Red States are Laboratories of Autocracy. With Democracy Activist David Pepper
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, discusses the importance of focusing on races beyond the presidential election, such as State House and Senate seats and governorships as well as the U.S. House. He highlights the need for Democrats to compete in every district and emphasizes the threat of Project 2025, a plan by Trump supporters to dismantle the government if Trump is reelected. Pepper also discusses the use of school vouchers to undermine public education and calls for action to protect public schools. He is writing a novel that exposes the dangers of Project 2025 with the aim to make the threat more accessible to voters. You can follow David’s very important work on these and other key issues at DavidPepper.substack.com. Also check out more great information about David’s causes at SaveDemocracy.us.
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| 1:11.8 | Hello, hello, and welcome back. Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. You know, as it happens every four years, most of the attention this year is focused on the top of the ticket, the presidential race, and that's important. But there are also many other important races that demand our attention |
| 1:19.2 | and our involvement. Every seat in the House of Representatives is up for grabs. So are 33 Senate seats |
| 1:27.4 | and races for governor in 11 states, and then there are |
| 1:31.6 | those often neglected but very important races for control of state legislatures. David Pepper, |
| 1:38.5 | former local elected official and former state Democratic chair of Ohio, has been leading the |
| 1:43.9 | effort to make sure that Democrats |
| 1:45.4 | are competing for every seat at every level. He's also been sounding the alarm about Project |
| 1:52.0 | 2025, that scary plan that Trump supporters have put together for gutting the government, |
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