#62 How to Crush The Midterms Ft. Marisa Kabas

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Sami is joined by Marisa Kabas of Crush the Midterms, an initiative that helps individuals discover the ideal ways for them to personally get involved in politics and activism.They talk about how some votes seem to count less than others and how you can make your voice more heard no matter where you live. They also discuss the polarization of politics and how Republicans use odd names to describe liberals such as "pro-abortion" instead of "pro-choice." Listen and learn how to make canvassing your cardio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello welcome to the Betches up podcast I'm Sammy Fishbine and I am
0:09.3	joined today by Marissa Cabis from Crush the Midterms and we are going to tell you all about
0:15.1	her organization and ways that you can get involved before the 2018 midterms which
0:19.2	are coming up super fast.
0:20.6	Hi Marissa!
0:21.6	Hi, thank you. I'm so excited to be here with the bitches.
0:25.0	Yeah, we're excited to have you.
0:28.0	So let's just get right into it.
0:30.1	How mad are you this week? On a scale of one too freaking furious, like beyond, like my head is about to explode.
0:38.0	I was saying to friends, I haven't felt this level of rage since November 9th 2016.
0:45.0	Right and that was like a really scary day so here we are.
0:49.0	And I just want to say for the audience we're recording this on Monday so we don't even really know
0:54.0	what's gonna happen by the time this episode comes out so we could be you know we
0:57.9	could something good could happen you never know with this FBI investigation you You never know, but you also probably do know.
1:05.0	Right.
1:08.0	Things are just not pointing in the most amazing direction so far.
1:12.0	No, and that's why I'm trying to just channel my rage and energy
1:15.7	elsewhere because I know I can't really control what a couple of old white men
1:20.7	Republicans do.
1:22.8	So I'm thinking about what I can do personally.
1:26.3	Right, like what are a couple of girls from Long Island
1:28.8	who already have Democratic senators
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