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Hate State: Trailer · Hate State

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  SPEAKER_03: There's no like secret agenda.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just want to live, you know?
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  SPEAKER_03: I would like to be happy and live.
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  SPEAKER_03: Being queer in America right now feels like being caught on the wrong side of a pendulum swinging backwards.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's almost like every few years in this country, someone decides that the way to win an election is to make one group of people's lives a little less livable.
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  SPEAKER_02: The target changes, but the playbook doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_03: And one state that's seen this game played out repeatedly is Colorado.
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  SPEAKER_03: In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment that banned measures to protect gay people, earning Colorado a nickname, the hate state.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're a certain kind of conservative, you believe that trans people are some kind of corrupt ideology or some temporary thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we're not.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a story about Colorado, but it's also a story about Florida and Texas and Tennessee and Ohio and maybe wherever you're listening from right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because there's always another election around the corner.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Xandra McMahon.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'm Anne Marie Owat.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is Hate State, a three part miniseries produced by Oddbird Sound and Word and Lookout News, with editorial and production support from Pizza Shark.
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  SPEAKER_02: Catch the first episode October 20th, wherever you listen to podcasts and at lookoutnews.org.