Our Political Remix #1: NY AG Letitia James, Latino Voters, Immigration in Politics, and Gubernatorial Candidate Wes Moore

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, we’re re-airing some of Our Body Politic’s most noteworthy and illuminating political interviews from the past two years. In preparation of the 2022 Midterms, we’re looking at how some of the most pressing political issues continue to shape our nation by revisiting conversations with key public officials like New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James, who shares insights on holding Jan 6 insurrectionists accountable, scholar Geraldo Cadava, who breaks down the history of Hispanic Republicans, and Bertica Cabrera Morris, a longstanding Republican organizer and businesswoman. We also hear from U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawai’i who shares how being the only immigrant in the U.S. Senate shapes her politics, and Wes Moore, the current Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland, who shares how his ancestors’ experience with white supremacists and his service in the U.S. military inform and inspire his political career.

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0:00.0	Hi, folks, we are so glad that you're listening to Our Body Politic. If you have time,
0:19.8	please consider leaving us a review on Apple
0:22.1	podcast. It helps other listeners find us and we read them for your feedback. We're here for you,
0:28.0	with you and because of you. Thank you. This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. In advance of the 2022 midterm elections, this week we're looking back at some of our best political segments in a special remix episode. We can't understand what lies ahead without making sense of where we've been. For the past two years, our body politic has been chronicling
0:54.9	American democracy in an era of uncertainty and sometimes peril. I was trapped in the gallery
1:01.3	on January 6th. I had just had a knee operation so I couldn't even walk. And 15 feet away from me
1:08.6	and many other members that were there, the insurrectionists were pounding
1:12.5	on the door to get in. In this case, it's necessary to save lives, meaning keep people from dying,
1:18.3	but also keep people from being infected, keep people from getting long COVID.
1:23.6	Justice Alito refers to fetuses. He refers to unborn child. But here's what's interesting is that the
1:30.5	Constitution makes no reference to fetuses, embryos, or unborn children.
1:37.4	That was U.S. Representative Pramilla Giacall of Washington, molecular biologist and science educator
1:43.1	Dr. Raven Baxter and UC Irvine's Chancellor's Professor, Michelle Goodwin.
1:48.4	As we're in midterm season, we want to also bring you a look at how we got where we are and what it might take for us to move forward with our democracy intact.
1:57.5	From the perspectives of senators, political candidates, historians, and more, we're looking at
2:02.2	how some of the most pressing political issues continue to shape the face and the fate of our nation.
2:08.6	First, a conversation with a woman whose work is shaping the historical record of a former president.
2:14.5	Leticia Tish James was a New York City public defender, public advocate, and city council
2:19.5	member before becoming New York State's Attorney General in 2019. She made history as the first woman
2:25.4	and first black person elected to the office. This week, James announced a lawsuit of over
2:31.5	200 pages accusing former President Donald Trump, his business,
2:36.0	and three of his children of committing deception and fraud to lenders and insurers for over
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