The positions of this administration and the positions that this Republican Congress are enabling

are so deeply unpopular and they hope against hope that they're able to do it in the dark

without any kind of pushback.

It is our job right now as they try to do that to not provide them that benefit, to stand up

loudly with other folks and say clearly, this is wrong.

Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

So last weekend, I went to D.C. to participate in a weekend-long event run by Indivisible,

and for the first time in a long time, I felt hopeful. The event was filled with community and group

organizers from all over the country, from Alaska to White,

and everyone is absolutely fired up to fight back and protect our democracy, our rule of law,

and our place in the world.

I was part of a new media panel with Aaron Parnas, but I heard inspirational speeches from so many people,

including the keynotes at the end with Congressman Maxwell Frost, who said those of us who

are fighting this lawlessness are not the minority. We're the opposition. That we don't need to be more

like the Republicans to win. We need to take off our own shackles and be more like ourselves.

Just stop apologizing for leaning with love because love is not passive. It's powerful.

We also heard from Senator Chris Van Hollen, who pointed out if the guardrails are gone,

then we need to be the guardrails. The whole event was so well organized and every leader there

was just the tip of the spear because they were all going home to lead groups. So today I thought we would talk to

the co-founder and executive director of the group that organized this amazing event, the same group

that will be leading the no king's protest this Saturday across the country in opposition to our

president's self-indulgent military birthday parade. Indivisible is an incredible grassroots movement of thousands of local groups

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