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I'm joined today by two great folks, folks who I've had the chance to meet in person who have just been really inspiring to me and people I'm grateful for and that is Chris and Mindy Tackett.

So thanks you all for joining me.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you.

We are very glad to be here.

So y'all and many folks listening are going to know this already but y'all are two folks living in Texas who are just constantly encouraging people to be aware of the Christian Nationalist forces in Texas, to be aware of the

anti-Democratic forces in the state legislature, to be wary of the ways that things are happening

in schools, in areas such as reproductive rights, such as voting.

So your activist, you are organizers, Chris, you're a former school board member.

Tell us a little bit about your story, though,

the both of you, in terms of just how you came to be

who you are today in terms of doing all of this work.

Yeah, well, I'll say, you know, we were just two parents with little kids and were

involved in our community and in 2014 after I had been running the local baseball and softball association,

coaching kids, decided to run for school board. You know, it was a better chance to give more to the community

and impact again school districts and do those things and

while I was serving we had a new house member get elected who told us he supported our public schools and then it came time to go to

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