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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the practice of his pod.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The practice of activism made practical.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We are 61 days away from the most important election of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And while we have the momentum, the Trump regime, and his enablers in the postal service are doing everything they can to disenfranchise our vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So today we're going to talk about how we fight back and make sure we win with an indisputable blowout.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Steve Pearson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stay strong, you won't be long, yeah, yeah, we will be like that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Aloha Jason.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Aloha, let me put down my vacation hat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Love the lid, yeah, that's a good one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Almost every hat looks completely stupid on me because I have a small head.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it looks no stop it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I look this one now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is an exception.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This looks less stupid
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, our YouTube viewers, it's a good way to plug the show on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're not watching us on YouTube, you're missing out on Jason's really striking Hawaiian shirt and handsome lid fresh from a well-deserved vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also our video podcast is on Substack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's really, really helpful, but yeah, we took a week off because you were on vacation and I took a, you know, point of privilege since you weren't here to just rest up because now we are, you know, 61 days out from, I mean, it sounds right to say the most important
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[SPEAKER_00]: here we are again every election you know we've learned is the most important election of our lives it's it's it's no more just a one-shot deal but um no every single one they keep getting more important the goal is for us to win you know decisively enough and for long enough that elections become less important
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[SPEAKER_00]: that would be great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We would love one day to get to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is definitely not the most important but it's not the most important election of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're just choosing between two good choices.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, I hear you, but I still, I would love to get to a place where Americans all feel it's their civic duty to vote, and they don't like it when their vote is fucked with, and you know, this Trump regime is certainly trying to disenfranchise our vote.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been talking about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the entirety of this podcast all the save act bullshit that they're trying to do but now since you've been gone, I mean you were just like kicking back with a coconut lying in the sun on the beach and the Supreme Court gave Trump another win
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tenuous one because there's actually two cases that are blocking the implementation of Trump's executive order on voting by mail to basically federalize the voting by mail and getting all those voting lists and instructing the post office to check the voting rules before they send out the ballots.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the one that the Supreme Court actually said could move forward
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[SPEAKER_02]: on a procedural note because they said that the, and it was a bullshit procedural note, but they said that it had come too early before the post office could have a chance to look at or implement any of these things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was kind of a moot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's another one blocking it to still, but it's Supreme Court.
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[SPEAKER_02]: sucks, we'll just, you know, full stop and except for our dissenting liberal judges who like our Democrats and Congress right now in the minority are, you know, without power and that's where we come in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then of course, just a couple of days ago, we had a report of a whistleblower who came, reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: about the postal service and the Trump accolades in there moving forward with his directives, define the courts order to stop, creating what the whistleblower described is catastrophic damage to our postal service and threatening our vote by mail.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's, you know, I hope you enjoyed your vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I sure did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And let me just say, it turns out vacations are necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't, this is my first one in about six years or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I went to Hawaii.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was perfect and absolutely necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like just that rest just for one week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm top my cups are full, I'm ready for the sprint, the 61 day sprint to November 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I already I think better like I am able to handle effortlessly the deep details of the the the labyrinth of you know tech stuff and just whenever we get into the weeds I'm there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm fully online it's amazing I should have done this long ago and we're filled with the spirit of Aloha.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely absolutely Mahalo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's really an incredibly crucial part of self-care, you know, that allows me to do my job better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, you know, I put on my coconut bikini, take my eye off the Supreme Court for one second and look what they do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's not on the YouTube feed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't be afraid of that, anyone who is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's purely verbal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No visual for that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, I you know, I grow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's more visual aids to draw you to our our video podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a passion fruit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I grow a ton of these in my yard here in LA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They love it in LA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to go to the land of passion fruit or as they call it, Lillicoi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lillicoi is much more poetic and beautiful and they sell things like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lilacoye, caramel, macadamia, nut tart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so life is good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just foundation to build on, you know, what we talk about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like our travel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like our travel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And our political show, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's way more fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, coming from a foundation of, you know, a Lilacoye, caramel, macadamia, nut tart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easier to not lose your balance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: went talk emotionally when talking about the terrible things the Supreme Court is doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, let's, let's, let's talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: field team six is recommending and like, you know, sane people on the left can disagree with this, but what we're recommending as far as making sure that your vote counts is based on a kind of broad consensus of thought leaders on the left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is probably best to do now is just vote at in person as early as you can as the number one thing if you can't do that use a drop box drop your mail in ballot in a drop box and official drop box if you can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: mail it in, mail it in, as soon as you possibly can, and no later than I would say three weeks just to be super cautious before the election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Say October 13th, I believe, is three weeks before the election.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, 100% agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we have to do, and then our job also as practivist, as volunteers, is to educate on that too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we have to do a lot of voter education on this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, I'm jumping ahead to one of our to-do list items, but indivisible has some great resources for voter protection and voter education.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're rolling out nationwide.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We know this is coming for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's unclear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, the states still have the authority to handle their ballots the way that they want.
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[SPEAKER_02]: None of this forces them to do this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's still unclear what the final outcome will be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I agree 100% if you're able to turn your ballot in in person, that is what I would do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: vote early, vote early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the message also by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks with the number of members of Congress, you know, Congress is back in session now, but they had their August recess, so we had a lot of blue wave events with the number of members, and it gave me a lot of hope to know that they are
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[SPEAKER_02]: really taking this serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're on top of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're planning for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're saying the same thing, like, you know, vote early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't wait.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what we need to be pushing out all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had an event last Sunday with Representative Dave Men down in Corona, Del Mar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's been doing a lot of work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's doing great work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been doing a
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... studying authoritarianism and uh... and you know really guarding our democracy the best that they can uh... the nut and power right now but what they can do is get all the legal challenges ready be be ready for the worst case scenarios uh... and be ready to challenge them in the courts and and all of that and it does give me hope to know that our democrats uh... in congress
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[SPEAKER_02]: are ready for every single eventuality that this regime will try to throw it at this should be free and fair election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what's really important to remember is to not despair and just say, oh, yeah, you know, I see so many people just, just succumbing to the fear that they, the Trump regime wants us to feel and saying, ah, this is, you know, democracy is over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They ruined it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have, they have rigged the election, the past tense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to center ourselves, take deep breath, stay focused, and look at what is real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to become more and more important to make distinctions like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have not succeeded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are trying to inject chaos, like Robert Hubble says.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is plenty of reason for hope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No reason for complacency.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What we know is that our side, the Democrats, we have dealt with voter suppression for ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the Republicans have not, so we have machinery in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to including things like this podcast to get the word out and to mobilize our side and let people know that all our friends know that you need to vote early in person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not, drop your ballot and drop box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not, mail it in as early as you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And last resort, vote in personal election day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But like we need to get this word out and we will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: we're ready for any reason you don't get your ballot in the mail if you're expecting it to make sure you go to your pull-and-place and vote in person too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, dimming interrupt, but no, good point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but there's also, there's also a good, you know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another scenario with this, because the states do control their own elections, there is a scenario where it's really only the red states that are sick of fants to the Trump regime that do this and put their own elections in chaos and this, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a there's a possibility this could backfire terribly on them and do distant franchise horrible publicans than Democrats you know so totally it is not at all a foregone conclusion that eliminating a ton of votes by mail won't hurt them more think about all the role voters who vote predominantly by mail those are vast majority of Republicans so
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[SPEAKER_00]: see through the chaos focus is on how to run the other yeah right and just just keep going
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I have a visual aid to I was trying to put it behind me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm I'm actually out of town myself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm visiting my wife's family in Massachusetts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm in the Berkshire's and their basement right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I found this poster in here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The great Nancy Pelosi, which says of course don't agonize organized, which is her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Famous saying and we did an event a few weeks ago with Nancy Pelosi and Bradley Whitford's house was incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was so inspiring like, look, team Democrat is, you know, ignore the noise, ignore all of the like, what's happening within the Democratic Party?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like we are unified in our, you know, fight right now to win these midterms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when with the kind of margins that make it indisputable, that make it the indisputable blowout that will enoculate ourselves from all of this, Tom Fullery that the Trump regime is attempting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, it's bullshittery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shittering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember a note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a bolt of dash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These scannoy eggs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember another point I wanted to make is just that, you know, one thing that Americans of all political stripes absolutely hate is being silenced being ignored, trying to be sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you have any doubt about that and the reaction
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[SPEAKER_00]: the whiplash that that causes, ask our two democratic senators from Georgia, what they think about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, where do they suppress the vote more than in Georgia?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Texas maybe they tie, but I don't think anyone beats Georgia and in response to that, there was so much, you know, people stood out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much reaction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got two Democrats from Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: so just just keep on going and keep on going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to win the house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to win the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do it by margins that are undeniable, but it's going to come down to everyone now knowing that we got two months and I know none of our listeners wants to wake up on November 4th wishing that they had done more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: regretting that they didn't do everything they could to make this just a massive blue wave that we need.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Trump's underwater in every way possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Iran War just hit its six-month mark has no end in sight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got this ridiculous trade worry started with Canada now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even want to get into this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But hey, I'll just say welcome back map quest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you saw this from vacation, but Trump with his ass and I, you know, Sharpie crossed out Lake Ontario and wrote it's now Lake America.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And both Google and Apple maps changed it on their maps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I, I, this is so disgusting, like that's so disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, he would do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't surprise me, but it's so disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just the caving the obedience, the obedience, the obedience of app.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It shows that people are paying attention, first of all, to what corporations do and whether they have been the knee or not to this Trump regime, and so MapQuest still says Lake Ontario, and I will be using MapQuest for all my navigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: needs henceforth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, me too, whether I needed or not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I've seen posts I've seen posts about how, you know, the the the Namanic to remember all the great lakes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: used to be homes, huran Ontario, Michigan, you know, eerie, what's I can't believe I made myself do this, superior.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, got it, homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since he changed Ontario to America, the acronym is now shame, great job, great job, shame.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got rid of homes, gave us shame, just like in
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, that's couldn't have said it better than that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So on that note, let's get into as Speaker of Meredith Pelosi says we're going to get into action here, not anxiety, we don't agonize, we organize.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So
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[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, I mentioned it earlier, indivisible, has their hands off our vote resources.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The voter education piece is really a thing, this election.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to make sure that voters know to do exactly what you articulated, and that's to vote early, vote in person if possible, bring their ballot to a drop box or a vote center location.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and, you know, then vote by mail if that's their only choice, but do that early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a link in our show notes for that, indivisible.org, and you can sign up for their trainings, they're launching their big campaign as we're recording this this evening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The other thing that I want to highlight is along with MSW Media, who is our parent network for this podcast and a bunch of other great podcasts, like of course Daily Beans, a Mullishy wrote, and Blue Wave Nation, we are launching a impact fund.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We did this in the last midterms and we raised a lot of money together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We raised about $300,000.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for forciner races and for congressional races where your dollars really going to make the big impact so that's Mary Patola and at Alaska Roy Cooper in North Carolina Troy Jackson in Maine shared brown in Ohio which by the way we're doing a fun razy for him in LA on the 15th September 15th
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, Marty Vaughn Wilpert and CA48 going to flip that seat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Randy VAS finally get David VA in a Valadale out in CA22 and are two toss-up Arizona races, a Mishaw in Arizona 1.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and Joanna Mendoza in Arizona 6.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So these are races where the media markets are accessible for these Senate races.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're cheaper media markets and these Senate races, these Senate races really need the resources.
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[SPEAKER_02]: where our grassroots dollars can make an impact and the congressional races are the ones that are going to determine whether we blow this thing out or just squeak by in the house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a great fund.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to launch it on our six-to-day mark, but you get to it first here on the practice spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: super, super crucial racist to target.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what's your reason for hope today, Jason?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Back from Hawaii.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I have two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One is the Massachusetts primary that just happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, in which Ed Markey, won by an absolute landslide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 80 euros.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 80 euros.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ed Markey?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Progressive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: super-progressive always like reliably very progressive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, beating, technically, whipping, whipping is the word.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Simone always seems a little bit of one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That went for snapper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love generational change, you know, but I also love that there are exceptions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also love that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you are you've just been nothing but great your entire career and you continue to be effective and vital you know yeah yes absolutely he is not he is great he seems at the top of his game um... love that uh... my other is broke is
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[SPEAKER_00]: That, just at Field Team Six, we have had a huge uptake in the number of voter drives that people are doing, especially on college campuses and some of the Field Team Six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's trivia where kind of our name is kind of, you know, homage to seal team six, which was the nickname I gave in 2018 to the group of six women who were the, were and are I think still the best human beings in the world had registering voters they go out and rack up insane numbers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just I got this report a few days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: from one of those original members who still out there, still getting it done, talking to students, registering them like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The total they registered, which almost 100% Democrats, you know, with some independence thrown in, in three days, and this is in CA 48.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Marny van Wilbert is our candidate there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a core team of five volunteers and three new volunteers who came for one day each,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they registered 380 to new voters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's insane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's usually a low numbers game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But not with these people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Adam Gray, one is election in 2024 in California.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 1,387 votes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was going to say this again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The 380 to new voters, they registered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: we need more of these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need more voter drives across the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wherever you can hold them, we hold voter drive trainings once every two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a field team six dead organ, find one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a one hour zoom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun and easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we send you a free voter drive kit with everything you need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back to school is the best time of year to register new voters, college kids on campuses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're signing up for everything just to become an adult.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, especially right now with with two months left to go like this is this is it this is when people are really thinking about the election and making sure that they're registered and checking their registration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All that could absolutely absolutely absolutely it's like burning man for voter registration back to school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm glad you rested up in Hawaii because you've got your hands full with fuel team six right now and these amazing volunteers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, as for the rest of you, it's, you've got your marching orders.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've given you some really great stuff to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pick what works for you and do a little something, however often you can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said,
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[SPEAKER_02]: and wish that we had done more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We all have a different capacity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to rest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with my family and the Berkshiers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to see Tadeshi Trucks Band at Tanglewood tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite band.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I ran into...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Derek Trucks and Susan Tadeshi in a parking lot at a restaurant yesterday, just randomly and got to talk to them and take a selfie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never lost my mind as a fan as much as I did then.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like I was so embarrassed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, I was just doing an event where I was hanging out with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, a Bradley Whitford's house and that wasn't a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I saw them in a parking lot and I was like, oh my god, it's Derek and Susan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, so my point though is mix it in, be with your family, be with your friends, go see some good music, but make sure that you are doing the work to help us win a little bit every day from now until Election Day on November 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's how we win, like we sustain ourselves and we sustain this movement.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and it goes hand-in-hand, and so thank you all for stepping up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I didn't even talk about my reason for hope.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was not to do our science.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just looked at my talk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was my, I was ending.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We could just end it there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say quickly, my reason for hope is all of you because we haven't covered it that much on our show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've mentioned it a little bit, but I'm sure our listeners are aware of the flock cameras and the debacle that they've created with the misuse from police departments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and surveillance and privacy concerns, they are flocking off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Municipal governments around the country are ending their association with flocks safety.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A company that is cloaked the streets of the nation and surveillance cameras that automatically read license plates using AI because of you, because of the people who have been protesting, making noise,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not saying you should distract property, but there's been some of that happening too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Floor cameras mysteriously being knocked down and whatever it is, the uproar has been loud.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It has been substantial and cities are responding to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: by ending their contracts with flock and that just shows the people power we have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, sorry to skip by my reason for hope, but when I see that kind of people power being effective and working in the face of the largest disparity we have between oligarchs and working people, it gives me a lot of hope that we will rise up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will win by the margins that we need in November and we will finally put some checks
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[SPEAKER_02]: writing the ship and building the country that we all deserve so that's right stay frosty my friends
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so how have you set all that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you all for joining us today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget that all the links for our actions are in the show notes as a bunch of them, so don't just listen, click on those links and take action.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will be back next week with some more practice spots, so until then don't forget, hope is an action.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the practice of his pod.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The practice of activism made practical.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We are 61 days away from the most important election of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And while we have the momentum, the Trump regime, and his enablers in the postal service are doing everything they can to disenfranchise our vote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So today we're going to talk about how we fight back and make sure we win with an indisputable blowout.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Steve Pearson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stay strong, you won't be long, yeah, yeah, we will be like that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Aloha Jason.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Aloha, let me put down my vacation hat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Love the lid, yeah, that's a good one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Almost every hat looks completely stupid on me because I have a small head.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it looks no stop it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I look this one now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is an exception.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This looks less stupid
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, our YouTube viewers, it's a good way to plug the show on YouTube.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you're not watching us on YouTube, you're missing out on Jason's really striking Hawaiian shirt and handsome lid fresh from a well-deserved vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also our video podcast is on Substack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you subscribe to us there, you get the ad free version of our podcast and you get to support our show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's really, really helpful, but yeah, we took a week off because you were on vacation and I took a, you know, point of privilege since you weren't here to just rest up because now we are, you know, 61 days out from, I mean, it sounds right to say the most important
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[SPEAKER_00]: here we are again every election you know we've learned is the most important election of our lives it's it's it's no more just a one-shot deal but um no every single one they keep getting more important the goal is for us to win you know decisively enough and for long enough that elections become less important
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[SPEAKER_00]: that would be great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We would love one day to get to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is definitely not the most important but it's not the most important election of our lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're just choosing between two good choices.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well, I hear you, but I still, I would love to get to a place where Americans all feel it's their civic duty to vote, and they don't like it when their vote is fucked with, and you know, this Trump regime is certainly trying to disenfranchise our vote.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been talking about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: the entirety of this podcast all the save act bullshit that they're trying to do but now since you've been gone, I mean you were just like kicking back with a coconut lying in the sun on the beach and the Supreme Court gave Trump another win
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tenuous one because there's actually two cases that are blocking the implementation of Trump's executive order on voting by mail to basically federalize the voting by mail and getting all those voting lists and instructing the post office to check the voting rules before they send out the ballots.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the one that the Supreme Court actually said could move forward
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[SPEAKER_02]: on a procedural note because they said that the, and it was a bullshit procedural note, but they said that it had come too early before the post office could have a chance to look at or implement any of these things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it was kind of a moot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's another one blocking it to still, but it's Supreme Court.
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[SPEAKER_02]: sucks, we'll just, you know, full stop and except for our dissenting liberal judges who like our Democrats and Congress right now in the minority are, you know, without power and that's where we come in.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then of course, just a couple of days ago, we had a report of a whistleblower who came, reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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[SPEAKER_02]: about the postal service and the Trump accolades in there moving forward with his directives, define the courts order to stop, creating what the whistleblower described is catastrophic damage to our postal service and threatening our vote by mail.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's, you know, I hope you enjoyed your vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man, I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I sure did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And let me just say, it turns out vacations are necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't, this is my first one in about six years or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I went to Hawaii.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was perfect and absolutely necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like just that rest just for one week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm top my cups are full, I'm ready for the sprint, the 61 day sprint to November 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I already I think better like I am able to handle effortlessly the deep details of the the the labyrinth of you know tech stuff and just whenever we get into the weeds I'm there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm fully online it's amazing I should have done this long ago and we're filled with the spirit of Aloha.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely absolutely Mahalo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's really an incredibly crucial part of self-care, you know, that allows me to do my job better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, you know, I put on my coconut bikini, take my eye off the Supreme Court for one second and look what they do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's not on the YouTube feed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't be afraid of that, anyone who is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's purely verbal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No visual for that one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, I you know, I grow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's more visual aids to draw you to our our video podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a passion fruit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I grow a ton of these in my yard here in LA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They love it in LA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to go to the land of passion fruit or as they call it, Lillicoi.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lillicoi is much more poetic and beautiful and they sell things like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lilacoye, caramel, macadamia, nut tart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, so life is good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just foundation to build on, you know, what we talk about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like our travel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I like our travel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And our political show, by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's way more fun.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, coming from a foundation of, you know, a Lilacoye, caramel, macadamia, nut tart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easier to not lose your balance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: went talk emotionally when talking about the terrible things the Supreme Court is doing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, let's, let's, let's talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: field team six is recommending and like, you know, sane people on the left can disagree with this, but what we're recommending as far as making sure that your vote counts is based on a kind of broad consensus of thought leaders on the left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is probably best to do now is just vote at in person as early as you can as the number one thing if you can't do that use a drop box drop your mail in ballot in a drop box and official drop box if you can't do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: mail it in, mail it in, as soon as you possibly can, and no later than I would say three weeks just to be super cautious before the election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Say October 13th, I believe, is three weeks before the election.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, 100% agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what we have to do, and then our job also as practivist, as volunteers, is to educate on that too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we have to do a lot of voter education on this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, I'm jumping ahead to one of our to-do list items, but indivisible has some great resources for voter protection and voter education.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're rolling out nationwide.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We know this is coming for a long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's unclear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, the states still have the authority to handle their ballots the way that they want.
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[SPEAKER_02]: None of this forces them to do this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's still unclear what the final outcome will be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I agree 100% if you're able to turn your ballot in in person, that is what I would do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: vote early, vote early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the message also by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks with the number of members of Congress, you know, Congress is back in session now, but they had their August recess, so we had a lot of blue wave events with the number of members, and it gave me a lot of hope to know that they are
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[SPEAKER_02]: really taking this serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're on top of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're planning for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they're saying the same thing, like, you know, vote early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't wait.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so that's what we need to be pushing out all over the place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I had an event last Sunday with Representative Dave Men down in Corona, Del Mar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he's been doing a lot of work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's doing great work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's been doing a
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... studying authoritarianism and uh... and you know really guarding our democracy the best that they can uh... the nut and power right now but what they can do is get all the legal challenges ready be be ready for the worst case scenarios uh... and be ready to challenge them in the courts and and all of that and it does give me hope to know that our democrats uh... in congress
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[SPEAKER_02]: are ready for every single eventuality that this regime will try to throw it at this should be free and fair election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what's really important to remember is to not despair and just say, oh, yeah, you know, I see so many people just, just succumbing to the fear that they, the Trump regime wants us to feel and saying, ah, this is, you know, democracy is over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They ruined it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have, they have rigged the election, the past tense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to center ourselves, take deep breath, stay focused, and look at what is real.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to become more and more important to make distinctions like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have not succeeded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They are trying to inject chaos, like Robert Hubble says.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is plenty of reason for hope.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No reason for complacency.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What we know is that our side, the Democrats, we have dealt with voter suppression for ever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the Republicans have not, so we have machinery in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to including things like this podcast to get the word out and to mobilize our side and let people know that all our friends know that you need to vote early in person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not, drop your ballot and drop box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If not, mail it in as early as you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And last resort, vote in personal election day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But like we need to get this word out and we will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: we're ready for any reason you don't get your ballot in the mail if you're expecting it to make sure you go to your pull-and-place and vote in person too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, dimming interrupt, but no, good point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, but there's also, there's also a good, you know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Another scenario with this, because the states do control their own elections, there is a scenario where it's really only the red states that are sick of fants to the Trump regime that do this and put their own elections in chaos and this, you know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a there's a possibility this could backfire terribly on them and do distant franchise horrible publicans than Democrats you know so totally it is not at all a foregone conclusion that eliminating a ton of votes by mail won't hurt them more think about all the role voters who vote predominantly by mail those are vast majority of Republicans so
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[SPEAKER_00]: see through the chaos focus is on how to run the other yeah right and just just keep going
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I have a visual aid to I was trying to put it behind me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm I'm actually out of town myself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm visiting my wife's family in Massachusetts.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm in the Berkshire's and their basement right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I found this poster in here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The great Nancy Pelosi, which says of course don't agonize organized, which is her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Famous saying and we did an event a few weeks ago with Nancy Pelosi and Bradley Whitford's house was incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was so inspiring like, look, team Democrat is, you know, ignore the noise, ignore all of the like, what's happening within the Democratic Party?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like we are unified in our, you know, fight right now to win these midterms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when with the kind of margins that make it indisputable, that make it the indisputable blowout that will enoculate ourselves from all of this, Tom Fullery that the Trump regime is attempting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, yes, it's bullshittery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shittering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember a note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a bolt of dash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: These scannoy eggs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember another point I wanted to make is just that, you know, one thing that Americans of all political stripes absolutely hate is being silenced being ignored, trying to be sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you have any doubt about that and the reaction
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[SPEAKER_00]: the whiplash that that causes, ask our two democratic senators from Georgia, what they think about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, where do they suppress the vote more than in Georgia?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Texas maybe they tie, but I don't think anyone beats Georgia and in response to that, there was so much, you know, people stood out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So much reaction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got two Democrats from Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: so just just keep on going and keep on going.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to win the house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to win the Senate.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do it by margins that are undeniable, but it's going to come down to everyone now knowing that we got two months and I know none of our listeners wants to wake up on November 4th wishing that they had done more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: regretting that they didn't do everything they could to make this just a massive blue wave that we need.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Trump's underwater in every way possible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Iran War just hit its six-month mark has no end in sight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got this ridiculous trade worry started with Canada now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even want to get into this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But hey, I'll just say welcome back map quest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you saw this from vacation, but Trump with his ass and I, you know, Sharpie crossed out Lake Ontario and wrote it's now Lake America.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And both Google and Apple maps changed it on their maps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I, I, this is so disgusting, like that's so disgusting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, he would do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't surprise me, but it's so disappointing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just the caving the obedience, the obedience, the obedience of app.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It shows that people are paying attention, first of all, to what corporations do and whether they have been the knee or not to this Trump regime, and so MapQuest still says Lake Ontario, and I will be using MapQuest for all my navigation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: needs henceforth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, me too, whether I needed or not.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, I've seen posts I've seen posts about how, you know, the the the Namanic to remember all the great lakes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: used to be homes, huran Ontario, Michigan, you know, eerie, what's I can't believe I made myself do this, superior.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, got it, homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since he changed Ontario to America, the acronym is now shame, great job, great job, shame.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He got rid of homes, gave us shame, just like in
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, that's couldn't have said it better than that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So on that note, let's get into as Speaker of Meredith Pelosi says we're going to get into action here, not anxiety, we don't agonize, we organize.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So
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[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, I mentioned it earlier, indivisible, has their hands off our vote resources.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The voter education piece is really a thing, this election.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to make sure that voters know to do exactly what you articulated, and that's to vote early, vote in person if possible, bring their ballot to a drop box or a vote center location.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and, you know, then vote by mail if that's their only choice, but do that early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a link in our show notes for that, indivisible.org, and you can sign up for their trainings, they're launching their big campaign as we're recording this this evening.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The other thing that I want to highlight is along with MSW Media, who is our parent network for this podcast and a bunch of other great podcasts, like of course Daily Beans, a Mullishy wrote, and Blue Wave Nation, we are launching a impact fund.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We did this in the last midterms and we raised a lot of money together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We raised about $300,000.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for forciner races and for congressional races where your dollars really going to make the big impact so that's Mary Patola and at Alaska Roy Cooper in North Carolina Troy Jackson in Maine shared brown in Ohio which by the way we're doing a fun razy for him in LA on the 15th September 15th
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, Marty Vaughn Wilpert and CA48 going to flip that seat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Randy VAS finally get David VA in a Valadale out in CA22 and are two toss-up Arizona races, a Mishaw in Arizona 1.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and Joanna Mendoza in Arizona 6.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So these are races where the media markets are accessible for these Senate races.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're cheaper media markets and these Senate races, these Senate races really need the resources.
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[SPEAKER_02]: where our grassroots dollars can make an impact and the congressional races are the ones that are going to determine whether we blow this thing out or just squeak by in the house.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's a great fund.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to launch it on our six-to-day mark, but you get to it first here on the practice spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All the good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: super, super crucial racist to target.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what's your reason for hope today, Jason?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Back from Hawaii.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I have two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One is the Massachusetts primary that just happened.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, in which Ed Markey, won by an absolute landslide.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 80 euros.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 80 euros.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ed Markey?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Progressive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: super-progressive always like reliably very progressive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, beating, technically, whipping, whipping is the word.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Simone always seems a little bit of one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That went for snapper.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love generational change, you know, but I also love that there are exceptions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also love that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and you are you've just been nothing but great your entire career and you continue to be effective and vital you know yeah yes absolutely he is not he is great he seems at the top of his game um... love that uh... my other is broke is
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[SPEAKER_00]: That, just at Field Team Six, we have had a huge uptake in the number of voter drives that people are doing, especially on college campuses and some of the Field Team Six.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's trivia where kind of our name is kind of, you know, homage to seal team six, which was the nickname I gave in 2018 to the group of six women who were the, were and are I think still the best human beings in the world had registering voters they go out and rack up insane numbers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I just I got this report a few days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: from one of those original members who still out there, still getting it done, talking to students, registering them like crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The total they registered, which almost 100% Democrats, you know, with some independence thrown in, in three days, and this is in CA 48.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Marny van Wilbert is our candidate there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a core team of five volunteers and three new volunteers who came for one day each,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they registered 380 to new voters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's insane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's usually a low numbers game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But not with these people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Adam Gray, one is election in 2024 in California.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 1,387 votes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was going to say this again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You got it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The 380 to new voters, they registered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: we need more of these.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need more voter drives across the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wherever you can hold them, we hold voter drive trainings once every two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've got a field team six dead organ, find one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a one hour zoom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fun and easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we send you a free voter drive kit with everything you need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back to school is the best time of year to register new voters, college kids on campuses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're signing up for everything just to become an adult.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, especially right now with with two months left to go like this is this is it this is when people are really thinking about the election and making sure that they're registered and checking their registration.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All that could absolutely absolutely absolutely it's like burning man for voter registration back to school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm glad you rested up in Hawaii because you've got your hands full with fuel team six right now and these amazing volunteers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, as for the rest of you, it's, you've got your marching orders.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've given you some really great stuff to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pick what works for you and do a little something, however often you can.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said,
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[SPEAKER_02]: and wish that we had done more.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We all have a different capacity.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We need to rest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm here with my family and the Berkshiers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to see Tadeshi Trucks Band at Tanglewood tonight.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite band.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I ran into...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Derek Trucks and Susan Tadeshi in a parking lot at a restaurant yesterday, just randomly and got to talk to them and take a selfie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never lost my mind as a fan as much as I did then.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like I was so embarrassed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, I was just doing an event where I was hanging out with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, a Bradley Whitford's house and that wasn't a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I saw them in a parking lot and I was like, oh my god, it's Derek and Susan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, so my point though is mix it in, be with your family, be with your friends, go see some good music, but make sure that you are doing the work to help us win a little bit every day from now until Election Day on November 3rd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's how we win, like we sustain ourselves and we sustain this movement.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and it goes hand-in-hand, and so thank you all for stepping up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I didn't even talk about my reason for hope.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was not to do our science.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just looked at my talk.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was my, I was ending.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We could just end it there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll say quickly, my reason for hope is all of you because we haven't covered it that much on our show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've mentioned it a little bit, but I'm sure our listeners are aware of the flock cameras and the debacle that they've created with the misuse from police departments.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and surveillance and privacy concerns, they are flocking off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Municipal governments around the country are ending their association with flocks safety.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A company that is cloaked the streets of the nation and surveillance cameras that automatically read license plates using AI because of you, because of the people who have been protesting, making noise,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not saying you should distract property, but there's been some of that happening too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Floor cameras mysteriously being knocked down and whatever it is, the uproar has been loud.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It has been substantial and cities are responding to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: by ending their contracts with flock and that just shows the people power we have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, sorry to skip by my reason for hope, but when I see that kind of people power being effective and working in the face of the largest disparity we have between oligarchs and working people, it gives me a lot of hope that we will rise up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will win by the margins that we need in November and we will finally put some checks
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[SPEAKER_02]: writing the ship and building the country that we all deserve so that's right stay frosty my friends
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so how have you set all that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you all for joining us today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Don't forget that all the links for our actions are in the show notes as a bunch of them, so don't just listen, click on those links and take action.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We will be back next week with some more practice spots, so until then don't forget, hope is an action.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go!
