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Hey, everybody.

I'm honored today to be joined by the executive director for the American Civil

Liberties Union for the District of Columbia.

Monica Hopkins. Monica, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm really excited to talk to you. There's so many, like I could talk to you for 10 hours probably,

but I want to speak to you today because it seems as though our last best guardrails left in place for democracy

are the courts, right? And we're going to need to support organizations like the ACLU. So we all

can do the work of slowing down some of the incoming Trump administration's policies,

because there'll be no more adults in the room in this particular administration.

So let's start with a little bit about you. How long have you been with the ACLU in the District of

Columbia? Yeah. So I have been with the District of Columbia ACLU for 10 years. And prior to that, I ran the ACLU of Idaho for about six years. So I just

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