What Democratic Organizers Are Learning From 2024
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: voting correspondents Miles Parks & Ashley Lopez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:18.6 | Hi, this is the team of the Aspen Institute, Germany in Berlin. |
| 0:23.2 | We are just finishing up a great program with our special guest, Sarah McCammon. |
| 0:28.9 | This podcast was recorded at 109 p.m. on December 5th, 2024. |
| 0:34.7 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:37.0 | But we'll still be working to strengthen the |
| 0:38.8 | transatlantic relationship. Okay, here's the show. Are we supposed to know who they're |
| 0:47.9 | talking about? Look at Sarah. Making it across the pond. Hope the trip was good. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics |
| 0:55.5 | Podcast. I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting. I'm Ashley Lopez. I also cover voting. And I'm |
| 1:00.3 | Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And today on the show, |
| 1:04.1 | progressive activists are tired. Ashley, your recent reporting focused specifically on black |
| 1:10.1 | women organizers. They mobilized this year in great numbers to try to elect the first black woman president. Obviously, that was not successful. How are they feeling now in the couple weeks after the election? |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah. And so I just want to say I talked to black women organizers specifically because, you know, I don't know how many people know this, but in a lot of progressive spaces, black women have played a key role in that. They build very big coalitions with lots of different kinds of voters. So Latinos, young people, the working poor, they're one of the biggest forces of organizing constituencies that the Democrats |
| 1:45.7 | tend to rely on a lot in elections. So, you know, I was wondering how they were feeling because |
| 1:50.7 | there was this sort of like personal situation they were in, which is, you know, they were |
| 1:55.7 | helping elect the first black woman to be president. And so coming out of this election, |
| 2:00.3 | what I heard a lot from |
| 2:01.2 | these organizers is that they're worn out, tired, as you mentioned, sad. And, you know, a little angry, |
| 2:06.6 | too. You know, not only did a lot of these voters who they work with not support and kind of vote |
| 2:12.0 | against the progressive policies that they're sort of pushing for and rallying their voters around. |
| 2:16.7 | They voted for Trump, |
| 2:17.9 | who has basically promised the polar opposite of all of those policy goals, but they also |
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