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Welcome back everybody to the Michael Steel Podcast. Just picking up with Dr. Barbara

where we left off. The Poor People's Campaign is involved not just in the issues related

to poverty and economics, but also voting. Again, one of our first conversations was around

not just poverty, but also the voting piece and the democracy space. You have been very

clear in how you look at this issue as a cornerstone to a lot of the other things that are

happening. Because when you strip away people's ability to access the ballot box to elect

and direct leaders, the right way to go, the kinds of policies that they may want to see

for themselves and their families, you really undo a lot of opportunities for public policy.

You wrote a piece back. February, the root cause of voter suppression walk us through

where you were saying in that piece where you talk about not just the history of voter

suppression, but the extreme nature of what can and will happen if we don't do something

to stop it.

I sure am.

Well, you know, Michael, and let me throw a couple of quick points out there. We don't

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