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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Today I'll be talking to the director of democracy at

Indivisible Megan Hatcher Maze about the For the People Act and I'll be joined by Roda Kamarari,

the founder of O-Made Peanut Butter for a discussion about smart, sustainable, and goodwill business.

I hope you enjoy it.

Today I am speaking with the lawyer and director of democracy at Indivisible

Megan Hatcher Maze, who's who's appeared before but I'm glad to see you again Megan, how are you?

I'm great, thanks so much for having me.

I am so excited to talk to you because you have a really distinct working knowledge of the For the People

Act and before we get into that can you tell me about the For the People project?

Yeah, so that bill is a transformative structural democracy reform bill. It's obviously

our democracy's problems did not start with Donald Trump but we're facing a lot of big problems,

so we need some big solutions and so that's what this bill does. It has everything from campaign

finance reform to banning partisan gerrymandering, to election security and funding for vote by mail,

all the stuff that lots and lots of people really really like and so it's really really critical

to get it passed this year like this summer so that it's in place ahead of the 2022 midterms

which actually are coming up a lot more quickly than you might think. So especially the provisions

dealing with redrawing congressional maps and redistricting so all of those will be drawn based

on the 2020 census data and so for some states they are required to have those maps drawn as soon

as February of 2022 so you really don't have a lot of time to waste in getting this bill passed

because it's going to be you know closer it's the objects appear closer.

Yes, yes indeed and we're facing a lot of we're facing a pill battle on HR1-S1 and there's a

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