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This is I Doubted Podcast with Brittany Page and Jesse Dallamore.

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Episode 811 of I Doubted Podcast.

I'm unsure because I didn't write it down before we started.

But I'm joined today by the lovely, the talented,

and the scholarly Brittany Page, as I always am.

And very special in-studio guest,ader from rising organizers dot org and we're

going to have a fantastic conversation thank you for being here alissa we appreciate you very much

thanks for having me so this has been um it's perfect timing to have you in studio because we've we've wanted to have you in

for for months now but because of our bout with COVID and then i think you got i did get

you got to i don't want to out anybody it's okay i'm healed now which is what matters um and then

with the the impending collapse of our republic through the overturning of Roe and

this monstrous and illegitimate Supreme Court, we, it's good that all the COVID happened.

Maybe it was fate that we all contracted a insidious disease.

So we could really stew in this moment and work through it together. Well, because if we've done it

earlier, no one would be as impassioned as they are now about everything that's going on.

It's true. I mean, it's like you, when we first moved here to D.C., you would walk through the city

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