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Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. You know, the other thing that I

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Speaker 1: think is important to bring into this mix. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about redistricting efforts in Virginia, of course, but we also

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Speaker 1: can't turn a blind eye to some of the tactics

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Speaker 1: that the Trump administration have turned to within the last

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Speaker 1: couple of months. So we know in January, at the

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Speaker 1: end of January, the FBI went to raid Fulton County's

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Speaker 1: voting records from twenty twenty as if to give Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump any credibility to what he was alleging. Then also

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Speaker 1: seeking out votes, which we know Fannie, our dear sister

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Speaker 1: Fannie Willis was working on trying to prosecute him for

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Speaker 1: the election fraud he was actually committing. But at the

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Speaker 1: end of January, authorities see seven hundred boxes, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: boxes related to an election six years ago. There is

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Speaker 1: nothing to look for from six years ago except for

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Speaker 1: intimidation of voters in a very very important election in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: as we know coming up. It's important everywhere, but it's

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Speaker 1: particularly important in Georgia because we have the opportunity to hold.

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Speaker 2: The Senate to elect a new governor or not.

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Speaker 1: So seven hundred boxes related to this probe all in

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Speaker 1: Fulton County.

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Speaker 2: Who's in Fulton County? Y'all okay?

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Speaker 1: And then the Homeland Security Oh, by the way, by

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Speaker 1: the way, the FBI field agent in charge, his name

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Speaker 1: was Paul Brown, I believe was fired for expressing concerns

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Speaker 1: about this FBI raid. So I also want to be

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Speaker 1: clear about that, if you're not a yes man or

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Speaker 1: a yes woman for Trump, you gotta go. So then

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Speaker 1: after that they went to Arizona. Guess where they went to, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: Mara Copa, Maricopa County.

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Speaker 2: Who's in Maricopa. So I just I want to point

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Speaker 2: this out.

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Speaker 1: This is over, you know again, the twenty twenty election

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Speaker 1: results all from a debunked claim that there was, uh,

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Speaker 1: there was election fraud happening there. The former attorney general

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Speaker 1: in Arizona looking into this, and of course it's been

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Speaker 3: So anyway, Angela, I don't even think it's about I

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Speaker 3: don't think it's a I don't think this is a

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Speaker 3: rewind to the last election.

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Speaker 4: I think you don't.

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Speaker 3: This is pretext for this is them trying to push

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Speaker 3: the limits of their authority, to show the American people

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Speaker 3: what they have the capacity to do, what courts will

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Speaker 3: step in to keep them from seizing ballots, What courts

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Speaker 3: will keep, you know, stop them from going and so

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Speaker 3: seizing voting machines on the evening of elections, when those

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Speaker 3: machines should be counting votes and sending them directly to

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Speaker 3: the headquarters and counties all across the country. I think

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Speaker 3: they are here testing the limits of not their authority,

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Speaker 3: because they don't have the authority to do this. They're

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Speaker 3: testing the They're testing the limits of who gonna check me,

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Speaker 3: who's gonna stop me? And with what military are they

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Speaker 3: going to do it with. So I again, when we

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Speaker 3: talk about the things that we should just anticipate, be

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Speaker 3: prepared for Democrats, anyone who cared a Democrat, democracy loving person,

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Speaker 3: please please please don't handle this like we might address

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Speaker 3: the normal uh rigors of a of a of an

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Speaker 3: inquisition reasonable in nature, even if we disagree with the outcomes.

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Speaker 4: This is not what this is.

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Speaker 3: This is authoritarianism at its at at its alphabet at

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Speaker 3: its dictionary described level. Being persecuted by Trump in all

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Speaker 3: of his SIKA fans. There are no check people to

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Speaker 3: keep him from doing this. He wanted to seize the

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Speaker 3: ballots last time, and fortunately there were people like Kelly

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Speaker 3: in places said nah, we can't do that. The Attorney

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Speaker 3: general of the country who did that. Now, who thinks

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Speaker 4: Nobody know, nobody we.

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Speaker 2: Know that's not happening.

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Speaker 5: But I think it gets to what really is the

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Speaker 5: soft spot in our democracy, and that is we continue

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Speaker 5: to forget that the democracy only stands as much as

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Speaker 5: the people are willing to actually protect it. And what

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Speaker 5: we know, definitely knew from what happened previously, was that

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Speaker 5: going to defend itself. And many people knew that this

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Speaker 5: version of Trump would be far more dangerous because he

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Speaker 5: was going to have those sick of fans you talked

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Speaker 5: believe in a certain decorum that should be part of politics,

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Speaker 5: because as much as I hated as last administration, this

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Speaker 5: child's play. And the difference is this time around they

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Speaker 5: whatever the king wishes. And so I think what is

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Speaker 5: a lot of people are dealing with shortbandwidth. They have

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Speaker 5: already said their intention was the blood zone with hourly horrors,

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Speaker 5: of which we're like what and to the point where

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Speaker 5: you feel hopeless. But I think they're playing largely works

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Speaker 5: because when I see things like what is embolding in

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Speaker 5: Georgia and Arizona and that, yes, there's outrage among those

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Speaker 5: who pay attention, but the people who really need to

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Speaker 5: be outraged and paying attention are just kind of in

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Speaker 5: this web of I don't even know what to do

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Speaker 6: Sure three quick points. I think that we're overlooking the

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Speaker 6: psychopathy of the President of the United States. So I

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Speaker 6: disagree with Andrew just slightly because I do think that

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Speaker 6: a lot of this is done because the president believes

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Speaker 6: he won the election in twenty twenty, and so I

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Speaker 6: think that he is asking people to go out and

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Speaker 6: kind of do this excursion into finding him the votes,

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Speaker 6: which we all know doesn't exist. But I also think

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Speaker 6: that you're right, Andrew on the back part, because I

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Speaker 6: do think that there are people around the president, the

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Speaker 6: Stephen Miller's, the Bannons, et cetera, that want to exploit

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Speaker 6: that underbelly. And what they're saying is, look, we are

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Speaker 6: not going to wait until six years later. If we

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Speaker 6: don't like the results of Arizona. We're going to take

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Speaker 6: those ballots before their accountant or after their accountants, or

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Speaker 6: whenever the hell we want to. Then were just going

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Speaker 6: to figure out how to count them. We gonna count

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Speaker 6: you want to win by today?

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Speaker 4: So I need you to find me y'ah eleven thousand.

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Speaker 6: Right, I need you to I want to win by

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Speaker 6: I don't I just don't think. I just don't think

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Speaker 6: how to fight back two. And I'm it's hard because

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Speaker 6: I guess this is where Andrew would be like Macari,

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Speaker 6: we don't need a fighter in the ring. This is

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Speaker 6: about democracy.

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Speaker 4: The people can do it. Hey, Minnesota showed us.

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Speaker 6: In Minnesota showed us. You're right. I just think I

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Speaker 6: I guess that time will come soon that we're all

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Speaker 6: going to have to rally around somebody who at the

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Speaker 4: It's not a person I really hope it is.

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Speaker 3: And I honestly think Minnesota is a blueprint in the

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Speaker 3: sense that when people see the threat at their doorstep,

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Speaker 3: there's a red line and they're saying, you're not going

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Speaker 3: this is not some esoteric I believe the talking points

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Speaker 3: that he's looking back sixty years to see whether or

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Speaker 5: Isn't that bad Because by the time it gets to

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Speaker 3: No. I think this is going to be real time shit.

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Speaker 3: I think that they I think we're going to be

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Speaker 3: They're going to get out there and they're going to say, rembermember,

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Speaker 3: back then when the cab County stole all those votes

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Speaker 3: and we had to take those ballots. Remember when the

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Speaker 3: Latinos allowed fifty thousand immigrants across the border so they

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Speaker 3: I mean unprecedented levels of response to them stealing.

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Speaker 6: What is that lection? That's the question.

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Speaker 3: Well, two thousand in Florida. I was here for that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you couldn't keep us down. We were down

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Speaker 4: It was mayhem complete in total Mayhem narrator states we

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Speaker 3: We lost a five to four, we lost a five

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Speaker 1: I think here's the here's the point that I want

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Speaker 1: we are now at a place we are fighting for

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Speaker 1: the fundamental right to vote, fundamental access to the ballot box,

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Speaker 1: making a very partial determination about who gets to have

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Speaker 2: Already had that battle.

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Speaker 1: We had it in the Constitution, there's an amendment for that,

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Speaker 1: we had it in the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act,

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Speaker 1: in every reauthorization after that. So I'm just saying that

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Speaker 1: repeat this. And so yes, we should fight, but also

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Speaker 1: we do need fighters. Fighters need to show up. This

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Speaker 1: should be something that is talked about consistently. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell y'all because I started talking about Reverend Jackson at

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Speaker 1: right to vote, and I'd be like, we're fine, we're voting.

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Speaker 1: he might be onto something. When voter ID and all

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Speaker 1: the suppressive measures that they introduced in state legislatures all

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Speaker 1: how to have voter ID. It's just an ID. You

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Speaker 1: don't fly right. Everybody don't Everybody don't live right down

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Speaker 1: the street from a Department of Licensing or a DMV.

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Speaker 1: about this, and it is suppressive and harmful to our

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Speaker 1: it is frustrating to have to have this fundamental conversation,

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Speaker 1: especially when there are people in our communities who are

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Speaker 1: like I would love to talk to you about voting,

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Speaker 1: but I can't feed my kids tomorrow. We have to

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Speaker 1: be able to walk in chew gum at the same time,

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Speaker 1: hell chew something. We got to be able to meet

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Speaker 1: people's basic needs. But also, this is a basic and

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Speaker 1: fundamental right. It should be constitutionally protected in ways that

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Speaker 1: it's clearly not because our Supreme Court is willing to

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Speaker 1: throw everything in the balance.

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Speaker 6: So Andrew, you preach, we need to clip that, because

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Speaker 6: that's that's fire being fair and true. But let me

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Speaker 6: also tell you why we in this situation. The reason

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Speaker 6: we're in this situation is because we never punish the Confederates.

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Speaker 6: I remind amen, because Amen, I remind people of that

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Speaker 6: all the time. The most treason this group of people

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Speaker 6: we've ever had walked the country, we never punish them.

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Speaker 6: The same people who brought us Jim Crow, who brought

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Speaker 6: us the black Codes, we never punished them. Those are

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Speaker 6: the same people who on January sixth showed us that

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Speaker 6: they were going to storm the capitol. We never punished him.

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Speaker 6: Now those people are running government, so and Merrick Garland

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Speaker 6: didn't help us. I always say that the reason we're

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Speaker 6: in this situation is this country never punished the Confederates,

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Speaker 6: and now we're stuck here. We're dealing with one hundred

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Speaker 6: and Angela. The reason it's so hard is we're dealing

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Speaker 6: with one hundred and twenty years, one hundred and more

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Speaker 6: than one hundred and thirty plus years of that entrenched

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Speaker 6: history of having individuals who don't believe in the very

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Speaker 6: essence of what this country should be still running government today.

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Speaker 3: I think it predates them. For instance, Americans don't want

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Speaker 3: to reckon with the fact that we didn't allow all

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Speaker 3: people to vote. We alloted white men who were landowners

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Speaker 3: to vote, and guess what else, they did not have

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Speaker 3: to be citizens of the United States of America to vote.

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Speaker 3: That has not always been a condition of voting in

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Speaker 3: federal elections or local elections in the United States of

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Speaker 3: America over its history. It did not begin that way.

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Speaker 3: This country has always prioritized the most powerful, the most

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Speaker 3: well connected, the most well constituted individuals and quite frankly,

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Speaker 3: if they had it their way. And this is why

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump doesn't face as much resistance within his party

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Speaker 3: as he should trying to be not just a kleptocrat,

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Speaker 3: but quite frankly, to return this nation to some kind

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Speaker 3: of aristocracy or worse. Is because they fundamentally don't believe

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Speaker 3: that the proletariat should have access direct access to the

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Speaker 3: ballot box.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, the Framers didn't believe that either.

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Speaker 3: We did not have direct elections to House members, to

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Speaker 3: Senate members, to the presidency, and we still don't have

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Speaker 3: direct elections to the presidency. We were electing people to

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Speaker 3: go and then hopefully speak for US and conventions and

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Speaker 3: as Electoral College voters and as US senators. But we

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Speaker 3: were not supposed to have this much direct proximity to

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Speaker 3: one the vote and then to what is supposed to

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Speaker 3: be inured from it, which is power. They don't believe

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Speaker 3: we should. So they really want to return to a

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Speaker 3: foundational premise where the most powerful, the most well connected,

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Speaker 3: the most well yield, even if they are not US citizens,

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Speaker 3: are the ones who basically get to control.

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Speaker 2: Things absolutely well.

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Speaker 1: We will continue to be following all the redistricting efforts,

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Speaker 1: the midterm mid term redistricting efforts, by the way, and

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Speaker 1: all of what's happening as we lead into the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six midterms, and efforts by the Trump administration to

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Speaker 1: still kill and destroy the midterms, and all of our efforts,

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Speaker 1: our collective efforts to fight back. So thank you all,

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