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'The regime is being crushed'_ 'NO KINGS' founder says Trump admin knows it's losing public support · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Well, they're not being persuaded to back a fascist. They're
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  Speaker 1: not being persuaded to back a regime that is occupying
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  Speaker 1: American cities, that is starting unnecessary foreign entanglements, that is
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  Speaker 1: trampling on the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: They're not into that. Michael.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know that. I think everybody paying attention
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  Speaker 1: knows that. And anybody who's been watching the election returns
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  Speaker 1: for the last fifteen months, in special elections and off
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  Speaker 1: your elections has seen that the regime is being crushed
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  Speaker 1: every time they are free and fair elections, which is
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  Speaker 1: why I believe they are ramping up threats against art
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  Speaker 1: democratic infrastructure because they are worried about free and fair
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  Speaker 1: elections taking away their power, and they don't want a
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  Speaker 1: fair fight. They do not want a fair fight. That
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  Speaker 1: the bad news for them is that's not up to them.
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  Speaker 1: That is not up to them. And part of the
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  Speaker 1: point of showing up with the largest protest in history
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  Speaker 1: on March twenty eighth, as I believe we will do
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  Speaker 1: for No Kings III, is to show them and everybody
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  Speaker 1: else that democracy is reasserting itself, whether they like it
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  Speaker 1: or not.
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  Speaker 3: I fundamentally agree with you on the democracy argument and
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  Speaker 3: the rejection of fascism. I also think this conversation would
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  Speaker 3: be different, Ezra if the economy were working for everyday Americans.
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  Speaker 3: We know in our own lived experience anecdotally it is not.
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  Speaker 3: It's also what voters are saying in polling. This is
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  Speaker 3: an ap nort pole. The question was to approve or
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  Speaker 3: disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job
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  Speaker 3: as president. That number was sixty two percent disapprove, thirty
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  Speaker 3: six percent approving. And it's interesting to me because those
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  Speaker 3: numbers almost exactly mirror Ezra the question on the economy,
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  Speaker 3: what share of Americans approve of the president's job? Before
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  Speaker 3: this is asking the same question. There was an economy
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  Speaker 3: question in here somewhere. You get the idea, though, which
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  Speaker 3: is like, I think it is a one two punch,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's part of what you saw in
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  Speaker 3: Virginia and in New Jersey. You lead with affordability, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about the economy, but you land on this question
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  Speaker 3: of democracy.
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  Speaker 1: AlSi, you took the words out of my mouth. That's
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  Speaker 1: something we say it indivisible all the time. This one
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  Speaker 1: two punch because Trump one in twenty twenty four on
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  Speaker 1: the argument that he wasn't part of the status quo
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  Speaker 1: that he was going to lower the price of eggs
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  Speaker 1: and bread, that he was going to get you a
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  Speaker 1: better job, that he was going to make the economy
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  Speaker 1: work for you. And part of the argument is the
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  Speaker 1: affordability argument. He's not doing any of that. He's clearly
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  Speaker 1: not doing of that. People are not better off now
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  Speaker 1: than they were before. But the other part is why
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  Speaker 1: isn't he doing any of that. He's not doing any
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  Speaker 1: of that because he's focusing on enriching himself, on attacking
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela or Greenland, on terrorizing.
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  Speaker 2: The Twin Cities. What is he up to? It makes
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  Speaker 2: no sense.
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  Speaker 1: Why would this guy deserve more power another two years
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  Speaker 1: of Congress. That's an easy argument to make because it
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  Speaker 1: makes sense to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Watching what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: And when we show up in force on March twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth with massive non violent protests, we put a spotlight
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  Speaker 1: on all the random other stuff he's doing rather than
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  Speaker 1: focusing on improving your life.
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  Speaker 2: And as we head into the general.
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  Speaker 1: Election, exactly as you said one two punch, he wants
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  Speaker 1: to be a king to enrich himself.
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  Speaker 2: He's selling you out. He's not doing anything for you, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's a message that resonates with Democrats, resonates with independence,
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  Speaker 1: and registers with Republicans who voted for Trump hoping for
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  Speaker 1: something that they haven't gotten.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look, people, President Obama has been in the
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  Speaker 5: news obviously as of late this week. He was at
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  Speaker 5: the All Star Game this weekend. But people, forget, many
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  Speaker 5: of the voters that voted for President Obama turned out
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  Speaker 5: and then voted for then President Trump in that twenty
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  Speaker 5: sixteen election. So there is some connective tissue there. You
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  Speaker 5: told Mother Jones that we as indivisible are developing organizational
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  Speaker 5: capacity that allows us to pull off historic levels of
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  Speaker 5: engagement in between these tent pole events. So the No
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  Speaker 5: King's protest is not just about the protest one day,
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  Speaker 5: just the one March. But I do think it is
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  Speaker 5: filling a gap and avoid that people have. There are
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people that are fired up that are
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  Speaker 5: paying attention. This idea that the voters aren't paying attention.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's a bunch of bs. There are some
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  Speaker 5: people that are paying attention, but they're not as engaged.
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  Speaker 5: But there are a lot of Americans that are very
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  Speaker 5: engaged and looking for somewhere to put their energy in
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  Speaker 5: the not just trying to wait until the next election.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I think that's really important. I one thing that
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  Speaker 1: really bugs me, and I see Democrats through this sometimes too.
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  Speaker 1: They see a big crowd of people out in an
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  Speaker 1: off here and they say, all you people, remember to vote,
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  Speaker 1: and the response to the people in the crowd is like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: Vote? There's a fascist in the White House and.
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  Speaker 1: The election is a year away, or in this case
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  Speaker 1: a little bit less than You're right. Give me something
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  Speaker 1: to do right now, to stand up for my community.
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  Speaker 1: Give me something that I can do to actually show
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  Speaker 1: that I'm standing up for my rights and what I
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  Speaker 1: think about on that simone is two days after the
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  Speaker 1: murder of Alex Pretty in the Twin Cities. One reaction
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  Speaker 1: you could imagine that is people are over the country
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  Speaker 1: see that and say, oh, I don't want any of that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to stay home. I'm going to keep my
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  Speaker 2: self safe. I'm going to keep my head down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to do anything in public that shows
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  Speaker 1: I'm against this regime. We offered a training, eyes on
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  Speaker 1: ice training to train people on how to do exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Alex Pretty was doing, exactly what Renee Good was doing,
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  Speaker 1: exercising their First Amendment rights to stand up in defense
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  Speaker 1: of their neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: We had more than.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand people join that training two days after
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  Speaker 1: Alex Preddy's murder. People are hungry to be part of
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  Speaker 1: the fight for democracy right now.
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  Speaker 2: No Kings is a big day protest.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's very important, But to your point, it's
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  Speaker 1: a one day protest.
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  Speaker 2: That's not how we save democracy.
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  Speaker 1: It is a tool for growing the movement of people
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  Speaker 1: who are going to stand up in their own community
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  Speaker 1: in places like Gustavus, Alaska, population six sixty five, or Colomba, California,
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  Speaker 1: population three seventy two.
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  Speaker 2: Elkton, Oregon, population one hundred and eighty three.
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  Speaker 1: Eltin, Oregon has a no Kings protest on the map
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  Speaker 1: for March twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: There are going to be thousands of these events in.
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  Speaker 1: Blue states, in red states, in purple states, in urban communities,
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  Speaker 1: suburban communities, rural communities.
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  Speaker 2: Because people want.
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  Speaker 1: To be part of something in this moment, we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to give them an easy on ramp to being part
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  Speaker 1: of something meaningful.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think that's an important aspect of this EZRA.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I just I love the work. I
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  Speaker 4: applaud the work because it does to Simone's point in
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  Speaker 4: question around engagement and what that looks like means something.
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  Speaker 4: We've got about thirty seconds left, We've got a thousand events,
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  Speaker 4: we have word in a thousand. What does that translate
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  Speaker 4: into participation? What do you feel that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: given the initial two and a half now than five
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  Speaker 4: million people, what does this feel like for you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me give you a sense of the trae directory.
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  Speaker 1: Three million people at thirteen hundred events for hands Out,
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  Speaker 1: five million people at twenty one hundred events for No
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  Speaker 1: Kings one, seven million people at twenty seven hundred events
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  Speaker 1: for No Kings two. We are currently on track to
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  Speaker 1: exceed No Kings two. I promised y'all twice before the
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  Speaker 1: largest protests in history. I've proven that right. And No
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  Speaker 1: Kings one and No Kings two. I'm promising you again,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be the largest protest in American history.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be the largest protest in Twin Cities history.
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  Speaker 1: Where the flagship event is you can count on it,
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  Speaker 1: because I know people around the country are ready to
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  Speaker 1: do this.