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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peepsen, and welcome to Okay f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker.

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Speaker 1: You know, folks, we are just a handful of days

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Speaker 1: until the State of Georgia makes its decision in their

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Speaker 1: runoff election about who is going to represent them. Now,

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Speaker 1: I have had such deep feelings about what Republicans have

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Speaker 1: done in the State of Georgia. I've had such deep

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Speaker 1: feelings about the political apparatus that is even allowed for

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Speaker 1: Reverend Warnock to have a fighting chance in the State

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Speaker 1: of Georgia because of the work that's Stacy Abrams, Blackpack

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Speaker 1: and other on the ground coalitions have done to create

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Speaker 1: a get out the vote apparatus that is bar none

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Speaker 1: and should be replicated in every fucking state in this country,

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Speaker 1: regardless of how red we think that it is, because

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Speaker 1: what Democrats do and have done is just seed states,

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Speaker 1: full states, full fucking regions to Republicans and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: we could never instead of getting on the ground three

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days a year talking to people,

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Speaker 1: organizing with people, building up momentum, and building a pipeline

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Speaker 1: of candidates that could potentially whether it is in five

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Speaker 1: years and ten years or in twenty years, turn that

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Speaker 1: state from red too fucking purple too blue. Right, That's

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Speaker 1: the kind of elbow grease. Is the kind of fortitude,

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Speaker 1: that is the kind of persistence that black women have,

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Speaker 1: that have been at the forefront of shaping and changing

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Speaker 1: Georgia that Democrats need to have up and down this

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Speaker 1: fucking country if they want to, in fact, preserve and

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Speaker 1: expand our democracy. What do I mean by expand? I

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Speaker 1: mean that we live up to our creed where all

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Speaker 1: people are treated equal, where everyone has access to liberty

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Speaker 1: and justice and freedom and happiness, and that these are

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Speaker 1: not just words and parts of our constitution, but that

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Speaker 1: we live these ideals, and these ideals are present in

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Speaker 1: our policies. Right. That doesn't happen when we keep ping

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Speaker 1: ponging back and forth between the white nationalist Republican Party

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Speaker 1: and the Democrats. Right. So when we look at this race,

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Speaker 1: this Senate race, and you know, I've heard some people say, well, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's not that consequential anymore, because we already have the

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Speaker 1: Democrats have already won the Senate. And I say to them,

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Speaker 1: are you dumb? Because the more Democratic senators we have,

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Speaker 1: the more things that we actually get done. So no,

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Speaker 1: we don't just throw up our hands and say so

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Speaker 1: we won. We don't need another seat, Yes we fucking do. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: we need sixty in order to get all of the

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Speaker 1: things done that we actually want to get done in

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Speaker 1: this country and can't because of the archaic racist filibuster

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Speaker 1: that is in place and because of Joe Manchin and

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Speaker 1: of the filibuster. So we can codify you know, women's

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Speaker 1: rights and voting rights into this country, so that we

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Speaker 1: nullify the damage that the Supreme Court is doing now

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Speaker 1: that it has been weaponized and radicalized by the white

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Speaker 1: supremacy Republican Party. So when I look at Georgia and

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Speaker 1: I look at a herschel Walker that is a empty

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Speaker 1: vessel puppet for white supremacy and the Republican Party that

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Speaker 1: they would lift up this man that has near a

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Speaker 1: brain in his head, it's clearly I mean not even

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Speaker 1: that word is, that is what herschel Walker is. Herschel

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Speaker 1: Walker couldn't even be I think in charge of coaching

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Speaker 1: have control of his mental faculties. You listen to him

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Speaker 1: and in Warnock's latest ad, which is by far the

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Speaker 1: if Democrats at the national level are not paying attention

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Speaker 1: to one the apparatus that has been put in place

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Speaker 1: the way in which Reverend Warnock has decided to fight

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Speaker 1: back against the white supremacists in Georgia, they're not paying

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Speaker 1: attention his latest attack ad looks like this. It looks

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of Georgians, different races, different ages, sitting

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Speaker 1: The entire ad is just them reacting to herschel Walker speaking.

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Speaker 1: It is brilliant. They're listening to herschel Walker talk about

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Speaker 1: Now they're watching videos of herschel Walker just run on

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Speaker 1: then the people are reacting and their reactions go range

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Speaker 1: is how little And this is what I have been saying,

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Speaker 1: This is how little the Republican Party thinks about the

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Speaker 1: go ahead and go do that. Boy, you go ahead

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Speaker 1: and vote like that. And I spoke about this that

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Speaker 1: a good reverend down in Georgia went viral for his

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Speaker 1: video lambasting Herschel Walker, lambasting white nationalist racist in the

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Speaker 1: need a walker, you need a leader. You need somebody

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Speaker 1: that is about running this state putting us on the map, right,

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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you that herschel Walker bodies exactly

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Speaker 1: the company that these motherfuckers keep. You know, they say

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Speaker 1: that he is a racist. I know that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: how he has said that those that come in here

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Speaker 1: like we know who Donald Trump is. It is willful

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Speaker 1: ignorance that has us believed that this Republican Party isn't

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Speaker 1: it is more important than ever, more important than ever,

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Speaker 1: in order to actualize our freedoms in this country, Coming

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Speaker 1: up next, it's my conversation with Dalida Hosha, who is

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Speaker 1: it is important that organizations like renew US exist, folks.

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Speaker 1: I am very excited to welcome to woka F Daily

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Speaker 1: for the very first time Dalida Hosha, who is the

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Speaker 1: executive director of renew US, say an organization that is

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Speaker 1: dedicated in working with down ballot progressive candidates. Dalida, please

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Speaker 1: tell the WOKAF audience a bit more about renew USA

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Speaker 1: and how what integral part you played in in the

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Speaker 1: midterm elections. Yeah, sure, Danielle, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Um So, as you said, renew USA really trying to

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Speaker 1: make sure we identify the gaps that progressive um you know,

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Speaker 1: so VERNUA is in twelve different states, right, so we

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Speaker 1: So like I carried that fear and my body, so

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Speaker 1: been so many times without the safety net in place,

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Speaker 1: we can't do that to our people. So that's that

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Speaker 1: is why we have partner with peer Point to provide

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Speaker 1: You know, what advice do you give or encouragement to

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Speaker 1: this alone. Renew cannot do this alone. Candidates cannot do

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Speaker 1: do your research. As I mentioned renew US. You can

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Speaker 1: the security program and it's for movement leaders. It's not

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Speaker 1: just for candidates. So you consider yourself a movement leader,

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Speaker 1: you consider yourself someone who has a lot to offer.

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Speaker 1: Send us a message, will you know will help you

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Speaker 1: put in place the steps that you need to feel

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Speaker 1: we need up people and we need to build a community,

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Speaker 1: and that is what renews trying to build a community

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Speaker 1: that's the only way we're going to achieve change is

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Speaker 1: by being together. Yes, the Lada Hostsha, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for making the time to join. Willk F, thank

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Speaker 1: you for the work that you're doing with renew USA. Folks,

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Speaker 1: check out renew usa dot org for more information on

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Speaker 1: how to get involved if you're interested in running for office,

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Speaker 1: because we need good people to run, and we need

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Speaker 1: good people to run campaigns. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: making the time for us today. Appreciate you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: and renew us. Renew us okay, renews dot yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you so much for having me, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely bye. That is it for me today. Dear friends

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Speaker 1: on Woke a f as always Power to the people

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Speaker 1: and to all the people power, get woke and stay

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Speaker 1: woke as fuck.