Will the Youth Vote Save Us?
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If you have a young person in your life, take them to vote, and if they're voting for the first time do something special to mark the big occasion. That's the advice of this week's special guest. Here is an excerpt of our interview with Dakota Hall, the executive director of the Alliance for Youth Action—the first Black and Indigenous leader of the organization—and former executive director of the Alliance’s Wisconsin-based affiliate Leaders Igniting Transformation. The Alliance for Youth Action grows progressive people power across America by empowering local young people’s organizations to strengthen our democracy, fix our economy, and correct injustices through on-the-ground organizing.
If you're receiving this message before 4pm EST on November 7th, election eve, there's still time to join our phone bank with Indivisible for Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate and Lauren Underwood for the U.S. House in Illinois. We're selecting one person at the phone bank to receive a signed copy of Sarah's new book They Knew and a Mr. Jones poster. Mandela Barnes himself will join the phone bank so don't miss it! RSVP here: https://twitter.com/gaslitnation/status/1587816319872811008
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, it's Andrea Chalupa, your gaslit nation co-host. |
| 0:09.0 | First, before I tell you who I'm interviewing, I want to just remind everyone if you're |
| 0:11.7 | getting this message before 4 p.m. Eastern on election, even November 7th, there's still |
| 0:18.3 | time to join our phone bank from Indela Barnes and Wisconsin, a must-win US Senate race, |
| 0:24.7 | and Lauren Underwood. |
| 0:25.7 | We must keep her in the US House, Senate Illinois, and you can sign up for this phone bank, |
| 0:30.9 | we're doing it with Indivisible. |
| 0:32.2 | The link is pinned to the top of our Twitter page at gaslit nation on Twitter, RSVP there. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm going to be on the call. |
| 0:42.2 | Mandela Barnes himself is going to be on the call, and if we keep the Senate and Democratic |
| 0:48.3 | control, guess what? |
| 0:50.8 | And even if we lose the House, guess what? |
| 0:55.1 | We can still ensure that judges who believe in the strong rule of law are elected to the |
| 1:03.6 | courts of the land, Trump packed the courts with McConnell when Republicans controlled the |
| 1:09.7 | Senate, even when the Democrats had the House, and now 30 percent of US courts are packed |
| 1:14.9 | with Trumpian ideologues, including the Supreme Court. |
| 1:19.8 | So even if Democrats hold the Senate, we could still get our judges through for two more |
| 1:25.2 | years. |
| 1:26.2 | That's a really important thing in the fight against encroaching on talk-recy in this |
| 1:29.9 | land. |
| 1:30.9 | So fight like held from Indela Barnes. |
| 1:33.2 | Come join our phone bank. |
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