People who have spent 30 years in uniform, folks who have worked at the highest levels of government in the Trump administration to the Clinton administration, are very concerned about the rise of domestic extremism.

Any problem that exists in our society also exists in the US

military. The difference is that military veterans or folks in uniform have a lot of power

compared to the average citizen. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

As we lead up to the election on November 5th, I want us to be realistic about what the reality of the days post-election

are going to look like. I believe it's unlikely that Trump wins this election, but

that doesn't mean he won't try to take this election. We've had Mark Elias on the

show talking about Republican voter suppression efforts. election continue to file an attempt to steal the election on behalf of their candidate.

I've done rants explaining the cheating that is happening in red states across America

from trying to change the Electoral College in Nebraska to insisting on hand counting

the votes in Georgia to mass purges of the voter

roles in Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Texas. As Mark said on the show a couple of

weeks ago, plan on Trump and his team doing everything and anything to grab power against the will of the

voters and I think we need to expect to have a lot of people on board trying to help

him do that. With that in mind today's guest is Janessa Goldbeck.

Janessa is the CEO of Vet Voice Foundation, a national nonprofit that advocates for veterans and military families to actively participate in our democracy.

When she was a Marine Corps Combat Engineer officer,

she led missions overseas and supported service members

as a uniformed victim advocate.

Janessa's activism includes challenging the combat exclusion policy

and contributing to its repeal, which allowed all qualified applicants regardless of

gender to serve in all military roles. Before serving in the military,

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