It is almost my favorite day of the year, election day, our last chance to vote in what's being called the most important election of our lifetime.

Today I'm talking with two of my closest friends,

Jess Morales-Rocchetto and Stephanie Valencia, about what's at stake and how our country would

change if Latinas showed up to vote in full force. They have a dozen political jobs between them,

so I'm going to skip the formal bios. I invited them together because they're co-founders of Shise Puede,

a new movement to politically activate incredible Latinas like all of you.

There's so much at stake in this election, and it's hard to really kind of boil it down

because I think everybody has their own thing that is at stake in this election.

You know, some of us have friends or family who are at risk for deportation.

If another four years of Donald Trump will mean another four years living in extreme fear and

paranoia. For some people, it is about health care and access to health care and preexisting

conditions and making sure that we don't have to worry about, you know, the doctor that we go to or going into debt because of, you know, an emergency, a health emergency or putting off a doctor's visit.

It is about the economy and it is about coming out of COVID and how we respond to the both health emergency

of COVID but the economic emergency of COVID that has disproportionately affected our community.

But this truly is their like lives on the line on this election.

And we're determining whether or not a racist nationalist who has from day one of his campaign singled out Latinos and Latinas as other and as people who we should fear or not embrace.

That is what we are deciding this election, whether or not we are going to choose a leader who will bring this country back together or whether we will

continue to divide and deflect and blame. But this is a time where we are at a pivotal moment.

I think we will all remember where we were, not just this election, but this period of time

when we survive it and we look back and we're building the country that we want.

Jess, there's this concept in urban planning, which is about resilience,

that when you have something like a hurricane or an earthquake that decimates a city,

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