What Do I Get For My Vote?
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On episode 133 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers ask: if Democrats get the majority after this year’s midterms, then what?
We’ve seen Democrats win the senate, the house, and the presidency––and they still couldn’t protect the right to vote (or get an abortion) from future Republican administrations. In this midterms, what will we get for our vote? We need an agenda.
Folks are saying that Texas senate candidate James Talarico has the best chance to flip a Texas senate seat blue in decades, with his opponent, Ken Paxton, covered in scandals. Our hosts are less optimistic and have some advice for Mr. Talarico…
FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:
- Some good news in the ongoing redistricting wars in South Carolina & Alabama, where proposed maps benefiting Republicans have been blocked.
- Meanwhile, in Florida, a new electoral map moves forward…
- GA State Senator Rashaun Kemp has called on Georgians to protest redistricting in Georgia at the World Cup game. STAY UPDATED by following Sen. Kemp: https://www.instagram.com/rashaunforgeorgia/?hl=en
- The Supreme Court has allowed coach Brian Flores to sue the NFL for discriminating against Black coaches.
- Mike Duggan has dropped out of the Michigan governor race. The independent candidate and former Detroit Mayor said he “got into this race to change our politics, not to be a spoiler.”
- Texas congressman Al Green has lost his primary race to fellow Democratic congressman Christian Menefee, after Texas’ redistricting combined his and Menefee’s districts into one.
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Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Andrew Gillum as host and producer, Bakari Sellers as host and producer, and Lauren Hansen as executive producer; LoLo Mychael is our research producer, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Special thanks to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lampod is a production of IHeart Radio and partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:15.4 | This is episode 133 of Native Lampod, where we give you our breakdown of all things, politics and culture. |
| 0:23.1 | I am your host today, Bacari Sellers, joined by my illustrious co-host Andrew Gillum and the Angela Rye. |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome home, how you're feeling. |
| 0:34.5 | There's only one. |
| 0:35.1 | There's only one. |
| 0:36.3 | Good, man. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome home. Welcome home. You know what? My anxiety has been beating my ass lately. We got to talk about that. I don't know what's going on. Does it happen usually after like being a break away or? I don't know. I go through these phases where anxiety just wins the day. |
| 0:55.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:55.8 | So we'll work through that. |
| 0:57.3 | But this is therapeutic for me joining you guys sitting here with my friends and all of our listeners. |
| 1:01.9 | We are jumping right into our four-year situational awareness, also known as FISA, right? |
| 1:09.0 | You know what we call it? |
| 1:10.4 | Yes, sir. FYSA. You guys call it FISA, but, you know. She's very, you're not security background. Exactly. It's not FISA, but carry on. So we haven't been able to have a lot of good news on this show when it comes to the state of politics. So we wanted to start to show right now with some good news, some, |
| 1:28.5 | it's like unsweet good news, but we'll take it. My home state of South Carolina, Republican |
| 1:33.2 | state senators actually voted to block the new map that came in from Washington, D.C., |
| 1:41.5 | attempting to eliminate the seat of none other than Jim Clyburn. |
| 1:46.0 | Can you imagine Congress without Jim Clyburn in it? |
| 1:49.0 | Anyway, on May 27th, Governor McMaster said President Trump needs a Republican Congress to continue pursuing conservative policies that make our nation stronger. |
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