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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to bok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker, Folks, today,

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Speaker 1: I am excited to welcome to woke F Daily for

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Speaker 1: Center for American Progress and CAP Action, Patrick Gaspard. For

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Speaker 1: those of you who do not know that, haven't been

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Speaker 1: listening to woke F since the beginning of time, which

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Speaker 1: feels like how long I've been recording. I was a

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Speaker 1: co launched an initiative under lgbt Progress, the Fire Initiative

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Speaker 1: Fighting Injustice to Reach a Quality, which looked at how

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Speaker 1: discriminatory LGBTQ policies adversely affected black queer people. And during

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Speaker 1: my time at CAP, you know, which is the largest

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Speaker 1: You know, when Center for American Progress was established, it

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Speaker 1: final day to vote in this consequential midterm election. It

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Speaker 1: American Progress President and CEO Patrick Gasberg coming up next.

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Speaker 1: a new episode. Folks, I'm very excited to welcome to

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Speaker 1: that we are prebunking the rumors. The conspiracies that these

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Speaker 1: There are some real differences in how we view equity

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Speaker 1: Americans stand firmly against the vile rhetoric that we've heard

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Speaker 1: the ballot box. When the Governor of Virginia comes out

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Speaker 1: that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah, Patrick, aspart,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for the work that you're doing

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Speaker 1: at the Center for American Progress. I feel after speaking

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Speaker 1: with you that it is in good hands. My alma mater,

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Speaker 1: as I like to say as people graduate from GAP,

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Speaker 1: is in good hands. And I hope that you will

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Speaker 1: make time to join us again post midterms to see

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Speaker 1: where we go from there. Appreciate you, Appreciate you, Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for what you do. Please tell your

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Speaker 1: mom we're going to work it out as liston. That

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Speaker 1: is it for me today, Dear friends, on woke app

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Speaker 1: as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fun