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Speaker 1: you win a big prize, books are like, what's next?

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Speaker 1: What else can you do? You know? Yeah, you got

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, all right, how much bigger can you get?

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Speaker 2: From Fuduro Media and PRX. It's Latino USA. I'm Mariano

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Speaker 2: Rosa today, the decades long grassroots movement that has transformed

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Speaker 2: Arizona and a new fight protecting voting rights ahead of

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Speaker 2: the midterms.

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Speaker 3: I'm elected by the people of Maricopa County and which

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Speaker 3: fight a way they must like the tenn city because

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Speaker 3: I've been reelected five times.

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Speaker 2: This clip is from an interview I did in twenty

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Speaker 2: twelve with Joe Rpyo. He's the former sheriff of Maricopa County,

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Speaker 2: the most populous county in Arizona. Our Pio was in

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Speaker 4: They're convicted and doing their time.

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Speaker 2: Back then, I visited his open air jail tent city,

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Speaker 2: a place that incarcerated hundreds of people arrested by his department,

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Speaker 2: many of them Latinos and Latinas. Delphine Emmanuel is serving

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Speaker 2: three months and said she too, is shot by ten City.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this, this one hundred and

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Speaker 5: Us out here just.

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Speaker 2: But our PIO wasn't the only one pushing a racist agenda.

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Speaker 2: In twenty ten, then Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican

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Speaker 2: like our PIO, signed into law Senate Bill ten seventy

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Speaker 5: In Arizona's course.

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Speaker 2: It became known as the Show Me Your Papers Law,

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Speaker 2: It aimed to identify, prosecute, and deport undocumented immigrants, and

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Speaker 2: to legally charge people who help them. Young people left

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Speaker 2: Community started neighborhood defense groups, supporting each other with immigration

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Speaker 1: We're trying to provide a space where our community is included,

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Speaker 2: The US Supreme Court ended up striking down most of

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Speaker 1: Canvassing teams are handing out these flyers to voters as

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Speaker 2: The same young people who had taken to the streets

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Speaker 2: to protest this law created dozens of community organizations across

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Speaker 2: and then when former President Donald Trump pushed anti immigration policies,

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Speaker 2: In the twenty twenty presidential elections, Latino, black, and Indigenous

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Speaker 2: before and made state history. In Arizona, a Democrat presidential

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Speaker 2: candidate had won Arizona since nineteen ninety six. Before that,

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Speaker 2: it had been in nineteen forty eight, but then Joe

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Speaker 2: Biden won the state with just ten thousand votes ahead

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Speaker 2: of Trump, the state became a battleground. Today, the movement

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Speaker 2: is fighting against two fronts, the Republican party that governs

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Speaker 6: The new law, effective at the end of September, requires

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Speaker 2: But they're also fighting against Trump endorsed Republican candidates who

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Speaker 2: gubernatorial candidate Kerrie Lake, President Trump taught us how to fight,

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Speaker 2: and I took a few notes. In this episode, we're

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Speaker 2: Producer Patricia Suberan recently went on the ground to Arizona

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Speaker 5: This ben Lely Monrados days are packed with work.

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Speaker 1: Halls, but the budget stays the same.

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Speaker 5: As one of the leaders in the movement. Her work

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Speaker 5: on top of that, she just moved to a new house.

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Speaker 5: I find Montrat or Monseille as people call her, sitting

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Speaker 5: Monse is thirty one years old. She has short, black,

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Speaker 5: shiny hair just like her son's and a white smile

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Speaker 1: As the regrants portion.

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Speaker 5: That's Monster's mom Belin. She's helping with the baby while

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Speaker 5: Monse finds the time in between meetings to organize the house.

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Speaker 1: Well, we want the board to approve the budget before

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Speaker 5: Later in the day, the family is welcoming two young

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Speaker 5: what Monse does for a living. One thing that's true

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, let's talk. Yeah, let me know

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Speaker 5: Okay. When you think about an organizer, you might visualize

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Speaker 1: I usually say that I were in politics mostly doing

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Speaker 1: fundraising and coordinating of community groups, and that's how I

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Speaker 5: When Monsa first started as an organizer in her native Phoenix,

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Speaker 5: In twenty eighteen, Monse became the executive director of One Arizona.

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Speaker 5: This is a network of community organizations that are focused

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Speaker 5: running Arizona Wins. It's a coalition. It's made up of

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Speaker 5: almost forty civic engagement groups all across Arizona. They back

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Speaker 5: It wasn't always like this. In the beginning, they had

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Speaker 5: In short, Monset and her team's mission is engaging communities

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Speaker 5: of color, especially young people, and Monset thinks that political

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Speaker 1: You can't just talk to people fifty days before election day.

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Speaker 5: Mons says it's hard to lay out the exact steps

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Speaker 5: She doesn't like to get stuck in the past with

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Speaker 5: They kind of grew together. It's the same movement that

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Speaker 5: twenty ten. Monse has been there from the beginning, but

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 5: Whenever she can get away from home. Montse works from

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Speaker 5: this office. There's a lot of people in this office.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Oh my gosh, this place is scary. Dungeons.

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Speaker 5: I used to be full right before. Yeah, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then no one wants to come back once.

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Speaker 5: It really misses people coming to the office. It's a

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Speaker 1: No, but we did have older furniture in here.

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Speaker 5: Most of the time. She's here alone.

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Speaker 1: I'm about on car right now in one minute.

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Speaker 5: The work has been virtual since the pandemic started. Once

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Speaker 1: What am I doing for this?

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Speaker 5: It's been kind of hard, she says.

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Speaker 1: I spend thirty minutes trying to get my computer to cooperate,

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Speaker 5: Hey, everybody. Right now, the movement is focusing on two

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Speaker 5: issues that can have a pretty big impact on the

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Speaker 5: and the other one is the race for the Secretary

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday. We saw a really great pull this week

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Speaker 1: on the Secretary of STCE that's really promising in Arizona.

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Speaker 5: The Secretary of State is the person who oversees elections

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Speaker 5: and certifies the results, so This race is especially important

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two because a group of allies to

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Speaker 5: President Donald Trump tried and failed to overturn the results

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Speaker 5: there is one clear favorite.

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Speaker 3: Really brief, there are three things that you just can't hide.

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Speaker 3: The sun, the moon, and the truth.

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Speaker 5: The weekend before the primaries, in Tempe, A City, about

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Speaker 5: twenty minutes east of Phoenix, I went to see Mark Fincham.

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Speaker 5: Fincham is a state lawmaker who was at the January

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Speaker 5: he'll also require all ballots to be hand counted to

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Speaker 5: restore the confidence. At the event, Fincham gave a fiery

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Speaker 3: It's my accusation that he is a Democrat registered as

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Speaker 5: That status quo, according to Fincham, is embodied by traditional

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Speaker 4: Real serious crossroads. This is our last election.

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Speaker 2: We go back to the McKay mafia running the show,

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Speaker 2: or we can elect the America first candidate.

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Speaker 1: We're getting question of like, oh, why do you care

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Speaker 1: so much about the Secretary of State stories, and say, well,

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Speaker 5: Emotions are running high, Yes, so high. Monsey and other

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Speaker 5: organizers are concerned about what's happening in their state. Far

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Speaker 5: a slate of Trump endorsed politicians are running for big

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Speaker 5: state seats in Arizona, and the movement did not expect that.

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Speaker 5: It surprised me that Monsei and the coalition she leads

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Speaker 5: For Bolding, the coalition has dollars to put out campaign

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Speaker 5: Monsters says that their mission is not just stopping Republicans

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Speaker 1: Progressive for me is pushing the envelope train to imagine

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Speaker 5: They won't support Fontez Monsses just because he's Latino, just.

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Speaker 5: There are risks to this strategy. They have to avoid

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Speaker 5: the coalition still hopes to protect voting rights through a

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Speaker 5: The coalition already collected double the number of signatures required

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Speaker 1: On the Pathway of Citizenship so Monsa's office in downtown

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Speaker 5: On one wall there's a huge map of Arizona showing

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Speaker 1: Every single day we would get up, we were sleeping

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Speaker 5: At the time, Monse was fighting to get citizenship for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, she's actually one of the reasons why Monset got

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Speaker 5: So Monset takes me there.

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Speaker 1: Missa Parker, I grew up coming to. Those are the

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Speaker 5: The neighborhood where Monsett grew up in is a seven

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that first window. That was my mom's rough

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Speaker 5: Belin moved with her three kids to that bottom apartment

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Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't been back here in a long time.

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Speaker 5: Monse goes back to the good and bad memories of

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Speaker 5: There he was killed.

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Speaker 1: It was like gun violence situation.

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Speaker 5: Despite the grief, though, Monsey and her mom had to

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Speaker 5: carry on. Belen continued working the long hours, and Monseig

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Speaker 1: It was a great experience growing up a really tight

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Speaker 5: That community was made up of strong women, just like Monse's.

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Speaker 1: Mom, and folks would come and dance and matachinas and

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Speaker 5: When Monse was growing up. She didn't have a car

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Speaker 5: as politics took center stage in her life, she realized

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Speaker 1: Even last night, I was watching the news on my

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Speaker 5: And I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I know that getting Trump out wasn't it. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's not over.

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Speaker 5: I'm so tired.

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Speaker 1: I'm so tired.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on that, you know, USA, we meet two

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Speaker 4: They're working to build a Montserrat's success.

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Speaker 2: Stay with us, Yes, hey, we're back.

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Speaker 4: Before the break, we met Monterrat.

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Speaker 2: She's a seasoned community organizer in Phoenix who's facing personal

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Speaker 2: and external challenges ahead of Arizona's primary elections.

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Speaker 4: We're going to go now to rural Arizona.

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Speaker 2: It's a Republican stronghold where Latino and Latina voters have

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Speaker 7: We're in Casavanda, Arizona.

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Speaker 8: It's kind of nestled between Phoenix and Tucson, and this

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Speaker 7: It's kind of grown a lot since I was a kid.

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Speaker 5: I drive an hour southeast of Phoenix one afternoon to

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Speaker 5: About fifty thousand people live here, forty five percent of

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Speaker 8: What do we see beyond the road?

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Speaker 7: Clear desert, no buildings.

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Speaker 5: In twenty twenty, Trump one in Pinac County, seventeen points

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Speaker 5: ahead of Biden Arizona, and this tells a larger story.

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Speaker 5: If you look at a map of Arizona with the

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty election results, you'll see that it's almost entirely red.

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Speaker 5: Out of the fifteen counties in the state, Biden won

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Speaker 5: In Arizona, you know everyone here.

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Speaker 7: I used to, but it's grown so much.

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Speaker 5: Bablo is thirty four years old. He's a veteran and

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Speaker 5: he has two daughters. He has a huge red pickup

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Speaker 5: He's wearing a gray T shirt with a red logo Rural.

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Speaker 8: Arizona Action in the front with our Arizona logo and

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Speaker 5: I can't Every moment is an organizing opportunity. Every person

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Speaker 5: a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

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Speaker 5: And who said that? Dolor serta dolrda suerta. The labor

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Speaker 5: leader and civil rights activist. Bablo is the co executive

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Speaker 5: director of Rural Arizona Action, also known as RACE, one

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Speaker 5: of the member organizations of the Coalition that Monse oversees.

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Speaker 5: He co founded it in twenty eighteen alongside Natalie Fierro's

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Speaker 8: I was in the Marines for five years, so I

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Speaker 5: He was seventeen years old when he enlisted and was

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Speaker 8: You know, I was always attracted to wanting to do

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Speaker 5: But it wasn't always a perfect match.

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Speaker 8: I was very political in the Marines, which didn't go

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Speaker 7: There's not a lot of liberal people in the military, and.

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Speaker 8: So I think the reason I found my way to

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Speaker 5: It's something that he'd also experienced at home. Pablu used

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Speaker 7: I come from a conservative family.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes they would clash so much that his mother

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Speaker 5: Pablo's mother was born in Texas and his father is

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Speaker 8: He was very much about assimilating, and so I feel

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Speaker 5: His father's political views and his experiences in the military

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Speaker 5: the Arizona primary. We're going out to knock on doors.

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Speaker 5: His organization Raise is backing a progressive candidate for city council.

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Speaker 5: We have to drive everywhere.

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Speaker 7: Because yeah, too hot?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how hot do you think it is?

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Speaker 7: Today? Is not bad at all?

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Speaker 8: Today is I think ninety one right now, more or less,

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Speaker 7: This is the last time.

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Speaker 5: We're also driving because neighborhoods here are spread out. We

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Speaker 7: Yeah this would be the first home.

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Speaker 5: Okay, yes, crazy dogs live here.

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Speaker 4: Do not knock you, just not.

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Speaker 7: I was wondering if ulysses or Manta or were home,

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Speaker 7: got the wrong address? All right, thank you. All right,

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Speaker 7: let's walk.

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Speaker 9: Fifteen forty nine, so this should be Amber Gudiatis.

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Speaker 1: Hello.

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Speaker 4: Do you usually wait.

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Speaker 8: About a minute or two and then we just leave

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Speaker 7: Okay, This is a lot of what canvassing is. All right,

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 5: Pablo says that during the pandemic people became more withdrawn

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Speaker 5: and canvassing has gotten harder this one.

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Speaker 1: Hi or McDaniels, No, he's not.

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Speaker 8: I'm knocking on doors with an organization called Rulers on Action,

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Speaker 8: and we're knocking on doors in support of Devin Festa,

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Speaker 8: who's running for city council here in Casavana. Super important, see,

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Speaker 8: you know, close to the ground and close to the people.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 8: We just really believe that local elections are absolutely important.

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Speaker 8: We know that obviously presidential and Senate elections are are crucial,

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Speaker 7: Okay, So we saw that he was a registered voter.

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Speaker 7: We'd like to leave that for y'all.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and give it to him, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: So I'm assuming with the code right there, he will

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Speaker 1: So good, thank you, all right, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Huh you guys have all good day, you too, took bye.

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Speaker 8: Bye, good bye, and the king.

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Speaker 5: In a nutshell. This is Pablo strategy. He wants people

447
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 5: to care about local elections first. That's where his organization

448
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 5: can actually make real change in such a conservative place,

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Speaker 5: and they have already.

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Speaker 8: In twenty twenty when we knocked out fifty eight thousand doors,

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Speaker 8: we won three city council seats, two of them in Eloy,

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Speaker 8: one of them in Coolidge, So in two separate cities,

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Speaker 8: three seats. And then we won two school board seats

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Speaker 8: in the Florence Unified School District. We elected the first

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Speaker 8: black woman to serve on that school board.

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Speaker 5: Ever, these are reliably Republican areas, so these wins didn't

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00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 5: come easy, and Pablo things. The Democratic Party hasn't done

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Speaker 5: enough outreach in these rural parts of Arizona.

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Speaker 8: And they don't invest in our people, black and brown people,

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Speaker 8: in real spaces. In a row bus way, they could

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Speaker 8: just think that the biggest voting block we need to

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Speaker 8: win the state, so let's just hit Maricopa County in

463
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Speaker 8: Pima County, and those will be the biggest voting blocks,

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Speaker 8: but they don't understand the margins that you can really

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Speaker 8: close the gap within rural spaces.

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Speaker 5: It's not just Democrats. When Pablo returned to Arizona from

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Speaker 5: his time with the Marine Corps, people like Monse were

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Speaker 5: actively organizing in cities like Phoenix and Tucson, but progressive

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Speaker 5: organizations weren't present in rural spaces like where Pablo lived.

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Speaker 5: So when he started getting involved in politics, his only

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Speaker 5: choice was to go to the local Democratic Party.

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Speaker 8: So I looked up what the local groups were and

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Speaker 8: they were very, very small, and to be honest, old

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Speaker 8: and white folks that have never really interacted with someone

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Speaker 8: like me before. Even in the Democratic Party structure. I

476
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Speaker 8: didn't see myself represented at all, young, brown, working class,

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Speaker 8: you know, I was working in the fifteen hour shifts

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Speaker 8: down at the warehouse. I don't feel like they understood

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Speaker 8: that story. And they were well meaning folks, but there

480
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Speaker 8: was just a disconnect there and.

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Speaker 5: So it didn't go very well, and Bablo ended up

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Speaker 5: feeling more connected to his co workers at the Walmart

483
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Speaker 5: warehouse where he was working at the time, and that's

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Speaker 5: where he met Carlos Carranza. They would listen to podcasts

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Speaker 5: together and discuss politics all day long.

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Speaker 7: I texted my buddy to see if he's home. He

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Speaker 7: lives down the street from here.

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Speaker 4: Oh really.

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Speaker 5: We knock on some more doors and no one answers.

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Speaker 5: So Bablo says he really wants me to meet his

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Speaker 5: friend Carlos. So we head over in Kanasa.

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Speaker 7: Do you have a few minutes? I have a few.

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Speaker 5: Carlos is forty years old and lives in a two

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Speaker 5: story house with a driveway in a large backyard. He

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Speaker 5: was born in California, but has lived in Arizona for

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Speaker 5: the past twenty years. Live he's off today from his

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Speaker 5: shifts at Walmart. We arrive his two children are watching

498
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Speaker 5: TV from a big leather couch in the living room,

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Speaker 5: so we head to the backyard. I can tell from

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Speaker 5: the beginning that he likes to talk about politics, but

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Speaker 5: that he's also kind of sick of it too.

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Speaker 10: Politics seems very divisive right now, like you're either on one

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Speaker 10: side or the other. I'm more of a neutral person,

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00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 10: somebody that's in the middle, you know, I kind of

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Speaker 10: see both sides of the spectrum.

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Speaker 5: Carlos. He's not voting in the primaries, but that he

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Speaker 5: will in the general election. He used to vote for

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Speaker 5: the Democratic Party, but lately he's been disappointed by them.

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Speaker 10: It just seems like you get their attention when the

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Speaker 10: elections comes around, and then when a time when the

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Speaker 10: job actually is given to them and you hear all

512
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Speaker 10: these promises as unusual, they don't tend to deliver.

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Speaker 5: As we keep talking, I realize why Pablo insisted on visiting.

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Speaker 5: Carlos is exactly the kind of voter that Bablo needs

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Speaker 5: to reach.

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Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us in. And I know I

517
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 7: dropped in. I don't know where I'm here every day

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Speaker 7: and twice on Sundays. I guess.

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Speaker 5: You know, Carlos represents voters that we often don't hear about,

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Speaker 5: those who are not cut up in the extremes.

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Speaker 8: You know, Carlos is a big reason why I ran

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Speaker 8: for office. I ran in twenty eighteen, and I ran

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Speaker 8: under the idea that like regular folks like Carlos and

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Speaker 8: I should have representation.

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Speaker 5: Bablo ran for a state House seat in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 5: and he didn't win, but the experience taught him how

527
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 5: to connect with voters. In conservative places, especially with Latino man.

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00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 5: Bablo has seen firsthand how Trump's message really resonates with them,

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Speaker 5: but he has a way of bringing them to his side.

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Speaker 8: We have a lot more in common than we have.

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Speaker 8: Different people care about families, work, ktch the table issues

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00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 8: like healthcare. We all care about the same things, and

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Speaker 8: when you start at values, that's where you really make

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Speaker 8: those connections.

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Speaker 5: So regardless of who wins in the midterms this November,

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Speaker 5: Bablo is realistic and knows the smart thing to do

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Speaker 5: is to focus on the margins.

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Speaker 8: We're never going to win Panal County, so we have

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Speaker 8: to lose less than these kinds of counties because those

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Speaker 8: votes matter. We were able to shift the red blue,

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Speaker 8: so we brought that twenty percent down to about eighteen

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Speaker 8: percent in twenty twenty, which accounts for about two to

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Speaker 8: three thousand votes that we shifted from red to blue.

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Speaker 8: Two to three thousand votes in a state that only

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Speaker 8: won by ten thousand votes. You know, really matters.

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Speaker 5: If Bablo did this alone, he would get nowhere. He

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Speaker 5: needs people, not just to cover hundreds of miles in Arizona,

548
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 5: but because he needs organizers who can connect with different

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00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 5: kinds of voters continue for ten kilometers. In search of

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Speaker 5: more of those voters, I traveled to Yuma, Arizona, a

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Speaker 5: border city with a majority Latino population. Yuma sits in

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Speaker 5: a predominantly Republican county where Trump won by six points

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty. Yuma is a fifteen minute drive away

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Speaker 5: from the US Mexico border. It's also the home of

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Speaker 5: two big military bases, a large workforce of border patrol agents,

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Speaker 5: and it's also the main grower of the leafy greens

557
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 5: consumed in the US during the winter. It's seven in

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Speaker 5: the morning of August first, that's the day before the

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Speaker 5: primary elections. V Bogarin is putting portable fans and electro

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Speaker 5: like pouches on a table that om Jana du Those

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Speaker 5: are for her team of twelve canvassers, just in case

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00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 5: they get dehydrated. Udiv started working for Pablo's organization race

563
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Speaker 5: in September of twenty twenty one. She works from a

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Speaker 5: small office right across the street from Yuma's Republican Party headquarters.

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Speaker 5: Originally from Baja California, Mexico, Judith leads a team of

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Speaker 5: almost entirely bilingual speakers that's ideal for the communities they

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Speaker 5: want to.

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Speaker 11: Reach Pentos on Latinos Campo hinte ketamokpaa hinte ke no kneeling,

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Speaker 11: FORMACIONI tempo Mama latinas mamade casa.

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Speaker 5: These canvassers usually focus on connecting with Latino farm workers

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Speaker 5: and stay at home mothers, people that usually are so

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Speaker 5: busy dealing with just the day to day that they

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Speaker 5: have no time to look for information about politics yenokisa.

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Speaker 5: The canvassers are all different ages. Among the group, there's

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Speaker 5: a woman in her sixties and two eighteen year olds

576
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 5: wearing combat boots even if it's one hundred degrees out.

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Speaker 5: Most of them are Mexican American, and every morning, each

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Speaker 5: canvassor comes to the office and gets a list of

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Speaker 5: about sixty house addresses. They're out to work for six

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Speaker 5: hours with a couple of breaks. They often walk several

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Speaker 5: miles in a day. Today is the final push to

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Speaker 5: convince voters to back the Democratic candidate for mayor. She's

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Speaker 5: competing against the incumbent Republican mayor. Yeah, so you two

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Speaker 5: go together when you did talks. There's something about her

585
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Speaker 5: that sort of makes you want to listen. A total

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00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 5: people person. After an hour together, I feel so at

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Speaker 5: ease that we're discussing how she switched her hair color

588
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 5: from blonde to black largo, and she's giving me advice

589
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Speaker 5: on how to hydrate my own hair with a homemade cream. Judith,

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Speaker 5: who's forty seven, has done this kind of work before.

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Speaker 5: Managing people, she says, is her main skill. She's good

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Speaker 5: at motivating others.

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Speaker 11: Almost famous parallel mass dinner. They yep and they yep,

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Speaker 11: and the uh uh, the block formation is lista hintenness is.

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Speaker 5: Judith started in twenty seventeen with another civic engagement organization.

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00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 5: Back then, she'd stand for hours in front of convenience

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Speaker 5: stores just trying to get signatures so that teachers could

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Speaker 5: get higher wages. Her daughter is a teacher, so Judith

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Speaker 5: to advocate for her. Before that, you did worked in

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Speaker 5: Mexico as a major doma managing farm workers in strawberry fields.

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Speaker 5: The skills that she learned back then she still uses today.

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Speaker 11: John Scrimino or Scremino, A persona is super potential.

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Speaker 5: You did can see the potential in people, she says,

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Speaker 5: no matter where they come from or how old they are.

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Speaker 5: Actually the more diverse the team, the better the chances

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Speaker 5: to engage with the people that matter to them.

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Speaker 11: Major ala hinte ken our English ala hint dna foetos

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Speaker 11: importantes qual much as persona.

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Speaker 1: You did.

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Speaker 5: Says that ellegible voters who don't speak English or our

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00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 5: elderly struggle to access voting information. So her team's goal

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Speaker 5: is to inform these potential voters how to register to

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Speaker 5: vote and where to do it. But a bigger issue

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Speaker 5: they're concerned about is lack of trust within the immigrant community.

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Speaker 5: Canvassers ask for personal documents to register voters in immigrant communities,

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Speaker 5: This can be a sensitive ask. People fear that sharing

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Speaker 5: information could get them or their family members deported.

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Speaker 1: Case probably see establic.

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Speaker 5: It's almost one p m. And we're driving around a

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Speaker 5: quiet neighborhood with rows of brown colored houses in Yuma.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: We're here to meet Omar, one of the canvassors. The

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Speaker 5: streets are completely empty, most probably because the heat is

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Speaker 5: almost unbearable. The weather app says it's over one hundred

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Speaker 5: degrees out of many.

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Speaker 6: Colors.

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Speaker 5: When Omar is twenty five years old, his T shirt

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Speaker 5: is completely drenched in sweat and his cheeks are red.

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Speaker 5: He's not wearing sunglasses and the intense sun rays barely

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Speaker 5: keep his green eyes open. He's been knocking on doors

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Speaker 5: and leaving flyers since seven or eight a m. We

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Speaker 5: start walking with him, looking for an address on his list.

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Speaker 5: It is Cybrian.

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Speaker 7: It is Cybrian.

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Speaker 5: It's illegal for canvusors to leave the flyers in people's mailboxes,

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Speaker 5: so Omar has to get creative.

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Speaker 12: Did she leave them in the door so that way

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Speaker 12: they could like open open the door a drop and

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Speaker 12: get their attention.

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Speaker 8: So that's your strategy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I reached out to the Republican Party to see what

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Speaker 5: their strategy looks like on the ground with canvassers and

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Speaker 5: to see if they have better luck in rural communities.

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Speaker 5: I connected with one of their team leaders in Washington,

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Speaker 5: d C. But no one was available to meet me

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Speaker 5: in person. Canvassing is grueling work and sometimes it's disappointing

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Speaker 5: when people don't open their doors. But you did. Says

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Speaker 5: that she's hopeful that their efforts will pay off. I

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Speaker 5: ask her if she considers herself an activist. She says

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Speaker 5: that she doesn't think much about those labels.

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Speaker 11: Your pisis visa la Hinti Lai.

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Speaker 5: H Judd simply cannot see herself doing something different, no

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Speaker 5: matter how challenging.

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Speaker 2: Coming up on Latino USA, we find out how the

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Speaker 2: candidates for the secretary of State race did in the primaries,

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Speaker 2: and Montsirat makes an unexpected announcement. Stay with us, hey,

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Speaker 2: we're back. Before the break, we met two organizers in

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Speaker 2: rural Arizona who are building the next phase of the

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Speaker 2: state's progressive political grassroots movement. Their hope is to gain

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Speaker 2: real ground in Republican counties this November. But this fight

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Speaker 2: has been going on for over a decade and some

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Speaker 2: veteran organizers are frankly exhausted and they're facing the consequences.

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Speaker 2: Producer Patricia Subard picks up the story from here.

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Speaker 5: I'm back in Phoenix. It's primary election day and the

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Speaker 5: polls closed about an hour ago. At a restaurant in

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Speaker 5: downtown Phoenix, Reginald Boulding, one of the Democrats running for

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Speaker 5: Secretary of State, is having a party to watch the results.

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Speaker 5: He's a progressive guy, backed by Monsey and the coalition

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Speaker 5: of organizations. The atmosphere here is joyful. There are about

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Speaker 5: fifty people in the place, mostly young black and Latino.

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Speaker 5: Some are wearing formal shoes and long and sparkly dresses,

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Speaker 5: prepared for a victory. There are signs everywhere with Boulding's name,

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Speaker 5: and a big screen is projecting their results as they

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Speaker 5: start coming in. A few minutes later, people in the

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Speaker 5: room burst into applause and cheers. Boulding is a head

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Speaker 5: of Adrian Fontez, He's Democratic contender, but he cautions that

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Speaker 5: it's still too early to call the race.

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Speaker 7: I just saw the first early bats come in. We're

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Speaker 7: feeling good, but we know it's it's a lot, a lot.

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Speaker 8: More, a lot more to go.

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Speaker 7: Keep a MacCall try and some trying.

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Speaker 5: Some earlier in the evening, mon that was also at

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Speaker 5: the watchbody. She was with her baby and her husband.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, let's just saying hi to everybody, because of course

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Speaker 1: everybody I know is here.

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Speaker 5: She's been coming to events like these for ten years

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Speaker 5: and she still gets excited every time. She's had a

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Speaker 5: long day.

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Speaker 4: Though.

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Speaker 1: Location, while it's great, it's not big enough for the number.

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Speaker 5: Of people that are here, are suited for babies.

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Speaker 1: Or suited for babies because it's extremely loud, So I'm

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Speaker 1: probably going to catch the results from home.

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Speaker 6: Here is another race we are watching this morning, Arizona

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Speaker 6: Secretary of State on the Democratic But.

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Speaker 5: The next day, as results are still coming in, things

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Speaker 5: are not looking good for Bolding.

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Speaker 6: Adrian Fontes with fifty two point eight percent leading in

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Speaker 6: this race of original Bolding at forty seven point two

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Speaker 6: percent of the votes this.

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Speaker 1: Morning, Arlen, we always knew it was going to be close.

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Speaker 5: I am back at Monster's office in downtown Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: Adrian Fontez has just as much name ida in some places,

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Speaker 1: more clearly then on Reginald. He's a Latino candidate and

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Speaker 1: a majority of people of color Latin or the highest

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Speaker 1: percentage in the state.

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Speaker 5: She just finished a war hall and it was hard.

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Speaker 1: I could hardly even talk on this collar to you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk at all.

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Speaker 5: Election results can be a shock to the people who

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Speaker 5: work in campaigns, Moncess says, because so much work gets

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Speaker 5: put into it, the.

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Speaker 1: Hours every day, early mornings, late nights, eating crappy pizza,

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Speaker 1: and that that didn't like lead to a win was devastating,

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Speaker 1: like heartbreaking her break.

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Speaker 5: There isn't much time for sorrow, though, Monsey and the

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Speaker 5: team's energy now has to shift to make sure that

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Speaker 5: Adrian Fontees wins in November against Mark Fincham, the Republican

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Speaker 5: candidate who won last night. Fincham is just one of

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Speaker 5: several Trump endorsed candidates who made it to the November ballot.

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Speaker 1: You know, I told you this yesterday, like, whatever the

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Speaker 1: outcome is, we're going to have to go in one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent behind that person, because the fact that Fincham won.

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Speaker 5: And at the level that he won is huge.

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Speaker 1: It's it's scary. It's scary. Yeah. And I was watching

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Speaker 1: these victory parties at these reporters are at on the

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Speaker 1: news and just like, who are these people? Like what

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Speaker 1: are they thinking? What do they think about us? You

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Speaker 1: know what I think about our community?

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Speaker 5: And I don't know. It's almost the afternoon when Monsees

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Speaker 5: starts a virtual meeting with her direct team. There are

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Speaker 5: about six people on the call and only one of

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Speaker 5: the members is here in person. I'm just thinking that

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Speaker 5: this is a regular post election check in, but I

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Speaker 5: quickly realized that this is about something else, So we.

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Speaker 1: All need to be not clear or not sharing with

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Speaker 1: you all. If it feels that way, I apologize. It's

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Speaker 1: really about us making sure that the leadership team feels

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Speaker 1: good and that the transition goes as smoothly as possible

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Speaker 1: while still respecting my you know, my need to step

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Speaker 1: out for some time.

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Speaker 5: Monsell announces that she's stepping down as executive director of

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Speaker 5: the tourganizations that she runs, and that's gonna happen before

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Speaker 5: the election.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a hard decision. It's a hard

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Speaker 1: thing to even think about. And I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of us just pushed through, you know, when we're not

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Speaker 1: doing well and we don't share, and then eventually it

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Speaker 1: passes and then you think back, like, well I made

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Speaker 1: it through that.

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Speaker 5: So I guess I was fine.

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Speaker 1: But I think I've done that maybe one too many

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Speaker 1: times that I'm just not willing to do it again.

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Speaker 5: Whoever said what doesn't kill you makes you stronger was lying.

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Speaker 1: I think it was. Is it a Is it a

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Speaker 1: Katie Perry song?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I thought of her first, but

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Speaker 1: I know she didn't invent that song.

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Speaker 5: No, it's it's a German philosopher. His name was Fredrick. Ah.

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Speaker 5: I love the Valerie. Yeah it goes like it doesn't

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Speaker 5: carry as.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you all. I mean, I you know, I

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Speaker 1: really have enjoyed working with this team, and we've grown

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Speaker 1: so much since my time here, and it's exciting to

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Speaker 1: know all the folks that have came and went and

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Speaker 1: have been a part of this infrastructure and are still

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Speaker 1: doing incredible work. Thank you all. And I'll be I'll

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Speaker 1: be with my dogs and my kids and my plants,

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Speaker 1: hopefully not too many plants. And yeah, I'll be around.

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Speaker 1: I'm always a call away and if anybody needs anything

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Speaker 1: or just someone to talk to or a friend that's

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Speaker 1: not in the movement to vent to, that can be me.

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll see you later. Enjoy your days because of thanks. Wow.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that was kind of intense.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it was intense, and I also wasn't too intense.

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Speaker 12: It was quiet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was quiet, people just taking it in. I

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Speaker 1: guess I don't know. Zoom's always thrown me off, like,

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Speaker 1: what's happening? This is good? Is this bad? I guess

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Speaker 1: we'll never know. On to the next call.

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Speaker 5: A few moments later, Mons's coworker leaves the office and

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Speaker 5: it's just the two of us alone again. We start

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Speaker 5: talking about burnout.

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Speaker 1: Burn on Israel. Yeah, burning you haven't one day I

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Speaker 1: just like looked up every burnout podcast and I listened

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Speaker 1: to every single one of them, and I was like

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Speaker 1: just too confirmed that, like Okay, yeah, that's what I'm feeling.

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Speaker 1: And I actually all the definition of it, because I

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Speaker 1: feel like we use it really loosely, or we just say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I feel so burnt out this week, and it's like oh,

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Speaker 1: and then it passes. But I do think it's like

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Speaker 1: a real psychological state. It's like a roller coaster. Like

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Speaker 1: there's parts of the day that I'm like.

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Speaker 5: Oh, this is great.

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Speaker 1: I love Senora to day, like I'm so happy to

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Speaker 1: talk to yours, and then in the same day, I

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Speaker 1: just feel like I'm on a roller coaster all day.

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Speaker 1: The same day I'm like, oh, should have no when

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Speaker 1: I have that conversation. But I have to have that

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Speaker 1: conversation because I'm the boss, or you know, I have

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Speaker 1: to do this or I have to do that.

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Speaker 5: Fighting for immigration reform for her mother was Monsa's first

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Speaker 5: contact with politics. Melene, her mother is still undocumented. Monse

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Speaker 5: realizes the change she wants to see in Arizona. It's

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Speaker 5: very hard to achieve, but she sees a clear future

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Speaker 5: for the movement, even if it's without her.

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Speaker 1: This doesn't start it in with me. You know, we're

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Speaker 1: going to be all right. And and any doubt in

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Speaker 1: like our movement because the executive director of the table

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Speaker 1: is meaness I think a little unfair because it's not

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Speaker 1: a one person effort, and it hasn't been like that

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Speaker 1: for a long time. The movement, whether that's local or Nashally,

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Speaker 1: we don't have a a single leader. It's a web

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Speaker 1: of people that are investing their time and their emotion

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Speaker 1: and their knowledge, you know, to make this happen.

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Speaker 2: None of the movement endorsed candidates featured in this episode

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Speaker 2: want their primary races in Arizona, and the ballot measure

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Speaker 2: to expand voting access didn't make it into the November election.

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Speaker 2: After a contentious legal battle, Arizona's Supreme Court ruled there

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Speaker 2: weren't enough valid signatures to include it on the ballot.

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Speaker 2: By mid September, Judith had hired eight more canvassers, and

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Speaker 2: Bablus said on getting one hundred and fifty thousand more

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Speaker 2: people registered to vote before November. Montsirat is slowly transitioning

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Speaker 2: out of her leadership roles, but she has fulfilled one

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Speaker 2: of her mother's dreams to spend more time together. This

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Speaker 2: episode was produced by Patricia Sulbaran with help from Victoria

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Speaker 2: Strada and Julia Rocha. It was edited by Daisy Contreras

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Speaker 2: and mixed by Julia Caruso and Lia Sho Damroun. Fact

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Speaker 2: checking for this episode by Monica Moreles Garcia. The Latino

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Speaker 2: USA team includes Andrea Lopez Gruzado, Marta Martinez, Mike Sargent,

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Speaker 2: Gulieta Martinelli, Renaldo Leanos, Junior Alejandra Salasad, with help from

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Speaker 2: Raoul Berez. Our editorial director is Fernanda Santos. Our director

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Speaker 2: of Engineering is Stephanie Lebau. Our associate engineers are Gabriel

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Speaker 2: Abiez and jj Grubin. Our digital editor is Luis Luna.

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Speaker 2: Our New York Women's Foundation Fellow is Elizabeth Lowenthal Dorrees.

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Speaker 2: Listen to all of our Latino USA podcast episodes on

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Speaker 2: Amazon Music. Our theme music was composed by Sega Rubinos.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host and executive producer Marieno Josa. Remembertevayas and

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Speaker 2: We'll see you on our next episode.

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Speaker 12: Chaou Latino USA is made possible in part by the

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Speaker 12: Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the front lane lines

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Speaker 12: of social change worldwide, the Heisting Simons Foundation Unlocking Knowledge,

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Speaker 12: opportunity and possibilities more at hsfoundation dot org and the

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Speaker 12: John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Speaker 1: And then we before the pandemic kicked off in March,

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Speaker 1: we already had thirty thousand voter registrations from the field,

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Speaker 1: so we started so strong that year. I was so

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Speaker 1: sure that Pibole was going to come into a free concert.

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Speaker 1: I just like was was manifesting it. I was like,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, if people doesn't come to do a

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Speaker 1: free concert, I'm gonna.

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Speaker 5: Be And then I don't know why it was Pibol

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Speaker 5: and I don't know why I was.

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Speaker 1: So sure about it.

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Speaker 5: It was yeah, desert. Yeah, it was like they did free.

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Speaker 1: Concerts all the time and all these other battles around states,

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Speaker 1: like we better get a big free concert. Did you no?

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Speaker 1: There were nobody would in concerts in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I'll never know.

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Speaker 1: I never know, Bibbo when it came to Arizona for me,