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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: Welcome home, y'all. This is episode counted, episode sixty nine

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Speaker 1: of The Native Lampod, where we give it to you straight,

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Speaker 1: all the breakdowns you want in politics and culture, your

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Speaker 1: way right away. We are your hosts. Tiffany Cross, does

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Speaker 1: she go? Angela Ride? Does she go? And I'm Andrew

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Speaker 1: yelling what's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Friends, Hey across the nation?

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Speaker 4: What a week? What a week?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: What a week? A week?

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Speaker 6: Please tell me what your sweatshirt says?

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Speaker 7: My sweatshirt says his mama named him Golf of Mexico.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna call him Golf in Mexico.

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Speaker 1: What's you gonna say over that? Friend?

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Speaker 6: I am my ancestors' wildest dreams. Shout out to be Mike.

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Speaker 3: I love.

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Speaker 1: It is quite simple, quite simple paper first brought to

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Speaker 1: you by none other than the Collective Pack. We thank

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Speaker 1: our friends over there, que steph, what's up? What's up?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Y'all? There's so much to get to and through,

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Speaker 1: uh and the short amount of time that we have

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Speaker 1: a lot of to us. But before we get to it,

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Speaker 1: get to it, we just want to remind everybody to please,

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Speaker 1: to keep the audience growing, so please remember to do that. Angela, Tiffany,

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Speaker 1: what is on the list, y'all? There's a lot we

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Speaker 1: can cover, but what's on the top of your mind?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think we have to start out.

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Speaker 7: This week, the President gave a joint address to Congress.

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Speaker 7: I know a lot of people are saying state of

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Speaker 7: the Union, but Andrew, you're quick to correct us and only.

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Speaker 1: That is the state of the Union. When the president

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Speaker 1: gives a one year look.

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Speaker 6: Bad, save it for the segment.

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Speaker 1: No, I just wanted to quickly, that's all it is.

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Speaker 1: It's not that So this started with Reagan. When Reagan

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Speaker 1: first came in, he wanted to give an address at

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Speaker 1: the early part.

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Speaker 6: Save it for the segment.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that's right, just the rundown.

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Speaker 7: So I just want to Yeah, so for me, I

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Speaker 7: know that we want to get into that. It was

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Speaker 7: a lively event on Capitol Hill this week, and I

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Speaker 7: know that you guys will Angela in particular organize the

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Speaker 7: State of the People, which got great online response. So, Angela,

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Speaker 7: I know you want to talk about that.

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Speaker 6: I want to talk about State of the People, state

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Speaker 6: of all the people here in these United States.

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Speaker 1: And I'm in for both of these. I'm down, like

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Speaker 1: for flat tires. I am particularly feeling inspired about the

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Speaker 1: State of the People. I'm buoyed by it. And so

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Speaker 1: I want to get into some reflections on some very

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Speaker 1: specific remarks from specific presenters from that twenty four hour athon.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Angela for waking up and joining us today,

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Speaker 1: because I know it's been quite a few sleepless days

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Speaker 1: for you. So welcome home, Angela, Tiff, and welcome home

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Speaker 1: to you all. Let's get at it.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 7: So State of the Union's last joint Address. It's a

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Speaker 7: Andrew is going to keep us honest on calling it

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Speaker 7: what it is. But you know, I have to be honest.

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Speaker 7: I think you know there there was the joint address

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Speaker 7: that happened there this week. The Democrats you know, set

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Speaker 7: in the audience, some of them, and they held up signs.

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Speaker 7: You know, Elon Musk is a liar, protect medicaid, you

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Speaker 7: know what about federal workers.

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Speaker 4: I felt a bit.

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Speaker 7: Underwhelmed by that there are organizing calls happening all over

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Speaker 7: the country. But I have to be honest with you guys,

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Speaker 7: and I just feel a bit hopeless.

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Speaker 4: I just don't I don't know.

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Speaker 7: Oh Like, I definitely applaud especially you Angela, because you

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Speaker 7: so what do all these speeches and calls, like.

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Speaker 7: And even if it means nothing except to give people

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Speaker 7: to us. But I just wonder, like, what can we

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Speaker 7: many countries get to this point and then they turn around.

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Speaker 7: The closest thing in my reading canon I can think

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Speaker 7: a long time for our people to suffer. So congrats

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Speaker 7: on State of the People. But I have to be

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Speaker 1: For you, Angela, before you get before we go into

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Speaker 1: in more detailed state of the People, I would actually

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Speaker 1: love if we could play the cliff from Congresswoman Latifa,

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Speaker 1: our good friend who took Congressman Barbara Lee's seat in Congress.

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Speaker 1: Quite a pair of shoes to fill, but she's doing

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Speaker 1: her thing. But it speaks to what you talked about

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Speaker 1: just there at the tail an, Tiffany, This whole idea

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Speaker 1: its way back to its original place. Latific gates some

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Speaker 1: comments along those lines. I'd love for us to play

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Speaker 1: that and then out the other side, angel I got

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Speaker 1: a question for you.

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Speaker 8: I couldn't listen to someone who's trying to tear apart

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Speaker 8: the very structures that we have fought to build in

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Speaker 8: the last sixty years in this country.

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Speaker 3: I had to walk out.

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Speaker 8: It's my job to be in this building, but I

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Speaker 3: I'm not doing it.

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Speaker 2: Had you contemplated that, did you have a feeling that

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Speaker 3: I knew it, but my mother said, listen.

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Speaker 8: My mother is from Malvern, Arkansas, and she told me

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Speaker 8: this morning, Latifa, eight hundred thousand people are expecting you

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Speaker 8: to do your job and at least go. No one

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Speaker 8: is supposed to kick you out of your house. So

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Speaker 8: I wasn't kicked out today. I left mid mid speech

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Speaker 8: very clear that we have work to do on the ground,

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Speaker 8: and factually, block by block, if we vote walk back block,

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Speaker 8: we can take back the house, stop this mad man,

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Speaker 8: and win the presidency.

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Speaker 3: It's that simple.

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Speaker 8: These folks don't care about laws, they don't care about

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Speaker 8: the judiciary.

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Speaker 3: We're facing a constitutional crisis.

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Speaker 8: But moreover, America is about to be sicker and poor,

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Speaker 8: and none of us are safe.

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Speaker 3: You know last thing I'll say on this.

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Speaker 8: You know, a few weeks into me being here, I'm

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Speaker 8: a new member of Congress. I was one of the

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Speaker 8: few people outside of Doe saying let us in and

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Speaker 8: talk to these folks who want to take apart funding

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Speaker 8: for HBCUs, want to take disabled services out of our

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Speaker 8: physical disabilities, want to talk to them. Not only did

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Speaker 8: they lock the doors, they sent Homeland security. You couldn't

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Speaker 8: Security officers with their hands on their guns. This is

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Speaker 8: not the republic that we have fought for. These are

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Speaker 8: dangerous times. This democracy is in hospice. Watch out and

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Speaker 8: be close and be clear. We have to organize and

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Speaker 8: folks have to run and went off this because we

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Speaker 8: intellectual beauty to have the small rights that we have.

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Speaker 8: My mother wasn't born in a democracy. Yours wasn't either

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Speaker 3: Literally they couldn't vote, Their grandmothers couldn't vote.

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Speaker 8: We are only two and a half generations past those times.

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Speaker 8: This thinly veiled democracy can be whipped away in a second.

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Speaker 1: And her comments powerful as they are. Also continue to

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Speaker 1: talk about examples of regimes where then they take power.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't find its way back to the hands of

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Speaker 1: the people and Angela. We talked on this show prior

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Speaker 1: to the joint address about what our expectations were or

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Speaker 1: and I know your experience is grounded in and juxtaposing

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Speaker 1: regular people's lives, which we'll get to, but I'm curious

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Speaker 6: Address well one I just I want to say to

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Speaker 6: State of the People was organized by the people for

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Speaker 6: the people. Every single panel was put together not just

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Speaker 6: people who want to see and create change. What we know,

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Speaker 6: based on what Representative Latifa Sima just shared, is that

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Speaker 6: you know, there are things, there are the powers that

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Speaker 6: be are working adamantly to make our lives more difficult

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Speaker 6: every single day, so we can watch it happen or

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Speaker 6: it's much more about resist or opposition than it is resistant. Andrew,

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Speaker 6: I think that those words are similar, but they are

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Speaker 6: different enough for us to lean into providing people in

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Speaker 6: an alternative way, providing people with solutions that we create.

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Speaker 6: You know, as we sit here talking about this, and

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Speaker 6: I want to get into the Republicans introducing a bill

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Speaker 6: to s I'm sure Congressman Greened, I know we can

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Speaker 6: get into that later. But I just think that what

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Speaker 6: be perceived versus reality. And if we can stay grounded

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Speaker 6: in reality and the hope that the talents, the skills

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Speaker 6: the ability to communicate, the ability to spread the word,

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Speaker 6: the ability to create different solutions exists within the people

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Speaker 6: will be good. Our sister joy Reid said yesterday there

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Speaker 6: was a marked difference between the people who were watching

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Speaker 6: the Joint Address, which we've been calling the State of

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Speaker 6: the Union. We'll talk about why we're doing that later,

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Speaker 6: the Joint Address versus the people who leaned in to

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Speaker 6: There's a huge difference in the response people who talking

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Speaker 6: about what are we about to do next? Like, it's

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Speaker 6: a complete difference for.

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Speaker 7: Those who don't know, though, can we just explain what

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Speaker 7: didn't explain it. I was the saying congrats on State

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Speaker 5: Angela? I'm gonna get on you later because I look crazy.

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Speaker 5: I haven't slen to like three days. But thank you.

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Speaker 5: when so many people say that black people we can't

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Speaker 5: come together, that we're so divided, and there was people

440
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Speaker 5: who was a part of this that may not agree

441
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Speaker 5: or see I to eye, and you know what, they

442
00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 5: put their differences aside, and this was the most beautiful

443
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Speaker 5: thing I have ever been a part of creating. And

444
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Speaker 5: so I just want to say thank you so much

445
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Speaker 5: for being in the center of that creation and allowing

446
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 5: I told Angela. I was like, hey, Angela, I want

447
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 5: to build this campaign, and she was like, I can't

448
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 5: support the way that I want to, but basically the

449
00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 5: way she wants to because she was at capacity.

450
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Speaker 6: But she was like, go for it.

451
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Speaker 5: And so I got some volunteers and I want to

452
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Speaker 5: use the end of my time to shout out the

453
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Speaker 5: people who volunteer, and we started working on this campaign

454
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 5: around CBC members not going to the congressional address. And

455
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Speaker 5: so then I get a call from Angela, but I'm

456
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Speaker 5: still in communication with her. I get car from her

457
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 5: and she's like, hey, I really think that we should

458
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Speaker 5: do this state of the State of the Union, but

459
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Speaker 5: do our own State of the Union. And I was like,

460
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Speaker 5: I agree, I agree, let's do it. And I'm like,

461
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Speaker 5: this is what I got. I already got some people

462
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Speaker 5: I can get the organizing. Angela have already had some

463
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Speaker 5: other people who I'm going to shout out to.

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Speaker 6: They the best.

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Speaker 5: They are the best, and they were who was going

466
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Speaker 5: to be able to get our technical aspects together. And

467
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Speaker 5: when I say, we pulled this off in forty eight hours,

468
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Speaker 5: forty eight hours, so all of that, like it's blowing

469
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Speaker 5: my mind the what we were able to do in

470
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Speaker 5: this small timeframe. Thank you Angela for bringing us together

471
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Speaker 5: and not caring and not having ego.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I also want to say these thank you too, because

474
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Speaker 5: sinceh'awnen gave me the time, I'm gonna use gu time.

475
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Speaker 5: But I really want to make other people feel seen

476
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Speaker 5: because there again, there's so many people behind the scenes

477
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Speaker 5: doing stuff and I need them to feel appreciated. So

478
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Speaker 5: first I want to say, it was such an honor to.

479
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Speaker 3: Work with Holly Holliday, Reverend Mark.

480
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Speaker 5: Thompson, Oh my god, be and here I'm gonna fight,

481
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 5: Holly Weeks and Ashley Allison. Wow, it was so amazing

482
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Speaker 5: to be able to work with them. When I said,

483
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 5: we were on calls one am, two am, three am,

484
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Speaker 5: like we became best friends during this time. They were

485
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Speaker 5: the driving force. Like really, all of us coming together

486
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Speaker 5: really carried this. So thank you, Thank you, thank you,

487
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Speaker 5: thank you, Thank you, Christopher's guy who designed the website,

488
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Speaker 5: Rachel nor Linger and Stephanie Young.

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Speaker 6: It was such like what the heck.

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Speaker 5: I can't even believe I got to work with them.

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Speaker 5: I'm just it's amaz, But thank you so much for

492
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Speaker 5: for the p R like really handling that. I also

493
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Speaker 5: want to say thank you to Evonnie Lewis and Chloe

494
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Speaker 5: Pusha for like all the graphics that you see. They

495
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Speaker 5: really blew that out out of the water. On the

496
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Speaker 5: leadership of volunteers from our PDP program to just interns

497
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Speaker 5: to fellows. So Crystal A, Sylvant, h Salvin, Jill Cartwright, Uh,

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Speaker 5: Nicole Thomas, Brie Cislo, Shoota, Brittany Scott, Zarry Scott, Shay Bryant,

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Speaker 5: Trisha Lestrade, Kenny Brown, Kyla Simone Vincent, Uh, oh my god,

500
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Speaker 5: Sierra Johnson who works over there with women for Black women.

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Speaker 6: I am so grateful.

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Speaker 5: I know that I was not probably not supposed to

503
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Speaker 5: take as much time, but I'm gonna make room. Angela

504
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 5: makes room for me, and I am going to make

505
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,120
Speaker 5: room for others, and I'm also going to make room

506
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Speaker 5: to make sure that they are acknowledged.

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Speaker 1: So thank you y'all.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate all of the love we've gotten for what

509
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Speaker 5: we were able to create, and I just love y'all.

510
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Speaker 6: And I got through that without getting emotional.

511
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Speaker 5: So thank you, guys, and welcome home, y'all.

512
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Speaker 6: Thank God for you Lolo that I call her our

513
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Speaker 6: Charles Berkley utility player. And that's not just for Native Lampire,

514
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Speaker 6: that's for the people so.

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Speaker 9: Well.

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Speaker 7: I you know, I have to say, I think, you know,

517
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Speaker 7: it's a lot of you know, feel good. But again,

518
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Speaker 7: I think a lot of people didn't even know that

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Speaker 7: the State of the Union slash Joint address was happening

520
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Speaker 7: last night. A lot of people did tune in the

521
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Speaker 7: State of the People, but there are a lot of

522
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Speaker 7: people who didn't even know State of the.

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Speaker 4: People was happening.

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Speaker 7: And I hear you, Angela when you talk about like

525
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Speaker 7: boom and looom for what's coming, but it's also not

526
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Speaker 7: what's coming, it's what's happening right now. People's lives are

527
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Speaker 7: being devastated right now. We saw a woman being carried

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Speaker 7: away by ice. She was her child's sole caregiver and

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Speaker 7: they were literally wheeling her child out, who had cancer

530
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Speaker 7: because they were deporting her and her daughter who was

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Speaker 7: born here. They were wheeling her out on a stretcher.

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Speaker 7: So I just want to honor what people are experiencing

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Speaker 7: right now. The federal workers who knew a month ago

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Speaker 7: how they were going to pay their mortgage, who don't

535
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Speaker 7: know how they're going to pay their mortgage today. I

536
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Speaker 7: just I think about that. But I hear the contrast

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Speaker 7: that you guys are pointing out, So the people who

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Speaker 7: watched State of the People and didn't watch the Joint Address,

539
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 7: who didn't watch the twenty four hour news networks, and

540
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Speaker 7: how they felt empowered. So that's why I'm saying there

541
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Speaker 7: is something about us feeling hopeful. I just don't know

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Speaker 7: that I feel it yet, but maybe I need to

543
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Speaker 7: hear some clipsand and Andrew can.

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Speaker 6: I just want to respond because this I feel like

545
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 6: this happens every week where there's so yeah, we're I'm

546
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Speaker 6: not saying that that that that the house is not

547
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Speaker 6: on fire. We keep going back to that Congressoman Gwynmore

548
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Speaker 6: and heard like timely remarks, this is not normal.

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Speaker 3: We're not having a normal session, mister Speaker.

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Speaker 1: The house is on fire. The house is on fire.

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Speaker 10: There's nothing legal or constitutional that is going on. We

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00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 10: have unelected billionaires running the country and this is not

553
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Speaker 10: a political graph for power.

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Speaker 3: It's a crime.

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Speaker 6: The whole country is on fire, and that's why we

556
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Speaker 6: would respond with a twenty four hour marathon that is

557
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Speaker 6: a protest. Twenty one hours of that was contextualizing all

558
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Speaker 6: of the fascist actions that we're seeing come out of

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Speaker 6: this White House, the nearly one hundred executive orders that

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Speaker 6: he signed, the defunding of government entities and programs that

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Speaker 6: we need, and the freezing of those funds, and the

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Speaker 6: complete ignoring of court orders. We are clear, but also

563
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Speaker 6: we have to hold on to something and for me

564
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 6: right now, that's hope. That's what the three hour Black

565
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Speaker 6: Leadership Summit was about. It's about convening people with new ideas,

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Speaker 6: old ideas, somewhere in between ideas, and figuring out how

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Speaker 6: we march forward. What I'm not about to sit here

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Speaker 6: and do is watch him take over and just roll over.

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Speaker 6: I can't do that. I might as well die if

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Speaker 6: I do that. So I'm going to fight with everything

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Speaker 6: in me. We are inviting people to fight. We have

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Speaker 6: State of the People, dot Media, we got a bunch

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Speaker 6: of other folks who are doing amazing work that we

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Speaker 6: heard about, including the target fast and what that really means.

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Speaker 6: There are so many actions for people to take. I

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Speaker 6: do not want people to feel hopeless only because they're

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Speaker 6: not aware. That's my only pushback, you know.

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Speaker 1: I respect all sides of this, particularly Tiffany what you

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Speaker 1: sort of high for us, which is the pain that

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Speaker 1: folks are going through who are living in the crisis

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Speaker 1: at this moment. But what I think the State of

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Speaker 1: the People helps us to do is one for those

583
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Speaker 1: who are going through the crisis very personally and quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: if you're not yet, just hold on. Based on the

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00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: cuts that have been announced by this administration, were all

586
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Speaker 1: about to be going through it. So as we think

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Speaker 1: about going through we have a choice to make. We

588
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: can be paralyzed by that situation and circumstance center out,

589
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: dazed and confused, wondering where the next meal, check and

590
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: so on and so forth is going to come from.

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Speaker 1: Or we can feel that, internalize it, but then transition

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Speaker 1: that thing into some real power, which is I completely get.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not even a reader of comments, but I

594
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Speaker 1: can read this room enough to know that there are

595
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Speaker 1: lots of people still out there saying what am I

596
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Speaker 1: supposed to do? What do we have to do about it?

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Speaker 1: And I guess I don't mean to be rude or

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Speaker 1: dismissive with this, but I just want to simply say,

599
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: at some point you gotta do something, and maybe doing

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00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: something for those individuals might be sitting in it. I

601
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: won't judge you, but that's a choice. Another choice could be,

602
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to get built up on

603
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: as much information knowledge, gain as much tools as I

604
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: could wear on my tool belt, and then some, and

605
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: then get to work. Now what does get to work

606
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: look like? Well, one, I want to reference you, and

607
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw to this here in a second some

608
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: actual skills and knowledge tools that I think can help

609
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: equip us. But I also want to say, it isn't

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00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: rocket science. What are you good at? What do you

611
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: enjoy doing? What's your talent that everybody tells you is

612
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: your talent? But then you shy away and demure from it.

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00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: This moment of crisis is requiring more of all of us.

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Speaker 1: If right now your situation is feeling too comfortable, or

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Speaker 1: perhaps your situation is feeling far too paralyzing for you,

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Speaker 1: I would suggest that you have to get out of

617
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Speaker 1: the paralyzed feeling, and we got to get out of

618
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Speaker 1: the positions of comfort, because this isn't a time for

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Speaker 1: comfort right now in America. It just isn't. Democracy requires

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Speaker 1: something of us, It requires an action, a step, or

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Speaker 1: do something. So being paralyzed is a choice in it.

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Speaker 1: It is something. However, I would suggest our time, our energy,

623
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: yours and mind is going to be better spent getting

624
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Speaker 1: to work doing the thing that you have as a

625
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: skill set that could be leveraged for this moment to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, organize people, make some shirts, some church fans,

627
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Speaker 1: knock on some doors, send some text messages, host a

628
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: ramathon yourself, set up your own neighborhood, community, state, local

629
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Speaker 1: media or takathon where y'all are talking about and breaking

630
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Speaker 1: down the issues that are confronting your community right where

631
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: you live. Democracy doesn't begin an in at Donald Trump.

632
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: In fact, democracy begins and ends with each and every

633
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Speaker 1: one of us. And if we see the ground, which

634
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Speaker 1: you know, looking at this state update given by the

635
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Speaker 1: President of the Joint Session, all those members of Congress

636
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: should have held up signs that simply said surrender, because

637
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: we would not be in a constitutional crisis if the

638
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: legislative branch were willing to do is job. All I'm

639
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: simply saying is the answer isn't that complicated. We can

640
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: keep asking the question if it makes you feel good,

641
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Speaker 1: but the answer is coming through clear to me, and

642
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: that is you have a choice to stay paralyzed or

643
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Speaker 1: to do some shit.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's a word, but let me just say, Andrew,

645
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Speaker 7: I think a part of the challenge is we have

646
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Speaker 7: to give some people something to believe in, which takes

647
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Speaker 7: me back to hope. If people were participating in this

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Speaker 7: conversation or others and you walk away and you felt hopeful,

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Speaker 7: that is is a start. I don't want to discount

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Speaker 7: that ever. But if you're saying, like, you know, organize

651
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Speaker 7: your own thing, and you feel like organized for what?

652
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Speaker 7: Like what am I even trying to hold on to

653
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Speaker 7: or preserve democracy?

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Speaker 4: But preserve democracy for what? This democracy ain't never served me,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 7: And and there are people who really believe that. That's

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Speaker 7: why there are so many people who didn't even know

658
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Speaker 7: this thing happened this week.

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Speaker 1: Well, I just think people vote.

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Speaker 6: We have if there's another election, and I think that

661
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Speaker 6: what we have to remember, and I'm so grateful we

662
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Speaker 6: talked about Joy a lot today, but I am grateful

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Speaker 6: for Joy for saying to me recently, Like, we keep

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Speaker 6: talking about, to Tip's point, preserving democracy, and we have

665
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Speaker 6: people among us who are like, what is that? What

666
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Speaker 6: actually is democracy? Well, we should start breaking that down.

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Speaker 6: Democracy ideally is the understanding that there's a system that

668
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Speaker 6: you're a part of and that every voice and vote matters.

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Speaker 6: Democracy is a thing that when you pay into it,

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Speaker 6: you get something out of it. There is a return

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Speaker 6: on your investment. When you, as a taxpayer pay for

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Speaker 6: public schools, you get good quality schools. When you, as

673
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 6: a taxpayer pay for hospitals, you get good quality health care.

674
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 6: When you, as a taxpayer, pay for any service that

675
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Speaker 6: this government is supposed to offer you, it serves you

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Speaker 6: back for veterans, for kids, for poor people, for people

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Speaker 6: of color who have been disenfranchised. That is the type

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Speaker 6: of democracy that we hope for. It is also a

679
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Speaker 6: democracy that we've yet to see. What I know is

680
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Speaker 6: if we surrender in this moment, we don't surrender to democracy.

681
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Speaker 6: We surrender to a fascist regime. And that is the point.

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Speaker 6: So when we get to the point where we're like,

683
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Speaker 6: well what for what? Because when I'm not somebody who

684
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Speaker 6: can say this hasn't knocked in my front door yet

685
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,479
Speaker 6: it has. Again. The hospital where my mom is getting

686
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Speaker 6: chemotherapy right now has had its cancer research funding hit,

687
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Speaker 6: so I know. So I'm asking people to tap into

688
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Speaker 6: the idea of democracy, tap into the idea of your harm.

689
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Speaker 6: If it's been a harm that you've experienced long before

690
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 6: this administration, what is the harm that you need cured?

691
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 6: What is the problem that you need solved? That is

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Speaker 6: where you lean in. You may not have all the

693
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Speaker 6: answers when we started this thing on Friday night, we

694
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Speaker 6: didn't have all the answers. We still don't. There are

695
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Speaker 6: people in my text messages right now saying, now what

696
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Speaker 6: and you know what. I don't goddamn know what.

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Speaker 3: But what I do know.

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Speaker 6: What I do know is it's one foot in front

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Speaker 6: of the other. And I do know right now more

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Speaker 6: than ever ever, that I am not alone, and that

701
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Speaker 6: to me is enough. That to me is enough to

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Speaker 6: keep moving forward. No, we cannot just keep talking. Yes,

703
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Speaker 6: we absolutely have to act, and it starts with defending

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Speaker 6: people who had the courage to say something in the

705
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Speaker 6: face of fascism. When Donald Trump did this joint address,

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Speaker 6: like Congressman Al Green confronting him on Medicaid. That are

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Speaker 6: the Those are the kinds of things that we need

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Speaker 6: to have happen. We should not let this man lie

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Speaker 6: up us. We should not let this man continue to

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Speaker 6: destroy the programs that we need for our survival in

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Speaker 6: this country. Those are the kinds of things that we've

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Speaker 6: got to do.

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Speaker 3: Can we see that?

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Speaker 1: I want to say that I don't think that we will. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say I don't think that we

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Speaker 1: have seen I know we haven't seen the fruits that

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Speaker 1: fall from the tree of democracy in their fullest form.

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Speaker 1: I know we haven't seen it. So your point around,

719
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Speaker 1: save democracy for what and for whom? Right now? All right?

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Speaker 1: We may not get to that big picture with you.

721
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Speaker 1: So maybe the big picture in this moment is what

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Speaker 1: do I need to do to stop them from harming

723
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Speaker 1: me right now? To stop them from doing damage to

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Speaker 1: me right now? And then the second thing is, and

725
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Speaker 1: I should have said this previously, you absolutely should not

726
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Speaker 1: get to work unless you know what the hell it

727
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Speaker 1: is you are fighting for. So the first thing, and

728
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Speaker 1: I think we'll learn this through movement building, and I

729
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Speaker 1: want to quickly throw to Monday every other Monday, starting

730
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Speaker 1: this upcoming Monday, join me for our lives, because we're

731
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Speaker 1: about to do a series on organizing. I know that

732
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Speaker 1: this is boring because it doesn't flash in the pan. Nope,

733
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Speaker 1: I want to be clear about it. I know that

734
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Speaker 1: this is boring because it isn't a flash in the pan.

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Speaker 1: It isn't a little video to throw to. But what

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Speaker 1: this is is the hard work of democracy. And guess what.

737
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Speaker 1: It ain't sexy all the time, it ain't cute all

738
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Speaker 1: the way, and everybody won't know what you're doing all

739
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Speaker 1: the way, every step along the path, But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: make it any less necessary to do those things. So

741
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Speaker 1: first with organizing is decide what it is that we're

742
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Speaker 1: fighting for, and then feel a way to plug in

743
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Speaker 1: and fight for that thing in a way that's consequential. Angela,

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Speaker 1: you brought up the honorable representative from the Gray State

745
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Speaker 1: of Texas, Agreen I believe, I don't know his district number,

746
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Speaker 1: but from the Gray State of Texas, who who took

747
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Speaker 1: up the armor of resilience stood up to tell a

748
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Speaker 1: fascist who thinks he's a king, that no kings live

749
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Speaker 1: here and he has no mandate and y'all, let's take

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Speaker 1: a look at what happened as a result of.

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Speaker 6: And it's the ninth district. Why are we were for

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Speaker 6: that clip to row?

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Speaker 1: Likewise small business optimism. So it's single largest one month

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Speaker 1: game ever recorded, a forty one point jump.

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Speaker 11: Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in

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Speaker 11: the House and to cease any further disruptions. That's your warning.

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Speaker 11: Members are engaging in wilful and continuing breach of the quorum,

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Speaker 11: and the Chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at

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Speaker 11: arms to restore order to the joint session. Mister Green,

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Speaker 11: take your seat. Take your seat, sir, take your seat.

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Speaker 11: Finding the members continue to engage in willful and concerted

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Speaker 11: disruption or proper decorum, the Chair now directs a sergeant

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Speaker 11: at arms to restore order.

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Speaker 1: Remove this gentleman from the chamber. That hurts me. I

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Speaker 1: think that's probably why I wanted to see you stop,

766
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Speaker 1: because I kept having flashes of the bullies in the

767
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Speaker 1: schoolhouse doorway. And I'm really angry at that clip because

768
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Speaker 1: I averted my eyes from it before in real time

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Speaker 1: because of the tempied, shyness, cowardice of the Democrats sitting

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Speaker 1: next to him around him, behind him, along his walk

771
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Speaker 1: as he is heckled by his other side colleagues and

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Speaker 1: the US House of Representatives JD. Vance and his small

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Speaker 1: man bullying disposition and attitude.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: We know that guy from high school. We know him

776
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Speaker 1: from middle school. We played with him in the school yard.

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Speaker 1: We know that character. He is imminently weak, right, attempting

778
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Speaker 1: to play like he's got strength. I'm mad about that

779
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Speaker 1: clip because had I been orchestrating a genuine, authentic moment

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Speaker 1: of resistance, he would have exited that chamber locked arms

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Speaker 1: with the other two hundred plus members of the other

782
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Speaker 1: side of that house who called themselves the opposition. Instead,

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Speaker 1: he was escorted alone in his full power and strength.

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Speaker 1: I respect it, but shame shame.

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Speaker 7: I you know, just a lot of seriousness happening, and

786
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Speaker 7: I just want to offer a brief moment of levity

787
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Speaker 7: because I don't think he would mind me sharing this.

788
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Speaker 7: But our good friend Michael Harriet texted us last night

789
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Speaker 7: and said, man, if I get thrown off the club

790
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Speaker 7: and y'all stayed behind, it's.

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Speaker 4: Like, yes, precisely.

792
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Speaker 1: I was honestly.

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Speaker 7: Disgusted watching what happened last night with the Democrats. But

794
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Speaker 7: I wasn't just discussed with what happened with the Democrats,

795
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Speaker 7: because I, like I said, I'm not a party person.

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Speaker 7: I was disgusted with what happened across media because the

797
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Speaker 7: media displayed to you nothing really, you know, they they

798
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Speaker 7: treated this in entire address like it was normal. They had,

799
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Speaker 7: you know, Trump people say this thing, and somebody else,

800
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Speaker 7: you know, the opposition, say this, and it was they

801
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Speaker 7: were engaged in debate, when the reality is there were

802
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Speaker 7: people who walked out, there were members of Congress who

803
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Speaker 7: left that chamber. There was a movement of resistance. It's

804
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Speaker 7: just that, for whatever reason, across the board, the media

805
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 7: has capitulated. I would imagine had our sister Joy Reid

806
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Speaker 7: still had her show, had she been a part of

807
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Speaker 7: the coverage, that you would have seen that resistance in

808
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Speaker 7: real time. She would have referenced just FYI, there are

809
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Speaker 7: people exiting the chamber in real time, which is why

810
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 7: journalism matters, which is why actual reporting matters. So if

811
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 7: you get your wish, I get my wish. Oh yes,

812
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Speaker 7: because we have we have a clip of uh of joy.

813
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Speaker 7: Well let's roll that clip.

814
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Speaker 1: Well, no, not a joy, but of the real time

815
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Speaker 1: let's pay that which.

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Speaker 6: Is and when we come back from this, I want

817
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Speaker 6: to reference the censure that's been dropped introduced on the how,

818
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Speaker 6: of course.

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Speaker 12: We cannot normalize this. This man has no respect for Congress.

820
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Speaker 12: He does not respect us as a co equal branch

821
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Speaker 12: of government. He has contempt for the American people. He

822
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Speaker 12: pardoned January sixers, who desecrated the very well that we

823
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Speaker 12: are in today for this joint Address of Congress or

824
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Speaker 12: State of the Union. So I don't need to be

825
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Speaker 12: there for a maga pep rally listening to lies and propaganda.

826
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Speaker 3: Hateful rhetoric, and even more hateful and harmful policies.

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Speaker 12: If he has contempt for the American people, I'm going

828
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Speaker 12: to stand in solidarity with the American people. And that

829
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Speaker 12: is why I walked out in protest at nine point forty.

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Speaker 12: These boots were definitely made for walking. And again I

831
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Speaker 12: wanted to bring visibility to the story of the federal

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Speaker 12: worker from my district who was fired unlawfully, unjustly, uh

833
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Speaker 12: and and not only is disrupting her life and livelihood,

834
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Speaker 12: but it's a disservice to the people that she serves

835
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Speaker 12: every day.

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Speaker 13: Here was the general consensus is that. Number One, this

837
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Speaker 13: isn't a normal address. This isn't a normal time where

838
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Speaker 13: you stand up when the president walks in, where you

839
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Speaker 13: have that kind of decorum, because number one, he's never

840
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Speaker 13: shown that to us, or the American people or any people.

841
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Speaker 13: He's never shown that to black people. And so we

842
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Speaker 13: walked in there, many of us, with a plan of

843
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Speaker 13: what to do. If you've seen the videos, you've seen

844
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Speaker 13: people with signs holding up signs. I hold up a

845
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Speaker 13: sign that said Musk steals. Elon Musk has been tweeting

846
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Speaker 13: at me every other week. If I was the richest

847
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Speaker 13: man on earth, I wouldn't be tweeted at twenty's eight

848
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Speaker 13: year old Maxwell Frost.

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Speaker 3: But I'll be doing other things.

850
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Speaker 13: But I think there's power in occupying a space and

851
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Speaker 13: choosing yourself. Went to get up and leave and walk

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Speaker 13: out in the spirit of student protesters from the Civil

853
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Speaker 13: rights era, and that's why we decided to do it,

854
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Speaker 13: us in a group of mainly women from the Black

855
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Speaker 13: Caucus who helped lead us into that action.

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Speaker 14: You know me very well, and you know that I

857
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Speaker 14: was not about to put up with that bullshit that

858
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Speaker 14: he was going to talk about tonight. Angela you know

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Speaker 14: you've been out there in Los Angeles. I've worked with

860
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Speaker 14: gang members, the Grips, the Blood to everybody, I've never

861
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Speaker 14: encountered anybody like Trump. Trump is a person without a conscience.

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Speaker 14: He will lie at the drop of a hat, and

863
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Speaker 14: he knows that you knows that he's lying, but he

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Speaker 14: continues to lie.

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Speaker 4: Max is an og just like Al Green. I follow

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Speaker 4: their lead.

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Speaker 15: I thank God for them, I really do, especially in

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Speaker 15: this time. You know, as one of the younger members

869
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Speaker 15: in the Congress, it is so important to have people

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Speaker 15: that are always going to give us a sobering message

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Speaker 15: about the moment that we're in.

872
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Speaker 4: And as y'all just heard, she did not hold back.

873
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 16: She gonna call that.

874
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 4: Motherfucker what he is at all times.

875
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 15: And so and I'm here for you. What y'all don't

876
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 15: know is we both from Saint Louis. Listen, we're from

877
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 15: the show me state. Okay, this is what you get

878
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 15: out of Saint Louis.

879
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 9: To all of you on this line, I want to

880
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,319
Speaker 9: say I needed to get on here to be refueled,

881
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 9: and I think in this moment it is going to

882
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 9: require each of us to recognize what can I do

883
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 9: in this moment, and so I just want to thank

884
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 9: to the.

885
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,320
Speaker 3: Collective, to everybody who helped us get to this place.

886
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 9: Now the real work begins, and as was said, they're

887
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 9: using words like scrub to scrub our history, to scrub

888
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,959
Speaker 9: us out of jobs, even that who are one third

889
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 9: of the workforce, they don't care.

890
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 6: What I think is so powerful. And again do you

891
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 6: guys can call me on my bias here, but I

892
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 6: gotta tell you what's so powerful to me about this

893
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 6: is there are a lot of folks who who Jasmine leads.

894
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 6: Jasmine is my leader. Okay, yeah, but Jasmine got her

895
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 6: leadership from watching folks like Maxine Waters not stand for nothing,

896
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 6: not take no ish like and she was so clear

897
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 6: about it yesterday and I just loved that moment between

898
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 6: the two of them. It was longer than that. I

899
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 6: hope folks get to go back and watch, but it

900
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 6: was incredible to see them. The thing that I want

901
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 6: to point out too, as we talk about mister Green,

902
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 6: you guys were mentioning that you felt like it was

903
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 6: cowardice on behalf of the other members that let him

904
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 6: get walked out. They actually really had a robust strategy.

905
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 6: Maxwell goes into all of the considerations that at play

906
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 6: when he addressed the state of of the people in

907
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 6: the Black Leadership Summit. They talked about whether or not

908
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 6: to go because if they didn't go at the beginning,

909
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 6: white staffers would fill their seats. They talked about the

910
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 6: importance of him having to face black people. Even when

911
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 6: you hear Lisa Blunt Rochester, which I know will be

912
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 6: played in this show, all of the rationale that went

913
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 6: into that. What I think is important is that there

914
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 6: are some people that did something different, because now Dan Neuhouse,

915
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 6: who is a representative from my home state in Washington,

916
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 6: has taken it upon himself to introduce a censure resolution

917
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 6: against Congressman Green. What it means to be censured in

918
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 6: the House Chamber? The walk of shame that mister Green

919
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 6: should not have walked yesterday. That should have been Donald

920
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 6: Trump's walk of shame because he was lying to the

921
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 6: American people for over an hour, but he instead had

922
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 6: to be escorted out by law enforcement. Two people who

923
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 6: look like him in fact, but mostly white sergeant at

924
00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 6: arms officials walked out of the chamber. Has to be

925
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 6: censured in the will of the Congress. What it means

926
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 6: to be censured. And this is a It's in the constitution,

927
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 6: is that the member of Congress has to stand before

928
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 6: the body and be reprimanded for taking an action that

929
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 6: is contrary to the House rules. So and it could

930
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 6: be something else, it could be a crime. There have

931
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 6: been twenty seven members of Congress censured in history. Al

932
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 6: Green would be censured. And you guys know who wouldn't

933
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 6: be because they expect this vote to pass tomorrow when

934
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 6: it comes up on the House floor. You know who

935
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 6: wasn't censured. Joe Wilson standing up. If you're the American

936
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 6: people before Barack Obama State of the Union address addressing Obamacare,

937
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 6: addressing the Affordable Care Act, he points to Barack Obama

938
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 6: and yells, you lie, Joe Wilson was merely reprimanded. Congressman

939
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 6: Green should not be reprimanded, censured, or expelled for telling

940
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 6: the American people the truth. There are eight hundred eight

941
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 6: hundred billion dollars in Medicaid that is going to be

942
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 6: cut under the administration. That's what he's pointing out. What

943
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 6: do if he refuse it? Refuses, I suspect that this

944
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 6: will be escalated and they will want to expel him

945
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 6: from the House of Representatives.

946
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,879
Speaker 1: It definitely said in the post comments that I'll take

947
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: whatever the reprimand is because the harm that's coming toward people,

948
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: the people I care about with this Medicaid cut, they're

949
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 1: worth it, by and large, is what he said. My

950
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: embarrassment was if you looked at the frame of the

951
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: Democrats who were seated next to him and around him,

952
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:34,959
Speaker 1: nearly every one of them averted their eyes, never looked

953
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: at the congressman. They looked down, they looked around, they

954
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: looked up at the speaker's rostrum. They did not look

955
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: at their colleague who was being escorted forcibly removed because

956
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:51,240
Speaker 1: it wasn't by choice from the chamber for a stating effect.

957
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,439
Speaker 1: I get the korum, but I'm just saying the best

958
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: laid priens of protests, I understand it, but sometimes a

959
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:03,439
Speaker 1: movement so big happens so cataclysmic it shadows everything else

960
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: around it. And in those movements, it's go time. That's

961
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: what I mean. What happened with those other members, totally

962
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: appreciate it. With the other members who we've just showcased

963
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: on this forum did by way of actor protests. I think,

964
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: by and large, the Democrats need a family meeting, and

965
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,880
Speaker 1: they need to decide if they are serious about what

966
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: it means to be the opposition party, because disparate, disconnected

967
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: forms of resistance or counter quite frankly, don't break through

968
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: to illuminate for the American people that there is a

969
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: strong enough fist coming together to punch.

970
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 4: Back, honestly, because when you I mean amongst them.

971
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 3: No, I know what you mean.

972
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying amongst them. I don't know if

973
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 7: that's the thing, because them ain't us. And I feel

974
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 7: like even if you put the entire party in room,

975
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 7: when you have Congresswoman slot Can given the response who

976
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 7: it has been an opponent of DEEI, who has not

977
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 7: been supportive of progressive policies that support people of color,

978
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 7: it sends a message.

979
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 4: And so I don't know if you put.

980
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 7: This quote unquote big tent party in one room, because

981
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 7: the message I'm getting from them is, look, we try

982
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 7: to mess around with y'all black folks, We try to

983
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 7: mess around with the LGBTQ community, and that didn't work

984
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 7: for us. So we're gonna go back and try to

985
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:30,879
Speaker 7: convince these white folks who we have not gotten since

986
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 7: Lyndon Johnson since nineteen sixty five. We going to go

987
00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 7: back and try to appeal to them and try to

988
00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 7: seduce them to this party, and they keep getting the

989
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 7: wrong message. So I don't know that a family meeting matters.

990
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 7: I don't know that holding up paddles in the air matter.

991
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 7: I think if I'm a person who's being crushed by

992
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 7: the weight of a maga fascist system, I don't give

993
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 7: a damn about your paddles. And then even our legit

994
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 7: did not know what is the consequence for refusing censure.

995
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 7: But I'm looking at the people who were expelled from

996
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 7: Congress in recent history. There's been other people, but in

997
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 7: recent history, we're talking about James Traffiicant. I'm old enough

998
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 7: to remember. I was at CNN at the time James

999
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 7: Traffiicant was expelled.

1000
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: He was a.

1001
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 7: Tricky Okay, he was serial tricky, like convicted of bribery, conspiracy.

1002
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 7: And then the other person is this clown George Santos.

1003
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 3: Also he's over.

1004
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 4: George Santos is a Republican and if you all can

1005
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 4: google him, but as.

1006
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 6: The president, but the president somehow can command the attention

1007
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,239
Speaker 6: of the entire Congress and do a joint address and

1008
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:38,760
Speaker 6: not have to be censured, expelled and removed and nothing.

1009
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 6: I'm clear about the contrast. But to Andrew's point, the

1010
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 6: family meeting is to make let people know what time

1011
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 6: it is. There were more than twenty members of the

1012
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 6: Congressional Black Hawkers that were with State of the People yesterday.

1013
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 3: They know what time is.

1014
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 6: They got to go deliver the message to these white members,

1015
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 6: including Senators Slack and who you referenced to, if they

1016
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 6: want to go, be Dixie Kratz. We ain't about to

1017
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 6: be part of. This has to be the message. It's okay.

1018
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 9: I want.

1019
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: My hope is.

1020
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 6: Money. Can we do that?

1021
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 7: Because Lord have mercy? I mean, sorry, Andrew, sorry, I'm My.

1022
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: Hope is that those twenty members will be the tip

1023
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: of the spear or the kind of about face that

1024
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 1: is required. Your protest cannot be calibrated to what is

1025
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: acceptable to the opposition. Your protests must be calibrated to

1026
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: the scale of the threat that you are confronting. I'm

1027
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: not mad. I understand people are feeling and reaching into

1028
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: the darkness trying to find what is the best way

1029
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: in which to do this thing. This is a time

1030
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: to check in with your conscience, your heart, your your backbone,

1031
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: and your people, the ones that elected you there will

1032
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:58,800
Speaker 1: represent them that that that ought to dictate them what

1033
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: it is that you do. But this, this right now,

1034
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: right here, is not gonna get it. It ain't gonna

1035
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:05,719
Speaker 1: get it.

1036
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 6: And that's the thing. I just want us to be clear.

1037
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 6: Like you, guys, I want to say on this show,

1038
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,439
Speaker 6: Congressman Al Green, you are a champion. You are a hero.

1039
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 6: I've been mad at you waving that cane. I'm so

1040
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 6: glad you waved that kne yesterday like it was. It

1041
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 6: was a necessary prop, especially when the props that have

1042
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 6: been making their way around the White House are things

1043
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 6: like I'm gonna say, Congressman Reverend Jamal Harrison Harrison Bryant's

1044
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:38,240
Speaker 6: head right, like you waving that cane to save medicaid.

1045
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 6: You the people's champ, and the people need to recognize it.

1046
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 6: Your bravery is noted, your courage is seen. And I

1047
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 6: know that you're having to balance this with the loss

1048
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 6: of your friend, Congressman Sylvester Turner, who is also the

1049
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 6: mayor of Houston. Of course, he just passed away hours

1050
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 6: after the State of the Union address. Yes, he's not

1051
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 6: been in Congress. But since January, so there's a lot

1052
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 6: that people are having to balance their personal lives. What's

1053
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 6: happening nationally, what's happening internationally, And what we know is

1054
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 6: that this moment requires all of us to do something different.

1055
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 6: If it's abnormal, then we've got to use abnormal strength.

1056
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 6: We've got to find abnormal energy, we've got to create

1057
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 6: abnormal coalitions, we got to relieve ourselves of abnormal grudges.

1058
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 6: We've got work to do, and it's going to require

1059
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 6: all of our hands.

1060
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: Well example this for us. You talked about this target

1061
00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: campaign illuminate for our listeners, what shape is that taken?

1062
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of people are probably under

1063
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: the illusion it's just me deciding not to or two.

1064
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: But is it much deeper campaign than that?

1065
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:44,040
Speaker 6: Yes, you know. First I want to shout out Nina Turner.

1066
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 6: I want to shout out to Mika Mallory, Angelo Pinto,

1067
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 6: all of Untel Freedom, and Reverend Jamal Bryant. The work

1068
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 6: that is going into this target targetfast dot org campaign

1069
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 6: is major. I was a skeptic at the beginning. I

1070
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 6: happen to join a call with faith leaders just this

1071
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 6: weekend talking to them about our twenty four hour State

1072
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 6: of the People, and on that call, I learned and

1073
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 6: you'll also learn by going to targetfast dot org all

1074
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 6: of the really strategic pillars around this campaign. One of

1075
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 6: my favorite is the fact that there are more than

1076
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 6: seventeen retail shops Target shops on twi's traditionally white institution

1077
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 6: college campuses throughout the country. Jamal is calling for ten

1078
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 6: of those stores to be put on HBCU campuses and

1079
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 6: partnerships with those business schools that would be major. Since

1080
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 6: this idea of this fast has started, there are a

1081
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 6: number of things that have changed for Target. I just

1082
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 6: want to point out one hundred thousand people have signed

1083
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 6: on to that petition that this is actually getting it

1084
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 6: start on Ash Wednesday. Sorry this week, it got it

1085
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 6: start on Ash Wednesday. It is a forty day fast.

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Speaker 6: But even before that forty day fast, Target stock has

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Speaker 6: dropped more than thirteen percent in a month and the

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Speaker 6: company is now facing this forty day fast. That is

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Speaker 6: from a Fox five News report, Target's web traffic was

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Speaker 6: down to four point seven million, down from four point

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Speaker 6: eight million, just in a week's time. And you're starting

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Speaker 6: to see this across the board with Walmart and Amazon

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Speaker 6: as well. Everybody has to play their part. It's not

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Speaker 6: just Donald Trump who's at fault. It is the private sector,

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Speaker 6: everybody that's talking about rolling rolling back DEI initiatives when

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Speaker 6: we know that's actually our civil rights it's actually compromising

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Speaker 6: equal protection under the law, which is the fourteenth Amendment.

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Speaker 6: That has to not just be called out. There need

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Speaker 6: to be economic consequences. Nothing new under the sun here, folks.

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Speaker 6: That's a civil rights movement tactic. We need to adopt it,

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Speaker 6: as we would say back in the day, with the quickness.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 13: Well come, well come, well come, well come, well come welcome.

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Speaker 7: Okay, So you guys, I, as you know, you're residence

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Speaker 7: sports experts. I'm super excited about our girl. She's a

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Speaker 7: machete So if you follow us, you already know she's

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Speaker 7: our girl, Jamil Hill. And she actually hosts a podcast

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Speaker 7: on Reason Chorics, uh with Reason Choice Media, I should say,

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Speaker 7: on the same network as us.

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Speaker 4: So she's our audio neighbor.

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Speaker 7: And she actually has a really good guest on her

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Speaker 7: podcast Politics and you can imagine that is sports and

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Speaker 7: politics for Combo, which is right up her alley. And

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Speaker 7: she has Eton Thomas, who's a former NBA player Andrew

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Speaker 7: and Angeloi may not know that, uh, and he has

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Speaker 7: a book out. He's the author of Police Brutality and

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Speaker 7: White Supremacy, The Fight against American Traditions.

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Speaker 4: But honestly, this is just one great guest.

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Speaker 7: All of her conversations, all of her guests are really good,

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Speaker 7: and I just feel I honestly, I feel privileged because

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Speaker 7: I get to have access to her insight, to her

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Speaker 7: brilliance anytime I want as to you guys, and I

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Speaker 7: just think it's awesome that the audience can have access

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Speaker 7: to her as well. I love her podcasts, I love

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Speaker 7: her takes, I love her insight, I love her writing.

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Speaker 7: I love all things Jamail Hill. So you guys be

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Speaker 7: sure to check Outspolitics. Okay, So for my I'll go

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Speaker 7: first for CTA. Since I just gushed all over Jamil.

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Speaker 7: I know that we talked a lot about the Joint

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Speaker 7: Address this week, but for the many of you who

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Speaker 7: may not have known that was happening, I hope you'll

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Speaker 7: watch State of the People. I do want to give

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Speaker 7: my call to action this week, and just as we

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Speaker 7: talk about the actual state of this Union, the state

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Speaker 7: of the United States of America. I want us to

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Speaker 7: always remember that there are people who are being punished

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Speaker 7: a very unforgiving criminal justice system happening right now, And

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Speaker 7: this is a microcosm of something happening in New York

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Speaker 7: right now. More than a thousand prison guards have gone

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Speaker 7: on strike. The reason they're strung Viking. They're trying to

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Speaker 7: petition the Democratic governor, their governor, Kathy Hochel. They're protesting

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Speaker 7: because they want legislators to repeal a law limiting the

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Speaker 7: use of solitary confinement, as well as improving their working conditions.

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Speaker 7: Now I am advocate for them improving their working conditions,

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Speaker 7: but if you want to limit the use of or

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Speaker 7: repeal a law limiting the use of solitary confinement, just

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Speaker 7: imagine being locked in a tiny room with a bright

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Speaker 7: light on you. You don't know what time of day

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Speaker 7: it is, whether it's day or night, and being locked

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Speaker 7: there for days, weeks, months, or even years at a time.

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Speaker 7: This is something that's happening all over the place since

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Speaker 7: the strike. In some prisons, inmates have been forced to

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Speaker 7: go without hot food and showers, and others they've missed

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Speaker 7: court dates, they have been without needed medicine services for

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Speaker 7: mental health care. The New York Times interviewed some of

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Speaker 7: these prisoners, staff members and National Guard soldiers who were

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Speaker 7: called in to keep order when the corrections officers walked

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Speaker 7: off the job. At least seven prisoners have died since

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Speaker 7: February seventeenth. There are more than seven thousand National Guard

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Speaker 7: members deployed to these prisons. They are unprepared for the task.

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Speaker 7: They're being forced to work without an understanding of their duties.

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Speaker 7: They were not provided with pepper spray or means to

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Speaker 7: protect themselves, and they are unable to leave the prisons.

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Speaker 7: During the employment, many have slept on gym floors, eaten

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Speaker 7: the same blow knee sandwiches served to the incarcerated. It

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Speaker 7: is something wrong with this country when we cannot recognize

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Speaker 7: the humanity of people who may have committed a crime,

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Speaker 7: who may have been unfairly and asymmetrically punished, particularly black

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Speaker 7: and brown people. And I just want to remember those

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Speaker 7: people as society moves on outside, I want you to

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Speaker 7: know that I am thinking of you inside. As people

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Speaker 7: are being deported, people are being detained, they too are

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Speaker 7: subject to being held in detention centers that often mirror prisons.

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Speaker 7: So I just want the folks to know who are

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Speaker 7: behind bars. You have families behind We are thinking of you.

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Speaker 7: You are not forgotten. And I would ask all of you,

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Speaker 7: if you know someone, go visit them, write them a letter,

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Speaker 7: and be an advocate for people, for the incarcerated, be

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Speaker 7: an advocate for folks who are still behind bars. They

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Speaker 7: deserve some basic humane treatment and they're not getting that.

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Speaker 4: It's not just in New York. It's happening all over

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Speaker 4: the country. So that's my CTA.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that toff Angela what he got.

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Speaker 6: I think I just want to tell people to go

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Speaker 6: to State of Thepeople dot media. I just I'm feeling

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Speaker 6: exhausted and encouraged at the same damn time, and I

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Speaker 6: want us to just lean into this moment. I think

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Speaker 6: there's something remarkably spiritual about what's happening right now, and

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Speaker 6: so I just want people to tap in where they can,

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Speaker 6: you know, to not give up hope. We need it

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Speaker 6: to survive, not give up faith. We need it. We

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Speaker 6: don't we can't give up our actions. So I'll just

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Speaker 6: ask you how to tap in there and keep us accountable.

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Speaker 6: We want to get this right for the people. This

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Speaker 6: is the people's move. So thank y'all for joining us

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Speaker 6: in that.

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Speaker 1: I love love that love that well one. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank the ancestors for you, my dear sister, and

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Speaker 1: what you've been putting on this earth to do and

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Speaker 1: what you are compelling the rest of us to engage in.

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Speaker 1: But my CTA is to end, Angela says spiritual. I

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Speaker 1: want to end with our own spiritual psalmist and this

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Speaker 1: really important and critical time. It's Latasha Brown to carry

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Speaker 1: us out of this episode.

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Speaker 17: Oh freedom, Freedom, lo freedom, Oh bumby, Oh bumby, And

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Speaker 17: before I say I'll be bad in my gray, I'm going.

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Speaker 3: Home to my lot and be free.

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Speaker 16: You know, I wanted to sing that song because this

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Speaker 16: is the week March the sixtieth anniversary of people who

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Speaker 16: sing that song on the Emma Pettit's Bridge and the

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Speaker 16: Summer Alabama. It is also a song that our ancestors,

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Speaker 16: when they did not have politics on their side, they

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Speaker 16: didn't have resources, they have all any of those things,

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Speaker 16: they knew that there was something inside of them that, no,

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Speaker 16: you're not going to dehumanize me, You're not going to

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Speaker 16: take away the Constitution is not what gives me my

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Speaker 16: right to live.

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Speaker 1: God has given me my right to live.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I love God. And the anniversary too, is so important.

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Speaker 1: I just thought when you mentioned spiritual, that's it right there.

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Speaker 6: They're reintroducing that John Rights Voting Rights Advancement Act. They're

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Speaker 6: reintroducing that this week and it is to commemorate the

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Speaker 6: sixtieth anniversary of us crossing the Pettis Bridge, getting closer

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Speaker 6: to voting rights, and to be in the sixtieth anniversary

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Speaker 6: of this moment watching them die our rights back. I

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Speaker 6: think she tells us all we need to know about

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Speaker 6: what our next steps must be.

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Speaker 1: As always, you want to remind everyone to leave us

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Speaker 1: We are They are Angela Rye, mother Sister Tiffany Cross,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Andrew Gilliam. Welcome home, y'all. There are six

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Speaker 1: hundred and seven days until the midterm elections.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for joining the Natives attention to what the

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Speaker 2: info and all of the latest ride Gillam and Cross

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Speaker 2: connected to the statements that you leave on our socials.

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Speaker 2: Thank you sincerely for the faces reason for your choices clear,

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Speaker 2: so grateful to execute roads for serve, defend and protect

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Speaker 2: the truth. Human in pace, we walk home to all

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Speaker 2: of the natives wait.

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