearly the right thing in this one way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, with Kevin, I was saying, hey, just want you all to know my support is very tepid and I might go the other way next time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, don't give me too much credit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm terrible, and with, of course, the dread just as Alito and the silent justice Thomas dissenting, dissenting and saying, hey, for the record we would have sold out democracy completely if we had our way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we didn't need them to tell us that, we already knew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we knew we knew and that God this puts that issue of mail invoiting to bed at least for this election will probably have to re-litigate this for 28 but for now the threat to mail invoiting is dead for the 26 midterms so
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that is, that is a fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate when the news says this is a victory for Democrats and pro voting groups.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a victory for America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a victory for voters in America.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yeah, provoting groups that should be every American should be provoting because we live in a democracy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And like we said in the opening statement here, it's a democratic experiment that we have not realized we haven't even come close to the promise of what America could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what our job is as practice every day is to move us forward.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know we've had some years here where that is being pressure tested like it never has before and pushing us backwards but you know this this is a win for yes provoting groups it's a win for all Americans you know we need our votes to be counted we need it to be easy
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, obviously, we can talk about, well, we'll talk about the New York Times see in a poll, we'll talk about how underwater, how it would like utterly in the sewer Trump and the Republicans are on every issue that Americans care about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: including affordability, health care, even immigration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Republicans signature issue, you know, they are underwater on that, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They know they're going to lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, they're trying to go to any extreme measure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can, to cheat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the, the last thing that people have been worried about from the beginning is that he would send troops or agents or ice agents to polling places to intimidate folks and keep them from voting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Patel was being interviewed by, I believe, the Senate Judiciary, someone will correct me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... in the comments if that's wrong but uh... and uh... and suggested that FBI agents may be sent to the polls even though federal law does prohibit uh... federal officials are military personnel from being deployed to polling stations uh...
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[SPEAKER_01]: He is not against doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the kind of desperate acts that we expect to be seen more of in the run up to the election.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Whether they just say this to intimidate people to try to suppress the vote or they actually do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our job is clear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is vote early to drop off our, I still even though the mail-in voting is okay, I still don't trust the post office.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would recommend,
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[SPEAKER_01]: you drop your ballot off in person or at a drop box here in California or and rather than mail it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, many, many states have drop boxes that's a great, I totally agree.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just be as safe as possible, get it done early in a person if you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, drop it in an official ballot drop box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as early as possible if you can't, yeah, totally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, you didn't, and I mean, Lea and I talked about this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is part of the plan, part of the no kings vote early plan, because if they really are going to try to send FBI agents to the polls, well, the way we keep from that being an issue is for Democrats to just vote early, in massive numbers, get those ballots in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They can't, they may show up on election day, but let's
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[SPEAKER_01]: have everyone already voted by election day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then all they're doing is discouraging Republicans who actually tend to vote on the day more than Democrats do right now anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, that's true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, also just to knock down, you know, crazy eyes, cash, but tell,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's all about hype.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're all about scaring us and you know the terrorists win if we give into that fear and if we despair, gap for bid or if we spread that fear to others then they win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just by the numbers, they don't have nearly a fraction of the FBI agents they would need to, do you know how many polling places there are in the country?
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have 10 or 20, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like 18, even if they wanted to, even if these were competent fascists we were dealing with, which I think, they're not, they couldn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a fear tactic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they may send FBI agents to three places and have cameras there and try to use that to spread fear and look at this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact is they can't do this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing that Americans of all political stripes
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[SPEAKER_00]: really hate just just as part of the American character the site are psyche we hate being silenced and if you want to know how bad the backlash can be let me just try a tent there and see what I was doing there I was I was silencing you
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hate it more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, no, if you want to know how bad the backlash to attempts to silence us can be, ask our two Democratic senators from Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Georgia is no stranger to voter suppression.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, there I would say the best at it of any state tied with Texas and yet and yet people rose up and delivered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Reverend Warnock and John Ossoft of the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's incredible to think about, you know, we see every election cycle in Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other states too, but, you know, Georgia's a great example of these incredible lines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These just long, like, people waiting two, three hours, more in some cases in line to vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: to do their civic duty to do, you know, to exercise the power they have as a citizen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, Georgia passing a law that they can't have water while they're in line to vote, you know, it's just desperation, it's desperate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's so transparent and so desperate and that gives me a lot of hope too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I see them pull and shit like that and when I see them like you said doing these really empty threats to like I'm not against sending FBI agents to polls and stuff like that it just shows how desperate they are to hold on to power because they know
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[SPEAKER_01]: that they're failing and I was going to say any effort to govern, they don't have an effort to govern, they haven't effort to enrich themselves, they have an effort to self-deal and so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to stop doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Americans want them to stop doing that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why, you know, I think we're going to have a good, a great turnout and a good result of the polls, but you know, we got stuff to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to, you know, take that as a given.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to make that happen collectively.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And just, it can't mention Georgia without just giving props to Stacey Abrams our hero and and say, Uffat and all the predominantly black women organizers in Georgia, who
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[SPEAKER_00]: who led us to that victory, supported by national, by organizations in Georgia, and organizers in Georgia, and then after that national organizations, but with them always taking the lead, pushing that forward, Stacey taught us that you, you know, you know,
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[SPEAKER_00]: you can lose and lose and lose and then win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's where the courage comes in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You keep on fighting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You narrow that margin of defeat over time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You lose better until that margin of defeat becomes a margin of victory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 10, 15 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Texas sounds like Texas to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It could be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, closer and closer in Texas, every election cycle, and those organizers do take a page from the Georgia organizers and I love both of those women had the pleasure of interviewing them both on our podcast, both Stacey Abrams and and say, and hung out with Insay just last year for a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's the coolest, but I'm a weird name dropper.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, yeah, Texas, Tele Rico, he's up, you know,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll see, you know, I always feel like we're close in Texas and then it doesn't happen, but it's going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: These organizers are building that foundation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I cannot wait to see what happens in Texas, feel team six is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: contacting millions of unregistered likely democrats in Texas between three and four million is how many we have in our database and we are contacting the email and text and
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[SPEAKER_00]: postcards, and pushing anyone who wants to do live voter drives to our amazing partners powered by people, the better-over organization that does an amazing job at jumping through every hoop and getting a ton of people registered in Texas despite their voters' votes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, Texas being one of the most challenging places to register voters as you will know and and we were talking about New Hampshire too and the the one Senate race the one race that we've seen that was actually downgraded by cook just a couple of days ago or I guess yesterday as we're recording this from lean dim to toss up
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... mostly because of the you know institutional senunu name even though uh... this is a very bad senunu that's running uh... there's that's a new he's bad senunu uh... i'm i'm still like
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[SPEAKER_01]: guardedly optimistic about New Hampshire, but it does give me pause and think, you know, we could be paying a little bit more attention there and sending some more resources there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But as you and I were talking about before we started recording, New Hampshire is also a very, very difficult place to register voters, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: it's really insane is the word you can't register to vote online you have to actually physically go to town hall or do it in person at polls so it is completely resistance to all our normal outreach you can't really do it via postcard email text you have even in person so so yeah whatever you can do to help in new hamper will be great we gotta say so no no
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[SPEAKER_01]: Say, yes, to pop us, I was trying to come up with a good pop as thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Pop out of pop set of their potatoes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, to that's a new, new.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's, we'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll, it'll,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm my sincere apologies to our long time listeners and we're getting, we're getting punchy here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But well, that's a good segue into our to-do list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're talking about some of your work at Field Team 6 and as we're recording this yesterday was National Voter Registration Day, you've got some stuff coming up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about Field Team 6's items.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, okay, for the to-do list, so field team six, you know, registered Democrats save the world is our mission.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We are cranking, we're, we're hitting on all cylinders right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We held a text bank to over three million people a week ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have another one to another three, over three million people on September 20th, join us for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can, and the thing is, to text that many people, three million people caused $90,000.
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[SPEAKER_00]: we just raised the money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It will cost pay for the September 20th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: text bank two days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like this is we're trying to build that funding bridge to November third as we're barreling towards the edge of the cliff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So any donation you can make absolutely helps us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need it to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have all the contacts we need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to wind up being able to contact more than 9 million unregistered likely Democrats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But we need the
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[SPEAKER_00]: field team in the number 6.org, go there, click donate, whatever you can, will help us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And absolutely we need you to volunteer too, help us out on those text banks and with post carding and live voter drives are popping off right now, as it's back to school is the best time of year, it's fish and a barrel, it's burning man for voter registration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kids are signing up on campus to do everything, to be adults.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you're just like another part of the becoming an adult process.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how they see you and they you register a ton of kids and that is incredibly helpful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need them, need them registered because when they're registered over 80% of them vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, I've talked to a woman yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was at an event in support of the Ohio Senate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And she was talking about her son just went to school in Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it Oberlin, just what she was saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the first thing that he did, day one, was register to vote there in Ohio.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he could vote in the election.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So he'll be voting weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's one of you to do list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sign up with Field Team 6 and get involved in donate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, if you want to donate to our pivotal races, we've partnered Blue Wave Nation has partnered with MSW Media, our parent podcast home to bust out an impact fund that was very successful in the last midterm and the last election as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: uh... this has four senate races and four congressional races and uh... you know if you're looking for where small dollar donations can really make an impact that's what this fund is designed to do so we'll have a link in our show notes to that uh... please donate what you can there
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[SPEAKER_01]: And the last to-do list item is October 17th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about it earlier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mark your calendars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the no-kings vote early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You could sign up at nokings.org or indivisible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're partnering with this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: find an event near you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's not one, you can start one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're doing instead of these like mass protests, we're getting together to make sure that we contact people and get them to vote early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In some cases they'll be, you know, ballots already on people's tables like here in California, ballots.
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[SPEAKER_01]: get mailed out on October 5th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So depending on where you are, you could have like a, you know, fill out and return your ballot party, they're doing like barbecues, music, stuff, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's lots of fun stuff, just to make it exciting and make it a community event.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So sign up there as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Three important actions to take right now to help us win and make it too big to rig.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My reason for hope is that, in addition to the huge victory we had with mail-in voting, there's another victory in the courts recently where Missouri, there was a...
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in St. Lee complicated legal battle, but basically the bottom line is the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled they could not use the new gerrymandered map.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had to use the map that's in place currently, which means
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[SPEAKER_00]: that Missouri's second house district remains a swing district so that's one of the districts across the country that field team six is fighting for Fred Welman is the Democrat there and he is running to unseat the terrible mega incumbent and Wagner.
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[SPEAKER_00]: cook rates this district are plus four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So with the swings to the left we've been seeing since November 24 of 14 to 15 points this district is a possibility and you know we've expanded the map to our biggest map ever because we need to take advantage of this historic opportunity where we have these huge tailwinds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we have the opportunity to win in places we could not have imagined six months ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so yes, very just psyched about winning in history.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get to see that often enough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: this redistricting mid-decade redistricting battle that the Republicans kicked off in Texas at Trump's behest has, you know, it's been crazy and, you know, I think it's a net favorable for Republicans overall, but it's pretty negligible and because of the, like you said, the enthusiasm, the gaps we've had in terms of the elections we've had over the
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's huge and we need every seat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We can't just win this by a few seats and have a tenuous majority.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to have a substantial majority going into 26 and make sure that we hold onto the house in 26 too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because that to represent 28.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because that, uh, that house will be swearing in, uh, the next president.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, very important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, my reason for hope, you know, I mentioned it before is the New York Times Seattle poll and just the, you know, the way we're heading right now in general, you know, despite all of the noise that Republicans are making and the well-founded fears that people have about their intervening in this election, we are kicking ass and we are looking strong,
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[SPEAKER_01]: keep building on that do everything we can one foot in front of the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The New York Times Santa Poles, you know, I'm not a big fan of Poles, but that is really one that is pretty universally respected and it has sent shock waves amongst Republicans who have looked at it too because it puts Dems at almost a nine point favorite, a nine point advantage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: on the generic congressional ballot, and, you know, the Senate is a true, true toss-up, you know, maybe even leaning dim at this point, which is crazy, and never would have thought that a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's just keep at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very hopeful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All you can do is all you can do, but let's do all that we can do in the time that we have left so that we wake up on November 4th
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's about less than seven weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So every single day that you can do something, just about this whole getting into the specifics of it, it had,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trump underwater like crazy on every single issue, the biggest one being affordability, and the Iran War.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People hate this war, and the House actually, yesterday, Republicans did this, joined with Democrats to
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[SPEAKER_00]: order the stop to the war.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not, while it's not legally binding on Trump, it's pretty amazing that Republicans have done this repeatedly in the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe this was the first time in the House demanding the war to end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's not Trump to control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He can't flip a switch now that he, he made this historically terrible
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[SPEAKER_00]: we can expect that that is right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll continue to tank the hubris totally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's insane and so this is our moments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: time and time again, I don't want to digress, but time and time again to think, to think about these, you know, hawks that just are so impressed with their stockpiles of weapons and their military supremacy that they think they can go in and just bomb someone in its submission and come in and out with shock and awe and all of this stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just never,
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[SPEAKER_01]: prolonged suffering, more loss of life and, um, and, you know, it's almost like war is bad.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to say it right here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's controversial, but, uh, war is bad.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is what you get when you have a madman at the White House and a, and, you know, a fox morning host, uh, more weekend morning host as their Secretary of Defense,
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, well, I think that's quite enough from us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have your marching orders.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have some good to do list items.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you do listen to that interview with Leah Greenberg and Jason, I will see you next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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