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That Trippi Show

Launching the Pro Democracy Coalition with Megan Matson

That Trippi Show

Joe Trippi

Politics, News Commentary, Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Megan Matson joins the show to discuss her experience in digital grassroots organizing and how things have evolved since Joe's pioneering days with Howard Dean. But we won't bury the lede - Joe and Megan discuss the launch of The Union, the virtual organizing hub for the pro-democracy coalition, with the Lincoln Project. And especially after the Senate defeat of the voting rights bill, there's no better time than now to get involved. Find out how you can help at jointheunion.us. We need your help - if you’re listening, you need to be part of the pro-democracy coalition. Go to jointheunion.us and tell us how you can help now. Then please do invite one friend or neighbor to join us.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show this week really excited to welcome a special guest who

0:14.6

hearkens back to the Dean days and who's helping launch something we're really

0:19.2

excited about. Megan Mattson who's been involved as everything from a super volunteer

0:24.9

strategist and done a lot of work particularly in tech on helping different grassroots

0:31.8

campaigns around the country.

0:33.5

She joins us today.

0:34.9

Megan's currently on the board at the Lincoln Project,

0:38.3

helped in Georgia, and helped the Beto 2018 campaign.

0:44.2

And it's been helping Alex and I launch the hub

0:47.1

for the Pro Democracy Coalition.

0:48.9

We'll get into that in a second,

0:50.4

but Megan, welcome, thanks for being with us today.

0:53.0

Thank you so much huge treat hearkening back to you know first days with the Dean effort you led.

1:01.0

So Alex what do you what do you want to start? Yeah, before we get into the

1:06.4

grassroots hub the Union stuff wanted to briefly touch on because I don't think we can

1:10.8

avoid it. Talk about what's been going on this week in the news.

1:13.6

Obviously the big story.

1:14.8

The Senate voted down the voting rights bill

1:17.6

that the House had passed.

1:19.0

No surprise there really.

1:20.2

But Joe, what's next for Democrats?

1:22.5

Well, look, I think, you know, the president gave,

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