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Welcome to Amped Up.

This is your host, Ryan Knight, and our guest today is Brianna Joy Gray.

Brianna is the co-host of the Bad Faith

podcast, a contributing editor of Current Affairs magazine and the former

National Press Secretary of Bernie Sanders. Brianna, welcome to Amt Up.

Thank you so much Ryan. It's a real pleasure to be here with you.

And this is our last show of the season.

So in the words of the great Vanessa Williams, we the best of the life. Well I'm honored

on both counts. Before we talk about what everyone in the progressive movement is

talking about the Force the vote campaign.

I first want to get your reaction to the fact that our government is only giving the people a

one-time $600 check in the latest COVID bill despite the fact that millions of Americans

are up to $5,000 behind in rents, bills, utilities, 40 million Americans are

facing eviction and 50 million Americans are facing food insecurity.

I mean Ebenezer Scrooge wasn't even this selfish, greedy, and narcissistic.

Why are so many politicians in Washington okay with allowing this many people in our country to suffer and how should the people respond to being

provided a real relief bill from their government

as every other major developed nation in the world

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