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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm Brian Tayler Cohen. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning into our Yes on fifty Voter Registration Day rally.

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Speaker 1: We've got an amazing guest list today. We're joined by

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Speaker 1: some of the biggest fighters on the left who are

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Speaker 1: meeting this moment with the urgency that it deserves. And

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Speaker 1: of course I'm joined now by Governor Gavin Newsom.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit of our back and forth, just want to let

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Speaker 1: folks who are watching know that we are hosting this

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Speaker 1: rally because of what's happening right now, and what's happening

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Speaker 1: right now is existential, not just for the left but

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Speaker 1: for democracy. We have watched as Trump has issued his

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Speaker 1: clarion call to Texas for five seats and how they responded.

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Speaker 1: We've watched as he did the same thing in Missouri

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Speaker 1: and how they responded. We're going to see the same

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Speaker 1: thing in Indiana and then Florida, and I wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: surprised if we see other states do the exact same thing.

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Speaker 1: The reality is that this is how Republicans engineered themselves

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Speaker 1: into a permanent majority, which may makes it all the

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Speaker 1: more important that we actually fight back. So the whole

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Speaker 1: Republican movement across the country is going to pour money

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Speaker 1: into California because they know that if they can beat

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Speaker 1: this thing in California, then they have nothing to worry

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Speaker 1: about in terms of pushing back against this overt blatant

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Speaker 2: So what we'll ask you to do.

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Speaker 1: Throughout this evening as we try and raise money to

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Speaker 1: counteract the avalanche of funds that are going to come

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Speaker 1: in from across the country on the Republican side, is

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Speaker 1: we're going to ask you to go ahead and donate

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Speaker 1: to Yes on fifty live dot com. This will help

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Speaker 1: our efforts to make sure that everybody in California knows

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Speaker 1: the stakes of what's going to happen on November fourth,

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Speaker 1: knows the stakes of this referendum coming up, and knows

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Speaker 1: that it is existential again not just for Democrats, but

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Speaker 1: for the preservation of democracy itself. So that's going to

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Speaker 1: be an important point that we're going to hit on

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Speaker 1: a numerous times throughout this evening. So with that said,

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Speaker 1: I'm now honored to be joined by the Governor of California, Gavenus,

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Speaker 1: and thanks so much for taking the time.

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Speaker 3: It's great to be with you. Brian, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So we are obviously broadcasting right now in the midst of.

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Speaker 2: A really difficult week.

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Speaker 1: We have seen gun violence occur with the shooting last

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Speaker 1: week against Charlie Kirk. We have seen the overt assaults

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Speaker 1: against free speech at the hands of Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: Pam Bondi and all of these other purported free speech warriors.

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Speaker 1: And so in light of what we're seeing right now,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are a lot of folks who

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Speaker 1: are watching this who feel, you know, exhausted, And so

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Speaker 1: what would you say to those people who are watching

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Speaker 1: to let them know that this is worth staying on

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Speaker 1: top of, this is worth continuing to fight for.

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Speaker 3: Well, I first say is you're a human.

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Speaker 4: If you're not feeling exhausted, exhausting and anxious in some

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Speaker 4: ways fearful, then you're not breathing, you're not living.

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Speaker 3: And I just I think we have to give some

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Speaker 3: people grace.

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Speaker 4: The last five six, seven years, we've been through a

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Speaker 4: once in a lifetime pandemic social unrest. We went through

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Speaker 4: all of the challenges coming out of COVID, with supply

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Speaker 4: chain issues and away inflation and wars of aggression and Ukraine,

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Speaker 4: and so I just want to acknowledge all that stacking

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Speaker 4: of stress that everybody's feeling. And of course last week,

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Speaker 4: you know, just the the ultimate punctuation. And for just

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Speaker 4: for what it's worth, Brian, you know this. I started

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Speaker 4: a podcast not too many months ago and Charlie Kirk

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Speaker 4: was my first guest. He was gracious enough to not

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Speaker 4: only say yes, he flew out to do it in person,

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Speaker 4: and I spend not just the hour plus in a

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Speaker 4: very civil conversation with Charlie, I spent time with him

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Speaker 4: after and we stayed in touch, including my teams, staying

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Speaker 4: in touch pretty consistently. And that's the spirit I want

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Speaker 4: to bring to this conversation is one of civility, one

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Speaker 4: of grace, one of humanity, common humanity. Obviously we have

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Speaker 4: deep differences of opinion. Obviously he was very offended by

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Speaker 4: positions I hold dear, and I in turn very offended

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Speaker 4: by things that he said and positions he held. But

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Speaker 4: the fact is we had that opportunity to engage, and

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Speaker 4: so I would say, in response to your question, it's

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Speaker 4: absolutely essential that we, in the spirit of this moment,

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Speaker 4: hold ourselves to a higher level of civility and accountability

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Speaker 4: in the spirit of this conversation, accountability to the moment

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Speaker 4: we're in and the consequences of giving into cynicism and

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Speaker 4: closing in this spirit, you're the antidote to that cynicism,

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Speaker 4: that fear and anxiety. The fact that you've tuned in

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Speaker 4: I cannot impress upon people watching it's all at stake.

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Speaker 4: This is a profound and consequential moment in American history.

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Speaker 3: We can lose this republic if we do not.

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Speaker 4: Assert ourselves and stand tall at this moment and stand

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Speaker 4: guard to this republic in our democra. Chris, I feel

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Speaker 4: that in my bones, particularly in light of what's happened

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about the California map redraw, this situation

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Speaker 1: that we're in right now. We have, you know, not

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Speaker 1: that many weeks to go until this referendum, until November,

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Speaker 1: and so they're going to be folks watching who say, look,

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Speaker 1: California is a big blue bastion. Why do we have

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Speaker 1: to worry about this? This thing is already a done deal.

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Speaker 1: Why is this worth talking about right now?

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Speaker 4: Well, because it's Prop fifty for a reason, impacts all

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Speaker 4: fifty states. It's not an electoral map. It's a simple

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Speaker 4: math issue.

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Speaker 3: You said it.

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Speaker 4: In the oddset, Donald Trump realizes and recognizes that he.

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Speaker 3: Is likely, almost overwhelmingly.

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Speaker 4: Likely to lose the midterms, and so he's trying to

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Speaker 4: hold on to power. And the only way you can

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Speaker 4: hold onto power is to rig the system, to change

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Speaker 4: the game. He's not playing by a different set of roles.

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Speaker 4: He's playing by no rules whatsoever. And that's why he

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Speaker 4: dialed up Greg Abbott Intoxis and suggested that he's quote

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Speaker 4: unquote entitled to five seats. They did his bidding, and

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Speaker 4: as you suggest that bidding is being done in real

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Speaker 4: time in Missouri, in Indiana, it will be advanced in

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Speaker 4: states like Florida. And you may have seen today the

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Speaker 4: comments that were made about Utah and Ohio as well.

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Speaker 4: So this is as real as it gets. And the

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Speaker 4: whole idea of redistricting, i assure you, is the tip

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Speaker 4: of the iceberg, because he's also setting up the parameters

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Speaker 4: in the condition where he can suggest that when he loses,

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Speaker 4: that's up to us if we do our job. When

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Speaker 4: he loses the midterm, he could suggest it was rigged itself.

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Speaker 4: He's quite creating a chill. And let me give you

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Speaker 4: an example of what I mean by that as it

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Speaker 4: relates to voter turnout and intimidation tactics. When we kicked

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Speaker 4: off the campaign for Yes On fifty, we did it

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Speaker 4: at the Democracy Center in southern California. Brian, you were

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Speaker 4: there in little Tokyo. Well, and many of you watch

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Speaker 4: you know this well. Litu Tokyo is the site of

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Speaker 4: sacred site where we shamefully bust the Japanese as we

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Speaker 4: interned the Japanese. That happened, and at that exact same site,

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Speaker 4: Donald Trump sent masked private army, He sent out border

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Speaker 4: dozen or dozen members of Congress, one hundred plus community

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Speaker 4: in the first place. And a poor soul that just

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Speaker 4: happened to be out there selling strawberries was disappeared by

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Speaker 4: that same private army. That is a preview of things

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Speaker 4: to come, I assure you. At voting booths and polling

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Speaker 4: places across this country, just as we said after he

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Speaker 4: federalized the National Guard, and he sent the military not overseas,

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Speaker 4: he sent the military to a United States city in

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles, seven hundred active duty marines is intended to

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Speaker 4: chill free speech and free expression. The stakes could not

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Speaker 4: be more clear, and the stakes could not be more consequential.

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Speaker 2: And finally, let's finish off with this.

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Speaker 1: There are folks who are going to say that this isn't,

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Speaker 1: this isn't an example of good governance. And so Democrats

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Speaker 1: should should kind of practice what they preach and not

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Speaker 1: do the same thing that they have disavowed for so long.

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Speaker 1: And so in this particular moment, what do you say

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Speaker 1: to those people.

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Speaker 3: Well, we can certainly do that.

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Speaker 4: We can have a candlelight vigil, we can hold hands,

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Speaker 4: we can talk about the way the world should be.

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Speaker 3: We can come out with a white paper and.

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Speaker 4: Talk about, well, how did all this happen? They're gonna

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Speaker 4: be some best selling books. As we watched our democracy

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Speaker 3: We could see more.

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Speaker 4: Companies get socialized and nationalized. We can watch universities sell out.

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Speaker 4: bit more seriously when he called the Democratic Party a

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Speaker 4: an attorney general, it's leader who said that any speech

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Speaker 4: we can push back, and we do it with some muscularity.

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Speaker 4: We did this in response to what Donald Trump has done,

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Speaker 4: and we've done it in closing Brian in the most

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Speaker 4: We're not only using our formal authority, our ability to

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Speaker 4: moral authority in this respect. Fact, it's temporary, it's transparent

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Speaker 4: and its democratic meaning we're putting in front of the voters.

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Speaker 4: This is the first maps in the United States that

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Speaker 4: will be on the ballot, and it's a temporary response

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Speaker 4: to this emergency, this crisis of the rigging of the midterms,

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Speaker 4: lose this republic, will lose this democracy. It is not

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Speaker 4: an overstatement. This is code read. We all need to

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Speaker 4: wake up to what's going on. And maybe, in final words,

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Speaker 4: maybe I'm saying that from the prism of being a

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Speaker 4: I watched this private army that is the most funded

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Speaker 4: expression of speech. Maybe it's because I'm sitting here where

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Speaker 4: the UC regions are meeting tomorrow to discuss a one

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Speaker 4: point nine billion dollar extortion fine because institutions of higher

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Speaker 4: learning and independent thinking are under assault by Donald Trump.

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Speaker 4: That happens to be UCLA in my state, maybe it's

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Speaker 4: to the prison of that, but I assure you in

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Speaker 4: preview of things to come perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Put and to underscore how important that is. The reality

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Speaker 1: is Republicans know all of these things, which is why, again,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned in the beginning, they're going to pour

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Speaker 1: With that said, i'd like to take the opportunity now

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Speaker 5: That's the nice as interesting.

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Speaker 5: I bet you go stipend.

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Speaker 6: Thank you all for being here, thank you for inviting

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this is pretty simple. In an ideal world,

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Speaker 6: And now we're gonna we're gonna bring in a Massachusetts luminary.

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Speaker 6: Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the stream.

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Speaker 5: Our real home states senator Centator.

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Speaker 6: Great to see you.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I just see you.

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Speaker 6: The Patriots are one and one. That's the best news

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Speaker 6: I've gotten all week.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 12: I do it just fine? Thank you very much personally.

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Speaker 12: But do keep in mind I am here in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 12: And so I just think it's an important part for

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Speaker 12: Right, Can I be just a little dorky and make

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Speaker 1: It is my honor now to be able to introduce

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Speaker 1: two more folks. We have Ben Macellus, who co founded

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Speaker 1: the Midas Touch Network, which is the top viewed political

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel and the most listened to podcast each month

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Speaker 1: of this year. Huge congratulations to Ben and your brothers

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Speaker 1: for what you've built in my dis touch. I could

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Speaker 1: not be more proud to see that the left is

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Speaker 1: fighting back and you guys are a huge, huge, huge

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Speaker 1: part of that. So thank you for the work you're doing,

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Speaker 1: and congratulations on all of the well deserved accolades that

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Speaker 1: you guys have gotten. And I'm also going to call

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Speaker 1: in Governor Newsom now, who of course is the center

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Speaker 1: of all of this. We have been, you know, begging

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Speaker 1: and pleading for Democrats who are willing to match their

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Speaker 1: their words and their rhetoric with action, and nobody has

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Speaker 1: better exemplified that than the Governor. So I'll let you

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Speaker 1: both take it from here.

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Speaker 15: Governor Newsom, it's great to see the man of the

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Speaker 15: hour right now. When your name is on Donald Trump's

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Speaker 15: social media, it seems on an almost hourly basis, whether

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Speaker 15: it's Donald Trump claiming that he saved Los Angeles by

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Speaker 15: turning on a magical faucet somewhere in the imaginary border

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Speaker 15: between California and Canada, whether it's Donald Trump saying that

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Speaker 15: he saved Los Angeles again a few months back, whether

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Speaker 15: he whatever he was making up about you today, it

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Speaker 15: seems that you standing up to him is having a

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Speaker 15: certain type of reaction doesn't it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate that. It's a yeah, No, it's a

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Speaker 3: point of pride.

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Speaker 4: I mean there were there was almost forty eight hours

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Speaker 4: where I felt he'd forgotten about me. But you're right, No,

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Speaker 4: he tried to hit me on his way over to

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Speaker 4: the UK. And it's just it's a reminder of what

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Speaker 4: we're up against. Miss and disinformation, just complete bullshit excuse

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Speaker 4: my language, that comes from Donald Trump. And that's why

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Speaker 4: it's important that we're not only winning the war and

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Speaker 4: the spirit of what Beto and Mark just brought to

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Speaker 4: this conversation on the ground and the spirit of what

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Speaker 4: Brian talked about in terms of this grassroots people power

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Speaker 4: effort to push back against the well healed, but it's

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Speaker 4: absolutely critical that we win the messaging war as well,

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Speaker 4: that we organize in a much more I think, a

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Speaker 4: much more intense way to communicate over and over and

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Speaker 4: over again our message across the spectrum, which is just

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Speaker 4: foundational on all these efforts.

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Speaker 15: Look, the federal government once again is heading towards another

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Speaker 15: shutdown potentially, but Donald Trump has ordered MAGA, Mike Johnson

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Speaker 15: and Republiicskens do not even have conversations with Democrats He's

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Speaker 15: repeatedly referred to Democrats as the enemy radical, don't deal

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Speaker 15: with them, don't even talk to them. You've been in

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Speaker 15: politics for a little bit. That's not the way it

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Speaker 15: always was, But it is what Donald Trump has turned

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Speaker 15: the body politic into today. Kind of this zero sum game,

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Speaker 15: if you will, And we see it play out over

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Speaker 15: and over again, and you know, it seems is the

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Speaker 15: American people are letting their voices be heard right now,

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Speaker 15: He's getting more and more nervous, hence trying to rig

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Speaker 15: these midterms.

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Speaker 3: No, look, I mean, I think what you've underscored is

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Speaker 3: the fundamental point here. Trump is weakness. He's weakness masquerade

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Speaker 3: his strength. He's flailing.

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Speaker 4: The economy is cooling, Inflation starting to rise again, consumer

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Speaker 4: confidence is down, credit card debt is going up. The

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Speaker 4: tariffs have terrified our allies, and taxes are being felt

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Speaker 4: on the American people and middle class families. His only

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Speaker 4: legislative success, the Big Beautiful Bill, is anything, but it's

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Speaker 4: a big beautiful betrayal. And we're seeing all of these

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Speaker 4: authoritarian tendencies as a response to that weakness. And the

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Speaker 4: more you see caps in his true social and his tweets,

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Speaker 4: the more. That just underscores the fact that he's flailing.

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Speaker 4: That's why he's trying to rig this election. That's why

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Speaker 4: we're having this conversation. That's what PROB fifty is all about.

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Speaker 4: Pushing back in a meaningful and substantive way. But one

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Speaker 4: cannot underestimate the lengths to which he will go to

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Speaker 4: not just rig the midterms, but the impacts if he's successful,

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Speaker 4: well beyond that. And I really appreciate it, Beto, Elizabeth

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Speaker 4: Warrens that are Warren to others really highlighting that, Goarsman

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Speaker 4: Garcia that this is not just about twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 4: impacts on twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight and

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Speaker 4: beyond the consequences of this initiative to say at the

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Speaker 4: tone and tenor into twenty twenty six, to defecto end

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Speaker 4: the Trump Prentice presidency next year's midterms. Whereas Tommy said

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Speaker 4: in the outset, Donald Trump will no longer be able

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Speaker 4: to sign any bill because we'll finally have a check

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Speaker 4: on his power.

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Speaker 15: You know, living in California is something that I have

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Speaker 15: a great deal of pride about. We are the fourth

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Speaker 15: largest economy in the world. Of California was a country.

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Speaker 15: We are a giver state. We give eighty billion dollars

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Speaker 15: plus more to the federal government than we take. By contrast,

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Speaker 15: Texas takes about seventy five billion dollars more than it gives.

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Speaker 15: You go through every stat and entrepreneurship companies, California is

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Speaker 15: leading the way.

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Speaker 3: Is that mean?

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Speaker 15: But it's constantly under attack by Trump and lots of

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Speaker 15: people in red states who, let's face it, I know

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Speaker 15: how Donald Trump likes to falsely say that the United

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Speaker 15: States subsidizes Canada, which is not accurate and completely false.

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Speaker 15: But let's face it, a lot of these red states

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Speaker 15: are failing and but for California kind of subsidizing the country.

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Speaker 15: Yet they then come and attack us here in California.

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Speaker 5: I don't like that.

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Speaker 16: Gov.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you, man, it's the California derangement syndrome. And

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Speaker 4: with respect to our friend Belle O'Rourke, you're exactly right.

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Speaker 4: Seventy one point one billion dollar taker state, California eighty

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Speaker 4: three point one billion dollar donor state, meaning we provide

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Speaker 4: eighty three plus billion dollars more in revenue to the

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Speaker 4: federal government than we receive back. And that is the case.

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Speaker 4: Vast majority of blue states. But we also have to

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Speaker 4: state the facts. I live in California. You live here.

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Speaker 4: Size of twenty one state populations combined, the fourth largest

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Speaker 4: economy from a GDP in the world. More scientists, engineers,

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Speaker 4: more researchers, more Nobel laureates than any state in the nation.

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Speaker 4: A system of education that's a conveyor belt for talent,

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Speaker 4: the UCCSUS our community college system, pushing out the boundaries

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Speaker 4: of discovery, more venture, your capital, and we dominate in

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Speaker 4: the next big global economy. Thirty two of the top

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Speaker 4: fifty AI companies all here in the state of California.

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Speaker 4: So our state of mind is about not just imagination,

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Speaker 4: but it's innovation. It's dreaming and doing and it's not

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Speaker 4: lost on me and it shouldn't be lost on anybody.

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Speaker 4: That part of our secret sauce is the fact that

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Speaker 4: we are able to get the best in the brightest

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Speaker 4: from around the globe. First round draft choices or a

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Speaker 4: majority minority state that our best doesn't tolerate that diversity.

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Speaker 3: We celebrate that diversity. All of that's on.

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Speaker 4: The line in terms of the assaults of Trump and

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Speaker 4: trump Ism and going after DEI, ESG CRT, anything with

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Speaker 4: three letters. This guy seems to be assaulting, and so

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Speaker 4: what Proposition fifty represents is an opportunity to check his power.

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Speaker 4: It's about checks and balances, it's about the rule of law,

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Speaker 4: it's about coequal branches of government. And that's why I'm

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Speaker 4: so grateful to you and so many others that are

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Speaker 4: tuning in so that we can tune up an understanding

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Speaker 4: of what's at stake with this initiative.

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Speaker 15: Let's talk about this event today before we go National

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Speaker 15: voter registration Day, so it has an added layer of significance.

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Speaker 15: The website is yes on fiftylive dot com. Everybody go there.

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Speaker 15: I'm going to make a donation after this at yes

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Speaker 15: on fiftylive dot com. But you bringing together all of

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Speaker 15: these people here in new media, bringing members of Congress

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Speaker 15: and senators and leaders together, rallying together to support our

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Speaker 15: democracy and to support this existential threat. How big of

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Speaker 15: a deal is this event today, Governor?

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Speaker 3: I think it's huge.

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Speaker 4: Because you guys have done one thing that I think

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Speaker 4: we all need. I need, I mean I imagine you

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Speaker 4: might need. And that's some optimism, some hope, you know.

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Speaker 4: I think that we show up for each other. We're

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Speaker 4: showing up for a cause greater than ourselves. As Beto

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Speaker 4: was saying, two hundred and forty nine years of these

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Speaker 4: enduring principles and values, the best of Roman Republican Greek democracy,

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Speaker 4: about to say, celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary

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Speaker 4: of our founding fathers. It's all on the line, it's

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Speaker 4: all at stake, and I think for me to see

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Speaker 4: everybody show up like this, that's incredible, gives me a

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Speaker 4: sense of optimism and hopefulness. And what I think it

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Speaker 4: also represents from a very organized perspective, is that we're

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Speaker 4: not just engaging platform thinking. We're also engaging platform doing that.

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Speaker 4: We're actually manifesting something here. We have something to be four,

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Speaker 4: we have work to do, we have agency. And what

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Speaker 4: I think this whole engagement tonight represents is the power

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Speaker 4: of the people in a democracy. Brand I said it best.

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Speaker 4: The most important office is office of citizen active, not

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Speaker 4: inerds citizenship, and it's people making contributions three five ten dollars,

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Speaker 4: making contributions by going out there and volunteering. That will

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Speaker 4: be the story that will define not just the success

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Speaker 4: of Prop fifty, but the story that I think will

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Speaker 4: define this moment in the history books as we move

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Speaker 4: into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

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Speaker 15: Governor, thank you for what you're doing. Great conversation. I

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Speaker 15: echo what everyone else said about you, Brian Tyler Cohen.

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Speaker 15: He gave me that very nice intro. But you're the

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Speaker 15: og in YouTube and you've paved the way for a

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Speaker 15: lot of people like us. And thank you for putting

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Speaker 15: this event together, Brian.

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Speaker 5: Governor.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for fighting for us.

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Speaker 15: You give us all hope to see the governor the

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Speaker 15: largest state in the United States, pushing back, fighting for democracy.

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Speaker 15: Thanks for everything you're doing.

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Speaker 5: Governor.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate you, brother, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you both.

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Speaker 1: And look, this is again to echo what Ben and

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Speaker 1: the Governor were saying. This is what it looks like

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Speaker 1: when you actually put words behind action. For so long,

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Speaker 1: Democrats have been begging for not just strongly worded letters,

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Speaker 1: but for actual, real action, for actual push to what

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Speaker 1: we're saying. And that's what we're seeing right here in California.

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Speaker 1: But that's just half the battle. This thing is going

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Speaker 1: to be a referendum on the ballot. But California is

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Speaker 1: a huge state and it's going to real getting the

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Speaker 1: word out to so many people and Republicans are already

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Speaker 1: doing it. The day that this thing was announced, we

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Speaker 1: had Republican operatives sending mailers out to every single address

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Speaker 1: in the state. I know that if you live in California,

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Speaker 1: you've seen them. You've gotten those mailers in your mailbox

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Speaker 1: saying to vote no.

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Speaker 2: We have to push back.

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Speaker 1: This is our way to protect not just the future

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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, but the future of democracy itself,

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Speaker 1: and that relies on being able to reach all of

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Speaker 1: those people who aren't paying attention to politics on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis, which, to be honest, sounds good for everybody's

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Speaker 1: mental health, but the reality is that it's going to

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Speaker 1: take a lot of a lot of push from all

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Speaker 1: of us who are paying attention to make sure that

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Speaker 1: people know what's going on. So we are getting very

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Speaker 1: close to our two hundred thousand dollars mark, which is

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Speaker 1: a huge milestone. But please, if you haven't yet donated,

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Speaker 1: go to yes on fifty live dot com. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited to be able to introduce our two next guests.

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Speaker 1: We have Joe Carducci and Senator Alex Pardia. Alex Badia,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard Jojo from jurors. She's worked so

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Speaker 1: hard to make herself a household. I'm also very proud

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Speaker 1: to be from the same home state as her, the

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Speaker 1: state of New Jersey, where it should be known that

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Speaker 1: we have the best pizza in the country. And Senator Padilla,

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Speaker 1: us senator from right here in my new home state

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Speaker 1: of California. This is the senator who made a name

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Speaker 1: for himself this year by putting his body on the

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Speaker 1: line when he was arrested by the Trump administration for

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Speaker 1: daring speak out. And that's exactly the kind of forward

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Speaker 1: leaning posture that we want to see from our elected officials.

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Speaker 2: So I'll let you guys take it from here.

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Speaker 17: Well, first of all, thank you, Brian. I did not

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Speaker 17: know that you were from the Garden State, the greatest

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Speaker 17: state in the country. No offense, I'm just kidding. I'm

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Speaker 17: here from New Jersey participating in this event for Prop

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Speaker 17: fifty in California because I understand that the stakes of

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Speaker 17: this moment are much greater than the best state on

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Speaker 17: the planet, which is of course New Jersey. Igin no offense,

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Speaker 17: but Senator Padilla, it is wonderful to see you again

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Speaker 17: under slightly better circumstances than the last time we spoke,

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Speaker 17: But I just wanted, yeah, I'm happy to see your face.

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Speaker 17: I feel like we bonded a little bit in a

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Speaker 17: in a in a unique way through some tragedy that

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Speaker 17: you know happened last week. But I wanted to just

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Speaker 17: start with something that is important to me, a thread

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Speaker 17: that ties us together, which is what we are, the

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Speaker 17: children of immigrants. And the governor just said, in this

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Speaker 17: country we celebrate diversity. Your parents, my dad, they believed

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Speaker 17: in the American dream. They worked toward that end, they

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Speaker 17: participated in achieving that. Donald Trump and Maga Republicans they

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Speaker 17: don't appreciate that that diversity. They, on the on the

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Speaker 17: other hand, quite the contrary, they're trying to attack it.

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Speaker 17: And so I want to start there, if you might,

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Speaker 17: with what's at stake right now, for the American dream,

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Speaker 17: for for people like your parents, people like my dad.

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Speaker 11: Sure, no, Jase, You're great to be back with you.

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Speaker 11: And I mean, I think a couple of things. Why

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Speaker 11: does Donald Trump have it in for California so badly?

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Speaker 11: It's because California is like the opposite of his vision.

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Speaker 11: The California is not the most popular state in the nation,

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Speaker 11: the most diverse state in the nation, home to more

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Speaker 11: immigrants than any state in the nation. And as you've

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Speaker 11: been hearing, California has grown to become the fourth largest

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Speaker 11: economy in the world. And that's not a coincidence. That

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Speaker 11: doesn't just that doesn't happen despite the immigrant population. It's

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Speaker 11: because of the immigrant population, the contributions of so many

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Speaker 11: immigrants as workers, of course, but also as consumers and

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Speaker 11: as entrepreneurs. But because of and there's a lot to

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Speaker 11: say about Donald Trump here, but you know, California is

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Speaker 11: the embodiment of what the future of the country is

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Speaker 11: increasingly diverse, and we should be increasingly inclusive. We want

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Speaker 11: to embrace the economic and cultural impact of it. But

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Speaker 11: what does Donald Trump do? He attacks California. This mass

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Speaker 11: deportation agenda that he has started his administration with is

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Speaker 11: centered not just in California but my hometown of Los Angeles.

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Speaker 11: So imagine how offended I feel as a proud son

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Speaker 11: of immigrants when look any of my dad who worked

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Speaker 11: for forty years as a short order cook.

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Speaker 5: My mom worked for.

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Speaker 11: Forty years cleaning houses so that my brother and my

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Speaker 11: sister and I can get a good education.

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Speaker 5: That was it.

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Speaker 11: And achieve the American dream. And that's the same story

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Speaker 11: of millions of immigrants throughout California and throughout the country,

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Speaker 11: and Trump and Republicans just can't handle it. So instead

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Speaker 11: of trying to build on that success and that strength,

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Speaker 11: they try to demonize it and attack it. So it's

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Speaker 11: one of the many arguments why we need to support

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Speaker 11: Proposition fifty because Prop fifty has been the most powerful

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Speaker 11: tool presented to us to rein in this out of

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Speaker 11: control administration. They want to steal next November's election by

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Speaker 11: rigging it before it even starts. But California is going

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Speaker 11: to step up and push back by approving Prop fifty

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Speaker 11: this November.

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Speaker 17: I appreciate the fight coming from California very very much.

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Speaker 17: This is obviously the moment to be meeting, and the

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Speaker 17: governor and all of your leadership are meeting this moment extraordinarily,

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Speaker 17: and so I want to speak to your point about

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Speaker 17: what Republicans are doing and ask you why are they

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Speaker 17: trying to cheat ahead of the midterms in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 17: I mean, what do they know?

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Speaker 11: Look my point of view, both as a Californian and

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Speaker 11: as a member of the Senate, here to me It's

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Speaker 11: pretty obvious. You know, under normal circumstances, a party in

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Speaker 11: power would be proud of their legislative accomplishments, and they'd

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Speaker 11: run on their record and the midterms to try to

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Speaker 11: stay in power. That's not what's happening here. They know

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Speaker 11: how not just unpopular, but damaging their record has been right,

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Speaker 11: this destruction of confidence in the judiciary, the federal government

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Speaker 11: as we know it. There cuts to healthcare, their cuts

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Speaker 11: the nutrition assistance programs, their tax breaks for billionaires, on.

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Speaker 3: And on and on.

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Speaker 11: The only hope they have to hold onto power next

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Speaker 11: year is to rig the election before it even starts,

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Speaker 11: So before I even get to redistricting, you know, whether

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Speaker 11: it's legislation they've introduced or the executive orders to make

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Speaker 11: it harder for eligible Americans to register to vote, to

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Speaker 11: stay registered to vote, or to actually cast your ballot.

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Speaker 11: That's just part of it. The Department of Justice, and

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Speaker 11: I'm a member of the Judiciary. I've seen it up

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Speaker 11: close and personal. They're politicizing the Department of Justice now,

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Speaker 11: just like they did in the first Trump term, trying

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Speaker 11: to obtain all the personal information of voters in select

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Speaker 11: states to try to tee up the purging of voter rules,

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Speaker 11: and on top of that this redistricting push. I mean,

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Speaker 11: I don't know about you, but when I first saw

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Speaker 11: the news report of Trump calling Governor Abbott in Texas

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Speaker 11: saying five more Republican seats, it sounded a lot like

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Speaker 11: when Donald Trump called this Secretary of State in Georgia

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Speaker 11: in twenty twenty, when he said, find me eleven thousand

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Speaker 11: more votes. They'll do anything to cling to power. That's

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Speaker 11: what this is. And so as I try to sum

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Speaker 11: it up to folks when I'm walking around, you know,

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Speaker 11: if you care about reining in this administration that has overreached,

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Speaker 11: violated through process and the constitution with their mass deportation agenda,

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Speaker 11: If you care about the rising cost of groceries and

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Speaker 11: housing and health care and energy and so much more,

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Speaker 11: and you want to do something about it, you got

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Speaker 11: to support Prop fifty. If you care about the rule

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Speaker 11: of law and you know, defending the principles of our constitution,

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Speaker 11: you have to support Prop fifty. It's the biggest check,

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Speaker 11: it's the strongest guard rails against this out of control administration.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, you mentioned redistricting, and obviously this is

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Speaker 17: what you know. Prop fifty is about. But Republicans will say, oh,

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Speaker 17: this is the Democrats cheating, et cetera, et cetera. Right,

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Speaker 17: this is not at all with the Democrats wanted. This

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Speaker 17: was triggered by what they did in Texas. The Democrats

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Speaker 17: have been the ones advocating for fair maps. Can you

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Speaker 17: talk to that And what would you say to a

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Speaker 17: Republican who says, oh, no, this is the Democrats cheating,

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Speaker 17: or people in the state of California who think I

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Speaker 17: can't vote yes on this because this isn't fair.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So be absolutely crystal clear on this. The only

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Speaker 11: reason we are moving on Proposition fifty is in response

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Speaker 11: to the abuse of power in Texas. You know, again

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Speaker 11: at the behest of Donald Trump. And by the way,

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Speaker 11: whether California would have responded to this or not, Republicans

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Speaker 11: were going to stop in Texas. They saw five potential

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Speaker 11: seats to pick up in Texas. But as we've seen

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Speaker 11: in recent days and weeks, they're also looking to redistricts

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Speaker 11: and are redistricting in Missouri and in Indiana and in Ohio.

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Speaker 11: They're going to stop nowhere in their desperate efforts to

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Speaker 11: cling to power. What California did is sight at the

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Speaker 11: very beginning, they're going into Texas to try to rig

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Speaker 11: the system. As much as we support independent redistricting and

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Speaker 11: all that stuff, the stakes are simply too high. The

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Speaker 11: threat of this administration and its impact, the devastating impact

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Speaker 11: on working fountains is too high. We can't sit idly

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Speaker 11: by and just watch it happen. We have to respond,

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Speaker 11: We have to fight back. And so yes, it took

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Speaker 11: a lot, not just for the California Legislature, but Governor

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Speaker 11: Knew some of the California and Congressional delegation to support

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Speaker 11: this new MEP and take it to the voters, for

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Speaker 11: the voters to decide whether we push back on Trump

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Speaker 11: with Proposition fifty. The early polls are good, but as

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Speaker 11: we said earlier, there's a lot of money that doesn't

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Speaker 11: like what's happening, and there's going to be no less

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Speaker 11: than one hundred and fifty million dollars, maybe two hundred

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Speaker 11: million dollars against Proposition fifty, including Speaker Mike Johnson's pack

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Speaker 11: money coming into California to try to defeat Proposition fifty.

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Speaker 11: That's what we're up again. So let me take this

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Speaker 11: opportunity for anybody tuning in however you can support. If

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Speaker 11: you can't support, we need your support because we're up

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Speaker 11: against a lot of big money. Who knows that California's

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Speaker 11: move here is the big check against the Trump agenda.

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Speaker 11: So we need your help volunteerism and activism on the

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Speaker 11: ground of financial contribution if you can.

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Speaker 1: With no further ado, I know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks are very excited, So I'm going to introduce our

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Speaker 1: next guest here.

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Speaker 2: We've got Tim Fullerton. Tim helped start.

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Speaker 1: This show, I should note first and foremost, so a

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Speaker 1: big shout out to Tim. He also had a practice session,

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Speaker 1: we can say, in launching White Dudes for Harris help

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Speaker 1: that gain prominence, and he served many roles in the

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Speaker 1: Obama administration. And importantly he started the find Out podcast,

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Speaker 1: which I'm a huge fan of. And we need more

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Speaker 1: folks in independent media. So I'm grateful that Tim and

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Speaker 1: his co hosts have jumped into this space. And now

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Speaker 1: we've got members of the West Wing cast, Deuleat Hill

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Speaker 1: and Martin Sheen.

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Speaker 2: I know that for so.

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Speaker 1: Many people watching right now, you both are the platonic

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Speaker 1: ideal of what politics can be. And most importantly, thank

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Speaker 1: you for staying engaged and involved, because it would be

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Speaker 1: really easy to just you know, show up on set,

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Speaker 1: do your thing, make a great show, and kind of

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Speaker 1: step back and fall back into, you know, just having

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Speaker 1: been an actor. But the fact is that you're using

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Speaker 1: your voices now for you know, to stay engaged in

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Speaker 1: this political process, and so you know, on behalf of

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Speaker 1: myself and everybody watching, thank you so much for doing

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Speaker 1: that and looking forward to the conversation here all right.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's my pleasure to be here.

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Speaker 18: I think it's important for all of us to actively

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Speaker 18: stay involved in any way that we can, because when

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Speaker 18: we take our eye off the ball, we take our

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Speaker 18: eye off the prize, then you see what has what

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Speaker 18: can happen, and it can happen swiftly. You know, when

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Speaker 18: I saw the results of the election last year, I

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Speaker 18: knew that there would be challenges. I knew that they

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Speaker 18: would be an assault on our liberties, but I could

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Speaker 18: not fathom what I'm seeing now. It really breaks my

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Speaker 18: heart when I see our loss of humanity. I see

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Speaker 18: how we are going to the extremes and we are

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Speaker 18: find are lacking the ability to find common ground. I mean,

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Speaker 18: we are one year in and these are trying times.

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Speaker 18: And only way that I feel that we can even

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Speaker 18: have some type of backstop to this onslaught that is

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Speaker 18: happening is by winning in the mid terms. And I

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Speaker 18: truly believe, I'll say to myself often I say to others,

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Speaker 18: that democracy works when we, the people work it.

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Speaker 5: That's how my democracy stays alive.

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Speaker 18: And the only way that we can the best way

870
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 18: for us to fight this battle for the soul of

871
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 18: our nation, for the character of who.

872
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 14: We are, is at the ballot box. That's what we

873
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 14: have to do.

874
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 18: And I truly believe that all things being equal, if

875
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 18: we were given the opportunity to freely vote the way

876
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 18: we have, then it would be a no brainer that

877
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 18: the Democrats would win. There would be balance put back

878
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 18: into the system, and that.

879
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 5: Would be that.

880
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,359
Speaker 18: But I do believe that also that these extremist politicians

881
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 18: are very aware that they cannot win the battle on

882
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 18: their merits.

883
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 14: They cannot win reelection on their merits.

884
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,919
Speaker 18: So the same people who a few years ago were

885
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 18: crying about a stolen election and supported people who really

886
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 18: acted in a way that was not supportive of our democracy,

887
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 18: are now actually trying to steal an election. They're not

888
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 18: even doing it in the shadows. They're being very overt

889
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 18: about what they are doing, But what really, I guess

890
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 18: affects me is that they're taking.

891
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 5: Away the voice of the people.

892
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 18: It's one thing if you were going to do this

893
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 18: redishising plan and you were going to bring it to

894
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 18: the citizens, like bring it to the citizens, that's how

895
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 18: democracy works.

896
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 14: Lets people talk about it.

897
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 18: If you were doing it that way and then the

898
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,959
Speaker 18: people voted for that, I would have nothing to say.

899
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 18: But the fact that they're doing it in the dark

900
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 18: rooms of the legislatures across the country, at least in

901
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 18: Texas now empty to do it in other places, that

902
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 18: is where I think is a line too far. And

903
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 18: I appreciate what the governor of California is doing, what

904
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 18: the legislature here is doing, by giving us the power

905
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 18: to have our voice be heard, by giving us a

906
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 18: way to be able to stand up for ourselves, and

907
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 18: by giving us a pathway to be able to keep

908
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 18: our democracy alive. And that's the main reason why I'm here,

909
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 18: is to play my part. I always say, if I

910
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 18: can get a billion people to move a billion stones,

911
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 18: then we can move a mountain. And I think in

912
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 18: this situation, if we can get people to get involved,

913
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 18: to get engaged, to support Yes on fifty here in California,

914
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 18: and to use their voice across the nation. I believe

915
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 18: the Democrats will get back the House, and at that

916
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 18: point we can put some type of balance back into

917
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 18: the system, because we've seen what happens when there is imbalance,

918
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 18: and right now it is all out of whack and

919
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 18: there's too much extremism happening in our politics right now.

920
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 14: So that's why I'm here and I'm always down to

921
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 14: support in any way I can.

922
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 16: Well, thank you, Julia, and it's all of that was

923
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 16: really well said, and I think it's really important thing

924
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 16: that you mentioned, which is, you know, Texas did this

925
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 16: behind closed doors. You know, the Trump administration called Governor

926
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 16: Abbott's team and said I need you to I need

927
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 16: you to find five seats. He actually said it, I

928
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 16: need you to find five seats for me, and then

929
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 16: they did this unilaterally. And I think that that's why

930
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 16: it's great that we're doing it and the GWAG Governor

931
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 16: Newsom's doing it is the way to do it with

932
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 16: a people powered movement, And so I want to turn

933
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 16: so I think everybody on this call probably would prefer

934
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 16: our next guest to actually be the president of the

935
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 16: United States. At this moment, we have Martin Sheen, who

936
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 16: has I think played a president twice and has been

937
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 16: a chief of staff once and actually has been I believe,

938
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 16: arrested more times than Donald Trump, but for very good

939
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 16: reasons standing up for what's right. So Margie, thank you.

940
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 16: It is an honor to speak to you. It would

941
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 16: love to hear from you about why why voting yes

942
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 16: on Prop fifty is so important?

943
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.

944
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 10: Can you hear me?

945
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 13: Yes?

946
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 3: We can?

947
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 10: All right? Good? Yeah, Renee left the room. My engineer

948
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 10: here is my daughter who runs this machine. Frankly, I

949
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 10: don't own a computer and I don't even know how

950
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 10: to turn it on if I did have one, so

951
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 10: I'm counting on my family. Here is Delay. Well know,

952
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 10: he's good to see you again. Delay. Thank you for

953
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 10: including me in this effort. You know, I've been involved

954
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 10: in supporting liberal politics, democratic politics, specifically with the possible

955
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 10: exception of John Lindsay when he ran from mayor in

956
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 10: nineteen sixty five in New York, I supported him, But

957
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 10: also that same year I supported Bobby Kennedy in his

958
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 10: race for the US Senate, and so this is not

959
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 10: you know, unusual for me to be involved, and not

960
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 10: just in democratic politics, but in peace and social justice

961
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 10: issues because I can't really separate them. And what the

962
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 10: our governor here in California so bravely did was to

963
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 10: stand up to the landslide of effort and lies that

964
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 10: are that are pulling the the Constitution and the Bill

965
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 10: of Rights down the tubes. And so our effort is

966
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 10: to put a stop to it and to retrieve as

967
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 10: much as we possibly can. I've never seen it this

968
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 10: bad in my life, frankly. And you know, we've been

969
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 10: watching the opposition to Proposition fifty on every local channel

970
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 10: we have, and some of the uh, the streamers as

971
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 10: well adds against us voting to de vote no on

972
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 10: fifty and there their reasoning is that it's undemocratic to

973
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 10: you know, jurymander here and how dare we do this?

974
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 10: Why we we we should stand up as patriotic Americans

975
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 10: and stop this. There's not a mention of Texas or

976
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 10: the possibility of Missouri or Ohio, got forbid my home

977
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:08,120
Speaker 10: state or Indiana, and so, uh, we have to, you know,

978
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 10: we have to.

979
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 3: We can't always.

980
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 10: Choose our fights very often were we are called to

981
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 10: fight in foreign lands on with with with with with

982
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 10: unfamiliar ground, and this is one of those times. We've

983
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 10: never been in this situation before. I've watched this administratives,

984
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 10: watching Caspital being drilled by our good senator from UH,

985
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:38,400
Speaker 10: you know, UH California today and and I don't know

986
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 10: if any of you saw the exchange between the two

987
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 10: of them and made the national news, but that level

988
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 10: of ahead of the FBI or any of the other

989
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 10: agencies is astonishing to me. There is no possible way

990
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 10: that any of these people at the head of any

991
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:02,400
Speaker 10: of the UH, the CAB and its ministries that we

992
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 10: have right now would ever make it in any other administration.

993
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 10: Mac Donald Trump. And when they look at each other

994
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 10: across the room around in the cabinet room, and they

995
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 10: look at each other, they don't see anyone on the

996
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 10: other side back and forth that is better than they are,

997
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 10: is more heroic, has more courage. They in a real sense,

998
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 10: I suspect they despise each other because there isn't anyone

999
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,279
Speaker 10: on the other side that is better than they are.

1000
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 10: And they are looking at the worst reflection of themselves,

1001
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 10: and they are reflecting the policy that we're seeing that

1002
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 10: they refer to about the scandalous mask bandits as draving

1003
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 10: people of our streets in public and disappearing people. And

1004
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 10: you know, so often when people are in the and

1005
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 10: in normal times, if you want to call it normal,

1006
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 10: when people were deported, they usually went back to the

1007
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 10: country they came from. Now they're being sent basically, they're

1008
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 10: being punished because very often they're being sent to countries

1009
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 10: that have you know, they're foreign to them, they don't

1010
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 10: have the same language, the same culture, and they are

1011
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 10: thousands and thousands of miles away from their two homes.

1012
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 10: And this has become normal. We are what we're seeing.

1013
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 10: We saw that, you know, the when the Marines marched

1014
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 10: through our downtown park, it was literally a walk in

1015
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 10: the park. There was no there was no reason for

1016
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 10: them to be there. It is a All that we're

1017
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 10: seeing is a reflection of a strong man trying to

1018
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 10: get a grip and it's slipping out of his hands.

1019
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 10: Chicago stood up and said, no, please, don't come here,

1020
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 10: and we're going to give you every reason why we

1021
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 10: don't need you. We've got good law enforcement, we've got

1022
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 10: good sanitation here, we've got good health care. You're not

1023
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 10: needed here, Please stay home, look after your families and

1024
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 10: your states. And so we don't have any choice but

1025
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 10: to go in the direction that we're being called by

1026
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 10: Governor Newsom. And I dare say, and maybe I shouldn't

1027
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 10: say this of him, but I think this move was

1028
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 10: his declaration for the White House. I think he's going

1029
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 10: to run, and more power to him, and he will

1030
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 10: have this to his credit. So I'm urging people to

1031
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 10: deal with what we have, not with what we wish

1032
00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 10: we had or what we had in the past, but

1033
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 10: what we have now, which is this opportunity to stop

1034
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 10: this basic thievery. The you know, Thomas Paine said, the

1035
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 10: rights of man are not given by the gracious hand

1036
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 10: of any state, but must be protected therein. And this

1037
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 10: is where we have to rise and embrace our constitution

1038
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,240
Speaker 10: and bring us all together with what really is at stake.

1039
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 10: We're facing an out of control, chaotic uh, a madman

1040
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 10: who wakes up every day and thinks of a different

1041
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 10: level of chaos. And his his uh UH, his cabinet members,

1042
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 10: all the people and in his administration pick up the

1043
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 10: lot and they carry it out, and they are all

1044
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 10: a reflection of him. But I think we're better than that,

1045
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 10: and I think we can we can build a better

1046
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 10: future and can end the chaos and end the despair

1047
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 10: and the uh, the feelings of that we that we

1048
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 10: we don't have any power left. Look at Chicago just

1049
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 10: this week, the mad Man turned around and said, well,

1050
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 10: I guess I'm not welcome there. Let's find so Memphis. Oh, yes,

1051
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 10: of course Memphis. I can do well there. Well, let's

1052
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 10: see what happens. But what Governor Newsom has done here

1053
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 10: in California has struck a chord. It has lit a

1054
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 10: candle in this darkness. And I pray and hope that

1055
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 10: people what's possible and that we can turn this thing around.

1056
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 10: And this is one very important issue for the whole

1057
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 10: country to look at and to follow. Yes on fifty

1058
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 10: please God, Yes.

1059
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 5: Well well said.

1060
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 16: And for those of you who haven't donated yet, which

1061
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 16: I don't know how you could not donate after listening

1062
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:25,880
Speaker 16: to that, please go to yeson fifty live dot com.

1063
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 16: Push us over the three hundred thousand mark. All of

1064
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 16: this money is is coming from individuals giving five, ten,

1065
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 16: fifteen to twenty dollars, and we are fighting against people

1066
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 16: who are writing quarter million dollar checks, million dollar checks.

1067
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 16: We are going to win this, and I think before

1068
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 16: we go, I just want to ask one more question

1069
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 16: for both both of you. Is you gave us a

1070
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 16: little bit of hope there. And you know, I think

1071
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 16: the West Wing Show was something that I watched in

1072
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 16: high school and then ended up going into politics. Who

1073
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 16: worked in the Obama administration and things like that leave

1074
00:58:58,960 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 16: us with something. You know, Martin, you left us something.

1075
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 3: Really hopeful and powerful.

1076
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 2: Delay.

1077
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 16: I'm going to give it to you the last bit

1078
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 16: because I know we got a bounce because we've got Congressman,

1079
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 16: Congressman Rasking and Congressman and Crockett on who by the way,

1080
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 16: if you if we win this ballot initiative, they're going

1081
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 16: to be the ones subpoena and they're the ones that they're

1082
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 16: going to be asking questions of the Trump administration. So, Doulee,

1083
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 16: I'm going to give you the last word.

1084
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 18: I'll say this, the power is in our hands. You know,

1085
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Speaker 18: there's nothing that if a bunch of people get together,

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Speaker 18: there's nothing that we cannot overcome. I said before a

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Speaker 18: billion people to move a billion stones, then we can

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Speaker 18: move a mountain. And even in these dark times when

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Speaker 18: the cloud is hovering above the clouds of extremism, the

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Speaker 18: clouds of hate, the clouds of division. Just beyond those

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00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 18: storm clouds, the sun is always shining. So if we

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Speaker 18: could just keep preacient, keep putting one foot in front

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Speaker 18: of the other, keep our eyes on the prize, I know

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Speaker 18: that we will be victorious. America always has, America will

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Speaker 18: now today, and America always will and now tomorrow, as

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Speaker 18: long as we stay engaged.

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Speaker 5: So let's vote.

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Speaker 10: I would only yeah, I would only add, just very simply,

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Speaker 10: Fear is useless, faith is necessary. Yes, on fifty.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, We'll leave it there.

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Speaker 5: I was trying.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I was trying a bit where

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Speaker 2: I was standing.

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Speaker 1: You can't really see it in the zoom, but I

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01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: was about to say, in this building, when the president stands,

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Speaker 1: nobody sits.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what's next? That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: My nod to you, Thank you, thank you all for

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Speaker 1: the time tonight.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. And Tim, thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very well, thank you so much, all the

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Speaker 5: best of everybody.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to introduce our next two. We have Olivia Juliana.

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Speaker 1: I first learned of Olivia when Matt Gates tried to

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Speaker 1: mock her online, and she used his mockery to raise

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Speaker 1: over two million dollars for abortion rights. So what a

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Speaker 1: badass move. And he's out of Congress, and so you

1118
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Speaker 1: got the last laugh. Juliana is a political activist, abortion

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Speaker 1: rights advocate, and a strategist from Texas, so knows firsthand

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Speaker 1: about all the bullshit that's going on right now. She

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Speaker 1: was formerly the director of Politics and Government Affairs at

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Speaker 1: gen Z for Change.

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Speaker 2: And she's a dear friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: Very happy to have you, and of course a congresswoman

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Speaker 1: who needs no introduction. Very excited to be introducing Representative

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Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett. She is one of my favorite people in

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Speaker 1: elected office. She is a badass, a fighter, and attorney,

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Speaker 1: one of the most dynamic and interesting and engaging voices

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Speaker 1: that we have on the left. Could not be more

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Speaker 1: excited to listen to your conversation here.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Brian Well Congresswoman Crockett.

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Speaker 19: It sure seems like everyone's got something to say about our.

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Speaker 8: Home now, don't they.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, forget reason though, it is a hot ass, miss,

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Speaker 20: But I am so thankful for California, and not only for.

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Speaker 21: The leadership, real leadership. Do we need in this moment,

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Speaker 21: but also for the people.

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Speaker 20: You know, this is something that is going to be

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01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 20: people led, people driven, and ultimately the people will decide.

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Speaker 20: And with everything that I've seen about the pushback that

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Speaker 20: we are.

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Speaker 21: Delivering to this regime that is currently in power, I

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Speaker 21: am believing.

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Speaker 20: That the people of California are woke enough to know

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Speaker 20: that it is time to fight fire with fire. And

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Speaker 20: what that means for those in the back that don't

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Speaker 20: understand my language, what that means is that if Texas

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Speaker 20: is going to redistrict and Jerrymander and also silence the

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Speaker 20: voices of black and brown communities, that California will also

1150
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 20: make sure that they give more voice to their constituents

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Speaker 20: in the form of Prop.

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Speaker 21: Fifty.

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Speaker 20: And so this is just in response to make sure

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Speaker 20: that those bad policies that they are currently signing up

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Speaker 20: for that they actually have some accountability, because that's what

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Speaker 20: democracy looks like. The final thing that I'll say so

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01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 20: that you can go on with their question is that

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Speaker 20: today was very interesting. It's always interested on the.

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Speaker 21: Hill or how to have missed, either way you want

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Speaker 21: to look at it.

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Speaker 20: But nevertheless, so we're there and we were voting on

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Speaker 20: a rule for a bill, and I was like, what's

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Speaker 20: taking so long? Because I was ready to go debate

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01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 20: the next thing. I just knew it was gonna pass,

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01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 20: they were gonna vote it, but it wasn't. It wasn't passing.

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Speaker 20: And in fact, this rule was going down and there

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01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 20: were like six Republicans they voted with the Democrats. So

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Speaker 20: it was like, well, who are the six Republicans. Well,

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Speaker 20: of the six, I think three or four were out

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Speaker 20: of California. So we can see that even the threat

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Speaker 20: of actually holding them accountable has made them start to

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Speaker 20: shift how they're voting. In fact, they were able to

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Speaker 20: get enough to switch over so that they could go

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Speaker 20: ahead and.

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Speaker 21: Pass the rule.

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Speaker 20: But one of the loudest kind of upset people, Kevin Kylee.

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Speaker 20: He did not change his vote because he plans to run.

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01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 20: He knows it's going to be an uphill battle, and

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Speaker 20: now he believes that he should be held accountable or

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Speaker 20: how he votes.

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Speaker 21: But my question is, bro, where.

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Speaker 13: Have you been.

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Speaker 20: You should have been voting in the interest of your

1184
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 20: constituents anyway. So I'll just leave it there right now,

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01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 20: even without this thing going to the ballot, they.

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Speaker 21: Are having an impact.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'll say this. You know, behind me, I have

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Speaker 8: portraits of Anne Richards and Barbara Jordan, And if you're

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Speaker 8: watching and you don't know who they are, look them up.

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Speaker 8: And it's because of women like this, women like you.

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Speaker 8: I'm glad that you're on.

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Speaker 19: My side because I was at the public redistricting hearings

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Speaker 19: that were held here in Texas about these maps. I

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Speaker 19: was at the one at the state Capitol, and I

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Speaker 19: was at the one in Houston, and so I sat

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Speaker 19: through ten hours of public testimony from Texans all over

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Speaker 19: the state who sat there and begged, begged for our

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Speaker 19: Republican lawmakers to have a conscience and to do the

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Speaker 19: right thing. And they sat there and I'll be honest

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Speaker 19: with y'all, they didn't care. They didn't care. They had

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01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 19: made their minds up before they walked into that room.

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Speaker 19: And I think that you are the most uniquely positioned

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01:05:04,400 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 19: person in the country to really give people insight into

1204
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 19: what the Texas legislature looks like, what Congress looks like,

1205
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 19: and what this means for the rest of the country.

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Speaker 19: Because not only are you a member of Congress from

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Speaker 19: Texas you had your district redistricted, but you were also

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Speaker 19: a member of the Texas legislature. So what is the

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01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:27,760
Speaker 19: big picture here that people may not be understanding and

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Speaker 19: why is Texas so important in this conversation.

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Speaker 21: Yeah, that's a very good point.

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Speaker 20: First of all, my favorite organization is the Heritage Foundation,

1213
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 20: and usually I feel like Texas becomes the crash dummy

1214
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 20: for every single bad type of legislation that they want

1215
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Speaker 20: to try out throughout the South. And so this is

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Speaker 20: no different right as it's already been laid out by

1217
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Speaker 20: my colleagues that they started in Texas, but they were

1218
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 20: definitely never planning to end in Texas. And if anybody

1219
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Speaker 20: believes that there's something that California did that made them say, well,

1220
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Speaker 20: now we've got to do more, No, this was always

1221
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 20: their plan. The plan was to start in Texas, but

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Speaker 20: then it was to move on to Missouri, it was

1223
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Speaker 20: to move on to Indiana. They even were trying to

1224
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 20: go after Clyburn in South Carolina. They're planning to go

1225
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Speaker 20: after Florida. They are trying to do this any and

1226
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 20: everywhere that they think they can get away with it,

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Speaker 20: and so they wanted to test it out in Texas.

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Speaker 21: That's number one.

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Speaker 20: Number two, We literally have people that are elected to

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Speaker 20: office that are supposed to represent the interests of the

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01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 20: people that put them into office. And as we both

1232
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 20: sat through hearings, because I attended more than one hearing myself,

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Speaker 20: you know, it was interesting to have Representative a Suit

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01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 20: who was leading those field hearings and leading the redistrict

1235
01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:56,600
Speaker 20: saying my class made to the Texas House pretend that

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Speaker 20: he had no recollection of anything.

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Speaker 21: That took place in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 20: Now, listen, I've never professed to have the best memory,

1239
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 20: but I can remember, like yesterday, being on the floor

1240
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 20: arguing with the Republicans telling them that we had grown

1241
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 20: the state by ninety five percent people of color. So

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Speaker 20: the idea that we got two new seats because of

1243
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 20: the growth that Texas experienced where we added over four

1244
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 20: million people over the last decade once we completed our census,

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Speaker 20: and ultimately we got two new Anglo seats, that's that

1246
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 20: Republican math.

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Speaker 21: That's that is that Republican math.

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Speaker 20: Right, these were Anglo majority seats that they ended up creating,

1249
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Speaker 20: and they're just like, yeah, okay, it worked out. We

1250
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 20: added one hundred and eighty thousand Anglos in a decade.

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Speaker 20: Each congressional seat is seven hundred and sixty six thousand people.

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Speaker 20: So you tell me, in fact that it is a

1253
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Speaker 20: microcosm of what they are doing right now. You tell

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01:07:54,960 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 20: me how one hundred and eighty thousand people end up

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Speaker 20: with two seats where they're the major majority and the

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Speaker 20: seats are seven hundred and sixty six thousand people. That

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01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:07,600
Speaker 20: is what they are doing. They're not only doing Donald

1258
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:11,600
Speaker 20: Trump's bidding, but it's at the expense of so many

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01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 20: communities they've already been disenfranchised. Texas has over four million

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01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 20: African Americans, more African Americans than any other state. We

1261
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 20: had five African Americans that had been elected to Congress.

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01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,120
Speaker 20: When Colin already ended up running for the Senate, he

1263
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Speaker 20: was replaced by a non African American, which is perfectly fine.

1264
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 20: We then ended up down to four African Americans. Okay,

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01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 20: now what they're saying is we're going to cut that

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Speaker 20: into two. You'll only have an opportunity to elect Al

1267
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 20: Green or whoever wins the eighteenth. And really what they're

1268
01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 20: trying to do is set it up to where it's

1269
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Speaker 20: most likely me or Mark VC in the Dallas area.

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Speaker 20: So you explained to me how on God's green Earth

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Speaker 20: in a state in which Angloes were not growing at all.

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Speaker 20: And we know that if we look at which group

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Speaker 20: has the vast majority, not the vast majority, but has

1274
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 20: the plurality of representation, it's actually Latinos in the state

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 20: of Sexes. Latinos have the largest demographic in the entire state.

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Speaker 20: Do they have the largest demographic of opportunities to lay

1277
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 20: people to Congress?

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Speaker 21: Absolutely not.

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01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,680
Speaker 20: In fact, we are a majority minority state, we are

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Speaker 20: sixty forty. Yet somehow after these maps were done, we're

1281
01:09:28,640 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 20: looking at having less minorities being.

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Speaker 21: Able to choose their representation.

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Speaker 20: So I want to say that this is bigger than

1284
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 20: my state, your state. This is about us as the

1285
01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 20: United States and what it is that we are fighting for.

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01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 20: There is only one side that is willing to stand

1287
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,640
Speaker 20: up to this regime. There is only one side that

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01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 20: is willing to conduct investigations.

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Speaker 21: There is only one.

1290
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Speaker 20: Side that is willing to hold their incompetency and their

1291
01:09:58,560 --> 01:09:59,559
Speaker 20: feet to the fire.

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01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 21: There's only one side.

1293
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:05,200
Speaker 20: And so while people haven't started to feel the effects

1294
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 20: of being kicked.

1295
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:07,680
Speaker 21: Off their healthcare, they're about to.

1296
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 20: While people may not have fully felt the effects of

1297
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 20: the increases in their utility bills they're about to while

1298
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 20: people already know that these tariffs are already hitting and

1299
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 20: creating pretty hard to the extent that they are shutting

1300
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 20: down our small businesses, and our farm bankruptcies are up

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Speaker 20: fifty eight, fifty five or fifty eight percent, don't remember

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Speaker 20: which one. Already, our farmers are filing for bankruptcy. Yo, Like,

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Speaker 20: we are in a crisis, and it is because the

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Speaker 20: Republicans don't have a backbone. So it's time to make

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Speaker 20: sure that we show them that the Democrats are ready

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Speaker 20: to fight. So that means that California, we need you

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Speaker 20: in this moment.

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Speaker 21: We need your.

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Speaker 20: Dollars, we need your time, and we absolutely need your vote.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, and I'll close this out with this. In a

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Speaker 19: perfect world, we don't have to do mid decade redition.

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Speaker 19: In a perfect world, partisan jerrymandering is banned. But also

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Speaker 19: in a perfect world, women aren't losing their ability to

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Speaker 19: have children because they're going into sepsis, and children in

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Speaker 19: Texas are having books banned in their schools. These are

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Speaker 19: the things that would happen in a perfect world. But

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Speaker 19: we don't live in a perfect world. We live in reality.

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Speaker 8: And so if you're not sure if you're going on

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01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,799
Speaker 8: this for you in California and how this benefits you, well,

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Speaker 8: it benefits a lot of people, and it benefits people

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Speaker 8: like me, young people who live in Texas where this

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Speaker 8: is our reality every single day. And so you have

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Speaker 8: a chance and an opportunity to not just set yourself

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Speaker 8: up and your future for success, but for young people

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Speaker 8: like me in this state of over thirty million people

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Speaker 8: who just want the chance to build our own American

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Speaker 8: dream perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you both. I appreciate you being on. Olivia

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Speaker 1: Representative Crockett, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Both for being here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, very excited to introduce our next two guests. We

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Speaker 1: have a dear friend of mine, Jack Kocchirella, who is

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Speaker 1: a progressive political commentator. And I know he's laughing because

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Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of trouble saying his life name.

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01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: Is the first time I actually ever said is his

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Speaker 1: last name out loud? But in my defense, in my defense,

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Speaker 1: you guys look at co C H I A R

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Speaker 1: E L L A and try to and try to

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 22: It just means you love me.

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Speaker 2: That's it I do.

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Speaker 1: He is everywhere online. I am so grateful for his

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01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: voice in this independent media space. He is one of

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Speaker 1: the people who gets it beyond everybody else. So Jack,

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01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the work that you're doing

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01:12:26,120 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: on a daily basis helping make our independent media's ecosystem

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01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 1: stronger and stronger every single day. And now we have

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Speaker 1: our first gen Z Member of Congress, Congressman Maxwell Frost.

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Speaker 2: Congressman.

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Speaker 1: My only hope is that the next generation of Democrats,

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 1: which I hope we see uh start to happen in

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Speaker 1: a big way in twenty twenty six, that they look

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Speaker 1: a lot like you. So thank you for being fearless,

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Speaker 1: thank you for being outspoken. Thank you for being a

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Speaker 1: leader not just among folks in your generation, but in

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Speaker 1: the party more broadly. So go ahead, I'll leave, I'll

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Speaker 1: let it. I'll let you guys take it away from here.

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Speaker 22: Absolutely. Thank you, Brian, You're in inspiration to Assaul. And

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Speaker 22: maybe we're breaking a little bit of news here. I

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Speaker 22: think I said this in our last interview, but I

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Speaker 22: am with my member of Congress. That makes me very excited.

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Speaker 22: We know the facts of this case, we know the

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01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 22: facts of what's happening right now with this administration, and

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Speaker 22: we are seeing a rise in a crisis of affordability.

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Speaker 22: That's a fact. There's more law breaking under this administration

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Speaker 22: than ever before.

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Speaker 11: We know.

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Speaker 22: It's a fact that Donald Trump, Greg Abbott they want

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01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 22: to disenfranchise black and brown voters around the country. But

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Speaker 22: I want to talk about feelings real quick, Congressman, how

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01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 22: would you feel to make this guy right here, very

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Speaker 22: very very sad.

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Speaker 23: How would that make you feel? Because I think that's important. Yeah,

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Speaker 23: I think it is really important.

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Speaker 13: People know.

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Speaker 11: It makes me feel amazing.

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Speaker 23: And this is actually part of the reason we need

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Speaker 23: to win the majority, because I promise you that one

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Speaker 23: of the first people to receive us a poena will

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Speaker 23: be Stephen Miller. Tell you guy is one of the

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Speaker 23: most evil people, and not just in government but in

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Speaker 23: this country, and we need to hold him accountable as well.

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Speaker 22: And his suits they just they don't They don't fit

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Speaker 22: at all.

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Speaker 3: He looks terrible.

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Speaker 22: I think it's because like the fabric is repelled by him.

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Speaker 22: Like there's just got to be something about Steven Miller.

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Speaker 22: I also just looking for looking at him. We don't

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Speaker 22: get needed, like, you know, trash him personally, but I

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Speaker 22: think we can. I bet he just doesn't smell great either.

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Speaker 22: But of course Republicans aren't just focused on Texas. This

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Speaker 22: this fight has spread or I guess it's not a

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Speaker 22: fight we're taking on the fight. What they're doing is

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Speaker 22: is a little bit different, but we certainly know that

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Speaker 22: it wants to spread across the country. Ronda Santis certainly

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Speaker 22: someone not not new to falling in line with Donald

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Speaker 22: Trump and getting embarrassed because of it.

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Speaker 3: How are we going to make sure.

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Speaker 22: That this is is a tone setting moment in California

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01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 22: telling the rest of Republicans across the country, Hey, if

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 22: you I don't want to say it, you're fuck around

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 22: you find out well.

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01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 23: Yeah, and for people who don't know, you know, of

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01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 23: course they're moving to moving forward Texas, they're trying to

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Speaker 23: figure out other places they can do this as well.

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Speaker 23: They're moving forward with this in Florida as well, and

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Speaker 23: we have pulled it across the entire state. Democrats, Republicans,

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01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 23: independents come out when they're asked, are you in favor

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:11,400
Speaker 23: of the state of Florida redistricting to help Donald Trump

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01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 23: get a majority? They say no every single time. And

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:18,320
Speaker 23: so part of what we're you know, part of what

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01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 23: we're looking to do in our state is make sure

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01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,640
Speaker 23: that people understand what they're trying to do. And you

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Speaker 23: brought up DeSantis.

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Speaker 13: A lot of people don't know this.

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Speaker 23: DeSantis and Trump hate each other. Donald Trump hates Ronda Santis.

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01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 23: And what rond De Santans is trying to do is

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01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,559
Speaker 23: he's about to not be the governor of Florida anymore

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01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 23: next year. He's going to be to have two years

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01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:38,519
Speaker 23: where he's not an elected official. But he really wants

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01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 23: to run for president and he knows he can't win

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01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 23: that Republican primary without Donald Trump's help. So he has

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01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 23: turned into Donald Trump's lap dog that Donald Trump actually hates,

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01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,559
Speaker 23: and he wants to do everything he can to be

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01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:53,160
Speaker 23: in the news, to get a news cycle, to lick

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01:15:53,200 --> 01:15:55,640
Speaker 23: the Buddha Donald Trump, to try to earn some of

1427
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 23: that support so he's not completely irrelevant. And that's why

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:03,080
Speaker 23: we've seen all these things from redistricting, even the Everglades

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01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:07,719
Speaker 23: detention facility, the internment camp, Alligator Alcatraz, all this stuff

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01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:10,799
Speaker 23: he's doing because the dude wants to run for president.

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Speaker 23: He has no juice.

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Speaker 5: Nobody likes him, even.

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Speaker 3: In his own party.

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01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 11: He does not have the sauce.

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01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 22: And you heard his voice, have you seen his boots.

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Speaker 23: So this is what's going on in the state of Florida.

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01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 23: I want to make sure people know. Jasmin brought it up.

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01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 23: I always tell this people Project twenty twenty five. All

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01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:33,759
Speaker 23: this stuff everyone's seeing now, that's Florida twenty twenty Okay.

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01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 23: This stuff that they're trying across this country, they've been

1441
01:16:36,479 --> 01:16:39,280
Speaker 23: doing in the South for a long time. They passed

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01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 23: the Big Beautiful Bill for billionaires, the largest chansfer of

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01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 23: weal from the working class to billionaires, the rich getting rich,

1444
01:16:45,960 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 23: of the poor getting poorer, working class getting poor as well.

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01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 23: They know they can't win the election because people are

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01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 23: pissed off about it. In fact, Donald Trump sent his

1447
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:59,120
Speaker 23: top people to Capitol Hill to tell the Republican Party, Hey,

1448
01:16:59,160 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 23: you got to stop call it the Big Beautiful Bill

1449
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 23: Act because it's so unpopular. We got to rebrand it. Bro,

1450
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 23: you named it the Big Beautiful Bill Act. You have

1451
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 23: the word beautiful in there. The facts of the matter

1452
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:13,360
Speaker 23: are so bad that people don't like it, even your

1453
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 23: own party. And now they're trying to figure out how

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01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 23: to change it. It's so unpopular. They know they're going

1455
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,240
Speaker 23: to lose, and so they want to cheat. They want

1456
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 23: to cheat because they don't want to lose, and that's

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01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 23: what's going on right now.

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01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 22: Yeah, they're terrified, and they're also terrified because they know

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01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 22: that what we do have a bit of hope, and

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01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 22: of course the momentum is mounting. I want to talk

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01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,639
Speaker 22: about not just what we'll do when we do, in fact,

1462
01:17:33,800 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 22: when the house back, but the successes that you've already had.

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Speaker 22: You brought up with Steven Miller and all the rest

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01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 22: of those goons like to call alligator Alcatraz. Of course

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01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 22: you made a big move that I want you to

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01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 22: talk about, and maybe we keep it open or reopen

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01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 22: it for Steven Miller. I don't know in a couple

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01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 22: of years, But can you talk about how we're still

1469
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 22: winning right now and what that means for when we

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01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 22: actually do have the house back.

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Speaker 23: Well, something that I always sold organizers when I was

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01:17:57,520 --> 01:17:59,200
Speaker 23: on the front lines of Black Lives Matter, and then

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01:17:59,240 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 23: I think about a lot now as a member of

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01:18:01,080 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 23: Congress that doesn't have all the seats we want, is

1475
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 23: when you don't have all the power you want, you

1476
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 23: use all the power you got.

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Speaker 11: And one of the most.

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01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 23: Important things we can do right now as elected officials

1479
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 23: is use our powers of oversight, especially as it relates

1480
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 23: to this what I would say is a campaign of

1481
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 23: terrorism on our communities, of going in and kidnapping people

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01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:26,320
Speaker 23: and human trafficking them to other countries and other states.

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:29,360
Speaker 23: And when this facility was open, not just myself, but

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01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 23: many of the representatives across the state of Florida pulled

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01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 23: up and said, we want to go in to see

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01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 23: what's going on. And we didn't just do that. We

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01:18:36,600 --> 01:18:39,920
Speaker 23: coordinated with a lot of the people engage in lawsuits,

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01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 23: and we were able to find out what information do

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01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 23: you need from the inside, what can we get? We

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01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:46,600
Speaker 23: went in there and we got it. I want a

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01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:49,400
Speaker 23: second time and spoke with people who were being detained

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01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 23: there and got even more information. Many of us did declarations,

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01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,759
Speaker 23: some of us served as witnesses in the federal case,

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01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 23: and many of you saw that we got that place

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01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 23: shut down. A judge came out a few about a

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01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 23: week ago and reverse that it's going to be back

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01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 23: and forth in court. But as of right now, that

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01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:08,439
Speaker 23: facility is not operating because of the work of the

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01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 23: organizations that buy the lawsuit, but because elected officials said,

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Speaker 23: you know what, we have privilege where you have positions

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01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,600
Speaker 23: of power. How can we use that the support organizers,

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01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 23: How can we use it to support this lawsuit to

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01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 23: shut the place down? The Santus is opening up another

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01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,680
Speaker 23: one in Northford, and guess what, I'll be pulling up

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01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 23: to that one as well. We got to do everything

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01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 23: we can in this moment with what we got, and

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01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 23: I'm really proud of that what we did with Alligator Alcatraz,

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01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:34,840
Speaker 23: because I think it shows what happens when elected officials

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01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 23: work with organizers, work with the people on the ground.

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01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 23: We're not going to win one hundred percent of the time,

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01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 23: but sometimes we will win, and it it feels good

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01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 23: to win, and like it's going to feel good on

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01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 23: election day at the end of this year when California

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01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 23: passes this.

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Speaker 11: Absolutely it is.

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Speaker 22: And if you want to make sure that that happens,

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Speaker 22: go to yes on fifty the number fifty live dot com. Yes,

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Speaker 22: I'm fifty live and I want this segment actual you

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Speaker 22: and I to have the most I don't know if

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Speaker 22: that's Brian's gonna tell me those numbers later, but I'm

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Speaker 22: gonna make the point of saying, this is the person

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Speaker 22: that you can really upset, that is our vice president.

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Speaker 11: If you go and donate.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna show it to you again. Jump scared again.

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Speaker 11: This is the look at that take take a look

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Speaker 11: at that face.

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Speaker 23: Yeah, face to donate the more you don't.

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Speaker 22: Like him exactly, I need, I need Joe, and we'll

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Speaker 22: do it one more time.

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Speaker 23: This guy right here, all right there, Oh my god.

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Speaker 22: Please guess on fifty live dot com turn out and

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Speaker 22: fight people.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you both.

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Speaker 1: I should note that that works because we just passed

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Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for a good thing.

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Speaker 22: Steven Miller ever did is help us to raise money.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for showing his ugly ass face.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: And thank you to everybody who's donated. For those who

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Speaker 1: haven't yet donated, this is the whole ball game here.

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Speaker 1: We've been begging for Democrats to fight. This is what

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Speaker 1: it looks like for Democrats to fight. They've done their part.

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Speaker 1: We've got this thing on the ballot on November fourth.

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Speaker 1: Now it's just a matter of making sure that we

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Speaker 1: can raise enough money grassroots so that people all across

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Speaker 1: this state know what's on the ballot, know what the

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Speaker 1: stakes are in this upcoming election. So if you haven't

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Speaker 1: yet donated, and you have a few bucks, donate here

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Speaker 1: instead of going and getting a coffee somewhere, five, ten,

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Speaker 1: fifteen bucks. It makes a huge difference, and you can

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Speaker 1: add the add your own name to the throngs of

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Speaker 1: people who've already donated. We are fast approaching a half

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Speaker 1: a million dollars in just a couple.

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Speaker 2: Of hours tonight.

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Speaker 11: And if you completely.

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Speaker 1: Hate that guy, if you really hate Stephen Miller and

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Speaker 1: jd Vance, then your way to show that right now

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Speaker 1: is to go to yes on fifty live dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jack and Congressman Frost, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being here tonight.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to ask our next guest to come in.

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Speaker 1: We've got Aby Burns Tucker, who is a graduate of

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Speaker 1: Southwestern Law School, works as a social influencer. A social

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Speaker 1: media influencer under the name I Am legally Hype. If

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Speaker 1: you are not yet following her, you want to follow her,

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Speaker 1: trust me. She's gained over half a million followers across

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Speaker 1: every platform by breaking down comp.

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Speaker 2: Cad political and legal issues.

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Speaker 1: She's also a political correspondent with The Shade Room. So again,

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Speaker 1: if you're not yet following, do yourself a favor and follow,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for the work you're doing breaking this

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Speaker 1: stuff down.

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Speaker 2: I know it is.

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Speaker 1: I know it is a herculean feet task that you've

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Speaker 1: taken on. And she's joined by two amazing fighters for democracy.

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Speaker 1: We have Representative com Lagger Dove and also Representative Aguilar.

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Speaker 1: Very excited to introduce you both from California's thirty seventh

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Speaker 1: and thirty third. Thank you so much for being here,

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Speaker 1: for supporting independent media. Looking forward to the conversation.

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Speaker 13: Yay, I'm so excited. I'm excited to be joined by

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Speaker 13: you both.

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Speaker 24: Okay, Representative call Blogger Dove and Representative Aguilar. We've got

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Speaker 24: California and the House, okay, baby, because y'all already know

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Speaker 24: when Republicans go low, baby, in California, we get ready

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Speaker 24: to squabble up. Okay, And we got two representatives here

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Speaker 24: that are ready to fight for you and fight we

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Speaker 24: gonna do because I mean, and I'll say my homegirl

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Speaker 24: Liz earlier, I'll not y'all seeing her, but it's upsetting

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Speaker 24: me and my homegirl, Okay, because if you can't go

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Speaker 24: to California to fight Jerry Mandarin, where can you go?

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Speaker 13: Where can you go? So let's get into it. I'm excited.

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Speaker 13: So my first question is this call Mucker Dove. I'll

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Speaker 13: let you go.

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Speaker 24: First, Republicans are out here and they're just trying to

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Speaker 24: take power. Hey, they redrawn congessional maps mid decade so

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Speaker 24: they can stand control.

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Speaker 13: So first tell us why the hell are they doing this?

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Speaker 24: Then talk about what exactly is Prop fifty, and then

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Speaker 24: we're going to go into why Prop fifty is the

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Speaker 24: perfect clot back for all this stuff.

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Speaker 5: Going on.

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Speaker 25: Back in the House. So you know, why are they

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Speaker 25: doing this. They're doing this because they know they're going

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Speaker 25: to lose in November. Right. First, they did this four

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Speaker 25: point five trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires. They thought, ooh, okay,

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Speaker 25: people were going to be asleep at the wheel and

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Speaker 25: be okay with that. Then we saw eggs started costing

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Speaker 25: fifteen dollars a dozen and they were hard to find

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Speaker 25: in the grocery stores and gas who were going up

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Speaker 25: to and then they said, well, we're going to have

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Speaker 25: to pay for all these tax cuts by cutting your

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Speaker 25: health care. So we had seven hundred and seventy billion

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Speaker 25: dollar cut to Medicare. We've seen cuts in medicaid in

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Speaker 25: the state of California, you know, shutting down and firing

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Speaker 25: federal departments, firing federal workers, shutting down USAID, which is

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Speaker 25: as much about foreign eight as it is about making

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Speaker 25: sure that our farmers, hello, California is a farming state,

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Speaker 25: are being able to get these contracts. So all of

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Speaker 25: it's going to hell in a handbasket. And the American

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Speaker 25: people started waking up, and they were like, oh, homie's

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Speaker 25: not playing any of this because this man ran for

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Speaker 25: office to make the cost of living go down, not

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Speaker 25: to have its skyrocket and then have all the money

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Speaker 25: go into his pockets because he's so you know, confused

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Speaker 25: that all he wants to do is put more golden

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Speaker 25: condolapras in the White House and then lind these arbitrary

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Speaker 25: tariffs around the world so that we as consumers have

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Speaker 25: to pay more. So he said, hey, who's coming up.

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Speaker 25: Folks are waking up to the game. They might vote

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Speaker 25: some of these Republicans out of office because these Republicans

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Speaker 25: are not listening to the people.

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Speaker 21: So let me follow my.

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Speaker 25: Governors in these red states and see which one will

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Speaker 25: do what I ask And what I'm asking for is

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Speaker 25: more seats.

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Speaker 21: I need more red seats. Gerrymander.

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Speaker 25: They still they're regging it. And so who entered the call,

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Speaker 25: Gregory Abbott, and he went into a back room, wheeled

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Speaker 25: on in there and without even consulting other Republican legislators. Okay,

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Speaker 25: that's how nasty they are. He we read you some maps.

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Speaker 25: And in doing that, what he did was he's silencing

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Speaker 25: voters in Texas and he's erasing the possibility for people

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Speaker 25: of color, black folks, brown folks to be able to

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Speaker 25: run for those seats. He is cutting off the pipeline

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Speaker 25: at the local level because he's getting rid of seats

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Speaker 25: at the federal level where folks would run. So, you know,

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Speaker 25: the Bear was hibernating. Were trying to handle our own business.

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Speaker 25: Get these ice agents all up out of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 25: right and make sure that folks can go to their job,

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Speaker 25: go to their churches, go to their hearings without being

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Speaker 25: snatched and kidnapped and detained and deported. But the Bear

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Speaker 25: woke up and said, I don't think so, And we

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Speaker 25: came up with Prop fifty. And you know, our Democratic Caucus, Cheryl, well,

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Speaker 25: I think share about you know what Prop fifty is,

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Speaker 25: But what we know is transparent.

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Speaker 21: We know it's temporary. We know it's fare and we

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Speaker 21: know that it obeys the law.

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Speaker 13: Did I set you up?

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Speaker 21: Meet Petere Aguilar?

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Speaker 11: You did?

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Speaker 3: You did? Asked KD.

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Speaker 26: I thank you so much. Good to be with you,

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Speaker 26: ab And just like Sidney said, look, this is California

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Speaker 26: punching back, doing everything we can, and we know we

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Speaker 26: have the winning recipe because this is transparent. As Sydney said,

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Speaker 26: Texas and Greg Abbott just change the system and try

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Speaker 26: to steal five seats. We go to the voters and

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Speaker 26: we created a map collaboratively working together to punch back.

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Speaker 26: But we may it temporary. The independent commission that we

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Speaker 26: like comes back in twenty thirty one. We respect the

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Speaker 26: Voting Rights Act, we respect black and brown districts, and

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Speaker 26: we make sure that we are meeting this moment and

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Speaker 26: punching back appropriately. And so that's why we're transparent, we're fair,

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Speaker 26: you know. Because of that, we're.

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Speaker 5: Going to have success with proposition.

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Speaker 26: Fifty yes on fifty live dot com is where people

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Speaker 26: can go to help out. Five zero yes on fifty

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Speaker 26: live dot com. Thank you guys so much for elevating

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Speaker 26: this platform and forgiving us this space to talk about

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Speaker 26: this because this is so incredibly important. We cannot let

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Speaker 26: Republicans steal an election. I absolutely believe, and Sydney and

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Speaker 26: I both subscribe to what Latifa said. This is about

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Speaker 26: free and fair elections in twenty twenty six and in

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Speaker 26: twenty twenty eight, and we won't have those if Republicans

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Speaker 26: can consolidate power around these terrible policies and rig them

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Speaker 26: system as they go each and every month.

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Speaker 25: It's also about jobs, It's about health care. It's about

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Speaker 25: having a future for your family. It's about being able

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Speaker 25: to go to school and get an education.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 25: It's about not being afraid that all of the colleges

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Speaker 25: and universities in your town are going to dry up.

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Speaker 25: It's about knowing that you can walk outside your home

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Speaker 25: and not be detained and deported, not be lynched because

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Speaker 25: of the color of your skin. You know, these are

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Speaker 25: folks that want a national abortion band. They are doing

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Speaker 25: every single thing that they can to take us back

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01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 25: to pre Jim Crow and I am not being hyperbolic.

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01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:41,400
Speaker 25: So it is about democracy, but it is also about

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01:28:41,439 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 25: the money in your pocket and your ability to earn

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01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 25: and learn and have a family. And if folks don't

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01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 25: want you engaged if they don't want you to be

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01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,200
Speaker 25: able to vote, if they don't want you to have

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01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:57,559
Speaker 25: love for your country, then they have won and we

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Speaker 25: cannot let that happen no way, not now, not.

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Speaker 21: Ever, okay.

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Speaker 13: Period.

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Speaker 24: And with that the insaid, right, not only do we

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Speaker 24: need y'all money, but we need y'all to pull up

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Speaker 24: and actually vote. Right, So, turnout and special elections are

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Speaker 24: usually pretty low, right, especially in black and minority communities.

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Speaker 24: Rep Agular, I think your district is what something like

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Speaker 24: sixty percent Hispanic and maybe about ten percent black? Rap

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Speaker 24: pumlager Dove, I think there's something about fifty four percent

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Speaker 24: black or Hispanic, about twenty percent black some right there?

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Speaker 24: Why the seas right, Why do you think it's so

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Speaker 24: hard for us to get these people out like or

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Speaker 24: get these people out to vote? Are we not communicating properly?

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Speaker 24: Is it a failure on political leadership? Are we not

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Speaker 24: meeting voters where they are?

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Speaker 10: Like?

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Speaker 24: What do we need to do to make sure not

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Speaker 24: only we get the money to make sure we get

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Speaker 24: the message out, but we get these people registered to vote.

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Speaker 24: Today is National Registration Day, Registered to vote and out

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Speaker 24: voting so that we can redistrict and Yes on Prop

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Speaker 24: fifty Regular, I start with you.

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Speaker 26: Ye, National voting Registration Day. This is so incredibly important.

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Speaker 26: I think the answer to your question is we have

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01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:12,240
Speaker 26: to inspire people. And just like Sidney said, we have

1733
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:16,280
Speaker 26: to make this about the American public and what they benefit.

1734
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:20,719
Speaker 26: When we are able to govern and when Leader Jeffrees

1735
01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:24,360
Speaker 26: becomes Speaker Jeffrees, We're going to be able to lower

1736
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 26: the costs of health care for people. We're going to

1737
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,599
Speaker 26: be able to put more money in people's pockets. We're

1738
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 26: going to be able to clean up the culture of

1739
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:34,439
Speaker 26: corruption that allows the President to trade in mean coins

1740
01:30:34,439 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 26: on the Supreme Court, to run around and without a

1741
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:40,599
Speaker 26: code of ethics or any principles at all. I mean,

1742
01:30:40,640 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 26: those are the things that we're going to be able

1743
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:45,479
Speaker 26: to do when when we have the ability to push

1744
01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 26: back legislatively. But to Sidney's point, we have to make

1745
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 26: this and center this around the American public and they

1746
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:54,439
Speaker 26: are getting crushed by costs, They're getting crushed in this

1747
01:30:54,520 --> 01:30:57,720
Speaker 26: Trump economy, and we have to connect the dots and

1748
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 26: tell them why Yes on fifty to help them. And

1749
01:31:02,160 --> 01:31:04,679
Speaker 26: so that's the important piece, But we have to do more.

1750
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:06,799
Speaker 26: We got to knock on doors. We got to reach people.

1751
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:08,600
Speaker 26: We got to tell them this is just going to

1752
01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:10,679
Speaker 26: be a small ballot. We just need them to put

1753
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:13,640
Speaker 26: in yes and send it back in. And because in

1754
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 26: California we have an ability for mail in voting that

1755
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:21,719
Speaker 26: doesn't exist around the country, and we have a strong

1756
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:25,280
Speaker 26: ability to allow people to exercise their right to vote,

1757
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,880
Speaker 26: we need to make sure that they use it, that

1758
01:31:27,920 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 26: they use their voice, and that they do it. Around

1759
01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:33,400
Speaker 26: the country, people are waiting in lines for hours. We're

1760
01:31:33,400 --> 01:31:36,280
Speaker 26: making this easy for people. If you're working two jobs,

1761
01:31:36,360 --> 01:31:39,240
Speaker 26: if you're picking up your kids from school late, you

1762
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 26: don't have to make that choice so that I'm going

1763
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 26: to pick up my kids late or go to vote.

1764
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 26: You can do it in the comfort of your own home.

1765
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:47,680
Speaker 26: And you can You're going to have a ballot at

1766
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,599
Speaker 26: your home in just a couple of weeks, all right.

1767
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:53,320
Speaker 24: So y'all go onto the projects with me, right to

1768
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 24: get num clubs registered to votes. Yes, clean, Okay, that's

1769
01:31:57,200 --> 01:32:02,640
Speaker 24: what I'm talking about. Now, he's the other thing. So

1770
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:05,639
Speaker 24: the message is going out from the other side, right.

1771
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 24: I didn't seen the commercials. I was at my granny

1772
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 24: house this past weekend. Actually, my granny and YO district. Aguilar,

1773
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:13,360
Speaker 24: my granny out there in your district. I was at

1774
01:32:13,360 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 24: her house.

1775
01:32:14,720 --> 01:32:15,920
Speaker 13: All got cable at home.

1776
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:18,759
Speaker 24: Okay, my granny and them got cable, so they seeing

1777
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:21,799
Speaker 24: the messages right. And some Republicans are out here claiming

1778
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 24: that Prop Fitty actually hurts democracy and strips the power

1779
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 24: from voters.

1780
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 13: Tell us why they lion call moradough.

1781
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:33,840
Speaker 25: Well, I hate to say it, but right now they

1782
01:32:33,960 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 25: lyon just because they're Republicans and they're scared to tell

1783
01:32:36,280 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 25: the truths under Donald Trump. It just is what it is.

1784
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 25: And so we have to bring courage back up in

1785
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:45,960
Speaker 25: here into this fight. And Democrats have the courage because,

1786
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:47,880
Speaker 25: like I said, we weren't trying to do this, but

1787
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 25: we have to do this. We have to do it

1788
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 25: for Texas.

1789
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:51,519
Speaker 21: We have to do it for Missouri, we have to

1790
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:52,320
Speaker 21: do it for Indiana.

1791
01:32:52,360 --> 01:32:53,760
Speaker 25: We have to do it for Florida. We have to

1792
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:56,480
Speaker 25: do it for Ohio. We have to do it for California.

1793
01:32:56,960 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 25: You know they have more money. We're doing this like

1794
01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 25: World aid is World Aid for democracy because we need

1795
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 25: to raise this money to get the information out a

1796
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:12,840
Speaker 25: single issue ballot in November when you're already tired from

1797
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 25: twenty twenty four. That is a heavy lift. Okay, we

1798
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 25: still got the ninety two percent out there. Folks are

1799
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:21,479
Speaker 25: like all these maniacs up in Congress.

1800
01:33:21,479 --> 01:33:22,280
Speaker 21: It's a circus.

1801
01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:25,880
Speaker 25: I'm a check out, but we have to check back in.

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01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 25: Like we said, this is temporary. We're trying to go

1803
01:33:30,200 --> 01:33:34,080
Speaker 25: back to having an independent commission. Hell, we want one

1804
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:38,280
Speaker 25: for the entire country because ain't nobody got time for

1805
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:41,720
Speaker 25: none of this. But we have to step up and

1806
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 25: show up come this November to let folks know that

1807
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 25: we are not going to stand by and let folks

1808
01:33:48,040 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 25: that we don't know, to let folks who we know

1809
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 25: don't even love this country, okay, walk all over our rights,

1810
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:58,439
Speaker 25: the Constitution, and our ability to make and earn a

1811
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 25: living for ourselves and for our family members. So we

1812
01:34:02,000 --> 01:34:04,080
Speaker 25: have to tell them this is temporary. We have to

1813
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,840
Speaker 25: tell them that this abides by the Voting Rights Act.

1814
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 25: We have to tell them that representation is still important.

1815
01:34:09,640 --> 01:34:11,760
Speaker 25: We have to tell them that this is fair. We

1816
01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 25: have to remind them that these maps are gonna be

1817
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 25: on the ballot.

1818
01:34:15,040 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 18: Yo.

1819
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 25: So if you want receipts, the receipts are gonna be

1820
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,519
Speaker 25: on the ballot. We are not trying to hide. We

1821
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:25,240
Speaker 25: are trying to save and we need everyone to check in.

1822
01:34:25,400 --> 01:34:27,599
Speaker 25: It is like when you watch a game and your

1823
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 25: folks are playing and they're on the field, and you know,

1824
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:32,200
Speaker 25: it gets kind of quiet because your folks are way

1825
01:34:32,240 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 25: way behind and you want to check out, but your

1826
01:34:34,520 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 25: team cannot have you checkouts. You gotta still be raw, Ryan,

1827
01:34:38,120 --> 01:34:40,600
Speaker 25: You gotta buy those concessions. You gotta be rooting for

1828
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,200
Speaker 25: your team because they are still on the field, and

1829
01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 25: Democrats are still on the field, and we all have

1830
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 25: a role to play in this fight. And right now,

1831
01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:52,080
Speaker 25: the role that we have to play is to stay

1832
01:34:52,120 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 25: engaged and to talk to our friends and our family

1833
01:34:54,320 --> 01:34:56,559
Speaker 25: members and let them know what's at stake, and then

1834
01:34:56,600 --> 01:35:00,960
Speaker 25: make sure that everybody's asses show up either to vote

1835
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:03,639
Speaker 25: at the polls or get that ballot, fill it out

1836
01:35:03,680 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 25: and send it in. We need everyone to participate because

1837
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:11,679
Speaker 25: everyone's rights are at risk, everyone's coins are at risk.

1838
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 21: Everyone's future is at risk.

1839
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:17,280
Speaker 25: I'm trying to be as hype as Latifa Simon yo,

1840
01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:20,479
Speaker 25: because I think that so Falcon Rock like the Bay,

1841
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:25,160
Speaker 25: But all of these issues are at stake and will

1842
01:35:25,200 --> 01:35:27,080
Speaker 25: be on the ballot come November.

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01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 13: I'm gonna do it. Don't fight. We get in these streets. Okay,

1844
01:35:34,479 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 13: we get in these streets. We're gonna get these people red. Okay,

1845
01:35:38,400 --> 01:35:41,320
Speaker 13: y'all better donate you. I I don't put this bas

1846
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:42,320
Speaker 13: Lean on my face.

1847
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:45,000
Speaker 2: Look, I'm gonna.

1848
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 25: Put my hair off, yo, I'm gonna take off my

1849
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:52,160
Speaker 25: ear rings, Perie, like, what's happening.

1850
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 13: What's happening.

1851
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:55,280
Speaker 26: I don't know what's going on here, but I love

1852
01:35:55,320 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 26: it all Catornia.

1853
01:35:57,240 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 13: Okay.

1854
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:00,400
Speaker 24: We're from the land right and look and up from

1855
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:01,360
Speaker 24: Compton originally.

1856
01:36:01,520 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 13: And now my granny living Yo district on Hu City

1857
01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:07,280
Speaker 13: and I e being here. We've been to get any

1858
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:08,479
Speaker 13: in a B.

1859
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:10,120
Speaker 26: Tell Granny i'mnna pick up her ballot.

1860
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:12,719
Speaker 13: Let's okay, I'm gonna tell she's gonna be so happy.

1861
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 26: To do door to door service.

1862
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:16,360
Speaker 13: Okay, you better.

1863
01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 24: Come pick it up, am I Granny gonna come lit

1864
01:36:17,800 --> 01:36:19,320
Speaker 24: it for you.

1865
01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:23,880
Speaker 1: That that was I have no notes that could That

1866
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:27,519
Speaker 1: could not have been more entertaining. Thank you all so much,

1867
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:31,280
Speaker 1: a b thank you for for the the most entertaining

1868
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:34,799
Speaker 1: panel of the night. Appreciate you guys, Representative cum Lagger,

1869
01:36:34,840 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 1: Dove and Aguilar. Thank you so much for taking the

1870
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 1: time this evening, we have our last guest here, our

1871
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:43,360
Speaker 1: last two guests here. I'm very very excited, uh to

1872
01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:46,679
Speaker 1: introduce Lee mc gowan. You might know her as politics Girl.

1873
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 1: Could not be more excited if Look, I think that

1874
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:51,800
Speaker 1: we have to call out the people who are doing

1875
01:36:51,840 --> 01:36:54,920
Speaker 1: this for all the right reasons, and Lee exemplifies that

1876
01:36:55,040 --> 01:36:57,960
Speaker 1: better than anybody else. This is somebody who truly, truly,

1877
01:36:58,000 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 1: truly believes in her mission.

1878
01:37:00,280 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen her videos from the kitchen.

1879
01:37:02,720 --> 01:37:07,040
Speaker 1: We have a slightly elevated background right now. Lee could

1880
01:37:07,040 --> 01:37:09,280
Speaker 1: not be more grateful for your voice. And of course

1881
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:13,080
Speaker 1: Lee is joined by our fearless leader here in California,

1882
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom. I just want to say, and I

1883
01:37:16,200 --> 01:37:19,439
Speaker 1: know I've repeated this a couple of times throughout this call,

1884
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:21,400
Speaker 1: but for folks who are just watching right now, we

1885
01:37:21,520 --> 01:37:24,960
Speaker 1: have been begging for Democrats to actually fight back, to

1886
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: match their words with action, and that's what we got

1887
01:37:28,200 --> 01:37:32,360
Speaker 1: right here. So Gavin Newsom has gotten us halfway here,

1888
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:34,400
Speaker 1: and now the onus is on the rest of us

1889
01:37:34,840 --> 01:37:37,080
Speaker 1: to meet him halfway, to donate to this efforts that

1890
01:37:37,080 --> 01:37:38,960
Speaker 1: we can make sure that everybody in the state knows

1891
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,639
Speaker 1: what the stakes are, so I will stop talking. I'll

1892
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:43,719
Speaker 1: leave it up to you guys now and looking forward

1893
01:37:43,720 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: to the conversation.

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01:37:44,880 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 9: Ah, thanks so much, Brian.

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01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:48,080
Speaker 27: You are the absolute best and you are in it

1896
01:37:48,120 --> 01:37:50,919
Speaker 27: for all the right reasons. To my friend and listen, Governor,

1897
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 27: thank you for doing this today.

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01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:54,120
Speaker 9: Thank you for bringing the bad.

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01:37:54,720 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 3: You and I need a dog or something.

1900
01:37:57,040 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 4: I mean, how we You know, I didn't think we

1901
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:02,719
Speaker 4: could top fourteen year old dog and then of course

1902
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:04,679
Speaker 4: ab and Sydney, poor Pete.

1903
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 3: Jesus, that was next level.

1904
01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:08,680
Speaker 27: I know you and I both need our vasoline, you know,

1905
01:38:08,840 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 27: that's what we really need. I'll take out my earrings,

1906
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:12,960
Speaker 27: You'll get your vacline because I'm here for the fight.

1907
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:15,160
Speaker 9: Listen, You're here for the fight. Thank you for doing

1908
01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:15,960
Speaker 9: this right.

1909
01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:18,799
Speaker 27: I have to tell you, after watching this live today,

1910
01:38:19,240 --> 01:38:20,400
Speaker 27: what's this feeling I'm feeling?

1911
01:38:20,439 --> 01:38:22,479
Speaker 9: Is it hope? Are you feeling a little hope from

1912
01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:23,559
Speaker 9: watching all this today?

1913
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:24,160
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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01:38:24,200 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, how can you not be?

1915
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 4: I mean, I appreciate Brian just saying every single state

1916
01:38:28,840 --> 01:38:30,240
Speaker 4: we didn't know that would happen tonight.

1917
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:31,519
Speaker 3: We didn't know anyone to.

1918
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:35,760
Speaker 4: Show up, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have

1919
01:38:35,920 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 4: tuned in, some have been around. This is our third hour,

1920
01:38:39,520 --> 01:38:42,720
Speaker 4: which is extraordinary, and the fact that things were just

1921
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 4: tuned up just reinforces your point about optimism and energy.

1922
01:38:47,520 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 4: It makes people feel like they're being seen and they're

1923
01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:52,559
Speaker 4: being heard. It makes people feel like there's momentum and

1924
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,479
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity here to do something as opposed to

1925
01:38:55,560 --> 01:38:59,919
Speaker 4: talk about doing something, to actually demonstrably have an impact

1926
01:39:00,160 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 4: before something, not just against something.

1927
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:04,800
Speaker 3: And so this has been next level. I just want

1928
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 3: to thank.

1929
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,960
Speaker 4: Everybody, Lee, you for being here at the end of

1930
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 4: this and by the way, on a personal note, thank

1931
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:12,160
Speaker 4: you for getting me through the pandemic.

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01:39:12,240 --> 01:39:12,559
Speaker 3: Lee.

1933
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 4: I think everybody shaking their head. You literally got us

1934
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:22,559
Speaker 4: through the pandemic, and you gave voice to so many

1935
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,679
Speaker 4: of us that were so fearful, so isolated at that time.

1936
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:29,400
Speaker 4: And so I think in the spirit that is your spirit,

1937
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:32,880
Speaker 4: the spirit that defines all of the remarkable hosts we

1938
01:39:32,960 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 4: met tonight, just gratitude, thanks and yeah, optimism and hope.

1939
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:38,920
Speaker 9: Yeah, wouldn't that be nice.

1940
01:39:38,960 --> 01:39:41,320
Speaker 27: I think we've seen the Democrats get attacked across the

1941
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:44,400
Speaker 27: country for the past week and just treated like with

1942
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 27: one big brush that were all the worst people in

1943
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:47,720
Speaker 27: the world, And I keep thinking.

1944
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:48,679
Speaker 9: How is this the case?

1945
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 27: Like we are the party that wants you to have

1946
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:53,280
Speaker 27: health care and better schooling and you know, to take

1947
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:55,080
Speaker 27: care of your children and to get guns out of

1948
01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,639
Speaker 27: out of our children's faces in their classrooms. And I've

1949
01:39:57,640 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 27: watched Democrats be attacked this week, and I just this,

1950
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 27: This is such a wonderful evening because California is doing.

1951
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 27: What they're doing now is a direct response to a

1952
01:40:06,479 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 27: Republican action. And as a California voter myself, I'm going

1953
01:40:09,840 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 27: to be voting yes on fifty on November fourth, and

1954
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Speaker 27: I'm going to be contributing to Yes on fifty live

1955
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Speaker 27: dot com after we finish this. But I really hope

1956
01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 27: that everybody who is listening tonight and is taking this

1957
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:22,479
Speaker 27: in is as fired up as I am and feels

1958
01:40:22,520 --> 01:40:25,840
Speaker 27: like we see you, that you are not this horrible person,

1959
01:40:25,880 --> 01:40:28,040
Speaker 27: You are not the party of murder and death and

1960
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,320
Speaker 27: destruction that you've been told that you are. That you

1961
01:40:30,360 --> 01:40:32,200
Speaker 27: are here for the right reasons, that we can make

1962
01:40:32,240 --> 01:40:35,160
Speaker 27: a difference, and we can put people that want to

1963
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,479
Speaker 27: use government for the force of good back in office.

1964
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Speaker 9: Again.

1965
01:40:38,320 --> 01:40:38,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1966
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 4: No, I mean, look, you heard from so many people

1967
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 4: here tonight. I mean, these guys want to put America

1968
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 4: in reverse. They want to roll back hard earned, hard

1969
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:51,639
Speaker 4: fought progress and rights, and it's a pre nineteen sixties

1970
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:54,040
Speaker 4: world that they're preaching. I mean, Sydney made an even

1971
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:57,400
Speaker 4: more extreme point, but that's a fact on civil rights,

1972
01:40:57,520 --> 01:41:02,160
Speaker 4: LGBTQ rights, on women's rights, on voting rights, and they're

1973
01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 4: not screwing around to your point in this last week,

1974
01:41:04,439 --> 01:41:06,759
Speaker 4: the rhetoric, I mean, just the rhetoric from the President

1975
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,719
Speaker 4: of the United States. He didn't get any memo about

1976
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:13,080
Speaker 4: coming together and working bridge the divide and building a

1977
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:16,400
Speaker 4: bridge and organizing it, you know, just sort of the

1978
01:41:16,439 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 4: better angels. Quite the contrary. Did you hear Stephen Miller

1979
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:22,360
Speaker 4: on Friday night? Did we hear him over the weekend?

1980
01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 4: Is anyone paying attention to what is going on at

1981
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 4: the Department of Justice, to what you know, the cross

1982
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:31,679
Speaker 4: examination today we talked about over the last three hours

1983
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:36,040
Speaker 4: of cash Betel, these guys are not screwing around, and

1984
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 4: we have been.

1985
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:38,599
Speaker 3: And I thought Beto said it right.

1986
01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:41,760
Speaker 4: We were so consumed we have been as Democrats being

1987
01:41:41,880 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 4: right and not focused on being in power and at

1988
01:41:45,360 --> 01:41:47,639
Speaker 4: the end of the day, all the progress we've made,

1989
01:41:47,680 --> 01:41:50,280
Speaker 4: all the progress the last century, and voting rights still right,

1990
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 4: all those issues were because we were in power. We

1991
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:58,080
Speaker 4: had not just Leader Jeffreyes, we had Speaker Jeffries, Speaker Pelosi.

1992
01:41:58,120 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 4: And the progress we were made because we organized and

1993
01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:04,679
Speaker 4: we've turned out in remarkable numbers, and we turned out,

1994
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 4: as you said, for social justice, racial.

1995
01:42:06,880 --> 01:42:08,520
Speaker 3: Justice, economic justice.

1996
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:11,519
Speaker 4: We turned out because we believe we're all better off,

1997
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:13,519
Speaker 4: and we're all better off. We turned out because we

1998
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 4: don't tolerate one another. We want to celebrate one another

1999
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:19,240
Speaker 4: and unite around the things that bind us together and

2000
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:22,160
Speaker 4: the spirit of the best of the founding fathers. So

2001
01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 4: that's what that's what Prop fifty is about. And if

2002
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:28,000
Speaker 4: I may, I just think, you know, I don't want

2003
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,519
Speaker 4: to talk around it. You hurt a little bit, But

2004
01:42:30,920 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 4: just to highlight what everybody means tonight, the fact that

2005
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 4: you came together. We've raised over three quarters of a

2006
01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 4: million dollars from fifty states. I want folks to know

2007
01:42:40,920 --> 01:42:46,760
Speaker 4: every week, one person has donated ten million dollars to

2008
01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:51,519
Speaker 4: defeat us. One person someone who doesn't believe in reproductive freedom,

2009
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:54,960
Speaker 4: someone who believes in convert. I mean the extremes of

2010
01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:59,519
Speaker 4: the Republican Party. One billionaire every week, ten million dollars

2011
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:04,599
Speaker 4: ten thirty million in county. You had Mike Johnson write

2012
01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:06,720
Speaker 4: his first check. And who, by the way, who are

2013
01:43:06,720 --> 01:43:10,400
Speaker 4: the biggest donors behind that check. Guys like Elon musk

2014
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:14,599
Speaker 4: Ye know what we're up against and know that you're

2015
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:18,760
Speaker 4: the antidote to those folks, and we can defeat them.

2016
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Speaker 27: Yeah, and that's why we need these resources so we

2017
01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:23,920
Speaker 27: can counter the right wing money machine who are really

2018
01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:26,400
Speaker 27: hoping to defeat this proposition, so they can keep Donald

2019
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:29,160
Speaker 27: Trump and his billionaire agenda going because they're getting everything

2020
01:43:29,160 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 27: they want right now, and it's so important that we

2021
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:33,160
Speaker 27: counter their messaging. I was talking to one of my

2022
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:35,160
Speaker 27: neighbors on the dog walk the other day, because I

2023
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:36,760
Speaker 27: do have a big dog I could put right here

2024
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 27: on my lap that he.

2025
01:43:37,360 --> 01:43:38,439
Speaker 9: Could take up the whole screen.

2026
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:40,680
Speaker 27: And he said to me, why am I getting all

2027
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:43,559
Speaker 27: these emails about no On fifty? And I said, because

2028
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 27: they have so much money, an absurd amount of money

2029
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 27: to keep defeating democracy. These people have spent forty years

2030
01:43:54,040 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 27: trying to dismantle it. I do not think they thought

2031
01:43:56,360 --> 01:43:58,320
Speaker 27: the Democrats were going to fight back here, and it's

2032
01:43:58,320 --> 01:44:01,320
Speaker 27: why we're so grateful to you for stepping up. And

2033
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:03,559
Speaker 27: now they have to spend a ton of money to

2034
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:06,800
Speaker 27: make a counter punch look like a first punch, and

2035
01:44:06,960 --> 01:44:08,559
Speaker 27: they're the ones that brought this fight, and we're just

2036
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:10,040
Speaker 27: finally standing up to the cheating.

2037
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Speaker 10: No.

2038
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Speaker 4: I love that, And it was said by a number

2039
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:17,760
Speaker 4: of people this was not the fight we chose. But

2040
01:44:18,120 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 4: I think what you just said was even more powerful.

2041
01:44:20,760 --> 01:44:24,240
Speaker 4: I don't think Trump for a second expected us to

2042
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:27,000
Speaker 4: fight back like we're fighting back. And that's why failure

2043
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 4: is not an option. It is not an option. I mean,

2044
01:44:30,080 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 4: I can't even conceive of the impact if we run short.

2045
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:35,840
Speaker 4: We can't run the ninety yard dash on this. I

2046
01:44:35,880 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 4: mean twenty twenty six. If we limp into twenty twenty six,

2047
01:44:40,439 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 4: we're in real trouble. So we can build the kind

2048
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:47,320
Speaker 4: of momentum. Twenty twenty six begins this November, and it's

2049
01:44:47,400 --> 01:44:50,960
Speaker 4: November six, but as Pete and others just said, it's

2050
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:55,560
Speaker 4: really October six, because those ballots land in people's mailbox

2051
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Speaker 4: in just a few weeks. Early voting is October six.

2052
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:04,080
Speaker 4: It ends on November sixth, and that's the opportunity for

2053
01:45:04,160 --> 01:45:07,400
Speaker 4: folks to remind everybody the power of early voting, the

2054
01:45:07,479 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 4: power of emulation, meaning emulate kind of the things you

2055
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 4: heard here tonight, and the kind of energy and the

2056
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 4: carrying and daring that so many people share tonight.

2057
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:19,599
Speaker 3: And to make sure that we don't dream of regretting.

2058
01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,479
Speaker 4: We got to put everything out on the line, because

2059
01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 4: this is about holding the line, and it's about holding

2060
01:45:25,360 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 4: up this democracy.

2061
01:45:27,640 --> 01:45:29,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know you wish it wasn't like this. I

2062
01:45:29,680 --> 01:45:30,519
Speaker 9: wish it wasn't like this.

2063
01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:33,280
Speaker 27: But I keep saying, like there's no pointing and planning,

2064
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:35,479
Speaker 27: like these aren't the rules. When the other team keeps

2065
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:38,120
Speaker 27: round house kicking us to the face, right, it doesn't

2066
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:41,080
Speaker 27: matter that this isn't how politics is supposed to be played.

2067
01:45:41,400 --> 01:45:43,799
Speaker 9: If it is being allowed, then the rules have changed

2068
01:45:44,040 --> 01:45:46,400
Speaker 9: and we either kick back or we keep getting beat.

2069
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:48,000
Speaker 27: And I think I speak for many of us when

2070
01:45:48,040 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 27: I say we are sick and tired of losing.

2071
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 4: You got it, and again we're using I said it before,

2072
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:58,200
Speaker 4: not just our formal authority by organizing this construct and

2073
01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:00,320
Speaker 4: putting it on the ballot, but are moral the authority

2074
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:04,000
Speaker 4: by doing something that's never been done if you still

2075
01:46:04,040 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 4: have some hesitancy, you still have some doubt. Well, you know,

2076
01:46:07,760 --> 01:46:10,639
Speaker 4: I don't like, you know, just emulating the bad behavior.

2077
01:46:10,680 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 4: I don't want them to implicate me in the way

2078
01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:17,040
Speaker 4: they do things. This is democratic, This is transparent. The

2079
01:46:17,200 --> 01:46:20,920
Speaker 4: maps are on the ballot. That's never happened in this country.

2080
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:25,000
Speaker 4: We have never submitted to the people the ability to

2081
01:46:25,200 --> 01:46:29,320
Speaker 4: draw their own maps. So we're giving the people that power.

2082
01:46:29,439 --> 01:46:31,840
Speaker 4: This was not done in mar Lago. This was not

2083
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:35,200
Speaker 4: done behind closed doors, as was the case in Texas,

2084
01:46:35,560 --> 01:46:38,480
Speaker 4: As is going to be the case shortly in Indiana,

2085
01:46:38,520 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 4: and what just happened in Missouri and what is likely

2086
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:44,360
Speaker 4: to happen in Florida, in Ohio and elsewhere. This is

2087
01:46:44,439 --> 01:46:46,960
Speaker 4: done in the most transparent way. And again in a

2088
01:46:47,120 --> 01:46:53,160
Speaker 4: temporary response, a temporary response to what Donald Trump and

2089
01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:58,160
Speaker 4: what the Texas delegation did in greg Abne in just

2090
01:46:58,240 --> 01:47:04,200
Speaker 4: a few weeks ago. So pressed upon people more that

2091
01:47:04,439 --> 01:47:07,360
Speaker 4: this is it, this is it, and we've got to

2092
01:47:07,439 --> 01:47:09,400
Speaker 4: hold the line. We've got to hold each other's hands.

2093
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:12,560
Speaker 4: We got to walk across this line at peak, and

2094
01:47:12,640 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 4: we've got to, as you say, fire with fire, and

2095
01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:17,679
Speaker 4: we've got to be muscular in terms of our approach

2096
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:18,320
Speaker 4: and response.

2097
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Speaker 24: That's right.

2098
01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:21,880
Speaker 27: Absolutely. I want to thank you so much for doing

2099
01:47:21,920 --> 01:47:24,400
Speaker 27: this today, Governor. It's what we all really really need.

2100
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:26,400
Speaker 27: And for people who are feeling a little bit like

2101
01:47:26,479 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 27: two wrongs don't make a right and I'm not sure

2102
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 27: if I should go for this, understand that this is

2103
01:47:30,360 --> 01:47:32,479
Speaker 27: going in the most democratic way possible. This is a

2104
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:34,680
Speaker 27: temporary thing, and the goal at the end of this

2105
01:47:34,800 --> 01:47:37,439
Speaker 27: would we have no gerrymandering at all. It's why the

2106
01:47:37,520 --> 01:47:40,400
Speaker 27: Democrats voted for the for the People's Act in twenty nineteen,

2107
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:42,880
Speaker 27: it's why they voted for the redistricting reformat again in

2108
01:47:42,920 --> 01:47:45,640
Speaker 27: twenty twenty one, and why the Republicans voted against it

2109
01:47:45,800 --> 01:47:48,720
Speaker 27: both times because it is the Republicans who benefit from

2110
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:52,080
Speaker 27: locking in power, so it's no longer accountable to the voters.

2111
01:47:52,320 --> 01:47:53,880
Speaker 27: And this is not what we want, which is why

2112
01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 27: we are starting by doing this by being accountable to

2113
01:47:56,960 --> 01:47:58,840
Speaker 27: the voters. So thank you so much, Governor. I hope

2114
01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:01,479
Speaker 27: people will go to yes on fifty live right now

2115
01:48:01,560 --> 01:48:03,719
Speaker 27: and get us past that mark. But thank you everyone,

2116
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 27: and I really hope you're feeling the same hope I'm

2117
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:06,080
Speaker 27: feeling today.

2118
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Speaker 3: Love itly well said Thanks so much, Lee, and bring

2119
01:48:10,200 --> 01:48:10,479
Speaker 3: it home.

2120
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Speaker 1: Bring it home, and Governor Newsom, I gotta say, and

2121
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:15,200
Speaker 1: I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.

2122
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:18,840
Speaker 1: There are a million reasons to have not done this.

2123
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:21,639
Speaker 1: That it's too hard, that it's too close to the election,

2124
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 1: that there's too many people standing in the way, that

2125
01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:26,320
Speaker 1: it would just be easier if we just practice good

2126
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:29,879
Speaker 1: governance and unilaterally disarmed like Democrats always do. The reality

2127
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:32,639
Speaker 1: is that thanks to your leadership, thanks to the leadership

2128
01:48:32,640 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 1: of the California Democrats, we got this thing done, which

2129
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,880
Speaker 1: is which is half the battle right now, and so

2130
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 1: I'll repeat my plea to those who are watching right now.

2131
01:48:42,160 --> 01:48:44,720
Speaker 1: The reality is we got to get this thing in

2132
01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:47,519
Speaker 1: front of as many Californians as humanly possible. And the

2133
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 1: way that we do that is by looking to those

2134
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:53,720
Speaker 1: grassroots donations. We don't have these billionaires megabillionaires who are

2135
01:48:53,760 --> 01:48:56,560
Speaker 1: donating ten million bucks a pop like they have on

2136
01:48:56,640 --> 01:48:59,280
Speaker 1: the Republican side, because they know that if they can

2137
01:48:59,360 --> 01:49:01,840
Speaker 1: neutralize what happens in California, then they're good to go.

2138
01:49:01,960 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: There's no other big weapons to deploy like we have

2139
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:07,240
Speaker 1: in California, and so our antidote to that is going

2140
01:49:07,280 --> 01:49:09,960
Speaker 1: to be getting as many people in the grassroots donating

2141
01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:12,479
Speaker 1: as humanly possible. We're just a few thousand bucks away

2142
01:49:12,479 --> 01:49:15,280
Speaker 1: from seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a quarter three

2143
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:17,519
Speaker 1: quarters of a million dollars, and that money is going

2144
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:19,320
Speaker 1: to help get this thing in front of so many

2145
01:49:19,400 --> 01:49:21,800
Speaker 1: Californians who don't know what the stakes are of this

2146
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:25,439
Speaker 1: upcoming election on November fourth. It's going to make sure

2147
01:49:25,479 --> 01:49:27,439
Speaker 1: that we can get in front of people's TV screens,

2148
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:30,760
Speaker 1: on their computer screens, on their phone screens, in their mailboxes,

2149
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 1: and we can't do that without this massive amount of support.

2150
01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:36,519
Speaker 1: So for everybody who's donated, thank you so much for

2151
01:49:36,640 --> 01:49:38,360
Speaker 1: being part of this effort. Thank you for being part

2152
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:41,080
Speaker 1: of this movement, and also thank you being for being

2153
01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:44,880
Speaker 1: part of helping give something of a permission structure for

2154
01:49:45,040 --> 01:49:48,400
Speaker 1: other Democrats across the country to recognize that if they

2155
01:49:48,600 --> 01:49:51,639
Speaker 1: take aggressive action, if they take a forward leaning posture

2156
01:49:52,200 --> 01:49:55,679
Speaker 1: when it comes to fighting for our democracy, that they're

2157
01:49:55,720 --> 01:49:57,840
Speaker 1: going to have the people behind them. This is not

2158
01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:00,679
Speaker 1: just a California thing. Not only does it have major

2159
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:03,439
Speaker 1: implications for the House as we head toward twenty twenty six.

2160
01:50:03,640 --> 01:50:06,240
Speaker 1: But this is also a message to other democratic governors,

2161
01:50:06,439 --> 01:50:10,280
Speaker 1: other democratic state legislatures that the answer is not to cower,

2162
01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:12,680
Speaker 1: it is not to capitulate. It is to put on

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Speaker 1: your big boy pants and fight.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we're seeing right now.

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Speaker 11: And the way that.

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Speaker 1: We make sure to give that permission structure to other

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Speaker 1: Democrats to do that is by making sure that we

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Speaker 1: succeed here.

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Speaker 2: This is the test case. If it succeeds here, then

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Speaker 2: it shows every other.

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Speaker 1: Governor, every other state legislature, every other lawmaker senator across

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Speaker 1: the country that the answer in this moment is not

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Speaker 1: to bow down. It's not to capitulate to Trump and Republicans.

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Speaker 1: It's not to appeal to our better angels and practice

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Speaker 1: good governance and unilaterally disarm.

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Speaker 2: It is to lean forward and fight. And that's what

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Speaker 2: we're seeing right now.

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Speaker 1: And of course, the ability to win this fight relies

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Speaker 1: on everybody chipping in whatever we can to make this

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Speaker 1: thing a reality. So Governor, on behalf of everybody watching

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Speaker 1: cannot thank you enough for leading in the way that

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Speaker 1: we've been begging so many people to lead, which is

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Speaker 1: to to you know, back up, back up your words

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Speaker 1: with some action.

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Speaker 4: Here I love it, and I'm asking you for one

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Speaker 4: last action because we're going to hit seven hundred and

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Speaker 4: fifty thousand, but it's going to require one thing, Brian.

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Speaker 4: That's not anymore your time, but one more, one more

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Speaker 4: opportunity to see that beautiful dog of yours.

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Speaker 2: All Right, you know what this is it?

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Speaker 4: This is It is how we get This is how

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Speaker 4: we get over three quarters of a million dollars.

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Speaker 3: This is it, Brian, No pressure. Here we go, look

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Speaker 3: at this, there we go.

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Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to do it for me. I'm

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Speaker 2: asking you to do it for this little guy. This

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Speaker 2: is this is Don't do it for me, don't do it.

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Speaker 2: Don't even do it for democracy.

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Speaker 10: Just do it.

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Speaker 2: Just do it for this child right here who doesn't

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Speaker 2: know why, he.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't know why I'm subjecting himself to these live streams

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Speaker 1: over and over and over.

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Speaker 3: He's already he's already passed out. Unbelievable. Look at that, hey, Brian,

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Speaker 3: your rock star.

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Speaker 4: The fact you hosted this three hours, unbelievable to all

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Speaker 4: our influencers, all of our creators, to all the remarkable

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Speaker 4: elected of feudals officials across the country.

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Speaker 3: For those of you.

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Speaker 4: Tuned in even for two minutes for the last two hours,

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Speaker 4: Thank you those of you who made a contribution, We're

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Speaker 4: grateful beyond words.

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Speaker 3: Get the word out there, let folks know yes on

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Speaker 3: Prop fifty.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Governor. And for those who are looking

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Speaker 2: to donate, Yes on fifty live dot com.

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Speaker 3: Thanks everybody,