Third Parties and More: BGG Season 10
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics
Acast Creative Studios
3.3 • 845 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Moving into the 2024 presidential election, voters across the board have been expressing dissatisfaction with the two major parties and an openness to third-party candidates. While a third-party candidate has never won, they have impacted the outcome of presidential elections for decades. This is the Brown Girls Guide to Third Parties. Join A'Shanti for conversations with experts, campaigners, and activists on the ground, for all the information you'll need heading into November.
Thank you to our partners at Third Way for making this mini season of The Brown Girls Guide to Politics possible. Third Way is a center-left think tank and the driving force for high-impact ideas and advocacy campaigns that can unite the vast American middle to build political power and deliver solutions. Learn more about our research on third parties in 2024 at www.thirdway.org/thirdparty.
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast is all about amplifying the voices of women who are too often forgotten in media coverage. Host A’shanti Gholar leads conversations with women changing the face of politics. In the BGG to Politics blog, A’shanti created a space for women of color to learn about the current state of politics, to support others breaking into the political sphere, and to celebrate incredible women changing the course of the country. A’shanti founded the blog in 2018 and Wonder Media Network is thrilled to extend her platform to audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 0:05.1 | The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics. |
| 0:12.9 | This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025. |
| 0:18.7 | In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education, |
| 0:24.3 | health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how |
| 0:31.1 | the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends |
| 0:37.2 | at Way to Win for supporting us and making this season possible. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | With game-changing news every day, it's an understatement to say this election cycle has been a lot. |
| 1:00.0 | As we approach a tight race this November, I want to get past the headlines to talk about something that's being overlooked. |
| 1:07.4 | Something that could really change things. |
| 1:10.7 | In fact, it's something that's impacted nearly every presidential election in recent history. |
| 1:16.1 | And that's third parties. |
| 1:19.4 | I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics. |
| 1:23.0 | This season... |
| 1:24.0 | This is why I say that there's an uns seriousness, Ashanti, with third party candidates. |
| 1:29.2 | If you are serious, then you would not wait until the last minute to try to get all these |
| 1:33.9 | petitions signed in order to be on the ballot in competitive states. We have to make sure that we |
| 1:40.5 | are actually building real, genuine relationships with voters, |
| 1:45.1 | not transactional ones. |
| 1:46.8 | That is why black voters say folks are pandering to them. |
| 1:50.4 | Sometimes we view politics as this quote-unquote game, |
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