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AFP - One Small Step Campaign · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Nage How Trump Saved America Judge and Paulatana one hour
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  Speaker 1: from now on an ice wanting to read your email.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, Donald and Neil returns from Americans for Prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Go to AFP action dot com to get involved. We
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  Speaker 1: need everybody involved. Welcome back, Donald. It's always a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to have you on the program.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, It's a good morning. The kids are off to school.
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  Speaker 2: Drink the coffee and peas for.
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  Speaker 1: A little while. Once again there you go, exhale and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the calm and quiet. School will be out of
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  Speaker 1: session in a moment's notice. You know how quick times
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  Speaker 1: fly in these days, and time is flying so quickly
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  Speaker 1: it'll be November before you know it. And we've got
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  Speaker 1: a real problem on our hands. I know, I just
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  Speaker 1: mentioned Todd Starn's book The Golden Age How Trump Saved America.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, are things so bad, Donovan Neil that
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  Speaker 1: we are really truly in this country? Go to embrace
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  Speaker 1: the DSA agenda. We saw the Democrat primary in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: A representative Angie Nixon, who is a Democrat Socialist of
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  Speaker 1: America Member best the opponent alex Vinman. Vinman had massive
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  Speaker 1: cash advent, I mean massive cash advent sixteen million to
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  Speaker 1: her less than a million spent. She focused on social
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  Speaker 1: media and got the nod. Donovan O'Neil, let me just
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  Speaker 1: run down the insanity. Are things so bad in America
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to embrace the following Medicare for all?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to read directly from the DSA agenda.
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  Speaker 1: The military's police departments, disempowered police unions, redirect funding the
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  Speaker 1: public services as steps toward fully abolishing the police and
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  Speaker 1: prison system. These are their words, not mine. Defund the
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  Speaker 1: Department of War and all foreign wars, and close overseas
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  Speaker 1: military bases. Legalized migration, grant amnesty for all illegal immigrants,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of status, Provide a path to citizenship for all
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  Speaker 1: permanent residents and visa caps in quotas. Replace the President
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  Speaker 1: and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by
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  Speaker 1: and subordinate to Congress, and abolish the Senate. Seriously, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to throw the constitution out. This is the direction
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  Speaker 1: we're going, Donovan and O'Neil. I think we need to vote.
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  Speaker 2: We do need to vote. And you know those are
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  Speaker 2: extreme positions, but they are are quickly becoming mainstreams positions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and these aren't just fringe candidates winning you know,
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  Speaker 2: village council or solicitor races. These are real folks all
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  Speaker 2: the ballot for real, you know, positions that have federal
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  Speaker 2: implications across the nation, and by the way, are embraced
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  Speaker 2: by people already in Congress, folks like Bernie Sanders, AOC
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  Speaker 2: and many others. This is real, But you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not too surprising to me, right because the fact of
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  Speaker 2: the matter is, politicians for decades have been centuries, have
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  Speaker 2: been promising free things. And when folks are hurting, when
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  Speaker 2: there are real challenges in our communities, the allure of
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  Speaker 2: you know, someone to come in and solve all these problems.
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  Speaker 2: If you just, Brian, just yield a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: your freedom, a little bit of your liberty, these problems
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  Speaker 2: might go away. That's the scary thing, right is these
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  Speaker 2: promises are being made, but the costs, the impact that
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  Speaker 2: these promises that these politicians are making isn't being fully
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  Speaker 2: flushed out and explained. But we've got proof points out there,
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  Speaker 2: right North Korea, China, Russia, the South American socialist economies.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen what that does to people. Our challenge, Brian
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  Speaker 2: is getting out there and pushing back with the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the truth includes simply the cost of these programs,
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  Speaker 1: whether they're logical and reasonable or even going to solve
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  Speaker 1: the problems that they claim are going to be solved. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever heard that before? We're going to end
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  Speaker 1: poverty in our lifetime? Said what was it, Lyndon Johnson? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Great Society programs, Donovan question. I know it's rhetorical.
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  Speaker 1: Have we ended poverty in this country? Right? Every single time?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, don't let a good crisis go to waste.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's an off stated thing, but it's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: There has never been a time in the history of
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  Speaker 1: humanity where there hasn't been some challenge that humanity faced.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, politicians are there to exploit it, telling you
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  Speaker 1: your life is miserable because of filling the blank. It's
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  Speaker 1: that guy, it's that group, it's government policy, it's evil
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  Speaker 1: capitalists or whatever. We have a solution to fix the problem,
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  Speaker 1: and those problems I don't think at any time have
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  Speaker 1: ever gone away.
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  Speaker 2: Never, no, no, And in fact, the reason we're in
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  Speaker 2: the problems we're in today, right, it can be directly
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  Speaker 2: traced back. There's a through line to these policies, going
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  Speaker 2: back to Lyndon Johnson, going back to r when government
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  Speaker 2: grew and expanded in monumental ways. Right. The reason our
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  Speaker 2: energy prices are the way they are is in many
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  Speaker 2: parts global conflicts in war, Ukraine and Iran. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, we cut our own risks here by
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  Speaker 2: abolishing domestic energy production through green energy New Deal policies. Right,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to shut down We've shut down coal plants,
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  Speaker 2: oil plants, or oil power plants. We won't build nuclear
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  Speaker 2: in this country. Right, We've harmed ourselves in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the price of growth, well, billions and
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  Speaker 2: trillions in new federal spending under the last administration made
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  Speaker 2: the price that everything go up to the point it's
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  Speaker 2: not coming back down, right, But it's because of the
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  Speaker 2: inflationary policies of the prior administration that we are where
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  Speaker 2: we are today on those these policies. Right. The reason
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  Speaker 2: we're at a crisis on spending with social security, right
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  Speaker 2: is because in medicaid, medicare all these other intitement programs.
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  Speaker 2: Because we try to allow government to solve problems for
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  Speaker 2: all people in all places, without getting real about the
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  Speaker 2: cost and impact and who we actually want to serve
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  Speaker 2: and support that. The reason we're in a situation we're
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  Speaker 2: in today is because we've allowed this slow creep to
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  Speaker 2: socialism to permeate through our federal and state governments to
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  Speaker 2: the point where broken as a nation if we don't
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  Speaker 2: get back on the right track, and that right track
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  Speaker 2: is the fundational principles this nation was started upon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and both parties are responsible for the forty trillion
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  Speaker 1: dollars that we printed beyond what we took in, spending
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  Speaker 1: beyond our means. Our government is notorious for that, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we got to pay the freight on that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know it's already bad that forty trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: as a resulting north of a trillion dollars in debt
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  Speaker 1: service annually, taking away valuable dollars from filling the blank
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  Speaker 1: whatever program you think government should be funding. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But then we keep throwing more and more money at problems,
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  Speaker 1: never solving any of them, and digging ourselves further in
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  Speaker 1: a hole. Going back to the Cato Institute numbers, the
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  Speaker 1: DSA platform would cost between seventy and two hundred trillion
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  Speaker 1: dollars over ten years, Donovan. We can't print our way
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  Speaker 1: into that kind of prosperity, can we.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I remember when they said if we
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  Speaker 2: hit thirty trillion dollars, the nation's going to implode. We're
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  Speaker 2: pushing forty trillions and somehow still not broken. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying we're in a good place or we should do that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the craziness of where we are right we're
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  Speaker 2: actually talking. We have real politicians running for real offices
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  Speaker 2: that have a legitimate shot. If folks don't get engaged
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  Speaker 2: and off the sidelines at being on the line overs
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  Speaker 2: of power in Washington, who will do just that and
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  Speaker 2: push this country to the brink if we're not quite
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  Speaker 2: honestly already there. We need more of that common sense,
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  Speaker 2: and we need folks who are going to rain this
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  Speaker 2: government in because it's quite frankly, it's hurting the American people.
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  Speaker 2: It's why the American worker is in such such strife
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, of course AFP Action is trying to get feed
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  Speaker 1: people in my listening audience and elsewhere off the counts,
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  Speaker 1: to do the door knocking and have these types of conversations.
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  Speaker 1: And my question is is what we're talking about now,
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  Speaker 1: the type of you know, front porch knocking the door
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  Speaker 1: kind of conversation you have out when you're knocking doors
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  Speaker 1: in the world for AFP action.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what over the last few weeks that
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  Speaker 2: has that certainly has picked up steam. I'll be interested
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  Speaker 2: after Florida's results if we don't see more of it.
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  Speaker 2: But from Abdullah said to Francesca and Wisconsin to what
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  Speaker 2: my mom's doing every day, to New York that is
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  Speaker 2: getting into the electorate, that swing voter electorate mind, and
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  Speaker 2: they are talking with us about that, I think we
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  Speaker 2: need to make sure to drive that message home very clearly,
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  Speaker 2: because I think one, it's a winning political message, and
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  Speaker 2: because it's the winning political message right, we have the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to hold back against these extreme, crazy ideologies that
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  Speaker 2: the DSA has brought mainstream. Now.
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  Speaker 1: So what it sounds like to me in your door
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  Speaker 1: knocking efforts that people are just now really waking up
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  Speaker 1: and starting to pay closer attention to this phenomenon going on.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of been talking about because over the summertime,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's baseball season, it's vacation season, the kids
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  Speaker 1: are home, people don't have time for politics generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: but even less so over the summer months kids are
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  Speaker 1: back to school. As you noted, this is when people
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  Speaker 1: start paying closer attention.
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  Speaker 2: Is it not?
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  Speaker 1: It is?
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what. That's the power of the
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  Speaker 2: door conversation, because you know it's not the first thing
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  Speaker 2: at the door, right. I don't knock a door and
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  Speaker 2: someone say, hey, these socialists are out of control. Right,
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  Speaker 2: You've got to work it out of a person. Right,
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  Speaker 2: You talk about, hey, what do you care about? What
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  Speaker 2: issues are important to you? And they'll las because they
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  Speaker 2: can tell I'm politically involved. Our canvasers are politically involved
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  Speaker 2: to say, is this socialist stuff I'm hearing about in
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  Speaker 2: New York? Is this Abdulah site really as socialist as
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  Speaker 2: they say is? And you can have that conversation. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let me show you the DSA website. Let me show
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  Speaker 2: you the policies that these people espouse and support and
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  Speaker 2: say they're committed to doing if they get elected. The
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  Speaker 2: threat is real and we've got to get involved. And
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  Speaker 2: it moves people, Brian, it truly does.
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  Speaker 1: You regularly point that out? And I am hoping that message,
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  Speaker 1: your clear, very honest message that it works that it
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  Speaker 1: is not a difficult, challenging thing to talk to people.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of thing that will I think, helpfully
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  Speaker 1: help get people up and start working on the project
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  Speaker 1: because we do need all the voices out there we
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  Speaker 1: can get. We need all the conversations with the regular
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  Speaker 1: voter out there that we can get in order to
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  Speaker 1: stop this insanity. The barbarians are at the gate. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think they've breached it in certain areas. Afpaction dot com, right, Donovan, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The place to go. Sign up, take action our team member.
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  Speaker 2: We'll reach out to you and we'll get you plugged in.
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  Speaker 2: We've got less than ninety days to go, Brian. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of get in a fight.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be here before you know at afpaction dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, sir and everybody at a FP Action.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk again next week. Have a wonderful week between
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