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

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

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Kristin Welker took over Meet the Press,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the era of Chuck Todd is over

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Speaker 1: the error that we thought of softball journalism and lack

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Speaker 1: just you know, we thought it was done and then

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Speaker 1: entered the chat Kristin Welker. Now, I have seen Kristin

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Speaker 1: in you know, different situations and places where she has

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Speaker 1: the chops and has been able to ask the hard

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Speaker 1: an interview. This was not fucking that at all. And

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Speaker 1: from the moment that it was announced that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: was going to be her first guest on Meet the Press,

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Speaker 1: I knew it was already gonna be trash because in

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Speaker 1: the eight years since Donald Trump entered into the political world,

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Speaker 1: no reporter, not fucking want, has been able to do

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Speaker 1: what actually needs to be done, which is to fact

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Speaker 1: check that motherfucker in real time because you know exactly

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Speaker 1: what he's going to say, because he's a repetitive right

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Speaker 1: in terms of the lies that he tells not see

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Speaker 1: the fucking ground to him and your platform, so that

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Speaker 1: he can continue to lie and be justified for that

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Speaker 1: line because mainstream media let him in and then think

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Speaker 1: that you're doing a service to the viewers by saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll go to nbcnews dot com afterwards, where we are

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Speaker 1: doing all of the fact checking. Are you fucking kidding me?

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Speaker 1: And you know, I just realize that the media, corporate

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Speaker 1: media wants twenty sixteen all over again, and they are

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Speaker 1: going to do their absolute damnedest to make sure that

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Speaker 1: they recreate and make the same mistakes over and over

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Speaker 1: again until the white evangelical Christian fascist takeover of America

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Speaker 1: is complete. There is no more freedom of speech, and

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Speaker 1: they're all out of the jobs because they fuck themselves

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Speaker 1: from the beginning. You know, there is a way to

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Speaker 1: handle the moment that we're in, and it's with truth,

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Speaker 1: it's with integrity, it's with passion, none of which I

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Speaker 1: see anywhere in mainstream media. And I'm fucking sick and

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Speaker 1: tired of it. If I'm a person in media, right

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Speaker 1: and I just think to myself, my god, if I

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Speaker 1: had the millions of listeners right and viewers in the

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Speaker 1: way that these shows get in. I would never blow

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to tell the truth. I would never blow

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to tell the American viewer what a consequential

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Speaker 1: time they are living in and how much power they

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Speaker 1: still have to do what's right, and that all is

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Speaker 1: not lost, and that Donald Trump does not have to

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Speaker 1: be your person, and that the Republican Party does not

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Speaker 1: give a fuck about you or your family. They care

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Speaker 1: about power, and to show them here's history. This is

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Speaker 1: why they don't want you to know it right, because

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Speaker 1: this is what these white supremacists savages have done. This

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Speaker 1: is how they have the wealth that they do. It's

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Speaker 1: not because of the lack of know how and wherewithal

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Speaker 1: of black people. It's because of obstruction and denial and

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Speaker 1: terrorism from the jump. I just I'm tired of the

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Speaker 1: farce at this point, and I get to a place sometimes, folks,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'll just read because it's easier to digest

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Speaker 1: that way than to listen to these people play out

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Speaker 1: this horse race in our politics right now, as if

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Speaker 1: this is the twentieth century and we're under no threat

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Speaker 1: of the evisceration of democracy that you're going to continue

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Speaker 1: to platform, and people say, well, he is the Republican

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Speaker 1: front runner. Your first guest could have been Joe Biden.

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Speaker 1: Your first guest could have been Kamala Harris, right, your

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Speaker 1: first guests could have been, right, the younger generation of

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Speaker 1: Democrats in the House of Representatives. Right, it could have

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Speaker 1: been talking about the changing of the garden politics. Is

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Speaker 1: it needed doing a comparison even if you wanted to,

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Speaker 1: between the Marjory Taylor Green and the Lauren Boberts and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, the Maxwell Frosts and the you know,

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Speaker 1: King Jeffries and the AOC's one party is moving you

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Speaker 1: in the direction of fascism, without rights, without a voice,

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Speaker 1: without a vote, and the other is trying to expand

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Speaker 1: and strengthen our democracy. America is at a crossroads. That

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Speaker 1: could have been your opening, but that's not what meet

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a fucking nightmare one that we're

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Speaker 1: going to get through together, trust and believe that, but

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Speaker 1: I do know is that the media is going to

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Speaker 1: do the same old shit over and over again. But

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Speaker 1: you have a choice, right, just like you choose to

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Speaker 1: New Abnormal, on democracy ish, you know, you have a

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Speaker 1: choice right to save your sanity, to dip in and

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Speaker 1: realized that a part of learning, and I said this,

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Speaker 1: don't repeat it. That's not what corporate media has done, right.

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Speaker 1: the hob doesn't matter that democracy it has backslid, doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter that Republicans have you know, opened up Pandora's box

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Speaker 1: in terms of the shredding of our constitutions, right like,

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Speaker 1: So you have a choice, though, as a viewer, as

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Speaker 1: about just like opinion versus so whatever. Any fucking historian

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Speaker 1: that is following fascism, authoritarianism, that rites on tyranny, that

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Speaker 1: But this coming up, this conversation actually did provide me

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Speaker 1: is a Texas grassroots, nonpartisan nonprofit organization building power in unrepresentative,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Danielle, so it's so nice to see you nice.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me on your show.

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Speaker 2: And hi to all the listeners. If you're a young

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Speaker 2: A little bit about Move Texas. We actually started in

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Speaker 2: twenty thirteen as a student chapter organization at the University

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Speaker 2: and we're proud to do that through civic engagement. We

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Speaker 1: What is the age range of the young people that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we are really proud to be an organization

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Speaker 2: And so we have different tactics. Like I said, voter

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think Move Texas Right as a testament

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Speaker 1: What are some of the top issues, Because you say

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Speaker 2: So many different issues. I think one of the top

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Speaker 1: Buddy, let me ask you this on a personal note,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, Danielle, I want to take you back maybe

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's extraordinary, and I so commend you and

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Speaker 1: How do you continue to push that? And then two again,

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Speaker 2: So how do we fight back? I think the answer simple.

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Speaker 2: We fight back through organizing. You know, in this most

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Speaker 2: And it's been one of the most radical, one of

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Speaker 2: saying that hey, this building, unlike many of you all think,

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Speaker 2: does not belong to the politicians in this building, does

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Speaker 2: not belong to the special interest, but rather belongs to

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Speaker 2: the people. And young people have always history has shown

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Speaker 2: us that young people are always at the forefront of

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Speaker 2: fighting for change in our community. And that's exactly what

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Speaker 2: that youth capital takeover has done. And so the answer simple,

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Speaker 2: we continue to organize, we continue to educate our base,

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Speaker 2: and we never give up.

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Speaker 1: Claudia, you are truly inspiring. I mean that sincerely, like

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Speaker 1: because I look for inspiration everywhere that I can, because

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Speaker 1: these days sometimes get very dark, right, and so to

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Speaker 1: think that you are out there organizing on the ground,

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Speaker 1: doing this work, engaging young people in a very hostile state,

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Speaker 1: gives me a lot of hope. So please tell the

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Speaker 1: listeners how they can get involved, how they can support,

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Speaker 1: how they can learn more about Move.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, viewers listening out there, you can definitely visit

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Speaker 2: our website Movetexas dot org to get plugged in with

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Speaker 2: some of our ongoing working campaigns. This is our tenth

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Speaker 2: year anniversary, so we have a lot in store for

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Speaker 2: you next week as national Voter Registration Day, which means

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Speaker 2: that we will be hosting countless of events across the states,

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Speaker 2: including also a National Voter Registration Day concert in San

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Speaker 2: Antonio to really bring out the celebration of what it

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Speaker 2: means to participate in your democracy. And then if for

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Speaker 2: some reason you're not in Texas and you can't get involved,

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Speaker 2: we'd love to take your donations because those grass for

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Speaker 2: donations is what really fuels the work and allows us

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Speaker 2: to do the critical work in states like Texas that

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Speaker 2: we know not only impact our states, but really impact

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Speaker 2: the country right because if we want to change the country,

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Speaker 2: it starts with Texas and doing this work from the

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Speaker 2: ground up.

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Speaker 1: Claudia, thank you so much for making the time for

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Speaker 1: ok APP. Thank you for the work that you're doing,

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Speaker 1: and I hope that you know as election season really

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Speaker 1: get presidential election season really gets going in the next year,

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Speaker 1: that you will come back and tell us about the

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Speaker 1: progress that you're making, the work that you're doing, and

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Speaker 1: just continue to encourage more people to get involved. Really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Now, thank you Danielle for the invitation and anytime open

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Speaker 2: door policy. At Move Texas, we love nothing more than

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Speaker 2: talking about the power of young people and the power

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Speaker 2: of organizing. Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke

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

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fun