1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Native Landpod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. She 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: is in fact a lawyer, and she's also a member 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: of the Texas State House representing Districts one hundred and 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: forty seven. We are joined today by State Representative Jalanda 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: Joe Jones, and you just heard a clip of her 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: talking about the governor talking about subpoena and issuing warrants 8 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: for the arrest of the legislators who left Texas to 9 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: avoid a vote on a very unconstitutional, racial, racist, frankly 10 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: Jerry Mandarin process that the Texas government is currently going through. 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: And they're not the only ones. This is happening, y'all 12 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: in Missouri, it has happened in Louisiana, and there is 13 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: a case before the Supreme Court right now about this 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: very issue. So I'm three Native lampod fam I normally say, 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 1: well a mom, but we jumped right into it. To 16 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: be joined today by State Rep. Jones. How are you 17 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: doing today? 18 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: I'm well, I'm well very good. 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: Where are you because you're on the run and this 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: is not good for them because you're a former track 21 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 1: and field athlete. 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 3: So are you sure right, I'm a four time United 23 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: States champion. 24 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: Don't play. Yes, I can't tell you where I'm at. 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well we're on the run and it's 26 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: a secret. So can you talk to us about what 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: you all are doing While you all are ensuring that 28 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: the Texas State House cannot have a quorum on this very, 29 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: very important issue. You are on the front lines of 30 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: the fight that so many people in this country have 31 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: been pleading for since January. Talk about how you all 32 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: arrived at this destination, the importance of you all standing 33 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: this ground right now. 34 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 3: Well, we arrived at this destination because we saw that 35 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 3: the fix was in for a variety of reasons, Like 36 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 3: one reason was so we got our committee assignments in January. 37 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: I was on the redistricting committee. I was like, why 38 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: I'm on a redistricting committee. 39 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 3: This ain't no, this ain't this has ain't just happened, 40 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: So what's that about? So that sort of cued me. 41 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 3: But then we had no meetings during the regular session, 42 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 3: so I was like, Okay, maybe it's just a standing committee. 43 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden in the spring, we 44 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 3: start hearing talk about redistricting because Trump's numbers started coming 45 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 3: in and everything he's doing is terrible. 46 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: You know, He's got that. 47 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 3: Big, horrible, tragic bill that he forced down our throats 48 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 3: by one vote. And interestingly, Congressional District eighteen didn't have representative. 49 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 3: The governor didn't set the special election until really far away, 50 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 3: so things just started making sense. And even when he 51 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 3: first called the special session, he didn't put redistricting on 52 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 3: there because he didn't want no heat. And then he 53 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 3: put it on right before it started, and then they 54 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 3: had three sham hearings. Again, I was on the committee 55 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 3: until I stepped down, but he had won in Austin, 56 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: won in Houston, won in Arlington, and they literally had 57 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 3: no maps. So how can people testify on redistricting and 58 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: how it's going to negatively affect them if there are 59 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: no maps? So we were like, and then because there 60 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 3: were no maps, they were forcing people came to testify, 61 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 3: to testify as neutral when legally you have to be 62 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 3: four or against. And they kept saying, when you have 63 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 3: to do that, and I'm saying, ah, they're trying to 64 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 3: lay this legal framework for this so that when it 65 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 3: goes to court, and it is going to court that 66 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: the course would be will no one was against it, 67 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 3: and then they ended up and then again it was 68 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 3: a worst kept secret in Austin. I'd heard that the 69 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 3: map was gonna drop on Wednesday. It ended up dropping 70 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 3: on Wednesday. I'd heard that we were going to have 71 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 3: a marathon hearing on Friday, and it happened on Friday, 72 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: and then people were only given two minutes to speak. 73 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 3: The chair of the committee kept saying, the chair is 74 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: not advised. The chair is not advised. That means I 75 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: don't know no answers for you can ask me questions, 76 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 3: which if you knew our chair, he's a lawyer, he 77 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 3: knows everything during regular session. For him to be willfully 78 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: blind or ignorant didn't pass muster to me. And they're 79 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 3: eighty eight Democrats, I'm sorry, eighty eight Republicans and sixty 80 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 3: two Democrats in the House, and sixty two doesn't meet 81 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 3: eighty eight. It only takes seventy six votes to pass 82 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,719 Speaker 3: a bill, but it takes one hundred votes to do business, 83 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: and so they have to find twelve Democrats to go 84 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 3: with their eighty eight votes to be able to have 85 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 3: a quorum. 86 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: And that's what we had to do. 87 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 3: We had to stop them because people weren't paying attention 88 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:33,359 Speaker 3: when they racially redistricted in North Carolina where they literally 89 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 3: stole three seats and they divided up the black and 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: bround community, which is racist. And don't let anyone tell 91 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: you anything else. This is not a power graph. This 92 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 3: isn't an effort to disenfranchise black and brown voters, and 93 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 3: that is illegal under the constitution. Power grabbing is actually 94 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 3: legal under this Trump Supreme Court that he owns. It 95 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 3: used to be illegal, but it's now legal. And so 96 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,119 Speaker 3: we saw that we didn't have the number, so we left. 97 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 3: That's exactly what we did. And right now they're relegated 98 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 3: to wining. And in fact, they winded so much I 99 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 3: need some keys, some grapes, some salami to go with 100 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: all that wining. And they can keep winding, and they 101 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 3: can keep making threats that need nothing because we ain't 102 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 3: scared and we ain't going back. 103 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: Well, and to this point, I think that what's so 104 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: fascinating about this, as you know, is being reported that 105 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump met with legislators to say how many CT 106 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: needs right for this twenty sixth election. Now, Julyan, I'm 107 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,480 Speaker 1: gonna tell you the truth. I have been on our 108 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 1: podcast on Native Lampard regularly saying, I don't even know 109 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: why we're doing this countdown for the midterms when there's 110 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: not going to be an election. Perhaps we got a 111 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: fascist in the White House. And all right, well, here's 112 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: the thing. I was corrected by a brilliant civil rights 113 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: lawyer who shall remain nameless. She said, now, I can't 114 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 1: tell you a thing about twenty eight, but twenty six 115 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: there will likely be an election, because why would he 116 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 1: be going around telling this the stay time many ct needs. 117 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: There's something else he's trying to do. So if we 118 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: could for a minute, Representative Jones talk about why Texas. 119 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: You already brought up the fact that the late great 120 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: Sylvester Turner passed. We know, of course, before that, Congresswoman 121 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: Sheila Jackson Lee passed. Governor Abbott was not going to 122 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: allow for a special election until November, and the big, ugly, terrible, awful, 123 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: ain't no good bill passed by one vote the first 124 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,119 Speaker 1: time it came to the House floor. So talk about 125 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: why Texas. Why is this so critical right now? 126 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 3: It's critical because it's what allows him to have his votes, Like, 127 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 3: let me be clear, had I been in Congress how 128 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: to vote it against it, and it would have failed, 129 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 3: and we wouldn't be having the things going on that 130 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: are that we're having going on that negatively affect Americans. 131 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 3: You know, with all these tariffs that have increased the 132 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 3: prices of everything, where he's wiped out people and they 133 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 3: don't have health care we're Medicaid and Medicare, people don't 134 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 3: have it. Where people can't get good jobs, where he's 135 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 3: at war with other countries which is increasing the cost 136 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 3: of goods, where people can't afford affordable housing, where he 137 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 3: is decimating public education. I'm a product of public education. 138 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 3: That's why I know them bad laws because I went 139 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 3: to good public schools, public elementary, middle school, high school's college, 140 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 3: and law school. So we need a strong public education system. 141 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: And I don't think it's a coincidence that the people 142 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: that vote high for him aren't very educated. I believe 143 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 3: he wants a dumb electorate so that he can sell 144 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 3: them wolf tickets and that he can continue to be 145 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 3: a monarch in this country and totally ignore the constitution, 146 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 3: ignore it. He wants to take us back to Jim Crow. 147 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 3: He wants to take us back before the Voting Rights Act. 148 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: He wants to take us back to before the Civil 149 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: Rights Act, and black people, I'm speaking to you if 150 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: you think, if you think it can't get worse, it can. 151 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: And the reason that you don't know how bad it 152 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 3: is is because of the efforts that people made long 153 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 3: before us, John Lewis, Martin, Luther King, Malcolm X, Barbara Jordan, 154 00:07:58,160 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 3: you name it, to get us the rights we have. 155 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: At least during segregation, we. 156 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 3: Knew that we depended on us and that we had 157 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 3: to provide for us from education to banks, to jobs, 158 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 3: to everything. But then we went and got integration, and 159 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 3: we done lost our minds and we literally think we've 160 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 3: made it, when the truth is, during segregation, we made 161 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: sure everybody came up. During integration is some special negroes, 162 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 3: and then there are others that nobody cares about. And 163 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 3: I'm a person who believes that a country should be 164 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 3: judged not by how the best of us live, but 165 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 3: how the disenfranchised, at least the last the loss live. 166 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: And right now we are doing a horrible job. We're 167 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 3: doing a horrible job. And if you think you can't 168 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 3: be one of them, like one of those who can't 169 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 3: pay their bills. You wrong, Like, I don't know what 170 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 3: land you're living in, but you're not living in the one. 171 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 3: I mean, in what world did we ever think us 172 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 3: citizens could be deported? 173 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 2: What world? I know? 174 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: And we's threatening it. But let's let's put a pin 175 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: in that right there. Let's talk about this just for 176 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: a moment. One thing that was used to describe is 177 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: presidency in twenty twenty was unprecedented. Right this time, it 178 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,959 Speaker 1: is unprecedented times fifty, and I think or maybe it's 179 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: times twenty twenty five. Pun intended here, but here's the 180 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: thing that I think is important for folks at home 181 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: to know, you know, a representative Jones better than anyone's, 182 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 1: especially serving on the redistricting committee. Redistricting generally happens every 183 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: ten years, aligned with the census. The census is twenty twenty, 184 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 1: twenty thirty, twenty forty is twenty twenty five. The only 185 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: thing that's happened in twenty twenty five is Trump's election 186 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: and project twenty twenty five. Can you talk about why 187 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: this in particular is so troubling, especially because it's Texas, 188 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: it's Missouri, it's we already talked about North Carolina, you've 189 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: been speaking to North Carolina over and over again. Didn't 190 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: they test this a little bit in North Carolina first 191 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: to see if this would pass? Muster with other Republican 192 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:55,839 Speaker 1: legislators talk about the piece. 193 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 3: So what they did was they went to like a 194 00:09:58,400 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 3: smaller state, and they did that. 195 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:00,839 Speaker 2: They were successful. 196 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 3: They literally stole I mean, Trump was a thief, so 197 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 3: we shouldn't be surprised that a thief is thiefing, right, 198 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: We just shouldn't be surprised of that. And he stole 199 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 3: three seats that belonged to black and brown people in 200 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:15,319 Speaker 3: North Carolina, which again gave him the majority that they have. 201 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 2: In Congress right now. 202 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 3: So now since he controls Texas, I mean, he has 203 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,719 Speaker 3: shown us with vouchers and with other things that when 204 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 3: he tells Greg Abbott to jump, Greg Abbot jumps, however. 205 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 2: How he tells him. 206 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: And the reason that that is is because there were 207 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 3: twenty four Republicans in Texas that voted against something that 208 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 3: was very important in the eighth in the eighty eighth 209 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 3: legislative session, and literally when there was time for reelection 210 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 3: for the eighty ninth legislative session, they targeted those twenty four. 211 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 3: They took out fifteen of the twenty four. It is 212 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 3: very very very very very hard to take out an incumbent. 213 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 3: But they Trump endorsed against all of them and poured 214 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 3: millions of dollars against them. The Republicans are leading, and 215 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 3: I actually don't believe it's leading by fear and not 216 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 3: by courage, by cowardice and not by courage. And so 217 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,760 Speaker 3: he's already showed them I can take you out if 218 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 3: you don't do what I say. So they are all like, okay, fine, 219 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: and they've been the neee and so they have allowed 220 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 3: themselves to be bullied, and they would they're worried more 221 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 3: about staying elected than they are about what's best for 222 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 3: their constituencies. 223 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 1: When I'm sorry, and. 224 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 3: I'm sorry you asked me a question and I sort 225 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 3: of went on a tangent. Here's the reason why twenty 226 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 3: twenty five is so important is because I believe that 227 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 3: Trump wants to get the Supreme Court and all the 228 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 3: federal courts stacked, which he needs the government to function 229 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 3: in these Congress not to vote against him, not for 230 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 3: judicial appointments, but for his twenty twenty five policies, and 231 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 3: he needs for to be able to pass laws to 232 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 3: abridge states rights so that he can control them. And 233 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 3: so he needs to make sure that he has enough 234 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 3: Republican districts so that in the twenty twenty six elections 235 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 3: that they don't lose Congress, because we now know that 236 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 3: despite his actestations that he's sold popularly, he has never 237 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 3: had more He's never been more popular, which reminds me 238 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 3: of like a middle schooler or an elementary school person 239 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 3: saying I'm the best, I'm the best, I'm the best. 240 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 2: Which is what he does. 241 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 3: He got to vouch for himself because people don't vouch 242 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 3: for him, but he needs he knows he's going to lose, 243 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,960 Speaker 3: so he's got to rig this so he can keep control. 244 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 3: Because the only people that can stop Donald Trump is Congress. 245 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 3: Congress can vote against his shit right, Congress can investigate him, 246 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 3: call hearings, pull his records, pull the Epstein files, and 247 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 3: that's what he's really terrified about. And Congress can impeach him. 248 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: The Senate doesn't do those things. That's why it's important 249 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 3: that he hold on to Congress. 250 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: Well, and let me ask you this, I know you 251 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: have to go. You're literally on the run. So we 252 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: can't hold you in one location for too long. I 253 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: want to ask you, you know people are watching you 254 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: all think outside the box and be really strategic, not 255 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: just in resisting the agenda, but really adamantly opposing it 256 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: and providing it with an alternative. You all are showing 257 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: people what democracy should look like, that you have the 258 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: right to oppose and say not on our watch. This 259 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: isn't the right thing to do. This isn't how we 260 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: normally operate. But for folks at home who are saying, well, 261 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: how long can you be on the run, And when 262 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: you all are no longer on the run and have 263 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: to face whatever is coming, what can we do at 264 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,840 Speaker 1: home to support you all in this agenda to ensure 265 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: that this particular thing doesn't just not pass in Texas, 266 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 1: but not in these other states that are at risk 267 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: as well. 268 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 3: So one, I hope that we're an example to other 269 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,439 Speaker 3: people that you can stand against tyranny, you can stand 270 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 3: against bullies. But I almost stay running for as long 271 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 3: as I need to run. And let me be clear, 272 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 3: I ran away from things that are very important to me. 273 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 3: I'm a new grandmother, I missing my granddaughter. Have to 274 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 3: be okay with facetiming because I'm fighting for her. I 275 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 3: need for her, as a mixed race black slash Indian 276 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 3: child to have the opportunities that doctor King and John 277 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 3: Lewis fought for. I do not want for her to 278 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 3: be a second class citizen by virtue of her being 279 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 3: at a mixed race child with immigrant relatives. And so 280 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 3: I've got to fight for her. And if I don't 281 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 3: do it, who will? And if I don't do it now, 282 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 3: then when? Because we literally have to stay gone, and 283 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 3: what we need for you to do is to support us. 284 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: We are. 285 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 3: I left a business. My son is a lawyer. We 286 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: practice law together. He's got to hold a four down 287 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 3: right this morning, I'm talking to him like, you got 288 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 3: to go to this course, you gotta go to this court. 289 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 3: He's handling my clients because I have bills to pay, 290 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 3: just like y'all. 291 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 2: Y'all think we're rich. 292 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,359 Speaker 3: We literally make six hundred dollars a month as state legislators. 293 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 3: That's what we make, and that pays for our insurance 294 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: in our retirement. True so, And I'm a dues paying 295 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 3: member of the Texas State Employees Union. So I'm a 296 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 3: union girl as well, because I believe strong unions and 297 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:06,960 Speaker 3: you've got to have dues paying members. 298 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 2: But my point is this, if we want in America. 299 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 3: Where we can get the Civil Rights tect, the Voting 300 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 3: Rights Act, and have a black man be president and 301 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 3: a black woman beyond the US Supreme Court, we've got 302 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 3: to have a country that allows that. 303 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: And Donald Trump is trying to take that away. 304 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 3: He literally doesn't respect anybody black who's in any position 305 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 3: of authority. He calls it affirmative action for the most part, 306 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 3: and that's some bs. And so somebody's got to fight. 307 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 3: And at this moment, and this time it's the Texas Democrats. 308 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 3: And what happens in Texas will affect you, just like 309 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 3: what happened in North Carolina has affected you. And that's 310 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 3: why your life right now is way harder than it 311 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 3: was before Donald Trump took office. And the Supreme Court 312 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 3: is afraid of him, the media, mainstream media is afraid 313 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 3: of him. You're not afraid of him. So thank you 314 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 3: very much, But let me be clear, We've got to fight. 315 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 3: We've got to fight now. 316 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 2: We need your help. 317 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 3: Please give to the Texas Legislative Black Caucus. You can 318 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 3: find the link. I don't have it on me right now, 319 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 3: but I've literally got to go because they're waiting on 320 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: me because we got to keep it moving like this 321 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 3: is life on the run. 322 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: Absolutely, will you keep running and we'll keep talking. State 323 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: Representative Jelanta Jones, thank you so much for all you 324 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: do is this. We lift you up, we hold you 325 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 1: up how you are in our prayers and we'll we're 326 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: definitely supporting you. Everybody. 327 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate you. 328 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay, everybody, We'll be right back after we 329 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: pay some bills. Oh wow, so you all, I don't 330 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: know if you're following redistricting at home. I tend to 331 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: believe that our native lampod listeners understand these issues a 332 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: little more than others. But I just want to make 333 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: sure you all understand what is all at stake and 334 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: why I wanted to back into this. Our good sis 335 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: could make a little bit of time for us and 336 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 1: literally as a track and build star. She's a runner, 337 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: she's a t and that's real life. So I just 338 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: want to back into this for a moment. Jerry Mandering 339 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: isn't in and of itself wrong. Racist jerry mandering and 340 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: redistricting is wrong, and the challenge that we have right 341 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: now as a country. On the sixtieth anniversary, y'all can 342 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: look this up of the Voting Rights Act. Donald Trump 343 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: is doing all he can to decimate that with the 344 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: help of his little Republican imps that are including state representatives, 345 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: state senators, and of course some of these governors where 346 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: they have supermajorities. They plan to challenge this at on 347 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: every side, because what they want to do is to 348 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 1: get to a point where there is so much unanimity 349 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: in the federal government that there's nobody there to challenge him. 350 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,200 Speaker 1: Those are the kinds of things that the Voting Rights 351 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: Act guarded. Again, so let me tell you what happened 352 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, there was a case that went to 353 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court called Shelby versus Holder. In that case, 354 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:03,959 Speaker 1: which just so happens to be after Barack Obama's second election, 355 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,920 Speaker 1: not by accident, they decided, Hey, do we really need 356 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: all of this stuff in the Voting Rights Act? Do 357 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 1: we really need Section four's formula that ensures that Section 358 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: fives states that need to be pre cleared to ensure 359 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: that there's no discrimination. Do we need to do that? 360 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: Y'all got a black president. I think discrimination is gone. 361 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 1: But let me tell you something. While they were making 362 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: that decision, and by the way, spoiler alert from twenty thirteen, 363 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: they decided to gut Section four, which pretty much renders 364 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 1: a Section five nullan nullan void of the Voting Rights Act. 365 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 1: They decided to say that we no longer needed those 366 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: protections that we shall overcome has now become we have overcome, 367 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: we don't need it. That's what they did in the 368 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. While that was happening, there was an organization 369 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: called it, actually it still exists, called the American Legislative 370 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: Exchange Council. It goes by Alex some of you all 371 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 1: got to know Alec from the Stanyard Ground Law, which 372 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,960 Speaker 1: is what George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin's killer, relied upon to 373 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: get out of that case and to be quitted. Now, 374 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: at the same time that case was making its way 375 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court, the American Legislative Exchange Council, which 376 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: includes state legislators from all over the country, had a 377 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: boiler plate template bill that legislators could literally copy and 378 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,479 Speaker 1: paste for voter ID. And there are a lot of 379 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: folks y'all who say, well, voter ID is not racist, 380 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: It's fine it doesn't hurt anyone. We're all good. It's okay. 381 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: We just want to make sure that we identify you. 382 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,159 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. A lot of advocates said that the 383 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:51,919 Speaker 1: voter ID legislation was a solution in search of a 384 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: problem that by the time some folks who live in 385 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: rural areas go to get their ID just to vote, 386 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,640 Speaker 1: it is equivalent to a poll tax. A lot of challengers, 387 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: So remember that's happening. There was also a template bill 388 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: they introduced to cut back on early voting days to 389 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 1: make absentee voting more challenging. I believe at that time, 390 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: between twenty ten and twenty tail twelve, the one hundred 391 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: and thirteen measures were introduced in state legislatures all over 392 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: the country. Why am I bringing this up in twenty 393 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: twenty five again, there's something that happened in twenty eight 394 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: and twenty twelve that they never wanted to see happen again. 395 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: His name is Barack Hussein Obama. He was your forty 396 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: fourth president. Do you understand? So this is all by design. 397 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five did not pop up and get 398 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: birth yesterday. This thing has been in the works for 399 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: forty plus years and now because there was a place 400 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: where it seemed like we had arrived, we had reached 401 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: the promised land, at least in the mind of some folks, 402 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: they wanted to find a way to ensure that we 403 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: were punished. The way they did that was through our 404 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: voting rights, because it was one of the Moose Prize 405 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: civil rights accomplishments we have. So here we are now 406 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: in a space where members of Congress, by the way, 407 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,679 Speaker 1: have been fighting to ensure that majority minority districts are 408 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: preserved so that people who look like me and you, 409 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: who are in states have representation in Congress. Racial gerry 410 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: mandering is different than jerry mandering for representation. They are 411 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: trying to shed and dilute and get rid of the 412 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: states states to the seats that are both state legislator 413 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: based seats, State senator seats and members of the House 414 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,959 Speaker 1: of Representatives United States House of Representative seats, diluting those 415 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: to just make them strictly geography geographical based districts. Some 416 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: of you may say, well that seems fair. Well, you 417 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to be in this country 418 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: filling voiceless, unseen, unheard, with no representation. The other big 419 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: thing that's happened since over the past several years. When 420 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: I was the CBC executive director, I believe we had 421 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: forty maybe forty three CBC members. That number is now 422 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: up to twenty of twenty more members. So now I 423 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,480 Speaker 1: think there are sixty four black members who are CBC members, 424 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: because everybody black ain't a member of the CBC in 425 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 1: the United States House as well as in the Senate combined. 426 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: So now they're trying to figure out a way to 427 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: retract because you know what, we didn't got too power 428 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: for y'all. So this is what's going on. Your president 429 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: is trying to figure way, figure out a way to 430 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:42,360 Speaker 1: retract that power, to control that power, to reduce that power. 431 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,879 Speaker 1: And how they're going about it is through the redistricting process. 432 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: It is normally every ten years. We are at the 433 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: five year mark. The only thing that has happened is 434 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's America, where they don't have to go by 435 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: the rules anymore. There is no gentlemen or gentle ladies 436 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: agreement or gentle person's agree. All of the rules go 437 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: out the window. And what he is doing, what his 438 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: administration is doing, what the Heritage Foundation is doing, what 439 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: Fox News is doing is trying to stress test every 440 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: single thing that we've relied upon for protection in this country, 441 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: to ensure that our voices are heard, to ensure that 442 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: there actually is a democracy. So they pull up the 443 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: thing to see if they can make it fall, and 444 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: when they make it fall, they go to the next 445 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: thing to destroy that. So we have spent a lot 446 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: of time banking on our civil and human rights, banking 447 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: on those protections to ensure that even when we don't 448 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: have the money they have, when we don't have the 449 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: tools that they have, when we don't have the access 450 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: they have, that there's still something we can rest up against. 451 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: Those are the things they're knocking down right now. So 452 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: I know that we're asking people who are carrying so much, 453 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: making sure you have enough money to feed your families, 454 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: making sure you have grocery money, gas money, making sure 455 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: that your snap benefits are in tacked and they don't 456 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: continue to get cut, making sure that you can afford healthcare. 457 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: In this country. We are asking you, I know, to 458 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 1: care about yet another thing. And the reason why is 459 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: because if we don't bring the battle to them on this, 460 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what the next battle will be. I 461 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: don't know that we'll be able to win the war. 462 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: So I'm asking you to read up on this, to 463 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: pay attention, to look at the long fight black folks 464 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 1: had to get the representation in Congress. We deserve to 465 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: get the representation in state houses all over the country 466 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: that we deserve, to get the representation in state senates 467 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: in places we deserve, and even on the city level, 468 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: on the municipal and county level, there is an election, 469 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: an election today where I live in Washington State. We 470 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 1: have we made history in twenty four electing the first 471 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 1: ever black Attorney general. We're about to have a black 472 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: county Executive's name is Germie. Uh. Why can't think of 473 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: Vermad's last name? Now lord anyway, but about to be 474 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:01,679 Speaker 1: our guy. I'm gonna look this up because this is 475 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: my friend too. I don't know why I can't think 476 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: of Germa's last name, but he is gonna win, uh 477 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: the state the county executive a race in uh in 478 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: King County, which is where I'm from in Seattle, and 479 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: Germai Zahlai, sorry, Germi Zahalai is going to be the 480 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 1: next King County exec But what I'm telling you is, 481 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,440 Speaker 1: even when we go and make history. They always figure 482 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: out a way to retract. Y'all, we have to figure 483 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: out a way to fight back, and we cannot leave 484 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: our elected officials on their own. We just cannot do it. 485 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 1: So I'm asking you all to if you are have 486 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: an election today like we do in Seattle, go vote 487 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,640 Speaker 1: Bruce Harrel is running. That's a black mayor. They got 488 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,040 Speaker 1: a white progressive woman named Katie that is going against him, 489 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: doesn't want him to win. I'm telling y'all, some of 490 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: this is not just political. Some of it is just racism. 491 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 1: That's what it is. And sometimes racism is not just 492 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: part I ask you to look up what it means 493 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: to dilute districts racially, to understand what racist redistricting and 494 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 1: jurymandering looks like. That is what is happening right now. 495 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,439 Speaker 1: We cannot afford to have it happen on our watch. 496 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,160 Speaker 1: It impacts everything. It impacts whether or not your elected 497 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 1: official signs and ice agreement. It impacts whether or not 498 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: folks get accurate representation in contracts and vendor opportunities with 499 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 1: the city, with the state, with the county. It impacts 500 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: all of these things. It impacts how much time people 501 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: spend in jail. It impacts whether or not bail cash 502 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: bail will be the law of the land or not. 503 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: It impacts healthcare systems. These things touch your lives, whether 504 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: or not you touch politics. It is time for politics 505 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: to be touched by you. It is time for politics 506 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: to be influenced by you, because if you do not 507 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: stand in the gap, I promise you these folks are eager, 508 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: eager to take your place, and as you can see, 509 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: they are not representing your best interests. The Congressional Black 510 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: Caucus founders used to say, no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, 511 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: just permanent interests. These are your permanent interests. If you 512 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 1: want to have some permanence in this country, if you 513 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: want to fight back for what you know is right, 514 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 1: you've got to join join us. And I'm saying I'm 515 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 1: standing with the tracks star y'all. Julanda Jones, the state 516 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: representative in Texas, joined us today. She's prolific, she's profound, 517 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,160 Speaker 1: and she is not the only fighter. She's being joined 518 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: by all of the Legislative Black Caucus in Texas and 519 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: many others stand with them. Read about what they're doing 520 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: and get creative in your response too. This is Native Lampod. 521 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: I am your host, Angela Rye. Will be all together 522 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: again on Thursday, reunited and it feels so good. We 523 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: have a great guest, Meddi Hassan will join us and 524 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: we can't wait to talk him about how he dragged 525 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: those folks at the Jubilee conversation or debate. And we 526 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: will also be talking a lot more about redistricting and 527 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: so much more that is going on in this country 528 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: right now. As always, please make sure you send us 529 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: your videos, tell us what's on your heart and mind. 530 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,919 Speaker 1: Let us know if you disagree with us or if 531 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: you agree, share a testimony. 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