TEASER - Who Should Be the Next Attorney General?

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🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Our hearts go out to the people impacted by Hurricane Helene and their anti-government governments, who will be replaced one day with public servants, which is what this conversation is about. To help those who are impacted, there’s a resource on where to donate in the show notes. (Do not choose the Red Cross, for reasons explained in the show notes). Thank you.

Thank you to everyone who joined our live taping with Laboratories of Autocracy and Saving Democracy author David Pepper, who is not just a democracy warrior, but also the mastermind behind the new podcast series Project 2025: Up Close and Personal. Picture this: short, terrifying vignettes with a cast so star-studded, you'd think it was Hollywood's last gasp before a fascist takeover—J. Smith-Cameron, Fisher Stevens, Richard Schiff, Morgan Fairchild, Omid Abtahi, and many more! We previewed "Chapter 2" of the series–it’s the audio equivalent of a cold sweat. You can listen to it [here].

Democrats have been playing defense for so long, they've forgotten what offense looks like. "There are two million uncontested races out there," David pointed out, which is about as comforting as knowing JD Vance’s particular brand of weird fills the halls of power in Republican hostage states. David also shared the story of how he got a call out of the blue from Vice President Kamala Harris last spring, to discuss ways to fight back. Thanks to the audience Q&A, he shared who he thinks should be her Attorney General—should she win, of course.

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Show Notes:

How To Help After Hurricane Helene https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2024-09-26-how-to-help-hurricane-helene-victims-where-to-donate

The Red Cross Won’t Save Houston It has proven itself unequal to the task of massive disaster relief. We need a new kind of humanitarian response. https://slate.com/business/2017/08/dont-give-money-to-the-red-cross-we-need-a-new-way.html

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0:00.0	the first book to be a wake-up call that the front line in the attack of democracy are the
0:04.8	states.
0:05.8	That's where it's happening.
0:06.7	We like to focus on the big DOJ cases and we should in DC, but where they are making sort
0:11.9	of non-stop progress, you mentioned with South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Florida, they take over these state houses, Jerry Mando the hell out of them, suppress the other side, and that's where they can pass
0:23.9	extremist laws that would never survive in Washington. They're too toxic. And so I do, you know,
0:29.3	when I named the book Laboratories of Otakresi, I thought this might sign a little much for people. Well it's
0:34.4	not and I hear the term now more often but I still worry this is why I wrote the
0:38.3	second book most Americans while they see it maybe more clearly we're still fighting the battle of old
0:44.4	and until we get to the front of the battle which is in states and state houses
0:49.1	and build an infrastructure that supports running in all those places.
0:53.0	We're still fighting a battle sort of assuming the democracy's intact
0:56.0	when it's in fact in sort of jeopardy in all these states.
1:00.0	I know if Joe were sitting here he would absolutely love what you're saying because he
1:03.0	always says Democrats have to learn how to fight the way Republicans have always
1:06.5	fought and that's the case you're making here which is you've got a soccer analogy
1:10.3	right stop just being the goalie deflecting shots away going offense yeah I mean I say all the time my sons are six and nine they're playing soccer
1:17.6	They I put in the book my son Jack understands the team always on offense wins.
1:23.1	And their own offense in states and state houses.
1:26.3	We're not even playing defensive many places.
1:28.0	We have two men in contested races.
1:30.4	So they take shot after shot for shot.
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