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Krystal Kyle & Friends

Episode 213: Rahna Epting

Krystal Kyle & Friends

Krystal

News, Politics

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

MoveOn director Rahna Epting responds to Hakeem Jeffries' criticism of progressive grassroots organizations.

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0:00.0

Welcome, everybody, your Crystal Kyle and friends.

0:09.3

Today we have a special episode, a bonus episode that I have here for you.

0:13.5

We were able to get an exclusive interview with the move-on director, Rana Epting.

0:19.4

Rana, thanks so much for joining me.

0:20.5

I appreciate it. it oh thank you for

0:22.1

having me so um something a little spicy happened the other day and uh we want to get your

0:28.8

commentary on it here um hakeem jeffreys took a shot both at move on and uh indivisible and let me read you a little bit here from this Axios piece,

0:40.8

and I'm curious to get your reaction to it. But here's what they say, scoop. Democrats are pissed

0:45.4

at liberal groups, move on and indivisible. They go on to explain that in a closed door meeting

0:50.8

for House Democrats this week, there was a gripe fest, that's their term, directed at liberal grassroots organizations.

0:58.6

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday complained that activist groups like Move On and Indivisible have facilitated thousands of phone calls to members' offices.

1:10.4

They say, quote, people are pissed a House Democrat

1:12.8

who was at the meeting set of lawmakers' reaction to the call. So the thing I find interesting

1:18.8

about this is it's, people are pissed is the quote, but they're not talking about, hey,

1:25.3

the Democrats are pissed at Elon Musk and Donald Trump

1:29.5

and the destruction of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all these other things that they're doing.

1:35.2

They're pissed because their own base is making phone calls and holding them accountable.

1:41.2

So I guess first, let me just get your reaction to Hakeem Jeffries here.

1:46.1

Well, first of all, I wasn't in the room, but what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in that room, because that must have been interesting.

1:53.8

Look, move on members are regular folks. We have millions of members all across this country.

2:00.4

They live in, we have

2:01.4

move on members in every congressional district, every state, and the role that we play is we

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