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Hi, this is just a friendly reminder to make sure that you are registered to vote for the upcoming elections this November.

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more civic engagement opportunities. That's voter to 26797. Hi. Hi, this is Deborah Messing. I'm an actress and social justice advocate.

I am Madonna Deani, creator and co-founder of the nonpartisan movement. I am a voter.

So Mondana and I are best friends and activism is a huge part of our lives and who we are.

We're constantly inspired by the incredible work people are doing every day all over the world.

And then one day we realized something. Most of these people

had no intention of becoming heroes. They're just accidental activists who

knew something was not okay and chose to do something about it.

In this podcast, we share the journeys of 20 of these dissenters who blew us away.

Based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic I descent slogan,

a dissenter is someone who stood up to an injustice

or challenged the status quo,

someone who fought to build a better place. or challenged the status quo,

someone who fought to build a better way.

This week we speak with the incredible Carol Codwalder,

a world-renowned investigative journalist who

rose to international prominence in 2018 when she exposed the

Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal and the right-wing fake news ecosystem.

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