Stacey Abrams, Architect of Social Justice (Rebroadcast)
Deep Background with Noah Feldman
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Before the 2020 presidential election, Noah Feldman spoke to politician and activist Stacey Abrams about her work on voting rights. In light of the Georgia Senate wins, we are re-sharing that conversation with you today.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
| 0:13.8 | Fiasco is a history podcast for the co-creators of Slow Burn. |
| 0:17.6 | In our first season, Bush v. Gore, we examine an unmistakable turning point in American politics, the 2000 election, which resulted in a high-stakes stalemate, ended with one of the most controversial rulings in Supreme Court history. |
| 0:30.5 | So if you're trying to make sense at the present moment, check out Fiasco, Bush v. Gore. Listen on theHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:43.5 | From Pushkin Industries, this is deep background, the show where we explore the stories behind |
| 0:49.1 | the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. A lot of news has happened since I was last in your feed. On January 6th, |
| 0:57.8 | a mob encouraged by Donald Trump, some would say incited, stormed the Capitol. Much later that |
| 1:05.1 | night, Congress finally certified Joe Biden's presidential victory. Democrats almost immediately began work on impeaching the |
| 1:13.9 | president for a second time. All this has almost overshadowed huge news out of Georgia. |
| 1:23.3 | On January 5th, the day before the instance on Capitol Hill, two Democrats flipped Senate seats, |
| 1:31.6 | giving the Democratic Party control over the upper chamber of Congress, 50-50, with a tiebreaker |
| 1:39.2 | going to Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 1:42.0 | On that historic day, a lot of people were talking about one woman, |
| 1:49.2 | Stacey Abrams. Stacey is a politician, an activist, whose organizing efforts in Georgia |
| 1:55.5 | played a key role first in helping Joe Biden win the state and then in delivering the two Senate flips. |
| 2:03.8 | Now Stacey Abrams is a household name. In fact, I think she is now the most important |
| 2:10.3 | activist strategist in U.S. politics since Carl Rove, and she may turn out to be much more |
| 2:17.2 | important than Rove in the long term. |
| 2:20.7 | Stacey has been working steadily for years on turning Georgia blue through creating and leading |
| 2:26.6 | organizations like the New Georgia Project aimed at registering new voters and fair fight |
| 2:33.0 | aimed at fighting voter suppression. Her approach is going to |
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