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Speaker 1: Good morning, peepsend Welcome to OOKF Daily with me your

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Speaker 1: girl Danielle Moody recording from the home Bunker. The first, folks,

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Speaker 1: I want to start off today mentioning something that I

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Speaker 1: actually did not really cover in depth last week at all,

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Speaker 1: which is President Biden joining the picket line of the

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Speaker 1: UAW in Michigan and the media's false equivalency that they

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Speaker 1: were running with Donald Trump going to some auto body

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Speaker 1: shop filled with people who were not actual auto workers

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Speaker 1: in an attempt to do what he does really well,

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Speaker 1: which is take away media attention and create a false equivalency.

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Speaker 1: The fact that a sitting president of the United States

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Speaker 1: stood with union workers and told them that they deserve

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Speaker 1: their fair share after his administration, the Obama administration bailed

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Speaker 1: out right the auto industry, right, our tax dollars bailed

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Speaker 1: those motherfuckers out that now a decade later, they are

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Speaker 1: And so what I want to make people aware of

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Speaker 1: actually have the power and recognize their power, regardless of

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Speaker 1: the billionaires that are doing interviews and saying things to

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Speaker 1: the effect of, well, we need unemployment to be at

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Speaker 1: fifty percent so that they feel the pain and they

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Speaker 1: remember who's in charge. Those are words that come out

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Speaker 1: of the mouths of people who think that they are

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Speaker 1: literally masters right, commanding their plantation, and not seeeos who

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Speaker 1: are afforded the lifestyle that they've become accustomed to because

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Speaker 1: of the people that they employ. That this idea of

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Speaker 1: a trickle down has never has never happened, never, not

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Speaker 1: one fucking time. There is no trickle down because when

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Speaker 1: the money goes to the top, guess where it is

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Speaker 1: forwarded at the fucking top. And then the attitude of

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Speaker 1: those people and their callousness is like let them eat cake. Right,

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Speaker 1: So the fact that Joe Biden would show up and

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Speaker 1: support workers and support unions should show a stark contrast

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Speaker 1: to the Republican Party that is about greed and is

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Speaker 1: about cruelty. That is it. There is no large distinction

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Speaker 1: They fucking don't, right, And Donald Trump's fraudulent you know,

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Speaker 1: misstep that was uncovered by the Detroit News just shows

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Speaker 1: you who the Republican Party is. They lie, and they

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Speaker 1: cheat and they steal in order to make you believe

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Speaker 1: that they give a shit, right, and they don't. Everything

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Speaker 1: that they do is like play acting, and so it

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Speaker 1: is important for us to make the distinction that when

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Speaker 1: we see true acts of leadership, like what Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: showed us last week, that those are the things that

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Speaker 1: we should be holding on to. I don't give a

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Speaker 1: fuck how old Joe Biden is. What matters to me

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Speaker 1: is that he has dedicated his life to public service

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Speaker 1: and that he has exceeded my expectations as being President

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Speaker 1: of the United States during one of our most fractious

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Speaker 1: times that this country has seen in fifty years. And

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Speaker 1: so I don't care if Joe Biden is eighty, because

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Speaker 1: what I do know is that he's not a criminal.

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Speaker 1: What I do know is that he's not cruel. What

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Speaker 1: I do know is that he's not a bigot. What

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Speaker 1: I do know is that he's not a liar. And

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Speaker 1: those are the qualities that we should be looking for

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Speaker 1: in anyone that is going to lead this country. Everything

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Speaker 1: else is fluff and bullshit. This isn't a horse race

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Speaker 1: that we are watching. We are not betting, because if

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Speaker 1: Trump were to win, or any Republican were to win,

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Speaker 1: the American people and the world loses. The stakes are

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Speaker 1: too high for the kind of bullshit that we are

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Speaker 1: continuing to see in corporate media. Coming up next, dear friends,

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Speaker 1: my conversation with Chris Scott, who is leading a really

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Speaker 1: important organization which is the Advance the Electorate Pack. And

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Speaker 1: this is what this pack is doing, Political Action Committee.

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Speaker 1: They are working to build a more inclusive democracy by recruiting, training,

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Speaker 1: and electing the next generation of progressive Democratic candidates and operatives.

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Speaker 1: And the pack's focus, folks, this is why this is interesting,

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Speaker 1: is that their focus is on statewide judicial and legislative races.

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Speaker 1: For too long, I have said on this show and

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Speaker 1: so many others that Democrats focus solely on the presidency,

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Speaker 1: seen over the past years is just how much power

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Speaker 1: And so by focusing right the electoral measures on these places,

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Speaker 1: we can ensure right that progress isn't just about who

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Speaker 1: conversation with Chris Scott. Folks, I am very happy to

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Speaker 1: welcome to Woke a f daily Chris Scott, who is

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Speaker 1: in charge of they head of a new progressive Democratic

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Speaker 1: Republican forces try and rewrite will not try they have

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Speaker 1: rewritten our judiciary that they have essentially tried to overturn

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Speaker 1: free and fair elections. And your pack, this pack is

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Speaker 1: specifically focused on statewide judicial and legislative races. Give us

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Speaker 1: the work that Advanced the Electorate pack is doing well.

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Speaker 2: I think, for one, and thank you for having me

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Speaker 2: on today, Danielle. I think for one, when me and

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Speaker 2: Christine created a pack, it was with the idea of

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Speaker 2: a lot of the work that needs to be done

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Speaker 3: At the state level. In the first place, I think

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Speaker 3: when you look at what.

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Speaker 2: Republicans have gone and done and always been ahead of

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Speaker 2: the curve with us, it's with those judicial races, which

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Speaker 2: intentionally focused on building and bench. And then when you

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Speaker 2: look at the state legislatures, you look at you know,

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Speaker 2: where abortion rights, where voting rights are getting attacked. They're

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Speaker 2: getting attacked in state legislatures, which is something that typically

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Speaker 2: a lot of packs focus on just the congressional and

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Speaker 2: as Democrats, we get decimated sometimes, especially in the South,

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Speaker 2: both me and Christine have an extensive experience and winning

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Speaker 2: those type of races. But they're also the races that

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Speaker 2: we know are going to be the most important if

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Speaker 2: we're actually going to be able to progress our democracy

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Speaker 2: the way that America should be progressing at this point

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Speaker 2: in its history.

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Speaker 1: You know now, for we know that for decades, right

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party has understood the importance of the judiciary.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, this week there is reporting once again

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Speaker 1: the Federalist Society is backed by billions of dollars. They

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Speaker 1: the right, only one of them. Talk to me about

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Speaker 1: the kind of resources that your initiative and this initiative

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Speaker 1: in general to try and come back, because this is

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Speaker 1: not just a informational campaign. You're talking about working against

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Speaker 2: Well, again, we were very intentional in how we even

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Speaker 2: formed this pack in the first place. So we are

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Speaker 2: a hybrid pack, which means immediately out the gate, we can.

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Speaker 3: Both endorse and we can play with our superpack as well.

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Speaker 2: When you talk about judicial and legislative races oftentime, Republicans

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Speaker 3: Fund these races.

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Speaker 2: Oftentimes Democrats do not invest the same I think every

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Speaker 2: now and then you get a race like we had

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Speaker 2: But oftentimes that's not the case. Then when you talk

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Speaker 2: for one of these races, how much less money is

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Speaker 2: it's not surprising at this point. So again, for us,

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Speaker 2: we have to be very intentional. We want to be authentic.

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Speaker 2: We want to create something that feels and looks different

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Speaker 2: than politics as usual, because you know, the run and

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Speaker 2: the male line and the Democratic Party is oftentimes you

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Speaker 3: But this work.

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Speaker 2: If you really want to change the trajectory that we're going,

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Speaker 2: you have to do that work all year round, and

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Speaker 2: you have to invest not just in the voters, but

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the biggest misconception that voters

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Speaker 1: Because you know. Again, I take case in point as

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Speaker 3: Well, I want to start with I'm not sure if I.

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Speaker 2: Would even call it a misconception as to I think

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Speaker 2: a lot of people just aren't educating and they're not

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Speaker 2: in the case of judicial races, I don't think people

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Speaker 2: my god, my rights are being taken away. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I thought my congress member fought for this, and I

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Speaker 2: thought this as a congressional bill. Why is the state

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Speaker 2: say that we're not going to enforce the fact that

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Speaker 2: we should have fair districts in the state. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you look at Ohio and North Carolina right now, what

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Speaker 2: we're not actually going to redraw these maps. And why

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Speaker 2: so then they don't actually have to do the thing

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Speaker 2: that they're constitutionally bound to do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like one, Christopher, you do in

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Speaker 1: the Lord's work here right, like because you know it

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