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Gaslit Nation

North Carolina and the Fate of Our Democracy

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation

News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this special interview with Gaby Goldstein, a co-founder of Sister District, we discuss the Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper, which the court agreed to hear December 7th. Just like Citizens United empowered dark money groups to turbo-charge America's descent into far-right fascism, Moore vs. Harper will unleash a far great danger: the end of our democracy as we know it -- state governments will essentially be allowed to override the will of voters.
The story of how we got here is one of state government power, and why, as we keep saying on the show, it's so important to fight like hell in state elections, and not just the races for Congress and president. You can join us in doing just that by making calls with Sister District and Gaslit Nation on Tuesday October 25th at 5pm EST -- we're calling voters in North Carolina to remind them to vote in their all important state elections. Every vote matters, and so does every phonecall we make together.
This interview ends with a quick training on making phone calls to voters and an important call to action to join our North Carolina phonebank with Sister District. You can sign up for this and other events on the Gaslit Nation 2022 Survival Guide. We look forward to seeing you Tuesday 5pm EST at our phonebank party with Sister District!

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome to Gasolineation. I'm your co-host Andrea Chalupa. As you know,

0:11.0

we are going to be doing an extremely important phone banking event with our friends at

0:16.8

Sister District. It's going to be this coming Tuesday. You do not want to miss it. It's

0:23.9

Tuesday, October 25th, 5 p.m. Eastern. We're going to be calling voters in North Carolina.

0:31.4

Why is North Carolina important? Because it's one of the places, one of the states where

0:37.1

women across the South, many of them have been impacted by these extreme abortion laws,

0:42.4

these anti-health care laws, these extreme bands. And so North Carolina where abortion is

0:47.7

currently still legal has become basically a sanctuary for women to get the health care

0:52.7

they need, right? Instead of dying from being forced to carry a pregnancy that's dying

1:00.4

inside of them or just to make whatever choices they want about their body. So North

1:04.6

Carolina is a safe state currently for women, for women's health care, for people's

1:09.4

health care. We want to keep it that way. That's why we're going to make calls to North

1:13.6

Carolina voters with Sister District Tuesday, October 25th, 5 p.m. Eastern. You can RSVP for

1:20.5

that on the Gaslet Nation website. GasletNationPod.com. Just click on the 2022 Survival Guide on our

1:26.4

homepage. That's GasletNationPod.com. I will be there making the calls with you. We'll

1:30.7

have a quick training join us. And to talk us through the all important work of Sister

1:35.6

District is Gabby Goldstein, the co-founder whose mission, the Sister District mission,

1:41.2

is to build progressive power in state legislatures. As a senior vice president for strategic

1:46.9

initiatives, Gabby leads programs that strengthen the pipeline of diverse progressive candidates,

1:52.7

as well as programs that educate the public about the importance of state legislatures and

1:57.3

policy, and which support progressive state legislators once elected. Prior to founding

2:02.2

Sister District, she was a bioethics lawyer and health policy researcher. She holds a

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