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

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: We are confronting the most resistential moment in our history

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Speaker 2: with the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, redistricting and

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Speaker 2: many parts of the South, and a threat of minority

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Speaker 2: representation across the board. In fact, one party can take

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Speaker 2: control of nineteen seats overnight. The next segment, Midterms and Voting.

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Speaker 2: Please welcome to the GBEV stage All three co hosts

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Speaker 2: of the Native Lamp Pod, Andrew Gillham, Maccari Sellers and

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Speaker 2: Angela Rye plus US House of Representatives for the tenth

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Speaker 2: District of New Jersey Congresswoman Lamonica mcgiver, Woo, US House

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Speaker 2: of Representative for the State of Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,

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Speaker 2: and State Senator from the District of Louisiana including New

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Speaker 2: Orleans Royce Dude.

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Speaker 3: Plus is.

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Speaker 4: Y'all better get on in here, Get.

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Speaker 3: On in here, yo, yo yo.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about some things.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all, this is Native Lampid. It's some rowdiness

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Speaker 1: going on right somewhere, but we're so excited to be

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Speaker 1: here at Essence Fest. This is our third time being here,

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Speaker 1: so really really excited. We have some tremendous guests with

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Speaker 1: us today. As you all heard, we are Senator Royce,

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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Lamonica mc ivor, and congress.

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Speaker 5: Woman Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 1: And one thing that I think is really important in

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Speaker 1: this moment Andrew and Baccari is understanding who our fighters are,

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Speaker 1: the people who we know are going to champion our causes,

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Speaker 1: be the conscience when the nation has lost theirs, even

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Speaker 1: as it celebrates its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. So

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Speaker 1: I just want to thank you all for being with

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Speaker 1: us today and I'll yield to my co hosts.

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Speaker 6: What two three?

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Speaker 7: All right, good evening, Good well, good afternoon everybody.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you've been hearing.

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Speaker 7: On the news, on the internet, so on and so

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Speaker 7: forth abround redistricting in the withdrawing of power from black voters,

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Speaker 7: and you've also been hearing at the same time that

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Speaker 7: there have been black representatives, elected officials, civil organizations who

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Speaker 7: have been stepping up to make sure that we don't

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Speaker 7: lose our power. So today we want to have a

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Speaker 7: brief conversation around what it is that we've got to do,

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Speaker 7: each of us.

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Speaker 6: Me, you, and our.

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Speaker 7: Cousins in them to make sure that we don't lose

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Speaker 7: the power that our ancestors, our four fathers and four mothers,

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Speaker 7: So as we finish our introductions, just get ready for

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Speaker 7: that very brief conversation where we work together to move

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just happy to be here.

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Speaker 8: So first of all, I'm from the big city of Denmark,

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Speaker 8: South Carolina, where we have three stop lights in a

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Speaker 8: the two most important words in the English language, other

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Speaker 8: words thank you. And so before we start, I want

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Speaker 8: to say a special thank you, and I think that

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Speaker 8: the young lady to my right, Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 3: So thank you, j.

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Speaker 8: And I ain't gonna lie to you. I ain't even

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Speaker 6: Her head, always did.

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Speaker 3: I was like.

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Speaker 8: Almost And this young lady to my left has been

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Speaker 8: going through more than anyone.

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Speaker 3: Should have to bear.

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Speaker 8: Sometimes, you know, when you say your prayers at night

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Speaker 8: fiercest soldier this year.

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Speaker 3: You can put me at the bat. I've gone through

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Speaker 8: I want you all to pray for her to not

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Speaker 8: only have a very healthy pregnancy, but a very healthy birth.

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Speaker 8: And I want you all to pray for her to

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Speaker 8: Of me to say God doesn't give you more than

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Speaker 8: I love to have a couple of light skinned friends.

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Speaker 8: I think everybody should have one or two light skinned

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Speaker 8: They were doing the redistricting here in Louisiana. He was

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Speaker 8: we all need to make sure that we understand that

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Speaker 8: I know Angela and Andrew are going to talk a lot.

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Speaker 8: That was my two minutes. I probably won't say anything else.

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Speaker 1: The rest part about it is everybody was already introduced,

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Speaker 1: so that was amazing. Now since we're here, I think

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Speaker 1: it's really important for us as we're contemplating what this

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Speaker 1: starting to feel real houseless in the Democratic Party. We've

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Speaker 5: Maybe you do, but just hush. So my thing is.

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Speaker 1: Where do we go when we're not feeling seeing appreciation?

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Speaker 5: And I'm gonna use some examples.

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Speaker 1: The first example is Lamonica mc ivor. Many of you

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Speaker 1: all have heard about her advocacy. The federal government indicted

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Speaker 1: her for engaging in constituency services making sure that Delaney Hall,

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Speaker 5: Second issue.

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Speaker 1: Some of y'all's favorite politicians were out campaigning with James

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Speaker 1: Sometimes at odds with us. We don't always agree on

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Speaker 1: And we know that Jasmine is one of our fiercest advocates.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna speak for her.

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Speaker 1: Phils taken for granted, Rice, you gotta be a little

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Speaker 9: I will jump in and if y'all know me, I

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Speaker 4: Even when we look at the.

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Speaker 9: Last presidential election, we know that more people didn't vote

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Speaker 4: Now, when you talk about my.

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Speaker 9: Little sister, I literally was tearing up because I don't

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Speaker 9: feel like people understand how hard Lamonica has gone for

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Speaker 9: this country. Lamonica is facing seventeen years in prison. There

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Speaker 9: And that is akin to what I have experienced as

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Speaker 4: That will not back down and will not bound down

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Speaker 9: So number one, I'm gonna give you a task because

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Speaker 10: First of all, I just want to thank my sister Jasmine. Look,

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Speaker 10: as we approach the mid term general election, right, so

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Speaker 10: many people are so upset. They are staying home, They

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Speaker 10: But at the same time, we know that that doesn't

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Speaker 10: as everybody's mentioned on this stage, yes they are trying

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Speaker 5: Has it slowed me down? No?

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Speaker 10: No, So if I can go through all of that,

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Speaker 11: Right here in New Orleans, as we celebrate essence and

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Speaker 9: But no, no, no, I just wanted to jump in on

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Speaker 4: Y'all don't even know what I'm about to decide.

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Speaker 9: But people think that Republicans I mean Democrats are weak

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Speaker 4: Like they decided that he wouldn't go swear in.

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Speaker 9: They could care less about the votes, they could care

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Speaker 9: And I think that that is why you end up

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Speaker 8: My back for sure, So can I just jump in

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Speaker 3: But what can people in this room do?

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Speaker 8: That's why I don't take Angela nowhere. So anyway, So

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Speaker 10: Well, I think one that's a good question. One is

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Speaker 5: No, you have to stay on their ass.

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Speaker 10: We meet with lobbyist groups all the time, different folks

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Speaker 10: Look, we're elected officials, but at the end of the day,

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Speaker 8: We ain't free though, because before you go crazy, part

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Speaker 3: But go ahead, Andrew, or.

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Speaker 6: It's the cheapest vote.

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Speaker 5: They go to the church house.

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Speaker 6: But it's the cheapest vote.

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Speaker 7: So that's the cheapest vote is the one you don't

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Speaker 7: being there the last time, and now we need this

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Speaker 7: from you, and that this from you never ended.

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Speaker 6: There was always I needed this from you.

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Speaker 7: What does accountability look like when it turns from our

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Speaker 7: people holding our people, those who are elected and looked

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Speaker 7: like us accountable to the voter.

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Speaker 9: I'll jump in really quickly just because you didn't hit

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Speaker 9: my whole spirit with this cheap idea. You know, Ashley

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Speaker 9: Ettien actually just did an article that was published by Essence,

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Speaker 9: and in this article she said that when they did

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Speaker 9: this autopsy of what happened with the DNC and where

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Speaker 9: they spent the money, one percent one percent of the

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Speaker 9: money went to black folk, went to black media, went

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Speaker 9: to black out reach one percent.

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Speaker 4: Do you know who is the most loyal to.

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Speaker 9: The Democratic Party it is black people. So you had

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Speaker 9: ninety three percent of Black women vote for the Democratic

457
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Speaker 9: nominee and close to eighty percent of Black men vote

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Speaker 9: for the Democratic nominee, and we lost. And they continue

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Speaker 9: to spend money, sinking it into people that were never

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Speaker 9: coming to support our party.

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Speaker 4: So we can start there.

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Speaker 9: When we talk about investments, because I believe that we

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Speaker 9: need to make demands. There is a I've been trying

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Speaker 9: to pump up. You know, PBS has some good so

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Speaker 9: long as PBS.

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Speaker 4: Exists, y'all.

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Speaker 9: PBS has some good documentaries and they did one specifically

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Speaker 9: about Barbara Jordan. Now I love me some Barbara Jordan

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Speaker 9: as a Texan and a congresswoman. One thing I learned

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Speaker 9: when I actually watched it. It's called The Inquisitor. It

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Speaker 9: is really really good and it's short. Y'all should watch

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Speaker 9: it if you've not seen it. But Barbara Jordan goes

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Speaker 9: on stage at the DNC. She gives this amazing speech

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Speaker 9: and everybody is pumped up because they've now heard the

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Speaker 9: eloquence of Barbara Jordan. So then Barbara Jordan is asked

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Speaker 9: to go out on this presidential campaign for somebody that

477
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Speaker 9: they didn't necessarily think had a chance of winning.

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Speaker 4: That was Jimmy Carter.

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Speaker 9: She goes out, she campaigns, She hollers that black folk,

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Speaker 9: She get them to show up. Jimmy Carter wins that election.

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Speaker 9: They asked Barbara, what is it that you want? Barbara says,

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Speaker 9: I want to be the top attorney for the United States. Now,

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Speaker 9: this is after she'd bene tore down Nixon, done her

484
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Speaker 9: thing in judiciary and all the things way before going

485
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Speaker 9: viral was a thing. She went viral for tearing down

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Speaker 9: at that time, the most corrupt president we had in

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Speaker 9: the United States.

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Speaker 4: You know what they told that black woman.

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Speaker 9: They told her, oh no, no, no, we got to put

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Speaker 9: a white man in.

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Speaker 4: So let me be clear about this.

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Speaker 9: It is time for y'all to start to be transactional

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Speaker 9: about your votes. It can't just be a matter of, oh,

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Speaker 9: you want to get into all and so, yes, you

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Speaker 9: need me right now, but you don't ever show up

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Speaker 9: any other time.

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Speaker 4: Number one. Number two, you don't invest in my community.

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Speaker 9: Number three, what policies are you working on that are

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Speaker 9: actually going to better my economic situation, my health situation,

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Speaker 9: my educational situation. It is not enough just to be

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Speaker 9: that you're not the racist Republican. But that is what

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Speaker 9: has happened with Black Focus. They understood that we couldn't

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Speaker 9: be a party with the people that actually want to

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Speaker 9: lynch us every day. And so we sit up there

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Speaker 9: and we say that we are just voting for mitigation,

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Speaker 9: but it's actually.

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Speaker 4: Time for us to vote for uplift.

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Speaker 9: And unfortunately, so many of these candidates do not care

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Speaker 9: about uplifting us.

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Speaker 4: This is why we have not.

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Speaker 9: Advanced at the level that we should have at this point.

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Speaker 9: So show up to city council, show up to the

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Speaker 9: State House, and come to the US House if you

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Speaker 9: can afford to, because every single house is called the

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Speaker 9: people's house. This is where they can look you in

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Speaker 9: your faith and they have to tell you yes, no,

517
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Speaker 9: we only looked at you as a line item that

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Speaker 9: we were crossing out. I didn't realize that behind that

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Speaker 9: sicke of sell research dollar there was a real person.

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Speaker 9: I didn't realize that that cancer that we were cutting

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Speaker 9: out that Oh no, no, there are real people. Get

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Speaker 9: in their faces and make them tell you, yes, I

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Speaker 9: was elected to represent you, but I don't care about you.

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Speaker 4: That is what you make them do.

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Speaker 9: You show up, You get in their faces and if

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Speaker 9: they decide they're not going to represent you, you let

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Speaker 9: them know that you will work hard to make sure

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Speaker 9: they lose their seats.

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Speaker 11: I want to start by answering Baccari's question really quickly

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Speaker 11: about something tangible. This is not sexy, this is not

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Speaker 11: anything that's probably gonna get you excited. But when the

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Speaker 11: congresswoman asked the question earlier about how you feel about

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Speaker 11: this or that demzen Republicans and the hand raising, I

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Speaker 11: think if we asked the similar question around how many

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Speaker 11: people in the audience knew every single person who was

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Speaker 11: elected to represent where you live, from the school board

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Speaker 11: representative to the local police juror, to your city council person,

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Speaker 11: all the way up to your congress person. I'm not

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Speaker 11: gonna ask y'all raise y'all hands, but if but yep,

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Speaker 11: if you know every single one of your elected officials,

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Speaker 11: every single one, right. So my challenge, my challenge is

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Speaker 11: when you leave here, go and find out every single

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Speaker 11: person who's elected to represent you. Now, what will happen

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Speaker 11: in that process is that you're gonna be oh see,

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Speaker 11: we say okay, John Brown represents me to do X,

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Speaker 11: Y and Z.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what does that mean? So what that's gonna.

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Speaker 11: Do is gonna take us on a pathway of education,

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Speaker 11: and now you're gonna start asking more questions about what

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Speaker 11: is this person doing for me? Or better, yeah, what

551
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Speaker 11: is this person not doing for me? So that's a

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Speaker 11: simple ask that I have of everyone because because it's

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Speaker 11: not enough for when we're out, you know, us all

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Speaker 11: as elected officials or former elected officials, to not know

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Speaker 11: what we did or.

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Speaker 3: Didn't do for you.

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Speaker 11: So I think it really starts that you can't hold

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Speaker 11: us accountable if you don't know the roles that we

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Speaker 11: have and we serve on your behalf. That's the first

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Speaker 11: and there's a lot more that we can do. But

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Speaker 11: I want to just wrap up on that question, following

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Speaker 11: up to US Congress Crockett's point about how we hold

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Speaker 11: one another accountable. Now, I've run some high stakes races

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Speaker 11: against non black opponents. We all know about the race

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Speaker 11: that congress Woman Crockett just went through. But Karri, you've

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Speaker 11: run state wide, Mayor Gillum, You've run statewide against non

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Speaker 11: black opponents. It's no secret that we get held to

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Speaker 11: a different standard. My whole thing is if you're going

569
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Speaker 11: to support somebody who's not from your community that doesn't

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Speaker 11: look like you. You make it clear to that person

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Speaker 11: that they understand the disparity and that they understand that

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Speaker 11: the candidates are held to different standards. Right, so when

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Speaker 11: it comes time for accountability, they have to have some

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Speaker 11: record or some history of showing that they've been showing

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Speaker 11: up to address those disparities and to address that because

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Speaker 11: we're not honest about those things. We're really not and

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Speaker 11: I'm gonna say it, we're not honest about the fact

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Speaker 11: that we get held to different standards. And obviously congress

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Speaker 11: Woman Crockett and congress Woman McIvers, they they are the

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Speaker 11: standard bearers for that disparity, unfortunately, but I think we

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Speaker 11: got to have more of those honest conversations.

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Speaker 6: That is so well.

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Speaker 3: So I have a question.

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Speaker 8: I think that oftentimes and we should we we litigate

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Speaker 8: what our party should do for us, and that's a

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Speaker 8: legitimate question. The question is should we have these demands?

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Speaker 8: The answer is yes. Then the follow up question is

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Speaker 8: what should those demands be? And we try to lay

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Speaker 8: those out because you know, I have We've all looked

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Speaker 8: at the research and black women, of course voted at

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Speaker 8: ninety three to ninety four percent for Kamala Harris, and

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Speaker 8: black men voted at eighty two, eighty three, eighty four

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Speaker 8: percent for Kamala Harris, So we're always there. So I

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Speaker 8: also think that this election coming up is probably one

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Speaker 8: of the most important elections of our generation. And we

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Speaker 8: say that all the time, right it feels like we

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Speaker 8: say that all the time. But I have not been

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Speaker 8: in spaces where people have been more hurt than they

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Speaker 8: are today. The pain that people are feeling right now,

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Speaker 8: the single mothers that are not only nurses but then

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Speaker 8: have to do door dash on the side, the teachers

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Speaker 8: that have to go and teach our kids and still

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Speaker 8: pick up part time job. I mean, trying to make

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Speaker 8: ends meet right now has become a gargantuan task. And

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Speaker 8: so I believe that I say all that to say,

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Speaker 8: and this is a question for Jasmine more particular, because

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Speaker 8: I think too much pressure and questions have been asked

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Speaker 8: about what is Jasmine Crockett going to do in this election?

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Speaker 8: My question to you is what does James tallerco have

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Speaker 8: to do that I pronounce his.

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Speaker 3: Name right, yes, what did James?

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Speaker 8: What does James Taller Rico have to do to get

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Speaker 8: Jasmine Crockett out? And get black voters out and transform

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Speaker 8: the politics of Texas.

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Speaker 9: So I'm I'm gonna be very, very honest. That's why

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Speaker 9: you know anything about me. You know that I have

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Speaker 9: always been unapologetically black. That does not mean that I

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Speaker 9: am anti anybody else, But Lord do I thank him

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Speaker 9: for making me a black woman.

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Speaker 4: And so so.

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Speaker 9: With that, so with that, I need I think y'all

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Speaker 9: need to understand the backgrounds. You see, I could have

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Speaker 9: gone back to the House. I could have figured out

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Speaker 9: a way to get back to the House. I would

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Speaker 9: have been elected. I had the best reelection numbers of

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Speaker 9: any incumbent that was challenged in the state of Texas,

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Speaker 9: Democrat or Republican. I could have made it back to

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Speaker 9: the House. But the House would have been comfortable. I

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Speaker 9: would have been one of four hundred and thirty five.

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Speaker 9: The reason that we don't have a lot of nice

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Speaker 9: things is because we have a raggedy Supreme Court, and

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Speaker 9: that came through the Senate. Okay, So if I say

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Speaker 9: that I'm a public servant who actually wants to make

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Speaker 9: a difference for the very same people that are the

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Speaker 9: reason that I show up every day the way that

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Speaker 9: I show up, then the challenge wasn't going back to

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Speaker 9: the House. The challenge was actually flipping the script in

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Speaker 9: the state that has more African Americans than any other

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Speaker 9: state and deciding that I would show up as one

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Speaker 9: of one hundred in the Senate so that I could

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Speaker 9: make a difference and use my background as a trained

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Speaker 9: lawyer to make sure that I was tearing apart any

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Speaker 9: single nominee that came before us and made sure that

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Speaker 9: I shut that down. But just because somebody is a

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Speaker 9: nominee as a Democrat, it does not necessarily mean that

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Speaker 9: they have black people's issues at the forefront. So I

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Speaker 9: just want to be clear about that. But my priority

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Speaker 9: has not changed whatsoever. So for me, I still want

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Speaker 9: to make sure that we have have a majority.

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Speaker 4: In the Senate. Texas.

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Speaker 9: Didn't feel like I was the one to make it happen.

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Speaker 9: So it may not happen in Texas, or it may happen,

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Speaker 9: But the calculation for me was increasing voter participations, specifically

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Speaker 9: amongst African Americans. And to be clear, while people want

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Speaker 9: to beat up on black people in Texas, black people

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Speaker 9: turned out at a rate of twenty percent, Anglos turned

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Speaker 9: out at a rate of seven percent in my primary

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Speaker 9: and over ninety percent, ninety three percent of black folk,

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Speaker 9: that is, black men and women voted for my candidacy.

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Speaker 9: So I want to be clear about something. I am

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Speaker 9: still focused on us. That is my main focus. So

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Speaker 9: that may run through Mississippi, where a black man is

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Speaker 9: now the nominee to become the next Senator in Mississippi.

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Speaker 9: It also runs through states where they are redrawing lines,

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Speaker 9: such as in Wisconsin with Menzela Barnes, where I anticipate

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Speaker 9: I am going to participate, or Stacy Plaskett, who is

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Speaker 9: learning for governor of the Virgin Islands. You see, I

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Speaker 9: am going to do everything that I can to make

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Speaker 9: sure that I have the right people in position to

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Speaker 9: make sure that we can minimize the harm specifically to

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Speaker 9: black people, not just in one state, but throughout the country.

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Speaker 4: So for me, I am gonna be working everywhere.

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Speaker 9: The best thing that I can do for James Tallerico

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Speaker 9: isn't me standing on a stage with him. It is

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Speaker 9: the fact that I endorse five candidates in the runoff

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Speaker 9: who all happen to be black men in the state

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Speaker 9: of Texas, and every single one of them won and

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Speaker 9: they're going on to November, meaning that they will pull

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Speaker 9: out more black people to vote. People keep trying to say, well,

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Speaker 9: Jasman has to go and hold his hand, GNA. I

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Speaker 9: don't and don't worry about my math and how it

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Speaker 9: works in my mind, because the reality is that if

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Speaker 9: you can give people more than one thing to vote for,

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Speaker 9: then you have a better chance of getting them out

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Speaker 9: to the polls. And honestly, some people just not gonna

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Speaker 9: be sold on certain people that.

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Speaker 4: Are running in this state of Texas.

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Speaker 9: So the best thing that I can do is take

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Speaker 9: down ballot candidates who no one's ever heard of and

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Speaker 9: do my best to uplift them and increase the voter

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Speaker 9: participation in a way that.

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Speaker 4: We did in Texas.

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Speaker 9: You see, a lot of haters got a lot of

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Speaker 9: things to say about me and my race and how

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Speaker 9: I ran it. But the reality is that there was

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Speaker 9: a lot of racist not a lot. It was racist.

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Speaker 9: It was a racist race. It is what it is, right.

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Speaker 9: But we live in America as y'all are celebrating two fifty. Okay,

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Speaker 9: we know what this country is. But let me tell

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Speaker 9: you the facts. There is no race that turned out

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Speaker 9: more people to vote ever in the state of Texas,

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Speaker 9: except for Barack and Hillary, did you hear me? Literally,

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Speaker 9: our Democratic nominee during a presidential year last term got

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Speaker 9: five hundred thousand votes. I got over double that, and

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Speaker 9: I still lost. So listen, I say this with all sincerity.

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Speaker 9: I am doing my part, but I also want you

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Speaker 9: all to recognize something that the senator said earlier. The

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Speaker 9: reality is that people hold me to a completely different standard.

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Speaker 9: The fact is we have never seen anybody quote unquote

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Speaker 9: be pressured to jump into a Senate race to help

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Speaker 9: out their opponent that beat them. Ever, this is the

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Speaker 9: first time we have ever seen this in this country,

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Speaker 9: and it just so happens that it ended up being

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Speaker 9: a high profile black woman. I am nobody's footstool, but

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Speaker 9: I believe, I believe in doing everything that I can

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Speaker 9: for the betterments, specifically not to the detriment of anybody else,

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Speaker 9: but specifically for black people, and.

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Speaker 4: I am committed to that. I will continue to do

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Speaker 4: that work.

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Speaker 1: And that's that on that. Okay, So we have calls

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Speaker 1: to action. We gotta be quick. So calls to action, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say mine, because I don't know if everybody's ready.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give y'all just a second. Jasmine raised an

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Speaker 1: excellent point about supporting Lamonica mc ivor.

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Speaker 5: In order to support the congresswomen.

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Speaker 1: In all of this, these very expensive litigation costs associated

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Speaker 1: with a trial that she should not be facing. The

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Speaker 1: money has to go through her campaign, So I highly

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Speaker 1: encourage you all to donate that also, just in case

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland was filling blacker than normal. Merrick, if you're watching,

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Speaker 1: why don't you go ahead and get your firm to

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Speaker 1: donate because you ran.

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Speaker 5: Us through this friend.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so why don't you go ahead and do that

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Speaker 1: to your former attorney general. He can definitely support with

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Speaker 1: some pro bono services.

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Speaker 3: Royce, you're call to action.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So I'll reemphasize what I said earlier. Find out

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Speaker 11: who your representatives are. I know it sounds super basic.

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Speaker 11: And when we say go out and vote with I'm

741
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Speaker 11: talking hopefully to a bunch of voters right now, chronic voters.

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Speaker 11: But go out and tell all your other folks to

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Speaker 11: vote this No, this November election is going to be crucial.

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Speaker 11: It's already been said, probably one of the most constant,

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Speaker 11: quentcial elections in our lifetime. So if we don't show

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Speaker 11: up and take back this House and and and take

747
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Speaker 11: back this Senate, y'all, it's gonna be worse than it's

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Speaker 11: ever been. So please just get out there, do your part.

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Speaker 11: Find out who your elected officials are. I don't care,

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Speaker 11: from dog Catcher to us Senate, and just go out

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Speaker 11: there and vote. Do not give away your power because

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Speaker 11: choosing not to vote, while we understand the frustration and

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Speaker 11: the and and the disaffectiveness that exists, by giving away

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Speaker 11: your by by not by not voting your your you're

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Speaker 11: surrendering your power. So that's always my call to action,

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Speaker 11: very straightforward, Thank y'all.

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Speaker 10: And we're almost out of time, but I just want

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Speaker 10: to m.

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Speaker 3: Almost that things say zero Oh.

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Speaker 10: Okay, we were out of time, But I just want

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Speaker 10: to basically elaborate what my sister Jasmine said, Be transactional

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Speaker 10: with your vote, hold them accountable each way of the

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Speaker 10: time they're in office serving you, point blank period, and

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Speaker 10: understand that we are in a state of emergency.

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Speaker 6: Y'all.

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Speaker 5: This is not a joke.

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Speaker 10: If my store, he's not enough for you to show

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Speaker 10: how serious the moment is. It is serious. So be

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Speaker 10: transactional with your vote.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, mine is really quick.

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Speaker 8: I think that we need to One of the things

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Speaker 8: that I saw earlier today was Nicole Hannah Jones had

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Speaker 8: her daughter with her today, and I just thought that

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Speaker 8: was so powerful, because we need to make sure that

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Speaker 8: we're bringing young people into the fold. And you can't

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Speaker 8: tell them that people die for this right to vote,

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Speaker 8: because that don't necessarily work with them. There are a

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Speaker 8: lot of young people who are voters today. They didn't

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Speaker 8: They don't even really know who Barack Obama is. We

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Speaker 8: have to show them and we have to bring them

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Speaker 8: into the fold, and we have to meet them where

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Speaker 8: they are.

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Speaker 3: And so my challenge for all of you all is

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Speaker 3: to go out.

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Speaker 8: And grab a high schooler, a middle schooler, take them

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Speaker 8: through the civic process, show them why you vote, talk

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Speaker 8: to them about Jasmine Crockett, follow them on Instagram, Jasmine

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Speaker 8: and Lamonica and Royce.

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Speaker 3: Do the things necessary.

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Speaker 8: So that young people feel a part of the process

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Speaker 8: and we're meeting them where they are.

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Speaker 10: Wait, Bokard before you go, I got to shout out

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Speaker 10: my baby.

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Speaker 5: I can't my.

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Speaker 10: Baby is here. My nine year old is here. Zaya

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Speaker 10: with me? Break stand up.

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Speaker 3: But I was like old Jess.

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Speaker 9: I would just say that it's so important that as

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Speaker 9: you learn some piece of information and I hope that

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Speaker 9: you learn something today.

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Speaker 4: Raise your hand if you learn something today, Okay, praise God.

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Speaker 9: All right, So what I need you to do is

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Speaker 9: I am big on group chats. If you've ever heard

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Speaker 9: me talk, I'm always talking about y'all group chats because

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Speaker 9: it's the only place we can't infiltrate. I want you

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Speaker 9: to take one piece of information that you learned that

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Speaker 9: you did not know before you got here, and I

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Speaker 9: want you to put it in your sorority group chat,

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Speaker 9: your parent group chat, your family group chat, so that

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Speaker 9: you were sharing this information. Never assume or presume that

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Speaker 9: other people are just like so with it. I remember

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Speaker 9: when I was actually about to vote. I'm snitching on

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Speaker 9: one of my exes. He was a brother for all

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Speaker 9: of the bruhs that are here. But nevertheless I didn't know,

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Speaker 9: like I don't usually date people who don't vote. I'm

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Speaker 9: gonna just put it out there. Oh, I'm just putting

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Speaker 9: y'all in all my Yeah. Anyway, so long story short here.

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Speaker 9: It was the election is coming about, and he was like,

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Speaker 9: you know what, You're gonna be the first politician I

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Speaker 9: voted for.

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Speaker 5: Since Barack Obama. Y'all.

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Speaker 4: He is a whole like aerospace engineer. Like I never

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Speaker 4: in my mind wan No, he got high.

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Speaker 3: He wasn't no aerospace engineer.

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Speaker 8: He smoked good weed talking about he was an aerospace engineer.

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Speaker 5: We had a time.

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Speaker 4: We ain't got time.

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Speaker 9: I'm just saying, do not assume. Do not assume who

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Speaker 9: votes or who doesn't vote. That is the point that

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Speaker 9: I'm trying to make to y'all. There have been so

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Speaker 9: many unhoused people that have actually cast their votes for me.

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Speaker 9: So whatever you do, take whatever information you were learning

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Speaker 9: from today and otherwise, and make sure you're spreading gate

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Speaker 9: all around.

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Speaker 4: I can't believe you.

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Speaker 3: Vote, but smart, Yes.

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Speaker 5: That might be the name.

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Speaker 6: Of the show.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ox ask Bunny as hell. I just want to

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Speaker 1: do one quick shut out and I go. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to my brother Andrew Versus called a action to close

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Speaker 1: this out. Kristen Powell, please stand up, Please stand up,

843
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Speaker 1: says Black Census Project. If you haven't heard about it,

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Speaker 1: Black Futures Lab has a booth right over there. Please

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Speaker 1: take the Black Census Project. It's also important, Senator Royce

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Speaker 1: to know you're elected, but you also want to make

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Speaker 1: sure they know what you demand and desire, and you gillim.

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Speaker 7: I just want to double down on uh Monica mcgiver, y'all,

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Speaker 7: she's being federally prosecuted for doing her job. We got

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Speaker 7: Republicans and foes on the opposition who make it their

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Speaker 7: math to show us every kind of way in which

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Speaker 7: they can.

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Speaker 6: Take us out of the process.

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Speaker 7: They take us out of the process to an election

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Speaker 7: through a democratic primary.

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Speaker 6: They take us out of.

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Speaker 7: The process by changing the rules of the game in

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Speaker 7: the middle of the game to set us up for

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Speaker 7: the loss. They also take us out by taking otherwise

860
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Speaker 7: innocent people prosecuting them, whether they will or.

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Speaker 6: Losing that prosecution is at the point.

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Speaker 7: The point is to put you through the battle, make

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Speaker 7: it so plain that this place in this space is

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Speaker 7: not for you.

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Speaker 6: Let's prove them otherwise.

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Speaker 7: In the case of Monica Mcgiverraby, whatever you can do,

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Speaker 7: five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, twenty five dollars more,

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Speaker 7: please please please.

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Speaker 6: Put that resource behind her. She needs our help.

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Speaker 7: And we also got to show the other side that

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Speaker 7: we don't go down that easy, all right, We don't

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Speaker 7: go down that easy. So that's my call to action.

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Speaker 7: Let's throw it, throw our money where I'm out there.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to our Esteems panel. This is

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Speaker 1: Native Lampard.

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Speaker 12: Welcome home, y'all, Welcome home to the Native landing on

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Speaker 12: the podcast space, Tess.

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Speaker 3: And for greatness.

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Speaker 12: Sixty minutes is so hit, not too long for the

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Speaker 12: grave shit, high level combo politics.

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