Special #democracyish LIVE with Guest Rep. Ro Khanna

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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As New York City’s mayoral primary upends the Democratic establishment, Wajahat Ali and Danielle Moodie sit down with Rep. Ro Khanna to unpack what this progressive surge means for the future of the Party. Can the Left build lasting power? What lessons should national Democrats take from this moment? Tune in for a special LIVE episode of democracy-ish that breaks down the stakes, the strategy, and the path forward.

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0:00.0	Welcome to a Thursday special edition of Democracy-ish.
0:11.7	I am Danielle Moody.
0:13.2	And I'm Majat-Lee, who looks like this because I'm a broken middle-aged man who took
0:17.1	500 children to Disneyland yesterday in Florida.
0:21.8	And I'm supposed to be on vacation.
0:23.9	But of course, the world is burning, Danielle.
0:26.7	So here we are.
0:28.3	So here we are.
0:29.1	So folks today on this special edition of Democracy-ish,
0:33.8	we have Representative Roe Kana with us.
0:40.6	And we are going to talk about the future of the Democratic Party, as well as many questions that we have on, you know, impeachment, war powers act,
0:50.1	et cetera. So without further ado, Wage, I'm going to bring Representative Rokana on screen.
0:57.3	You can do the honors of introducing him to our democracy-ish audience.
1:03.1	This, of course, is Representative Rokana, representative from California 17th congressional district since 2017.
1:10.4	He is from my home state and he is from the Bay area.
1:14.5	You all know I'm from the Bay, East Bay. And the honor is given to me by Danielle because all
1:19.5	South Asians have to introduce South Asian representatives. I'm here for it.
1:24.1	Representative Kana, there's a lot to talk about. Thank you for your time, right? We got this war in Iran, which allegedly there's a ceasefire, maybe, maybe not.
1:31.2	We have this historic win of Zoran Mamdani, another South Asian man who is facing just obscene amount of smearing.
1:38.3	We have, of course, the attack on women's rights today with the Supreme Court.
1:42.1	We have the attack on U.S. citizens and immigrants
1:45.1	vis-à-vis ICE. A lot to unpack. But I wanted to talk to you because many of us appreciated
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