Road Trip Through the Battleground States
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
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🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On this week's show: Buckle up for a Mother Jones road trip to three of the most contentious battleground states in the upcoming November elections—and they’re all in the Southwest. First, Senior Reporter Tim Murphy travels to Arizona to meet activists fighting to mobilize one tribal nation, the Tohono OíOdham, at a time when Native American voting rights are under relentless assault across the country. Next, we head to Nevada where casino workers, cooks, and housekeepers are reinventing the Democratic Party, one sweaty voter registration drive at a time. If successful, can what happens in Vegas be replicated nationwide? And finally, we land in Texas to see if Beto O'Rourke really has what it takes to win.
For Democrats, these are all make-or-break races if they want any chance at taking back America on election day.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:04.0 | On today's show, man, I love a road trip. |
| 0:12.0 | Buckle up, grab your... Today's show, man, I love a road trip. |
| 0:14.0 | Buckle up, grab your sunglasses, it's time to hit the road with Mother Jones and swing |
| 0:18.6 | through America Southwest. |
| 0:20.1 | I think it's no coincidence that three of the top, you know, most competitive Senate races in the country this year are in the southwest. |
| 0:27.8 | Ahead of the midterm elections, this region is the place to watch, a battleground. Mother Jones's Tim Murphy will take you there, |
| 0:36.5 | with a look inside Nevada's most powerful political force. |
| 0:40.5 | I'd have to say the culinary union woke me up a lot. |
| 0:43.0 | And a journey across the vast expanses of Arizona. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm like all about voting. I'm all about it. I talk about it all the time. |
| 0:50.0 | To meet activists fighting to turn out the Native American vote. |
| 0:53.2 | That's all ahead. |
| 0:54.3 | Stick around. |
| 0:55.9 | How hard is it for you to vote? |
| 0:59.2 | Maybe for some of you it's a snack. |
| 1:01.3 | You roll up to the nearest public school, vote, grab a sticker, and you're done. |
| 1:06.8 | That's not the case for Gabriela Casadas Kelly. |
| 1:09.4 | Our roads aren't conventionally named. They are named, but they're not conventionally named. |
| 1:17.4 | She's a high school teacher on the Thono-O-Tho Nation, |
| 1:20.4 | south of Tucson, Arizona. |
| 1:22.1 | Arizona Department of Transportation came through and started naming our places, but they didn't know how to spell them. |
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