Wow I am exhausted. It's been a long night in Georgia. Georgia is on my mind.

Thank you for tuning into another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

If you hear some weariness in my voices because we've had long nights we've

been toiling in the vineyard for a long time but finally the sun cometh in the

morning and a special thank you to my Georgia voters for giving us a Senate majority.

Congratulations to Senator-elect Osoff and my more house brother and one of our former

guest Reverend Senator-elect Raphael Warnock.

There are so many people in organizations

that I could give shout-outs to in Georgia.

From my Spellman sister, Stacey Abrams and Bianca Keaton

to Mayor Bottoms in Atlanta to organizations like the New Georgia Project in Fairfright,

and my friends over at the Black Voters Matter Project, Cliff Albright and Latasha Brown.

What we saw in Georgia was nothing short of amazing, but also the culmination

of over a decade of organizing. For my friends across the deep south, Georgia is an instructive

lesson in what happens when you put the time and effort into organizing an electorate,

as opposed to the more traditional model of political organizing centered around candidates.

Let's invest in ourselves, and when the right right candidate emerges they'll win, not the other way around.

My hope is that after Georgia national donors, the Democratic Party in its campaign committees and philanthropic organizations see the South for truly what it is.

And that's a sleeping giant if activated could work to ensure that Republicans remain a permanent

minority in our national politics. We also saw again the power of

black voters firsthand and what happens when you give voters candidates they see

themselves in and you empower and invest in homegrown talent to do what they already

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