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upcoming elections in November. Make sure to text the word voter 2697 right now to check your registration and to receive your polling location and reminders for all

local, state, and federal elections in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, this is Deborah Messing. I'm an actress, social justice advocate, and humanitarian.

I am Mondana Dayani, an entrepreneur, attorney, and most recently the co-founder of the

nonpartisan movement, I am a voter.

So Mondana and I are best friends and we're constantly sending each other stories of people who blow our minds.

And then one day we realized something.

Most of them had no intention of becoming heroes.

They just knew they had to do something and did it. So we decided to do what we do best. Completely geek out on endless hours of research. And we cannot wait to present you the 20 accidental activists who

blew us away. Based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic I descent slogan these these are the dissenters, the people who just made a

decision one day to challenge the status quo. In this episode we speak with

Congressman Adam ship. No like seriously we speak with Congressman Adam Schiff.

No, like seriously we speak to Congressman Adam Schiff, like we can't even believe it ourselves.

In addition to being valedictorian, most likely to succeed a graduate from Harvard and

Stanford, an attorney, and the senior congressman from California

serving his 10th term.

He's also the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and

served as the lead impeachment officer of the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

He's even a triathlete.

Oh, it's so crazy.

And yet, what has always been even more inspiring to us than all of that is the congressman's incredible love of country of our

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