Welcome to Amped Up with Proud Resister.

Episode 2.

He did it.

I am Progressive Activist Ryan Knight, you might know me from Twitter at Proud Resister,

or I'm a guest on the Stephanie Miller show and my host.

Yeah, I'm Chris Lervoy and you might hear me on the Stephanie Miller show as well.

Awesome.

And yeah, you know our podcast is called Amped Up

because with Trump continuing to suck up

most of the mainstream media's oxygen,

we wanted to give a platform to be amped up about our issues and

candidates as we head into 2020 to kind of cut through his his gas lighting and

today I am so excited because we have civil rights activists Ashley Marie Preston with us and she's not calling in like Rosie did last week. She's actually in studio with us today. Welcome. So welcome, Ashley.

Thanks for having me.

And I just want to, you know, I got to give you a little bit of an introduction because I went to

your Wikipedia page and I was just like, oh my goodness, I can't believe

Ashley Marie-Marie Preston's here on our show today.

Historically, you are the first trans woman in America and in the world to become

editor and chief of a national publication, the first openly

trans person to run for state office in California. He were named the Route 100's

most influential African- of 2017 and you were profiled as one of

logo and new now next 30 most influential LGBTQ influencers and you were listed on Out magazines Out 100 of 2018 and I also know

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