Midterm Madness

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Remember that November 9th feeling? We'd like to move in the other direction, so we're donating money, making calls, and shining a light on the people we'd like to see in office instead. We talk with with state-level candidates we're supporting: Cynthia Nixon in New York and Felicia French in Arizona. Christine Hallquist is trans and just became the Democratic nominee for governor in Vermont. Plus, shoutouts to Congressional candidates Abby Finkenauer in Iowa; Lauren Underwood in Illinois; Ilhan Omar in Minnesota; and Rashida Tlaib in Michigan.

Reading List

Higher Heights

Sister District

Gettable Senate seats

Cynthia Nixon for NY governor

Felicia French for AZ state legislature

Abby Finkenauer in Iowa congressional race

Lauren Underwood Illinois congressional race

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib

Christine Hallquist in VT governor’s race

Also! STOP KAVANAUGH Day of Action

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.5	I'm Amina Tussaud and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:07.3	On this week's agenda, mid-term madness, including candidates we love and we're watching
0:12.3	and we are showering with our time, attention, and harder-in-dollars, including Felicia
0:19.2	French who's running for the Arizona State Legislature and Cynthia Nixon who's running
0:23.5	for Governor of New York.
0:30.0	Hello!
0:32.0	Hello from Beautiful Los Angeles.
0:58.6	I love having you here.
1:00.6	Listen, I love being in your house.
1:03.6	So win, win, win, win, win.
1:06.5	Oh my god, great transition, win, win, win, win.
1:09.9	Because today's episode is all about the midterm elections.
1:13.9	I know.
1:14.9	We're checking in on candidates that we're watching, organizations that we're keeping an eye
1:19.2	on.
1:20.2	The midterms are approaching rapidly.
1:22.8	You know that November 9th feeling?
1:26.2	Of like, oh god.
1:27.6	I did work on this campaign or I did make phone banking calls from my laptop but like, was
1:33.7	it enough?
1:34.7	This is horrible.
	...

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