Elections Worth Fighting For

In The Thick

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🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

From the historic triumph of women candidates across the country to issues of voter suppression, we talk Midterms ITT style. Maria and Julio are joined by ITT All-Star and award-winning journalist Imara Jones, founder of Oria Media and host of The Last Sip. ITT Staff Picks

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Julio and the moment we finish recording our election special, guess what?
0:07.0	Jeff Sessions, attorney general, resigned.
0:11.0	You know in the next couple episodes we're going to be able to talk about it in much more tap.
0:15.2	So here's our election special.
0:21.2	Well hello there and welcome to In The Thing. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective and we have survived the midterms. I'm Maria Nuhosa.
0:32.0	And I'm Julio Ricc Barela, and this is the In The Thick, Holy Shit,
0:37.0	midterms are over.
0:39.0	Special episode.
0:41.0	How's that?
0:42.0	And joining us from our Harlem studio to chat all things
0:45.7	midterms is our newest ITT all-star and award-winning journalist. Her name is
0:51.5	Imara Jones, founder and president of
0:53.6	O'Riah Media and host of the last sip and a vocal fellow. What's up
0:58.2	Emmara? How are you all? How are you? Thanks for having me. Well you know I
1:02.4	believe in making things kind of being very tempered.
1:06.0	So I did not, I went to sleep early because I had to be up at four.
1:09.0	Oh. And I went to sleep expecting that everything was going to be a loss, including the House.
1:15.8	So the truth is that it didn't go that way.
1:19.0	So it was a mix of victories and defeats.
1:22.4	Democrats did in fact take the House.
1:24.0	Republicans kept control over the Senate.
1:27.0	And yes, I do think that women,
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