What we are mobilizing for right now isn't just to sustain the House and win the Senate and get the White House,

but it's to keep up the momentum on the ground because we're going to need an organized electorate in order to have sustainable change.

We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment.

How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum

that colorblind ideology built?

So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed

in the best of their past.

What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given?

How do you envision possibility?

Hello everyone.

Welcome.

And thanks for joining us on this special edition of the tightrope. I'm Tricia Rose here with my co-host and friend Cornell West. Today's episode of the Tightrope is what they

call a takeover of the Intelligence Squared podcast. For those of you who don't know them,

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Tie Robs podcast and channels in the description and subscribe. Today's guest is Minnesota

Congresswoman Ilan Omar. She represents Minnesota's fifth congressional district, which includes

the city of Minneapolis. Before becoming a Congresswoman two years ago,

she was an experienced Twin City Policy Analyst and Community Organizer. She's one of only two Muslim American women elected to Congress,

the first Somali American member of Congress, and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota. Representative Omar,

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