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We are not some outsiders or minority group in this state,

but that we have tremendous, tremendous power. And once you get people to see that about

themselves they become pretty fiercely ready to use that power to fight back.

Yo, what's up? Welcome to In the the thick this is a podcast about politics race and culture from a POC perspective I'm

Maria you know Rosa and I'm Julio Riccalo Barella and joining us from Austin Texas is a former ITT panelist. Her name is Christina

Saint-Zum-Ramide, and well she's an activist and now she's running for Senate

in the state of Texas.

Welcome back, Christina.

Thanks, glad to be back with y'all.

All right, dude, so straight up, I'm just gonna tell you this story.

And our listeners, too.

So, you know, we interview Christina Sinsun when we're down doing this live show in Texas on the border and

You know Christina is like a long-time grassroots activist based in Austin and you know she's doing like immigration work and then she's leading up this

organization called Jolt which is like the perfect word for an organization that's

trying to change voters in Texas you know because it's kind of like we're going to jolt you a week to the

democratic process and to getting engaged. And, you know, and Christina's got this like bad-ass analysis of Texas politics from a

Latina perspective and then all of a sudden I hear this thing like wait

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