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Speaker 1: I'm here with Sophia Bush, so glad to run into you.

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Speaker 1: This is an exciting moment in history. This convention is

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Speaker 1: coming to a close today. The roster has been deep.

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Speaker 1: There has been so many significant moments. It's the time

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Speaker 1: for Democrats to have the largest tent possible. How do

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Speaker 1: you feel about how it's gone.

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Speaker 2: I am so inspired everyone I have run into, you know,

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Speaker 2: from my incredible friends in the news like you, to

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Speaker 2: folks I've done activism work and advocacy work for nearly

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Speaker 2: twenty years now. People are happy, they are inspired. It

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Speaker 2: feels incredible to be in a space where we really

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Speaker 2: are being reminded that there are enough rights and enough

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Speaker 2: resources in this beautiful country we call America to go around,

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Speaker 2: and we've got one candidate who unfortunately hates people, and

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Speaker 2: our candidate who loves people, loves this country and loves us.

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Speaker 2: And you can feel it. It's palpable here.

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Speaker 1: You know. Joy has been a constant theme and quite

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Speaker 1: the split screen that we have certainly saying as as

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Speaker 1: the theme, We're not going back and you're here with

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Speaker 1: the Human Rights Campaign, and part of the conversation has

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Speaker 1: been about the rolling back of rights that are invaluable

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Speaker 1: that cannot be quantified. Yes, why is it so important

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Speaker 1: for you to get the message out to voters about

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Speaker 1: forward motion as opposed to rolling back rights of people

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Speaker 1: who deserve to be as equal and free as any American.

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Speaker 2: The entire premise of this country was founded on the

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Speaker 2: idea of equality. We have spent generations working to achieve

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Speaker 2: those founding ideals, and we don't always get it right,

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Speaker 2: but we've never given up on it. And that is

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Speaker 2: what I think makes America so beautiful. It's the reason

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Speaker 2: that my father came to this country. It's the reason

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Speaker 2: that my mother's mother was brought to this country. It

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Speaker 2: is why I believe we are all so passionate about

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Speaker 2: in America. That is for all of us. And for

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Speaker 2: the first time, the Supreme Court took rights away from us.

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Speaker 2: Instead of increasing access to rights for folks like us,

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Speaker 2: for women, for people of color, they rolled back the

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Speaker 2: rights of women. They have endangered us. We are seeing

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Speaker 2: women die around the country. There is nothing pro life

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Speaker 2: about killing mothers. There's nothing pro life about making women

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Speaker 2: carry babies that will not live to term and risking

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Speaker 2: their lives. It is so unbearably cruel and so We're

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Speaker 2: not going back to a time where scientific knowledge didn't exist.

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Speaker 2: We're not going back to times where we had less

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Speaker 2: rights than our neighbors, where women have less rights than

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Speaker 2: their husbands. We should be moving forward and pressing forward

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Speaker 2: into a space where no matter who you love, how

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Speaker 2: you love, and what you need, you get it, because

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Speaker 2: that's what America is supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: You know, it has been a trying time as a

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Speaker 1: mother of a daughter and a son, trying to explain

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Speaker 1: the climate and trying to explain to them what has

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Speaker 1: been happening, and it feels like at times kind of

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Speaker 1: Sysiphian where the rock is going right back down the hill,

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Speaker 1: but keeping encouraged. And you know, your podcast work in

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Speaker 1: progress is really synonymous where we are in our country

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Speaker 1: in so many respects. The mission is never quite done.

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Speaker 1: What are you hoping will be carried over in the

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Speaker 1: weeks to come, because, as you know, Sophia, having a

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Speaker 1: convention is one thing, but then that March to two

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Speaker 1: seventy is still a hurdle.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is. And unfortunately we know that the right

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Speaker 2: is gonna weaponize disinformation, They're gonna weaponize hey, They're gonna

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Speaker 2: do things that we've always wanted to say that's beneath us.

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Speaker 2: But if we do not get in the mud and

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Speaker 2: fight to get to two seventy, we're gonna we're we're

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Speaker 2: gonna really be putting our progress at risk. And while

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Speaker 2: the right is hoping we never have another election again,

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Speaker 2: we are all hoping that we are going to continue

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Speaker 2: to defend American democracy. We are gonna continue to make

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Speaker 2: sure everyone gets to be heard, and we can disagree

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Speaker 2: on policy, but what we cannot disagree on is your

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Speaker 2: right to exist as a person in this country. And

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Speaker 2: so my real goal for us is to harness, yes,

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Speaker 2: this joy, because joy is great fuel, but to make

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Speaker 2: no mistake about how ugly the other side will be,

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Speaker 2: and knock every door and speak to every voter and

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Speaker 2: make sure that we remind people what we are voting for,

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Speaker 2: and that if we give Kamala Harrison Tim Walls the

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Speaker 2: White House, if we give them a Senate, we give

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Speaker 2: them a Congress, we will codify our rights and we

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Speaker 2: won't have to be fighting about whether or not we're

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Speaker 2: going to go back anymore. We will continue to move forward,

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Speaker 2: and we will do it by the way, with a

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Speaker 2: party that has been fixing Republican messes on rights and

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Speaker 2: even the economy since the nineteen eighties. Because we are

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Speaker 2: the job creators. We are the ones who fix the deficit.

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Speaker 2: We're not the ones adding eight trillion dollars to it

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Speaker 2: and so on, money, math, morals. We are the people

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Speaker 2: for the people, and I need us to communicate that

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Speaker 2: message all the way through the end of November fifth

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Speaker 2: and beyond when we enact all of these policies.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like we are the ones we are waiting for,

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Speaker 1: and you're work awaiting the conversation today, Sophia, but always

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Speaker 1: great to see you. Thank you so much.