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Thank you. Thank you. Hi, this is Deborah Messing. I'm an actress, social justice advocate, and humanitarian.

I am Andana Dayani, an entrepreneur attorney, and most recently the co-founder of the

nonpartisan movement, I am a voter.

Welcome to the dissenters.

So a little backstory, Mondana and I are very close friends and we're constantly

sending each other stories of incredible people who completely blow our minds. And then one day we realized

something. Most of them had no intention of becoming

heroes. They just knew they had to do something and did it. So we decided to do what we do best.

Completely geek out on endless hours of research to create our list of

the 20 dissenters who blew us away.

Each episode we meet one of these 20 dissenters who blew us away.

Each episode we meet one of these incredible accidental activists

and learn about their journeys,

based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic

eye dissent slogan.

A dissenter is someone who stood up to an injustice or

challenge the status quo. In this episode we speak with Shannon Watts,

founder of Mom's demand action. Shannon was a stay-at-home mama-five who upon seeing

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