Speaker 1: Good morning, Keeps, and welcome to bige up daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl. Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: I can't express the grief, anger, rage, frustration I have felt,
Speaker 1: as many people with hearts and minds have felt at
Speaker 1: the horrific beating of Tyree Nichols. I told you and
Speaker 1: many many others that you did not need to watch
Speaker 1: the video in order to feel like you are connected
Speaker 1: to two and want justice, because you see, we are
Speaker 1: filled with a lot of trauma. Our bodies are holding
Speaker 1: traumatic tissue, right And I saw a post the other
Speaker 1: day that said that ourselves actually are hold like nine
Speaker 1: generations of trauma, which seems absolutely insane. But then at
Speaker 1: the same time you're like, oh, this makes sense. So
Speaker 1: when people say things like, oh, you know, these are
Speaker 1: just a couple of bad people or a couple of
Speaker 1: bad cops, and it's not all cops and baul blah,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, it's an entire fucking system that my
Speaker 1: ancestors have been fighting for and against for hundreds of years.
Speaker 1: Like that's the reason why I can't watch these videos
Speaker 1: that I can't watch for entertainment films like twelve years
Speaker 1: a slave or you know biopics that are steeped in
Speaker 1: this country's violent history, because I feel it physically manifest
Speaker 1: in my body, and in order for me to continue
Speaker 1: to do the work that I do, I need to
Speaker 1: have some boundaries in my self care and self preservation
Speaker 1: because you see, they are trying to kill us, and
Speaker 1: they are succeeding. Whether it is through heart disease, heart attack,
Speaker 1: whether it is through drug overdose suicide, whether it is
Speaker 1: through shootings, mass shootings, or police shootings or police beatings
Speaker 1: or suffocations. They are trying to kill us. White supremacy
Speaker 1: is working over time. And what I find, folks, is
Speaker 1: that if we don't set some type of boundaries, if
Speaker 1: we don't find a way to delve into what our
Speaker 1: purpose and path is in creating some type of change,
Speaker 1: in feeling like our time spent here is about doing
Speaker 1: more than what is for our own fucking comfort. I
Speaker 1: have white folks that listen to this show that DM
Speaker 1: me often send me tweets messages showing their outrage and
Speaker 1: disgust and saying, what can I do? I want to
Speaker 1: do something and we all I can tell every single
Speaker 1: white person that listens to me on a regular basis
Speaker 1: is you need to talk to your white family members,
Speaker 1: your white friends, your white colleagues, because they don't listen
Speaker 1: to us. It is like sending out a fucking dog
Speaker 1: whistle and if falling on non listening ears, they don't
Speaker 1: listen to us, but they may listen to you. And
Speaker 1: what I am looking for is not white people that
Speaker 1: want to be patted on the back for doing the
Speaker 1: right fucking thing. I want white people who have black mindsets,
Speaker 1: mindsets that are steeped in justice and equity, right and
Speaker 1: challenging a system that you know was made for your comfort.
Speaker 1: But you are choosing choosing to use that privilege in
Speaker 1: that voice to wake up your fucking neighbors, your friends,
Speaker 1: your family because you see, what I have real lies
Speaker 1: is that it is going to take a majority of
Speaker 1: white Americans to choose consciousness, to choose discomfort, to choose
Speaker 1: the knowing rather than the ignorance. And right now we
Speaker 1: are at a slippery motherfucking slope where you have the
Speaker 1: descentenses of the world, and the McCarthy's of the world,
Speaker 1: and the mcconnells of the world, and the Abbots of
Speaker 1: the world, and the Trumps of the world, and the
Speaker 1: Bannons of the world and the Giuliani's of the world
Speaker 1: that are working fucking overtime to keep you disinformed and
Speaker 1: full of fucking white rage. And what I am begging
Speaker 1: for is that white people don't fall for the rope
Speaker 1: of dope that we are not going to get through
Speaker 1: this life right this authoritarianism, this fascism that is raining
Speaker 1: down supreme one state after the other, fucking North Dakota.
Speaker 1: It's threatening to jail librarians, google it. Where the fuck
Speaker 1: do you think that this is headed. Queer people, black people,
Speaker 1: and people of color are low hanging fruit for fascism.
Speaker 1: You're next. Because if you don't look like them, if
Speaker 1: you don't think like them, if you don't pray like them,
Speaker 1: if you don't love like them, if you don't talk
Speaker 1: and walk like them, if you don't hate like them,
Speaker 1: they are coming for you. So if we don't spend
Speaker 1: our time in whatever time this God and this universe
Speaker 1: is providing for us right now, to figure out how
Speaker 1: to activate those around us, then we are wasting time
Speaker 1: and we are wasting breath, and frankly, we don't have
Speaker 1: time to waste. Coming up next is my conversation with
Speaker 1: Christina Sinsoon Ramirez, who is the president of next Gen,
Speaker 1: the nation's largest youth voting organization that got a lot
Speaker 1: of young people to the polls, which is why our
Speaker 1: midterm elections, on top of black people sharing up in
Speaker 1: mass why Kevin McCarthy's majority is so fucking slim. So
Speaker 1: we get into a conversation about the youth vote, about
Speaker 1: what is turning the youth on, what are they connecting
Speaker 1: to and disconnecting from, and how to keep these folks
Speaker 1: engaged because there are some of the last hopes that
Speaker 1: we have. So coming up next my conversation with Christina
Speaker 1: Sinson Ramirez, folks, I am very excited to welcome to
Speaker 1: Woke f Daily for the first time. Christina Sinson Ramirez,
Speaker 1: who is the president and executive director of next Gen America,
Speaker 1: one of the nation's largest youth voter mobilization efforts and organizations. Christina,
Speaker 1: you know we are in the beginning of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three and twenty twenty two. The twenty twenty two I
Speaker 1: talk about it as if it is its own title,
Speaker 1: because it caused so much issues in friction and anxiety
Speaker 1: because of the midterm elections. The midterm elections boasted the
Speaker 1: highest youth voter turnout that we've ever seen. Right, it
Speaker 1: was historic in a lot of ways. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of speculation that folks have had as to why
Speaker 1: I believe that youth are always attacked prior to any election,
Speaker 1: that they're never going to turn out, that they're not reliable.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of negativity. And so I want to
Speaker 1: before we dive into where we are right now, I
Speaker 1: want to give you an opportunity to reflect on where
Speaker 1: we have come from from the twenty twenty two midterm elections. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you just had so many important things right
Speaker 1: there about like the myths about young people that this
Speaker 1: election busted through, and also the last two elections. So
Speaker 1: we've had historic high turnout in twenty eighteen, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: the highest youth voter turnout in American history twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and everyone said Democrats were going to lose, and they
Speaker 1: were going to lose terribly, and then they held the Senate.
Speaker 1: They flipped a Senate seat and Republicans won by a
Speaker 1: time emergin the House and you can see the ship
Speaker 1: show that it is now because they don't have the
Speaker 1: full numbers to actually govern even even with holding the majority,
Speaker 1: because their party is a mess. And so young people
Speaker 1: in large parts saved American democracy. And you know, the
Speaker 1: myth about young people is twofold. One is that young
Speaker 1: people are apathetic, that they don't care. Well, this is
Speaker 1: actually the most politically engaged generation in American history. And
Speaker 1: the second thing is that as people get older, they're
Speaker 1: just going to get more progressive. And what we're seeing
Speaker 1: with older millennials as they're aging out of like the
Speaker 1: younger voter population, which I'm an older millennial, is that
Speaker 1: we are actually staying progressive. And there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of research needs to be done on why. But you know,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a huge part, is that we
Speaker 1: are also the most young people represent the most diverse
Speaker 1: generation in American history. And if you look at who
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is today, it doesn't look like most
Speaker 1: of America and it doesn't represent the needs and especially
Speaker 1: young people. They're either people of color or queer themselves,
Speaker 1: or they have friends that are, and they look around
Speaker 1: them they say, I don't want to be aligned with
Speaker 1: a party that doesn't even give us space to fully
Speaker 1: exist as full equal human beings in this country, and
Speaker 1: so I think that that's also a huge part of
Speaker 1: why you're seeing young people stay progressive. And the last
Speaker 1: part just being that this is the first generation in
Speaker 1: American history to be worse off than their parents economically,
Speaker 1: and so young people also are trying to not just
Speaker 1: make change around the margins, They're really trying to make
Speaker 1: a bold, progressive policy change. And that's why you see
Speaker 1: so many young people turning out, is they understand that
Speaker 1: they have power to make a real difference. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to dig into a couple of things that
Speaker 1: you said, but most notably the fact that this generation
Speaker 1: is going to be far worse off economically than their
Speaker 1: parents generation. I would also argue emotionally and spiritually because
Speaker 1: of the number of traumas that they are up against, right,
Speaker 1: global health pandemic, you know, of impending recession, climate change crises.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk to you about, you know,
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you hear from
Speaker 1: young people with regard to not having had their parents
Speaker 1: generations and before them set them up for success. What
Speaker 1: is the what is what is the feeling and the
Speaker 1: response to what we know is a fairly new statistic.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: you have young people so wanting deep changes and deep
Speaker 1: structural change also in an economy and how the economy
Speaker 1: works is this is a generation also that grew up
Speaker 1: into in the wake of the two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: financial crisis that saw occupy Wall Street. You had Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders run for president and aptly name greed by the
Speaker 1: ultra ultra wealthy in this country as causing a growing
Speaker 1: gulf of inequality and tax policy, labor policy, wage disparities
Speaker 1: all helping grow that divide. And so you know, you
Speaker 1: have a huge flow of information for young people on
Speaker 1: social media where they don't have to look at a
Speaker 1: traditional outlets about how to develop their own ideas and
Speaker 1: understanding of the world. This is a generation that is
Speaker 1: most likely to live with their parents since the Great Depression, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, least likely to own a home. And you have, Yes,
Speaker 1: a lot of young people are our young families, but
Speaker 1: you also have a lot of young people that are
Speaker 1: saying I don't feel like I can ever have kids
Speaker 1: because of the amount of debt I have, or because
Speaker 1: I'm afraid of the future of the climate crisis and
Speaker 1: just the amount of economic and you know climate instability
Speaker 1: that I feel in this moment, and so it's a
Speaker 1: huge burden you said mentally, emotionally, and but I do
Speaker 1: think you know at next and we are an explicitly
Speaker 1: progressive organization, but we don't put our hope in any
Speaker 1: single one politician or party to solve these problems. We
Speaker 1: put our hope in America's young people, because if we
Speaker 1: look at any time, our country has made a great
Speaker 1: leap forward on an issue that people said was impossible
Speaker 1: to solve or was just going to take longer. It
Speaker 1: took the courage, imagination, and impatience of young people pushing
Speaker 1: to make that change. You know, I just I oftentimes
Speaker 1: say that I feel really bad for today's youth. I
Speaker 1: feel like the prior generation and generations have failed them.
Speaker 1: And it is largely Bernie Sanders was completely right. It
Speaker 1: is largely due to greed. It is largely due to
Speaker 1: this idea that we are not We're an abundant nation
Speaker 1: for some right and then for everyone else. You're left
Speaker 1: to fight for the scraps that are left behind. And
Speaker 1: that is what we've left our young people when we've
Speaker 1: given them, We've told them all you need to go
Speaker 1: to college. Right, if you want to make it in America,
Speaker 1: you need to go to college and be competitive and
Speaker 1: then put yourself in six figures worth of debt. So
Speaker 1: then when you get out of college, you have to
Speaker 1: take the first job that comes your way. That may
Speaker 1: not even be a good one because you've got to
Speaker 1: start paying back those student laws. Because the likelihood that
Speaker 1: you're going to pay them back, you know, before you
Speaker 1: turn fifty is real slim, right, um, and again depending
Speaker 1: on what kind of feel that you go into. So
Speaker 1: I want to switch gears to what it was And
Speaker 1: I know we've touched upon this, but what it was
Speaker 1: that you think really got young people to the polls
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, because you know, we know that
Speaker 1: mid term elections are historically low voter turnout. It is
Speaker 1: really the I would say that the fifty to sixty
Speaker 1: five year olds that are more likely to turn out,
Speaker 1: and that is the generation that is still quite conservative
Speaker 1: in their thinking and you know, our heart are more
Speaker 1: likely to attach themselves to the Oh, America was once great,
Speaker 1: So we we're with the make America great again trumpism crowd.
Speaker 1: What compelled these this this crop of young people to
Speaker 1: recognize the importance of this midterm. You know, we saw
Speaker 1: we were expecting high youth voter turnout and then I
Speaker 1: think what really solidified for a lot of young people
Speaker 1: who had turned out again and historic numbers in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty twenty, but they caught Republicans and I
Speaker 1: think everyone by surprise. This election was just the historic
Speaker 1: numbers by which young people out and young people turned out,
Speaker 1: and how many voted for Democrats. And you can really
Speaker 1: look at it as this was an election in a
Speaker 1: referendum on protecting the rights of abortion and an entire
Speaker 1: generation of young people that had grown up with the
Speaker 1: right to decide what happened with their own bodies and
Speaker 1: their own futures, their own health and that was taken away.
Speaker 1: So our polling showed that two thirds of young voters
Speaker 1: said they felt like abortion was on the ballot and
Speaker 1: it was motivating them to vote. You had historic numbers
Speaker 1: of young women in particular registering to vote on their
Speaker 1: own in key states. In some states like Pennsylvania, you
Speaker 1: saw women registering by a ten point margin difference of
Speaker 1: but then men after the decision to overturn Row and
Speaker 1: eighty one percent or sorry, seventy one percent of young
Speaker 1: women that turned out to vote this election voted for
Speaker 1: Democrats and fifty three percent of young men, so we
Speaker 1: saw a huge gender gap. Still, the majority of young people,
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly by a twenty eight point margin, voted for Democrats
Speaker 1: this election. That's exit. Pulling from circle are good friends
Speaker 1: at Touch University, but taking away a fundamental right of
Speaker 1: an entire generation helped young people get motivated and also
Speaker 1: understand that again fascism was on the ballot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's and it's hard I think for
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, Actually I don't know. Why
Speaker 1: do you think that it's harder, seemingly harder for older
Speaker 1: people to wrap their minds around fascism, and yet the
Speaker 1: younger generation seems to have gotten it, like oh no, no,
Speaker 1: And is it because they're fresh out of schooling so
Speaker 1: they understand like the current issues and comparative government in
Speaker 1: a way that older people are so far departed from
Speaker 1: understanding comparative government in that way. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: there are a lot of older folks that are also
Speaker 1: concerned about the growth and fascism and authoritarianism. But when
Speaker 1: we look at voting patterns and where people are voting.
Speaker 1: It's true that the oldest generations are still voting for
Speaker 1: candidates and a party that it has really veered towards
Speaker 1: fascism and authoritarianism and QAnon conspiracy theories and you name it.
Speaker 1: You know, you see that younger people are the targets
Speaker 1: of what where authoritarian rule and fascist rule gets to
Speaker 1: determine who gets to be fully American, whose rights get
Speaker 1: to protect and be protected, well, immigrants, people of color,
Speaker 1: queer folks, trans folks, they become the target. And so
Speaker 1: a lot of those folks are younger and or identify
Speaker 1: in that way that are younger. And so that's I
Speaker 1: think a huge reason why you see young people saying
Speaker 1: no to a fascist's gime that has no place for
Speaker 1: communities of color, for indigenous folks, for queer folks, and
Speaker 1: it was even willing to go to the extreme of
Speaker 1: rolling back reproductive rights and healthcare on you know, any
Speaker 1: childbearing age woman in this country. You know, it's just it,
Speaker 1: it's so absolutely wild to think about how much America
Speaker 1: has regressed. I mean, for the first time, I think
Speaker 1: it was in twenty twenty one, was the first time
Speaker 1: that America was labeled as a backsliding democracy right in
Speaker 1: the history of this country, and that that in it
Speaker 1: of itself didn't set off more alarms, right and I
Speaker 1: and I mean that in the way that if you're
Speaker 1: announcing that one of the stalwarts of democracy in the
Speaker 1: world is now backsliding and trending in in the negative direction,
Speaker 1: you would think that that would be on everybody's headline paper,
Speaker 1: right like it would it would be headline news. And
Speaker 1: yet it's not so fast forward. You know, we have
Speaker 1: midterm elections. Thank god, young people showed out, Thank god
Speaker 1: people of color showed out. Thank god Black people came
Speaker 1: out and recognized that every election is the most consequential election,
Speaker 1: given the lengths that the Republican Party is willing to
Speaker 1: go to steal an election, to deny a free and
Speaker 1: fair election. And so now we have arrived at a
Speaker 1: place where Kevin McCarthy is the Fisher Price Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House basically justin name only, because he's given away
Speaker 1: every bit of credibility and every bit of power to
Speaker 1: the far Speaker of the House. And you have Democrats
Speaker 1: still have the Senate and the White House. What do
Speaker 1: young people what are as they are seeing this shit
Speaker 1: show unfold in the House of Representatives and this implosion
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, or should I say the revealing
Speaker 1: of who the Republican Party is? What do young people think?
Speaker 1: Because in my mind I would say, well, god damn,
Speaker 1: you know, if this is who we have in charge,
Speaker 1: maybe I should just opt all the way out. Or
Speaker 1: is it working in the reverse where people young people
Speaker 1: are like, this is the ship show that we have.
Speaker 1: I gotta opt all the way in. You know. I
Speaker 1: think one, young people are overwhelmingly progressive, right, but they
Speaker 1: are many don't identify as Democrats. They care about progressive policy, right,
Speaker 1: And I think that we have quickly become a one
Speaker 1: party that clearly believes in democracy and one that doesn't.
Speaker 1: And so you have one choice really at this point.
Speaker 1: But I also think, you know, even in a moment
Speaker 1: like this where there is a lot of cynicism, what
Speaker 1: I see is also a lot of hope from young people.
Speaker 1: And also you and I are like on the older side, right,
Speaker 1: like enough to remember the Democratic Party of the nineties
Speaker 1: that was willing to sell out black women, that was
Speaker 1: willing to sell out immigrants, that was willing to sell
Speaker 1: out the queer community, that was pretty similar on the
Speaker 1: Republican Party, on foreign pacy, on this similar place on
Speaker 1: the social safety net, and we've come a very long way.
Speaker 1: Like so I like to remind ourselves that we are
Speaker 1: at a place where the Democratic Party has centered canceling
Speaker 1: student debt, has centered tackling the climate crisis, has been
Speaker 1: willing to have hard conversations about race and policing in
Speaker 1: this country there is a clear distinction, and also supports
Speaker 1: gay marriage. Like young people organizing and communities of color
Speaker 1: organizing have shifted the Democratic Party. So while we're in
Speaker 1: a moment where there's fascist and authoritarian threats that are
Speaker 1: very real, there's also something happening in the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: where the voices that were often pushed to the margins
Speaker 1: are being centered. And I think that that's an exciting
Speaker 1: moment that young people also recognize as happening. And also,
Speaker 1: you have very exciting, young, dynamic candidates running. Even while
Speaker 1: the House isn't it feels like some peall, you have
Speaker 1: young candidates that are an elected office that are helping
Speaker 1: frame for young people what's possible and make them feel
Speaker 1: like their voices are now being heard in the halls
Speaker 1: of Washington. Christina talks to us to about how the
Speaker 1: ever apparent climate crisis is shaping up the youth vote
Speaker 1: as well. In the past few years, every fire season,
Speaker 1: every hurricane season, every tornado season has been quote unquote historic. Right.
Speaker 1: We had people over the holiday season frozen to death
Speaker 1: in their cars because the temperatures dropped in such an
Speaker 1: abrupt way in Buffalo, New York and it was more
Speaker 1: like a snow hurricane than a snowstorm that hit that area.
Speaker 1: We have seen billions of animals die in Australia due
Speaker 1: to fire. How does climate change play with the young people?
Speaker 1: And as we look at that and guns and abortion,
Speaker 1: police violence, how would you kind of rate you know,
Speaker 1: these levels of importance for them? You know. So our
Speaker 1: organization was started ten years ago with the intention of
Speaker 1: being able to build a political force that would be
Speaker 1: would be able to push candidates to tackle the climate
Speaker 1: crisis to the scale needed. And we originally started organizing
Speaker 1: all people, but then we quickly realized like within the
Speaker 1: first year, oh, most people that care about climate change
Speaker 1: are the people that are going to have to face
Speaker 1: its greatest consequences, young people. We need to focus on
Speaker 1: organizing young people and building up their political power and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that ten years ago when we started
Speaker 1: and I wasn't here, the other people will tell you
Speaker 1: it's like everyone said it was a waste of money,
Speaker 1: that it was a waste of time, young people would
Speaker 1: never turn out. And it's ten years later and we've
Speaker 1: had the highest youth voter turnout. We passed the Inflation
Speaker 1: Reduction Act, which is the largest single climate bill that
Speaker 1: any country's class passed in the world to tackle the
Speaker 1: climate crisis. And if all of it gets implemented, we'll
Speaker 1: be able to cut carbon emissions by forty percent in
Speaker 1: a very short time period. And so young people the
Speaker 1: crisis as in their top three issues, and most young
Speaker 1: people I talked to, you know, we're feeling. People are
Speaker 1: feeling the real consequences of the climate crisis. You know,
Speaker 1: I live in Texas where we had the historic Texas
Speaker 1: freeze and our Texas singers past out blamed his five
Speaker 1: year old daughters, you know, his little daughters on that trip,
Speaker 1: and seven hundred people were estimated to have died died.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you total up the number of
Speaker 1: people that are dying from these catastrophes in a year
Speaker 1: or two years, it's more people than died in nine
Speaker 1: to eleven. Right, so these are hand made tagities where
Speaker 1: thousands of Americans and we're just not I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the globe, but there's thousands of Americans are paying with
Speaker 1: their lives. And so you know, there is also the
Speaker 1: urgency and that's I think why you see young people voting,
Speaker 1: Like there is a sense of urgency that maybe we
Speaker 1: could come out of authoritarian rule, but you layer on
Speaker 1: a climate catastrophe and if we don't take the action necessary,
Speaker 1: we have to face the long term actions. It's always
Speaker 1: bewildering to me on the climate crisis. And this is
Speaker 1: when we talk about greed in American politics and like
Speaker 1: who people really work for that it is so clear.
Speaker 1: I'm like they care so much about power and money
Speaker 1: that they don't even care about their legacy. Like we
Speaker 1: will look back at this end action on the climate
Speaker 1: crisis in the same way we do on the positions
Speaker 1: that policy and politicians made in their immorality on slavery,
Speaker 1: Like there is no position where this is okay to
Speaker 1: do this to an entire generation of future generations, Like
Speaker 1: do they not even give a damn about their grandchildren? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, as we wrap up. Last question for you, Christina,
Speaker 1: is this, what do you think the biggest myth is
Speaker 1: about this generation of voters and what do people need
Speaker 1: to truly know about them. I think what we talked
Speaker 1: about at the beginning is that people think young people
Speaker 1: are apathetic. This really is not just the most politically
Speaker 1: engaged generation of people voting, but this is a generation
Speaker 1: that is marching in the streets, that is volunteering, that
Speaker 1: is really trying to care about big, broad social justice
Speaker 1: issues and take action on them, whether it's the climate crisis,
Speaker 1: abortion rights, or criminal justice reform. You see young people
Speaker 1: taking action at unprecedented levels and a very rapid sharing
Speaker 1: of ideas across social media about ways we can transform society.
Speaker 1: So it's while it's a hard time, it's also a
Speaker 1: time of rapid experimentation and exchange of ideas that I
Speaker 1: think is really exciting, and so I feel like that
Speaker 1: gives me a lot of hope, is to see so
Speaker 1: many young people engaged and this is not just like
Speaker 1: a side project to care about social justices, very much
Speaker 1: about how people see themselves and understand their place in
Speaker 1: the world. Christina, it has been an absolute pleasure chatting
Speaker 1: with you today, tell the listeners how they can get
Speaker 1: involved and find out more about next GYM. You can
Speaker 1: go to next gen America dot org. One thing I
Speaker 1: would say is, you know we run the largest YOUTHO
Speaker 1: operation in the country. We were on two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty five college campuses last election in eight states. Our
Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand volunteers helped us send twenty five million
Speaker 1: texts and phone calls to young people. We also even
Speaker 1: organize our volunteers organized on dating apps because you can
Speaker 1: see it to buy age, political persuasion, geography, and we
Speaker 1: say there's nothing sex here than sliding into people's dms
Speaker 1: and talking about the big deep moody. So I don't
Speaker 1: do it because it's creepy, because enough over forty, but
Speaker 1: like everyone, I should do it and join in. And
Speaker 1: you can volunteer with us from anywhere you are. Let's
Speaker 1: build a political force to transform our country together. Amazing.
Speaker 1: Christina sen Soon Ramirez, thank you so much for making
Speaker 1: the time to join wokee F appreciate you. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on woke
Speaker 1: F as always power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fun,