Let's be honest, Republicans know they can't win elections fair and square.

And that's why they're ramping up their voter suppression and election subversion war machine.

But there's no one fighting harder against those attacks than Senator Ruben Gaiago.

He's a Marine veteran, Arizona's newest U.S. senator and one of the most influential voices in the Democratic Party.

In this episode, we'll break down how extremists are trying to rig Arizona in 2026 and why

Donald Trump is rapidly increasing ice rates.

And most importantly, we'll talk about what Congress has to do right now to protect free

and fair elections in 2026.

But before we get into any of that, make sure to subscribe to this

channel to know what you can do to defend democracy. Senator Diego, welcome to defending democracy.

How you doing? Well, you tell me, we've had, we had bad elections in 2024. We had good

midterm, off cyclecycle elections in 2025.

As we're recording this, we're seeing some victories in court, most notably now in Texas,

where the federal court just struck down the new gerrymandered map.

And your name keeps coming up as someone who is helping sort out what Democrats are and how we are moving forward.

So what is what is tell us the secret and the magic to, to, uh, to where we go from here.

I mean, honestly, like I, it sounds so simple, but like we should do what helps us and has helped us win in the past, Right. And what does that look like? Democrats putting the coalition back together and centering it all on economic, you know, personal economics, right?

This is the thing that led Obama to victory. It led, you know, Bill Clinton to victory.

It is, you know, what led Biden to victory in

2020. And going back to that is how we win. If we, if you just saw what happened in New Jersey and

in Virginia, it was the Democrat coalition that came back together centered on two very good

candidates that were talking about everyday issues

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