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🗓️ 29 April 2025
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0:00.0 | April 28, 2025. |
0:09.0 | There's been a change of foot in the Democratic Party for a while now, |
0:13.0 | as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans |
0:17.0 | to standing firmly against them and articulating their own vision for the United States. |
0:22.7 | That shift burst dramatically into the open last night when Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker |
0:29.1 | gave a barn-b. Pritzker gave a barn-burning speech to Democrats in New Hampshire. After walking out to the |
0:34.8 | American author's song, Go Big or Go Home, Prisker urged Democrats to stop listening to do-nothing political types who are calling for caution at a time when Americans are demanding urgent action and to fight everywhere and all at once. |
0:52.8 | Prisker highlighted three ordinary Americans who are opposing the Trump |
0:56.2 | administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency by building communities to protest, |
1:02.8 | hanging an upside-down flag on the face of Yosemite National Park's famous cliff, El Capitan, |
1:08.5 | and welcoming Vice President J.D. Vance to Sugarbush Resort in Vermont with a snow |
1:13.6 | report calling attention to the administration's attacks on veterans, people with disabilities, |
1:18.6 | LGBTQ plus Americans, immigrant workers, and people of color. He urged Democrats to lead |
1:26.6 | with the same passion. |
1:29.1 | He listed the positions on which he wants Democrats to stand firm, beginning, |
1:34.2 | It's wrong to snatch a person off the street and ship them to a foreign gulag |
1:39.2 | with no chance to defend themselves in a court of law. |
1:42.6 | This is not about immigration, he said, but about the |
1:45.6 | Constitution. Standing for the idea that the government doesn't have the right to kidnap you |
1:51.6 | without due process is arguably the most effective campaign slogan in history, he said. |
1:59.2 | Today, it's an immigrant with a tattoo tomorrow it's a citizen whose |
2:03.8 | Facebook post annoys Trump Prisker tore into the maga myth that Democrats want |
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