And, This Is A Rally For Yes On Proposition 50

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Speaker 60 Hey, everybody, I'm Brian Tyler Cohen. Thank you so much for tuning in to our Yes on 50 voter registration day rally.
We've got an amazing guest list today.

Speaker 60 We're joined by some of the biggest fighters on the left who are meeting this moment with the urgency that it deserves.

Speaker 60 And of course, I'm joined now by Governor Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 60 Before we get into a little bit of our back and forth, just want to let folks who are watching know that we are hosting this rally because of what's happening right now.

Speaker 60 And what's happening right now is existential, not just for the left, but for democracy.

Speaker 60 We have watched as Trump has issued his Clarion call to Texas for five seats and how they responded. We've watched as he did the same thing in in Missouri and how they responded.

Speaker 60 We're going to see the same thing in Indiana and then Florida. And I wouldn't be surprised if we see other states do the exact same thing.

Speaker 60 The reality is that this is how Republicans engineer themselves into a permanent majority, which makes it all the more important that we actually fight back.

Speaker 60 So the whole Republican movement across the country is going to pour money into California because they know that if they can beat this thing in California, then they have nothing to worry about in terms of pushing back against this overt, blatant power grab.

Speaker 60 So what we'll ask you to do throughout this evening as we try and raise money to counteract the avalanche of funds that are going to come in from across the country on the Republican side is we're going to ask you to go ahead and donate to yeson50live.com.

Speaker 60 This will help our efforts to make sure that everybody in California knows the stakes of what's going to happen on November 4th, knows the stakes of this referendum coming up, and knows that it is existential, again, not just for Democrats, but for the preservation of democracy itself.

Speaker 60 So that's going to be an important point that we're going to hit on numerous times throughout this evening. So with that said, I'm now honored to be joined by the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 60 Thanks so much for taking the time.

Speaker 56 It's great to be with you, Brian. Thank you.

Speaker 60 So we are obviously broadcasting right now in the midst of a really difficult week. We have seen gun violence occur with the shooting last week against Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 60 We have seen the overt assaults against free speech at the hands of Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and all of these other purported free speech warriors.

Speaker 60 And so in light of what we're seeing right now, I'm sure that there are a lot of folks who are watching this who feel

Speaker 60 exhausted. And so what would you say to those people who are watching to let them know that this is worth staying on top of, this is worth continuing to fight for?

Speaker 56 What I first say is you're human. If you're not feeling exhausted and exhausting and anxious and in some ways fearful,

Speaker 56 then you're not breathing, you're not living. And I just, I think we have to give some people people grace

Speaker 56 the last five, six, seven years. We've been through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, social unrest.

Speaker 56 We went through all of the challenges coming out of COVID with supply chain issues and runaway inflation and wars of aggression in Ukraine and challenges that we're continuing to work our way out.

Speaker 56 And so I just want to acknowledge all that stacking of stress that everybody's feeling. And of course, last week, you know,

Speaker 56 just

Speaker 56 the ultimate punctuation.

Speaker 56 And

Speaker 56 just for what it's worth, Brian, you know this. I started a podcast not too many months ago, and Charlie Kirk was my first guest.
He was gracious enough to not only say yes, he flew out

Speaker 56 to do it in person. And I spent not just the hour plus in a very civil conversation with Charlie.

Speaker 56 I spent time with him after, and we stayed in touch, including my team staying in touch pretty consistently.

Speaker 56 And that's the spirit i want to bring to this conversation is one of civility one of grace one of humanity common humanity obviously we have deep differences of opinion obviously he was very offended by positions i

Speaker 56 hold dear and and i in turn very offended by uh things that he said and positions he held but the fact is we had that opportunity to engage and and so i would say in response to your question, it's absolutely essential that we in the spirit of this moment hold ourselves to a higher level of civility and accountability.

Speaker 56 In the spirit of this conversation, accountability to the moment we're in and the consequences of giving in to cynicism and anxiety and fear.

Speaker 56 And I just say to everyone in closing in this spirit, you're the antidote to that cynicism, that fear, and anxiety. The fact that you've tuned in means you've not tuned out to what's at stake.

Speaker 56 And I cannot impress upon people watching, it's all at stake. This is a profound and consequential moment in American history.

Speaker 56 We can lose this republic if we do not assert ourselves and stand tall at this moment and stand guard to this republic and our democracy. I feel that

Speaker 56 in my bones, particularly in light of what's happened in the last week.

Speaker 60 So let's talk about the California map redraw, the situation that we're in right now. We have

Speaker 60 not that many weeks to go until this referendum, until November. And so there are going to to be folks watching who say, look, California is a big blue bastion.
Why do we have to worry about this?

Speaker 60 This thing is already a done deal.

Speaker 60 Why is this worth talking about right now?

Speaker 56 Well, because it's Prop 50 for a reason impacts all 50 states.

Speaker 56 It's not an electoral map. It's a simple math issue.
You said it in the outset. Donald Trump realizes and recognizes that he is likely, almost overwhelmingly,

Speaker 56 likely to lose the midterms. And so he's trying to hold on to power.
And the only way he can hold on to power is to rig the system, to change the game. He's not playing by a different set of rules.

Speaker 56 He's playing by no rules whatsoever. And that's why he dialed up Greg Abbott in Texas and suggested that he's quote unquote entitled to five seats.
They did his bidding.

Speaker 56 And as you suggest, that bidding is being done in real time in Missouri, in Indiana. It will be advanced in states like Florida.

Speaker 56 And you may have seen today the comments that were made about Utah and Ohio as well. So this is as real as it gets.

Speaker 56 And the whole idea of redistricting, I assure you, is the tip of the iceberg, because he's also setting up the parameters and the condition where he can suggest that when he loses, that's up to us if we do our job, when he loses the midterm, he could suggest it was rigged itself.

Speaker 56 He's creating a chill. And let me give you an example of what I mean by that as it relates to voter turnout and intimidation tactics.

Speaker 56 When we kicked off the campaign for Yes on 50, we did it at the Democracy Center in Southern California. Brian, you were there in Little Tokyo.
You know well, and many of you watching know this well.

Speaker 56 Little Tokyo is the site, a sacred site, where we shamefully. bust the Japanese as we interned the Japanese.
That happened. And at that exact same site, Donald Trump set massed private army.

Speaker 56 He sent out Border Patrol and ICE to intimidate to us two U.S.

Speaker 56 senators, a half dozen or dozen members of Congress, 100-plus community leaders to try to intimidate us from holding the rally in the first place.

Speaker 56 And a poor soul that just happened to be out there selling strawberries was disappeared by that same private army.

Speaker 56 That is a preview of things to come, I assure you, at voting booths and polling places across this country, just as we said after he federalized the National Guard and he sent the military, not overseas, he sent the military to a United States city in Los Angeles, 700 active duty Marines, is intended to chill free speech and free expression.

Speaker 56 The stakes could not be more clear and the stakes could not be more consequential.

Speaker 60 And finally, let's finish off with this. There are folks who are going to say that

Speaker 60 this isn't an example of good governance. And so Democrats should

Speaker 60 kind of practice what they preach and

Speaker 60 not do the same thing that they have disavowed for so long. And so in this particular moment, what do you say to those people?

Speaker 56 Well,

Speaker 56 we can certainly do that. We can have a candlelight vigil.
We can hold hands. We could talk about the way the world should be.

Speaker 56 We could come out with a white paper and talk about, well, how did all this happen?

Speaker 56 There could be some best-selling books as we watched our our democracy slip away as we watched the rule of law turn into the rule of dawn as we watch yet another law firm or another media organization sell their soul or to see another corporate titan sitting there and give personal you know sit there and fealty uh to the dear leader we could see more companies get socialized and nationalized we can watch universities uh sell out we can see this democracy slip through our fingers.

Speaker 56 We can sit there and say, boy, people really should have stood up and taken this guy, Stephen Miller, a little bit more seriously when he called the Democratic Party a terrorist organization, or taking the Department of Justice and its Attorney General, its leader, who said that any speech they don't like is now hate speech, and they'll have the ability to shut it down and say, boy, we could have done something more, or we can recognize the moment we're in.

Speaker 56 And we can meet that moment and we can push back and we do it with some muscularity. We did this in response to what Donald Trump has done.

Speaker 56 And we've done it in closing, Brian, in the most most democratic way. And I would say that to those still on the fence.
That's the difference between us and them.

Speaker 56 We're not only using our formal authority, our ability to fight fire with fire and redistrict, but we're using our moral authority in this respect.

Speaker 56 It's temporary, it's transparent, and it's democratic, meaning we're putting in front of the voters.

Speaker 56 This is the first maps in the United States that will actually be submitted to the people themselves.

Speaker 56 The maps will be on the ballot, and it's a temporary response to this emergency, this crisis of the rigging of the midterms.

Speaker 56 And we need to win this at peril, that we'll lose this republic, we'll lose this democracy. It is not an overstatement.
This is code red. We all need to wake up to what's going on.

Speaker 56 And maybe in final words, maybe I'm saying that.

Speaker 56 from the prism of being a governor of a state where I watched the military asserting themselves to try to take over for domestic policing, where I watched this private army that is the most funded private army of its type anywhere in the world with ICE out there in masks intimidating people and their free expression of speech.

Speaker 56 Maybe it's because I'm sitting here where the UC regions are meeting tomorrow to discuss a $1.9 billion extortion fine.

Speaker 56 because institutions of higher learning and independent thinking are under assault by Donald Trump. That happens to be UCLA.

Speaker 56 In my state, maybe it's through the prison that, but I assure you, in every state in America, I assure you, this is a preview of things to come.

Speaker 60 Perfectly put.

Speaker 60 And to underscore how important that is, the reality is Republicans know all of these things, which is why, again, as I mentioned in the beginning, they're going to pour a ton of money into this effort, because if they can neutralize California, that's all they need, especially with the weapons that they have at their disposal, meaning Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Florida, and on and on.

Speaker 60 So for those who are watching right now, if you'd like to help us make sure that everybody can become aware of what's happening in California, please donate what you can to yeson50live.com.

Speaker 60 And we'll be repeating that throughout the evening. With that said, I'd like to take the opportunity now to introduce my friends at Crooked Media, two of the hosts for Pod Save America.

Speaker 60 Jon Favreau and Tommy Vitor.

Speaker 60 Pod Save America, of course, is a liberal podcast, and Crooked is a media organization that was started after these guys served in senior positions in the Obama administration.

Speaker 60 John Favreau was the chief speechwriter, and Tommy was the spokesman for the National Security Council. It is my honor to introduce my friends, John and Tommy.

Speaker 61 Wow, that's the nicest intro I've ever gotten.

Speaker 56 Geez. Yeah.

Speaker 61 I'm feeling comfortable now.

Speaker 60 You guys can pay me afterwards.

Speaker 61 We already do. I pay you a stipend.
Listen, thank you all for being here. Thank you for inviting us to the live stream.

Speaker 61 Thank you for raising money for this initiative, and Governor Newsom for putting this proposal forward.

Speaker 61 It's been a really scary, tough week, I think, for everybody. everybody.
What happened to Charlie Kirk is an evil, indefensible, tragedy, full stop

Speaker 61 end of sentence.

Speaker 61 That said,

Speaker 61 what Donald Trump has signaled is to come is very scary.

Speaker 61 And it sort of reminds you of what this country could look like if there is no check on his power.

Speaker 61 And I think we have all thought and hoped and believed that the first check on his power would be the midterm elections.

Speaker 61 But clearly, Donald Trump Trump wants to steal the midterms through this redistricting process, and we have to fight back. And so that's why this is such an important

Speaker 61 proposition.

Speaker 62 Yeah, I think this is pretty simple. In an ideal world,

Speaker 62 there would be no partisan gerrymandering, and everyone would sign on to the bill Democrats introduced a couple years ago to have independent, nonpartisan redistricting all over the country.

Speaker 62 That is not the world we live in. Donald Trump decided one day that he wanted to squeeze five five more seats out of Texas

Speaker 62 and basically has been pretty honest about it.

Speaker 62 There's no pretext here.

Speaker 62 He's not trying to hide it. He's just saying, I want five more seats and now I want all the other states that can give me more seats to redraw their map so they can give me more seats as well.

Speaker 62 So then it's easier for me to win the midterms. So then I don't have to be investigated for anything.
My administration doesn't have to be investigated for anything.

Speaker 62 And I can continue to confirm judges and pass all kinds of legislation. And if we win the midterms, Donald Trump will never sign a piece of legislation again.

Speaker 62 If we win the midterms, we can start trying to hold his administration accountable. And so this now comes down to Prop 50.
And I know some people might think, well, it's California.

Speaker 62 Democratic voter registration advantage should be no problem. It's going to be a lower turnout election.

Speaker 62 And so a lot of political junkies like the people who are probably watching this live stream are going to show up and that's that.

Speaker 62 Well, the other side is going to spend millions and millions and millions of dollars to try to defeat this because Donald Trump and the Republicans are very aware that if we

Speaker 62 draw the maps here to

Speaker 62 try to neutralize what they're doing in Texas and other places,

Speaker 62 that it's going to be harder for them to win. And

Speaker 62 reporting suggests that on Donald Trump's mind are the midterms more than they ever have been. He is very, very intent on winning these.

Speaker 62 He's very, very nervous about the possibility of being investigated, his administration being investigated.

Speaker 62 So they are going to dump an enormous amount of money in here and they're going to try to get their base going and to get people to turn out in midterm elections that don't usually turn out, that usually just turn out for Donald Trump in presidential year.

Speaker 62 So they're throwing everything they have into this, which is why it's really, really important for everyone to donate so that we can get the word out, so that Governor Newsom can get the word out.

Speaker 62 And ballot initiatives in California are always a little confusing, having lived here for quite a while now.

Speaker 62 And so we have to remind everyone through communication, through spending money on ads, that you got to vote yes on this to make sure that we have a chance in the midterms to take back the House.

Speaker 62 So please, if you can, donate to yeson50live.com. You can go right there and donate.
And thanks everyone for listening and for tuning in.

Speaker 61 And now we're going to bring in a Massachusetts luminary. Yes.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the stream, our real home state senator. Senator, great to see you.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 Good to see you guys.

Speaker 61 The Patriots are one and one.

Speaker 61 That's the best news I've gotten all week. How are you?

Speaker 63 I'm doing just fine. Thank you very much.
Personally, but do keep in mind, I am here in Washington, D.C.

Speaker 63 And I go in every day that I'm here to work in a Senate controlled by spineless Republicans and to worry about what comes over from the House, which is controlled by spineless Republicans. You know, I

Speaker 63 keep thinking about why they are pouring so much into this. And I think you make exactly one important point, and that is Donald Trump does not want to be investigated.
But

Speaker 64 I want to dig a little more on this.

Speaker 63 Because part of what's at stake here is that what Donald Trump has been able to do over the last,

Speaker 63 how long has it been? 158 years

Speaker 63 since January when he was sworn in,

Speaker 63 is that

Speaker 63 he has been able to break the law over and over and over and over and over and over. And people say, what can we do?

Speaker 66 Well, I'll tell you, if

Speaker 63 just

Speaker 63 the tiny number of Republicans in the House or the Senate was like, we're done. We're not doing that.
You can't do that. Donald Trump, yes, you are president, but here are things you cannot do.

Speaker 63 And used our leverage and said, we won't pass anything out of the House and

Speaker 67 the Congress.

Speaker 66 We won't give you funding.

Speaker 63 There are all these things we would have power to do. The problem is, the Republicans just try to outdo each other in how fast they fall to the floor to kiss Donald Trump's feet.

Speaker 63 And the consequence of that is the whole basic structure of government now

Speaker 63 is breaking apart. So here we have Donald Trump, the would-be king,

Speaker 63 and Congress under the Constitution, there was always this unspoken presumption we'll jealously guard its power. Well, it's not under Republican control.
It is acting

Speaker 63 like a frightened child, you know, just

Speaker 63 anything Donald Trump wants, just don't let him get angry with us. And so you've got the House and the Senate under Republican control just falling to the ground.
The difference if we had

Speaker 63 either of the houses under Democratic control is that stops. And if we have both houses under Democratic control, now we are truly back in the game in terms of making our Constitution work again.

Speaker 63 And so I just think it's an important part for everybody to understand.

Speaker 63 It's about the midterms. Yes, yes, yes, but please understand how important these midterms are.

Speaker 63 Any accountability for Donald Trump, any accountability is going to come because of the midterms, whether it's investigations, whether it's we get spending back.

Speaker 63 You want to support cancer research, so do I. Let me tell you the way to do that.
That is vote yes on 50. so that we have a chance to get the House back.

Speaker 63 And that means we can be in those negotiations and make sure that the money that Congress allocates for cancer spending actually gets spent on trying to cure cancer.

Speaker 63 And I can just play that example out literally a thousand times.

Speaker 61 I mean, Senator, it was incredible today watching Cash Battelle, the FBI director's hearing for whatever committee that was. And he is just clearly performing for an audience of one.

Speaker 61 He is shouting down. Democratic senators.
He's insulting them. He's speaking over them.
He's threatening them, essentially. And

Speaker 61 the Republican chairman was, you know, gaveling quiet the Democratic members.

Speaker 61 Like, to your point, at one point along the way, it seemed like each body or each institution jealously guarded its own power above all else.

Speaker 61 But it seems like Republicans were just thrilled to watch this performance and to watch their colleagues be insulted.

Speaker 63 Right. Can I be just a little dorky and make the same point again?

Speaker 56 Please.

Speaker 63 Is what's happening with the Federal Reserve. So here is the one agency that Democrats and Republicans have said for 100 zillion years: yes, the Fed needs to be independent.
Why?

Speaker 63 Because the Fed sometimes has to make really hard policy decisions.

Speaker 63 And so, everybody wants confidence, whether you got a Democrat or Republican in the White House, that they're doing it as best they can based on the numbers, based on what the economic data are.

Speaker 63 That's what we hope keeps our economy steady and helps protect Americans across this country. So what happens?

Speaker 63 Donald Trump gets to nominate someone. The guy he has nominated, this is no joke, Dr.
Myron now sits as the president of the Council of Economic Advisors, working in the White House for Trump.

Speaker 71 He's not going to give up that job.

Speaker 63 He wants to keep a foot in that boat while he goes over to the so-called independent Fed.

Speaker 63 And so every Republican senator at our hearing last week in banking, I know it didn't have all the sparkle of the Patel hearing, but

Speaker 63 every Republican senator, I believe in the independence of the Fed.

Speaker 63 So I asked this guy who's Donald Trump's homie, I said, you're going to be independent. Ronnie said, well, he's going to be independent.
He wrote up his notes. I will be independent.
I will be Mr.

Speaker 63 Independent. I said, great.

Speaker 63 Let's just test out how independent you can be of Donald Trump. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

Speaker 63 Mr. Independent

Speaker 63 could not answer that question. Well, it was ruled by a blah, blah, blah, the Senate and was confirmed, blah, blah,

Speaker 65 right?

Speaker 63 He could not bring himself to say those words. So I said, okay, let's go to another.
Let's go. I realize that one's sensitive.

Speaker 63 Let's go to what Donald Trump said when he fired the person who put out the labor statistics, the head of the

Speaker 63 labor, yeah, BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics. And I said, Donald Trump, and I read the quote, you know, said this person lied and tried to help Kamala and falsified data.

Speaker 66 And I said, is that true?

Speaker 63 Again, here's the guy who's chief economist, literally

Speaker 63 could not say that maybe, just maybe

Speaker 63 the president got a word or two wrong. when he called the head of BLS a liar and a cheat and just

Speaker 63 maybe had overstepped a little bit. And I use that as an example of everybody who comes through to be confirmed starts with

Speaker 63 prostating themselves in front of Donald Trump might be looking. And I am so grateful to Donald Trump, they all say, and I will do whatever he wants me to do.

Speaker 63 That's why I see Prop 50 as a fight for the independence of our democracy, a fight to say there's a check on power.

Speaker 63 For everybody who shut up for no kings, this is your chance in California to show up and just say

Speaker 66 power. We get it.

Speaker 63 President should have power, but there's got to be a check on that power. And right now, there ain't no check on that power.
It's not coming from the Republicans in the House.

Speaker 63 It's not coming from the Republicans in the Senate. It's sure as heck not coming from other people in government.
And this is our chance to get a foot back in the door on that.

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Speaker 60 It is my honor now to be able to introduce two more folks.

Speaker 60 We have Ben Micellis, who co-founded the Midas Touch Network, which is the top-viewed political YouTube channel and the most listened to podcast each month of this year.

Speaker 60 Huge congratulations to Ben and your brothers for what you've built in Midas Touch. I could not be more proud to see that the left is fighting back, and you guys are a huge, huge, huge part of that.

Speaker 60 So thank you for the work you're doing. And congratulations on all of the well-deserved accolades that you guys have gotten.

Speaker 60 And I'm also going to call in Governor Newsom now, who, of course, is the center of all of this.

Speaker 60 We have been begging and pleading for Democrats who are willing to match their words and their rhetoric with action, and nobody has better exemplified that than the governor.

Speaker 60 So I'll let you both take it from here.

Speaker 84 Governor Newsom, it's great to see the man of the hour right now when your name is on Donald Trump's social media, it seems, on an almost hourly basis, whether it's Donald Trump claiming that he saved Los Angeles by turning on a magical faucet somewhere in the imaginary border between California and Canada, whether it's Donald Trump saying that he saved Los Angeles again a few months back, whether he, whatever he was making up about you today, it seems that you standing up to him is having a certain type of reaction, doesn't it?

Speaker 56 Oh, I appreciate that. It's, yeah, no, it's a point of pride.
I mean, there was almost 48 hours where I felt he'd forgotten about me, but you're right.

Speaker 56 No, he tried to hit me on his way over to the UK.

Speaker 56 And it's just, it's a reminder of what we're up against, mis and disinformation, just complete bullshit, excuse my language, that comes from Donald Trump.

Speaker 56 And that's why it's important that we're not only winning the war in the spirit of what Betto and Mark just brought to this conversation on the ground, in the spirit of what Brian talked about in terms of this grassroots people power effort to push back against the well-healed, but it's absolutely critical that we win the messaging war as well, that we organize in a much more,

Speaker 56 I think,

Speaker 56 much more

Speaker 56 intense way to communicate over and over and over again our message across the spectrum, which is just foundational in all these efforts.

Speaker 84 Look, the federal government once again is heading towards another shutdown potentially, but Donald Trump has ordered MAGA Mike Johnson and Republicans do not even have conversations with Democrats.

Speaker 84 He's repeatedly referred to Democrats as the enemy, radical, don't deal with them, don't even talk to them. You've been in politics for a little bit.

Speaker 84 That's not the way it always was, but it is what Donald Trump has turned the body politic into today,

Speaker 84 kind of this zero-sum game, if you will. And we see it play out over and over again.

Speaker 84 And, you know, it seems as the American people are letting their voices be heard right now. He's getting more and more nervous, hence trying to rig these midterms.

Speaker 56 No, look, I mean, I think what you've underscored is the fundamental point here. Trump is weakness.
He's weakness masquerading as strength. He's flailing.

Speaker 56 The economy is cooling. Inflation is starting to rise again.
Consumer confidence is down. Credit card debt is going up.

Speaker 56 The tariffs have terrified our allies and taxes are being felt on the american people middle-class families uh his only legislative success the big beautiful bill is anything but it's a big beautiful betrayal uh and we're seeing all of these authoritarian tendencies as a response to that weakness uh and the more you see caps uh in his true social and his tweets uh the more that just underscores the fact uh that he's flailing that's why he's trying to rig this election that's why we're having this conversation that's what prop 50 is all about pushing back in a meaningful and substantive way.

Speaker 56 But one cannot underestimate the lengths to which he will go to not just rig the midterms,

Speaker 56 but the impacts if he's successful well beyond that.

Speaker 56 And I really appreciated Betto and Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren, and others really highlighting that, Congressman Garcia, that this is not just about 2025, the impacts on 2026 and 2028 and beyond, the consequences of this initiative to set the tone and tenor into 2026 to de facto end the Trump

Speaker 56 presidency next year's midterms. Whereas Tommy said in the outset, Donald Trump will no longer be able to sign any bill because we'll finally have a check on his power.

Speaker 84 You know, living in California is something that I have a great deal of pride about. We are the fourth largest economy in the world if California was a country.
We are a giver state.

Speaker 84 We give $80 billion plus more to the federal government than we take. By contrast, Texas takes about $75 billion more than it gives.
You go through every stat and entrepreneurship, companies.

Speaker 84 California is leading the way.

Speaker 84 Is that, I mean, but it's constantly under attack by Trump and lots of people in red states who, let's face it, I know how Donald Trump likes to falsely say that the United States subsidizes Canada, which which is not accurate and completely false.

Speaker 84 But let's face it, a lot of these red states are failing. And but for California kind of subsidizing the country, yet they then come and attack us here in California.

Speaker 66 I don't like that, Gov.

Speaker 56 I'm with you, man. It's the California derangement syndrome.
And with respect to our friend, Betty O'Rourke, you're exactly right. $71.1 billion taker state.

Speaker 56 California, $83.1 billion donor state, meaning we provide $83 plus billion dollars more in revenue to the federal government than we receive back. And that is the case, vast majority of blue states.

Speaker 56 But we also have to state the facts. I live in California, you live here, size of 21 state populations combined, the fourth largest economy from a GDP in the world.

Speaker 56 More scientists, engineers, more researchers, more Nobel laureates than any state in the nation.

Speaker 56 A system of education that's a conveyor belt for talent, the UC, CSUs, our community college system, pushing out the boundaries of discovery, more venture capital, and we dominate in the next big global economy, 32 of the top 50 AI companies, all here in the state of California.

Speaker 56 So our state of mind is about not just imagination, but it's innovation. It's dreaming and doing.
And it's not lost on me, and it shouldn't be lost on anybody, that part of our secret sauce.

Speaker 56 is the fact that we are able to get the best and the brightest from around the globe. First round draft choices.
We're a majority minority state that our best doesn't tolerate that diversity.

Speaker 56 We celebrate that diversity. All of that's on the line in terms of the assaults of Trump and Trumpism and going after DEI, ESG, CRT, anything with three letters, this guy seems to be assaulting.

Speaker 56 And so what Proposition 50 represents is an opportunity to check his power. It's about checks and balances.
It's about the rule of law. It's about co-equal branches of government.

Speaker 56 And that's why I'm so grateful to you and so many others that are tuning in so that we can tune up an understanding of what's at stake with this initiative.

Speaker 84 Let's talk about this event today before we go. National Voter Registration Day, so it has an added layer of significance.
The website is yeson50live.com. Everybody go there.

Speaker 84 I'm going to make a donation after this at yeson50live.com.

Speaker 84 But you bringing together all of these people here in new media, bringing members of Congress and senators and leaders together, rallying together to support our democracy and to support this existential threat.

Speaker 84 How big of a deal is this event today, Governor?

Speaker 56 I think it's huge because you guys have done one thing that I think we all need. I need.
I mean, I imagine you might need, and that's some optimism, some hope.

Speaker 56 You know, I think that we show up for each other. We're showing up for a cause greater than ourselves.

Speaker 56 And as Beto was saying, 249 years of these enduring principles and values, the best of Roman Republic and Greek democracy, about to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding fathers.

Speaker 56 It's all on the line. It's all at stake.
And I think for me to see everybody show up like this, that's incredible. It gives me a sense of optimism and hopefulness.

Speaker 56 And what I think it also represents from a very organized perspective is that we're not just engaging in platform thinking, we're also engaging in platform doing.

Speaker 56 that we're actually manifesting something here. We have something to be for.
We have work to do. We have agency.
And what I think this whole engagement tonight represents is the power of the people

Speaker 56 in a democracy. Brand I said it best.
The most important office is office of citizen, active, not inert citizenship.

Speaker 56 And it's people making contributions, three, five, $10 making contributions by going out there and volunteering that will be the story that will define not just the success of Prop 50, but the story that I think will define this moment in the history books as we move into the 250th anniversary of the governor.

Speaker 84 Thank you for what you're doing. Great conversation.
I echo what everyone else said about you, Brian Tyler Cohen.

Speaker 84 You gave me that very nice intro, but you're the OG in YouTube and you've paved the way for a lot of people like us. And thank you for putting this event together, Brian.

Speaker 84 Governor, thanks for fighting for us. You give us all hope to see the governor, the largest state in the United States, pushing back, fighting for democracy.

Speaker 84 Thanks for everything you're doing, Governor.

Speaker 56 Appreciate it, brother. Thank you, guys.

Speaker 60 Well, thank you both. And look, this is again to echo what Ben and the governor were saying.
This is what it looks like when you actually put words behind action.

Speaker 60 For so long, Democrats have been begging for not just strongly worded letters, but for actual real action, for actual push to what we're saying. And that's what we're seeing right here in California.

Speaker 60 But that's just half the battle.

Speaker 60 This thing is going to be a referendum on the ballot, but California is a huge state, and it's going to require getting the word out to so many people and Republicans are already doing it.

Speaker 60 The day that this thing was announced, we had Republican operatives sending mailers out to every single address in the state. I know that if you live in California, you've seen them.

Speaker 60 You've gotten those mailers in your mailbox saying to vote, no, we have to push back. This is our way to protect not just the future of the Democratic Party, but the future of democracy itself.

Speaker 60 And that relies on being able to reach all of those people who aren't paying attention to politics on a daily basis, which, to be honest, sounds good for everybody's mental health, but the reality is that it's going to take

Speaker 60 a lot of push from all of us who are paying attention to make sure that people know what's going on. So we are getting very close to our $200,000 mark, which is a huge milestone.

Speaker 60 But please, if you haven't yet donated, go to yeson50live.com. Okay, I'm so excited to be able to introduce our two next guests.
We have Joe Karducci and Senator Alex Pardia. Alex Padilla.

Speaker 60 I'm sure you've heard Jojo from Jersey. She's worked so hard to make herself a household name.

Speaker 60 I'm also very proud to be from the same home state as her, the state of New Jersey, where it should be known that we have the best pizza in the country.

Speaker 60 And Senator Padilla, the U.S.

Speaker 60 Senator from right here in my new home state of California, this is the senator who made a name for himself this year by putting his body on the line when he was arrested by the Trump administration for daring speak out.

Speaker 60 And that's exactly the kind of

Speaker 60 forward-leaning posture that we want to see from our elected officials. So I'll let you guys take it from here.

Speaker 86 Well, first of all, thank you, Brian. I did not know that you were from the Garden State, the greatest state in the country.
No offense.

Speaker 86 I'm just kidding.

Speaker 86 I'm here from New Jersey, participating in this event for Prop 50 in California because I understand that the stakes of this moment are much greater than the best state on the planet, which is, of course, New Jersey.

Speaker 86 Again, no offense. But, Senator Padilla, it is wonderful to see you again under slightly better circumstances than the last time we spoke.

Speaker 86 But I just wanted, yeah, I'm happy to see your face.

Speaker 71 I feel like we bonded a little bit

Speaker 86 in a unique way through some tragedy that happened last week.

Speaker 86 But I wanted to just start with something that is important to me, a thread that ties us together, which is that we are the children of immigrants.

Speaker 86 And the governor just said, in this country, we celebrate diversity.

Speaker 86 Your parents, my dad, they believed in the American dream. They worked toward that end.
They participated in achieving that.

Speaker 86 Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, they don't appreciate that diversity.

Speaker 86 On the other hand, quite the contrary, they're trying to attack it. And so I want to start there, if you might,

Speaker 86 with what's at stake right now for the American dream for people like your parents, people like my dad.

Speaker 85 Sure. No, Georgia, great to be back with you.
And I mean, I think a couple of things. Why does Donald Trump have it in for California so badly?

Speaker 85 It's because California is like the opposite of his vision.

Speaker 85 California is not the most populous state in the nation, the most diverse state in the nation, home to more immigrants than any state in the nation.

Speaker 85 And as you've been hearing, California has grown to become the fourth largest economy in the world. And that's not a coincidence.

Speaker 85 That doesn't just, that doesn't happen despite the immigrant population.

Speaker 85 It's because of the immigrant population, the contributions of so many immigrants as workers, of course, but also as consumers and as entrepreneurs. But

Speaker 85 because of, and there's a lot to say about Donald Trump here, but

Speaker 85 California is the embodiment of what the future of the country is, increasingly diverse, and we should be increasingly inclusive. We want to embrace the economic and cultural impact of it.

Speaker 85 But what does Donald Trump do? He attacks California. This mass deportation agenda that he has started his administration with is centered not just in California, but my hometown of Los Angeles.

Speaker 85 So imagine how offended I feel as a proud son of immigrants when, look, I knew my dad who worked for 40 years as a short order cook.

Speaker 85 My mom worked for 40 years cleaning houses so that my brother and my sister and I can get a good education. That was it.
And achieve the American dream.

Speaker 85 And that's the same story of millions of immigrants throughout California and throughout the country. And Trump and Republicans just can't handle it.

Speaker 85 So, instead of trying to build on that success and that strength, they try to demonize it and attack it.

Speaker 85 So, it's one of the many arguments why we need to support Proposition 50, because Prop 50 has been the most powerful tool presented to us to rein in this out-of-control administration.

Speaker 85 They want to steal next November's election by rigging it before it even starts, but California is going to step up and push back by approving Prop 50 this November.

Speaker 86 I appreciate the fight coming from California very, very much. This is obviously the moment to be meeting and

Speaker 86 the governor and all of your leadership are meeting this moment extraordinarily. And so I want to speak to your point about what Republicans are doing and ask you,

Speaker 86 why are they trying to cheat ahead of the midterms in 2026? I mean, what do they know?

Speaker 85 Look, my point of view, both as a Californian and as a member of the Senate here,

Speaker 85 to me, it's pretty obvious.

Speaker 85 You know, under normal circumstances, a party in power would be proud of their legislative accomplishments and they'd run on their record in the midterms to try to stay in power.

Speaker 85 But that's not what's happening here. They know how not just unpopular, but damaging their record has been, right?

Speaker 85 This destruction of confidence in the judiciary, the federal government as we know it, their cuts to health care, their cuts to nutrition assistance programs, their tax breaks for billionaires, on and on and on.

Speaker 85 The only hope they have to hold on to power next year is to rig the election before it even starts.

Speaker 85 So before I even get to redistricting, you know, whether it's legislation they've introduced or the executive orders to make it harder for eligible Americans to register to vote, to stay registered to vote, or to actually cast your ballot, that's just part of it.

Speaker 85 The Department of Justice, and I'm a member of the judiciary, I've seen it up close and personal.

Speaker 85 They're politicizing the Department of Justice now, just like they did in the first Trump term, trying to obtain all the personal information of voters in select states to try to tee up the purging of voter rolls.

Speaker 85 And on top of that, this redistricting push.

Speaker 85 I mean, I don't know about you, but when I first saw the news report of Trump calling Governor Abbott in Texas saying, five me more, five more Republican seats, it sounded a lot like when Donald Trump called the Secretary of State in Georgia in 2020, when he said, find me

Speaker 85 11,000 more votes. They'll do anything to cling to power.

Speaker 64 That's what this is.

Speaker 85 And so as I try to sum it up to folks when I'm walking around, you know, if you care about reining in this administration that has overreached, violated due process in the Constitution with their mass deportation agenda, if you care about the rising cost of groceries and housing and health care and energy and so much more, and you want to do something about it, you got to support Prop 50.

Speaker 85 If you care about the rule of law and

Speaker 85 defending the principles of our Constitution, you have to support Prop 50. It's the biggest check.
It's the strongest guardrails against this out-of-control administration.

Speaker 86 Yeah, I mean, you mentioned redistricting and obviously this is what Prop 50 is about, but Republicans will say, oh, this is the Democrats cheating, et cetera, et cetera, right?

Speaker 86 This is not at all what the Democrats wanted.

Speaker 86 This was triggered by what they did in Texas. The Democrats have been the ones advocating for fair maps.
Can you talk to that?

Speaker 86 And what would you say to a Republican who says, oh, no, this is the Democrats cheating? Or people in the state of California who think, I can't vote yes on this because this isn't fair.

Speaker 85 Yeah, so be absolutely crystal clear on this. The only reason we are moving on Proposition 50 is in response to the abuse of power in Texas.

Speaker 85 You know, again, at the behest of Donald Trump. And by the way, whether California would have responded to this or not, Republicans were going to stop in Texas.

Speaker 85 They saw five potential seats to pick up in Texas. But as we've seen in recent days and weeks, they're also looking to redistrict and are redistricting in Missouri and in Indiana and in Ohio.

Speaker 85 They're going to stop nowhere in their desperate efforts to cling to power. What California did is saw it at the very beginning.
They're going into Texas to try to rig the system.

Speaker 85 As much as we support independent redistricting and all that stuff, the stakes are simply too high.

Speaker 85 The threat of this administration and its impact, the devastating impact on working families is too high.

Speaker 66 We can't sit idly by and just watch it happen.

Speaker 85 We have to respond. We have to fight back.
And so, yes, it took a lot, not just for

Speaker 85 the California legislature, but Governor Newsome and the California congressional delegation to support this new map and take it to the voters for the voters to decide whether we push back on Trump with Proposition 50.

Speaker 85 The early polls are good, but as we've said earlier,

Speaker 85 there's a lot of money that doesn't like what's happening. And there's going to be no less than $150 million, maybe $200 million

Speaker 85 against Proposition 50, including Speaker Mike Johnson's PAC money coming into California to try to defeat Proposition 50. That's what we're up against.

Speaker 85 So let me take this opportunity for anybody tuning in.

Speaker 85 However, you can support, if you can't support, we need your support because we're up against a lot of big money who knows that California's move here is the big check against the Trump agenda.

Speaker 85 So we need your help, volunteerism and activism on the ground, a financial contribution, if you can.

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Speaker 60 With no further ado, I know that a lot of folks are very excited. So I'm going to introduce our next guest here.
We've got Tim Fullerton. Tim helped start this show.

Speaker 60 I should note first and foremost. So a big shout out to Tim.
He also

Speaker 60 had a

Speaker 60 practice session, we can say, in launching White Dudes for Harris, helped that gain prominence. And he served many roles in the Obama administration.

Speaker 60 And importantly, he started the Find Out podcast, which I'm a huge fan of. And we need more folks in independent media.
So I'm grateful that Tim and his co-hosts have jumped into this space.

Speaker 60 And now we've got members of the West Wing cast, Dule Hill and Martin Sheen. I know that...
for so many people watching right now, you both are the platonic ideal of what politics can be.

Speaker 60 And most importantly, thank you for staying engaged and involved because it would be really easy to just, you know, show up on set, do your thing, make a great show and kind of step back and fall back into, you know, just having been an actor.

Speaker 60 But the fact is that you're using your voices now for,

Speaker 60 you know, to stay engaged in this political process. And so, you know, on behalf of myself and everybody watching, thank you so much for doing that.
And looking forward to the conversation here.

Speaker 98 Yes, you know, it's my pleasure to be here. I think it's in.

Speaker 98 important for all of us to actively stay involved in any way that we can because when we we take our eye off the ball, we take our eye off the prize, then you see

Speaker 98 what can happen. And it can happen swiftly.
You know, when I saw the results of the election last year, I knew that there would be challenges.

Speaker 98 I knew that there would be an assault on our liberties, but I could not fathom what I'm seeing now. It really breaks my heart when I see our loss of humanity.

Speaker 98 I see how we are going to the extremes and we are

Speaker 98 lacking the ability to find common ground. I mean, we are one year in and these are trying times.

Speaker 98 And the only way that I feel that we can even have some type of backstop to this onslaught that is happening is by winning in the midterms.

Speaker 98 And I truly believe, I'll say to myself often, I say to others, that democracy works when we, the people, work it. That's how democracy.
stays alive.

Speaker 98 And the only way that we can, the best way for us to fight this battle for the soul of our nation, for the character of who we are, is at the ballot box. That's what we have to do.

Speaker 98 And I truly believe that all things being equal, if we were given the opportunity to freely vote

Speaker 98 the way we have, then it would be a no-brainer that the Democrats would win. There would be balance put back into the system.

Speaker 98 And that would be that. But I do believe also that these extremist politicians are very aware that they cannot win the battle on their merits.
They cannot win re-election on their merits.

Speaker 98 So the same people who a few years ago were crying about a stolen election and supported people who really, you know,

Speaker 98 acted, acted in a way that was not supportive of our democracy are now actually trying to steal an election. They're not even doing it in the shadows.

Speaker 98 They're being very overt about what they are doing.

Speaker 85 But what

Speaker 98 really, I guess, affects me is that they're taking away the voice of the people.

Speaker 98 It's one thing if you were going to do this redistricting plan and you were going to bring it to the citizens, like bring it to the citizens. That's how democracy works.
Let people talk about it.

Speaker 98 If you were doing it that way and then the people voted for that, I would have nothing to say.

Speaker 98 But the fact that they're doing it in the dark rooms of the legislatures across the country, at least in Texas now and attempting to do it in other places. That is where I think is a line too far.

Speaker 98 And I appreciate what the governor of California is doing, what the legislature here is doing, by giving us the power to have our voice be heard, by giving us a way to be able to stand up for ourselves, and by giving us a pathway to be able to keep our democracy alive.

Speaker 98 And that's the main reason why I'm here is to play my part. I always say if I can get a billion people to move a billion stones, then we can move a mountain.

Speaker 98 And I think in this situation, if we can get people to get involved, to get engaged, to support Yes on 50 here in California and to use their voice across the nation, I believe the Democrats will get back the House.

Speaker 98 And at that point, we can put some type of balance back into the system system because we've seen what happens when there is imbalance. And right now, it is all out of whack.

Speaker 98 And there's too much extremism happening in our politics right now. So that's why I'm here.
And I'm always down to support in any way I can.

Speaker 88 Well, thank you, Dule. And it's all of that was really well said.
And I think it's a really important thing that you mentioned, which is, you know, Texas did this behind closed doors.

Speaker 88 You know, the Trump administration called Governor Abbott's team and said,

Speaker 88 I need you to find five seats. He actually said it.
I need you to find five seats for me. And then they did this unilaterally.

Speaker 88 And I think that that's why it's great that we're doing it and the way Governor Newsom's doing it is the way to do it with a people-powered movement.

Speaker 88 And so I want to turn. So I think everybody on this call probably would prefer our new next guest to actually be the president of the United States at this moment.

Speaker 88 We have Martin Sheen, who has, I think, played a president twice and has been a chief of staff once and actually has been, I believe, arrested arrested more times than Donald Trump, but for very good reasons, standing up for what's right.

Speaker 88 So, Marjine, thank you. It is an honor to speak to you.
I would love to hear from you about why

Speaker 88 voting yes on Prop 50 is so important.

Speaker 64 Well, thanks. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.
All right, good. Yeah.

Speaker 64 Renee left the room. My engineer here is my daughter who runs this machine.
Frankly,

Speaker 64 I don't own a computer and I don't even know how to turn it on if I did have one. So I'm counting on my family here, as DeLay well knows.

Speaker 64 Good to see you again, DeLay. Thank you for including me in

Speaker 64 this effort. You know, I've been involved in

Speaker 64 supporting liberal politics, Democratic politics, specifically, with the possible exception of John Lindsay, when he ran for mayor in 1965 in New York.

Speaker 64 I supported him, but also that same year, I supported Bobby Kennedy in his race for the U.S. Senate.
And so

Speaker 64 this is not

Speaker 64 unusual for me to be involved

Speaker 64 just in democratic politics, but in peace and social justice issues, because I can't really separate them.

Speaker 88 And

Speaker 64 what

Speaker 64 our governor here in California so bravely did was to stand up to the landslide of

Speaker 64 effort and lies that are that are pulling the the Constitution and the Bill of Rights down the tubes. And so our effort is to put a stop to it and to retrieve as much as we possibly can.

Speaker 64 I've never seen it this bad in my life, frankly. And you know, we've been watching the opposition to Proposition 50

Speaker 64 on every local channel we have and some of the

Speaker 64 streamers as well, ads against us voting to vote no on 50. And their reasoning is that it's

Speaker 64 undemocratic to jurymander here. And how dare we do this? Why

Speaker 64 we should stand up as patriotic Americans and stop this. There's not a mention of Texas or the possibility of Missouri or Ohio, God forbid, my home state or Indiana.
And so

Speaker 64 we have to, you know, we have to, we can't always choose our fights. Very often, we're we we we are called to fight in in foreign lands on with with with uh with with

Speaker 64 on familiar ground and this is one of those times we've never been in this situation before i've watched this administration i was watching cash patel being drilled by uh our good senator uh from uh you know uh california today

Speaker 64 and and i don't know if any of you saw the uh exchange between the two of them it made the national news but

Speaker 64 that level of ahead of the FBI or any of the other agencies is astonishing to me. There is no possible way that any of these people at the head of any of the

Speaker 64 cabinets

Speaker 64 ministries that we have right now would ever make it in any other administration but Donald Trump. And when they look at each other across the room around the

Speaker 64 the cabinet room, and they look at each other. They don't see anyone on the other side back and forth that is better than they are, is more heroic, has more courage.

Speaker 64 In a real sense, I suspect they despise each other because there isn't anyone on the other side that is better than they are. And they are looking at the worst reflection of themselves.

Speaker 64 And they are reflecting the policy that we're seeing

Speaker 64 that DeLay referred to about the scandalous

Speaker 64 mask bandits

Speaker 64 grabbing people off our streets in public and

Speaker 64 disappearing people. And, you know,

Speaker 64 so often when people are,

Speaker 64 at least in

Speaker 64 normal times, if you want to call it normal, when people were deported, they usually went back to the country they came from. Now they're being sent,

Speaker 64 basically they're being punished because very often they're being sent to countries that

Speaker 64 have,

Speaker 64 you know, they're foreign to them. They don't have the same language, the same culture, and they are thousands and thousands of miles away from their true home.
So, and this has become normal.

Speaker 64 What we're seeing, we saw that, you know,

Speaker 64 when the Marines marched through

Speaker 64 our downtown park, it was literally a walk in the park.

Speaker 64 There was no reason for them to be there. It is a,

Speaker 64 all that we're seeing is a reflection of a strong man trying to get a grip and it's slipping out of his hands.

Speaker 64 Chicago stood up and said, no, please don't come here and we're going to give you every reason why. We don't need you.
We've got good law enforcement. We've got good sanitation care here.

Speaker 64 We've got good health care. You're not needed here.
Please stay home. Look after your families and your states.
And so

Speaker 64 We don't have any choice but to go in the direction that we're being called by Governor Newsom.

Speaker 64 And I dare say, and maybe I shouldn't say this of him, but I think this move was his declaration for the White House.

Speaker 64 I think he's got to run and more power to him, and he will have this to his credit.

Speaker 64 So I'm urging people to deal with what we have, not with what we wish we had or what we had in the past, but what we have now, which is this opportunity to stop this

Speaker 64 basic

Speaker 66 thievery.

Speaker 64 you know, Thomas Paine said the rights of man are not given by the gracious hand of any state, but must be protected therein.

Speaker 64 And this is where we have to rise and embrace our Constitution and bring us all together with what really is at stake. We're facing an out-of-control, chaotic

Speaker 64 madman who wakes up every day and thinks of a different level of chaos. And

Speaker 64 his cabinet members,

Speaker 64 the people in in his administration pick up the lot and they carry it out and they are all a reflection of him but i think we're better than that and i think we can we can build a better future and we can end the chaos and end the the despair and the uh

Speaker 64 the the feelings of of uh that we

Speaker 64 that we don't have any power left. Look at Chicago.
Just this week, the madman turned around and said, well, I guess I'm not welcome there. Let's find some, oh, Memphis.
Oh, yes, of course, Memphis.

Speaker 64 I can do well there. Well, let's see what happens.
But what Governor Newsom has done here in California has struck a chord. It has lit a candle in this darkness.

Speaker 64 And I pray and hope that people see what's possible and that we can turn this thing around. And this is one very important issue for the whole country.

Speaker 64 uh to look at and to follow yes on 50 please go yes

Speaker 88 Well, well said. And for those of you who haven't donated yet, which I don't know how you could not donate after listening to that, please go to yeson50live.com.
Push us over the 300,000 mark.

Speaker 88 All of this money is coming from individuals giving $5,010, $15,000, $20.

Speaker 88 And we are fighting against people who are writing quarter million dollar checks, million dollar checks. We are going to win this.
And

Speaker 88 I think before we go, I just want to ask one more question for both both of you is

Speaker 88 uh you gave us a little bit of hope there and you know i think the west wing show was something that i watched in high school and then ended up going into politics and worked in the obama administration and things like that

Speaker 88 Leave us with something, you know, Martin, you left us with something really hopeful and powerful.

Speaker 88 Dule, I want to give it to you the last bit because I know we got a bounce because we've got Congressman Raskin, Congressman Raskin and Congresswoman Crockett on, who, by the way, if you, if we win this ballot initiative, they're going to be the ones subpoenaing and they're the ones that are going to be asking questions of the Trump administration.

Speaker 88 So Dulay, I want to give you the last word.

Speaker 98 Well, I'll say this, the power is in our hands. You know, there's nothing that, if a bunch of people get together, there's nothing that we cannot overcome.

Speaker 98 I said before, a billion people to move a billion stones, then we can move a mountain.

Speaker 98 And even in these dark times, when the cloud is hovering above the clouds of extremism, the clouds of hate, the clouds of division, just beyond those storm clouds, the sun is always shining.

Speaker 98 So if we could just keep preaching, keep putting one foot in front of the other, keep our eyes on the prize, I know that we will be victorious.

Speaker 98 America always has, America will now today, and America always will in our tomorrow, as long as we stay engaged. So let's vote.

Speaker 64 I would only add

Speaker 64 just very simply that fear is useless. Faith is necessary.

Speaker 64 Yes, on 50.

Speaker 60 Awesome. We'll leave it there.

Speaker 101 I was trying to.

Speaker 60 I was going to say, I was trying a bit where I was standing. You can't really see it in the Zoom, but I was about to say in this building, when the president stands, nobody sits.

Speaker 65 Okay.

Speaker 60 What's next?

Speaker 60 That was also my nod to you. Thank you.
Thank you all for the time tonight. We appreciate it.

Speaker 56 And Tim, thank you so much.

Speaker 101 Thank you very much.

Speaker 64 Thank you so much.

Speaker 98 All the best to everybody.

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Speaker 60 Very excited to introduce our next two. We have Olivia Giuliana.

Speaker 60 I first learned of Olivia when Matt Gates tried to mock her online, and she used his mockery to raise over $2 million for abortion rights. So what a badass move.

Speaker 60 And he's out of Congress, and so you got the last laugh.

Speaker 60 Juliana is a political activist, abortion rights advocate, and a strategist from Texas, so she knows firsthand about all the bullshit that's going on right now.

Speaker 60 She was formerly the director of politics and government affairs at Gen Z for Change, and she's a dear friend of mine. Very happy to have you.

Speaker 60 And of course, a congresswoman who needs no introduction, very excited to be introducing Representative Jasmine Crockett. She is one of my favorite people in elected office.

Speaker 60 She is a badass, a fighter, an attorney, one of the most dynamic, interesting, and engaging voices that we have on the left. Could not be more excited to listen to your conversation here.

Speaker 103 Thank you, Brian.

Speaker 67 Well,

Speaker 103 Congresswoman Crockett, it sure seems like everyone's got something to say about our home. Now, don't they? Yeah, for good reason, though.
It is a hot ass mess.

Speaker 103 But I am so thankful for California. And not only for the leadership, real leadership that we need in this moment, but also for the people.

Speaker 103 You know, this is something that is going to be people led, people driven, and ultimately the people will decide.

Speaker 103 And with everything that I've seen about the pushback that we are delivering to this regime that is currently in power, I am believing that the people of California are woke enough to know that it is time to fight fire with fire.

Speaker 103 And what that means for those in the back that don't understand my language, what that means is that if Texas is going to redistrict and gerrymander and also silence the voices of black and brown communities, that California will also make sure that they give more voice to their constituents in the form of Prop 50.

Speaker 103 And so this is just in response to make sure that those bad policies that they are currently signing up for, that they actually have some accountability because that's what democracy looks like.

Speaker 103 The final thing that I'll say so that you can go on with your question is that today was very interesting. It's always interesting on the hill or a hot ass miss, either way you want to look at it.

Speaker 103 But nevertheless, so we're there and we were voting on a rule for a bill.

Speaker 103 And I was like, what's taking so long? Because I was ready to go debate the next thing. I just knew it was going to pass.
They were going to vote it. But it wasn't.
It wasn't passing.

Speaker 103 And in fact, this rule was going down and there were like six Republicans that voted with the Democrats. So I was like, well, who are the six Republicans? Well, of the six, I think

Speaker 103 three or four were out of California. So we can see that even the threat of actually holding them accountable has made them start to shift how they're voting.

Speaker 103 In fact, they were able to get enough to switch over so that they could go ahead and pass the rule.

Speaker 103 But one of the loudest kind of upset people, Kevin Kiley, He did not change his vote because he plans to run. He knows it's going to be an uphill battle.

Speaker 103 And now he believes that he should be held accountable for how he votes but my question is bro where have you been you should have been voting in the interest of your constituents anyway so i'll just leave it there right now even without this thing going to the ballot they are having an impact

Speaker 103 Well, I'll say this, you know, behind me, I have portraits of Anne Richards and Barbara Jordan. And if you're watching and you don't know who they are, look them up.

Speaker 103 And it's because of women like this, women like you. I'm glad that you're on my my side because I was at the public redistricting hearings that were held here in Texas about these maps.

Speaker 103 I was at the one at the state capitol and I was at the one in Houston.

Speaker 103 And so I sat through 10 hours of public testimony from Texans all over this state who sat there and begged, begged for our Republican lawmakers to have a conscience and to do the right thing.

Speaker 103 And they sat there and I'll be honest with y'all, they didn't care. They didn't care.
they had made their minds up before they walked into that room.

Speaker 103 And I think that you are the most uniquely positioned person in the country to really give people insight into what the Texas legislature looks like, what Congress looks like, and what this means for the rest of the country.

Speaker 103 Because not only are you a member of Congress from Texas, you had your district redistricted, but you were also a member of the Texas legislature. So,

Speaker 103 what is the big picture here that people may not be understanding? And why is Texas so important in this conversation? Yeah, that's a very good point.

Speaker 103 First of all,

Speaker 103 my favorite organization is the Heritage Foundation.

Speaker 103 And usually I feel like Texas becomes the crash dummy for every single bad type of legislation that they want to try out throughout.

Speaker 103 the south um and so this is no different right um as it's already been laid out by my colleagues that they started in Texas, but they were definitely never planning to end in Texas.

Speaker 103 And if anybody believes that there's something that California did that made them say, well, now we've got to do more, no. This was always their plan.

Speaker 103 The plan was to start in Texas, but then it was to move on to Missouri. It was to move on to Indiana.
They even were trying to go after Clyburn and South Carolina.

Speaker 103 They're planning to go after Florida. They are trying to do this any and everywhere that they think they can get away with it.
And so so they wanted to test it out in Texas. That's number one.

Speaker 103 Number two, we literally have people that are elected to office that are supposed to represent the interests of the people that put them into office.

Speaker 103 And as we both sat through hearings, because I attended more than one hearing myself, you know, it was interesting to have Representative Vasut.

Speaker 103 who was leading those field hearings and leading the redistricting. My classmate to the Texas House pretend that he had no recollection of anything that took place in 2021.

Speaker 103 Now, listen, I've never professed to have the best memory, but I can remember like yesterday being on the floor arguing with the Republicans, telling them that we had grown the state by 95% people of color.

Speaker 103 So the idea that we got two new seats because of the growth that Texas experienced, where we added over 4 million people over the last decade once we completed our census and ultimately we got two new Anglo seats.

Speaker 103 That's that Republican math. That is that Republican math, right? These were Anglo-majority seats that they ended up creating.
And they're just like, yeah, okay, it worked out.

Speaker 103 We added 180,000 Anglos in a decade. Each congressional seat is 766,000 people.
So you tell me, in fact, that is a microcosm of what they are doing right now.

Speaker 103 You tell me how 180,000 people end up with two seats where they are the majority and the seats of 766,000 people. That is what they are doing.

Speaker 103 They are not only doing Donald Trump's bidding, but it's at the expense of so many communities that have already been disenfranchised.

Speaker 103 Texas has over 4 million African Americans, more African Americans than any other state. We had five African Americans that had been elected to Congress.

Speaker 103 When Colin Allred ended up running for the Senate, he was replaced by a non-African American, which is perfectly fine. We then ended up down to four African Americans.

Speaker 67 Okay.

Speaker 103 Now what they're saying is we're going to cut that into two. You'll only have an opportunity to elect Al Green or whoever wins the 18th.

Speaker 103 And really what they're trying to do is set it up to where it's most likely me or Mark VC

Speaker 103 in the Dallas area.

Speaker 103 So you explained to me how on God's green earth, in a state in which Anglos were not growing at all, and we know that if we look at which group has the vast majority, not the vast majority, but has the plurality of representation, it's actually Latinos in the state of Texas.

Speaker 103 Latinos have the largest demographic in the entire state. Do they have the largest demographic of opportunities to elect people to Congress? Absolutely not.
In fact, we are a majority minority state.

Speaker 103 We are 60-40. Yet somehow, after these maps were done, we're looking at having less minorities being able to choose their representation.
So

Speaker 103 I want to say that this is bigger than my state, your state. This is about us as the United States and what it is that we are fighting for.
There is only one side that is willing to stand up.

Speaker 103 to this regime. There is only one side that is willing to conduct investigations.
There is only one side that is willing to hold their incompetency and their feet to the fire. There's only one side.

Speaker 103 And so while people haven't started to feel the effects of being kicked off their health care, they're about to.

Speaker 103 While people may not have fully felt the effects of the increases in their utility bills, they're about to.

Speaker 103 While people already know that these tariffs are already hitting, they're hitting pretty hard to the extent that they are shutting down our small businesses and our farm bankruptcies are up 58, 55 or 58%.

Speaker 103 Don't remember which one. Already, our farmers are filing for bankruptcy.
Yo, like we are in a crisis, and it is because the Republicans don't have a backbone.

Speaker 103 So it's time to make sure that we show them that the Democrats are ready to fight. So that means that, California, we need you in this moment.
We need your dollars. We need your time.

Speaker 103 And we absolutely need your vote. Yeah.
And I'll close this out with this.

Speaker 103 In a perfect world, we don't have to do mid-decade redistricting. In a perfect world, partisan gerrymandering is banned.

Speaker 103 But also, in a perfect world, women aren't losing their ability to have children because they're going into sepsis. And children in Texas are having books banned in their schools.

Speaker 103 These are the things that would happen in a perfect world, but we don't live in a perfect world. We live in reality.

Speaker 103 And so, if you're not sure if you're voting on this for you in California and how this benefits you, well, it benefits a lot of people and it benefits people like like me, young people who live in Texas, where this is our reality every single day.

Speaker 103 And so you have a chance and an opportunity to not just set yourself up and your future for success, but for young people like me in this state of over 30 million people who just want the chance to build our own American dream.

Speaker 56 Perfectly.

Speaker 60 Thank you both. I appreciate you being on, Olivia, Representative Crockett.
Thank you both for being here. Okay, very excited to introduce our next two guests.

Speaker 60 We have a dear friend of mine, Jack Cocharella, who is a progressive political commentator. And I know he's laughing because I'm having a lot of trouble saying his last name.

Speaker 60 It's the first time I actually ever said his last name out loud. But in my defense,

Speaker 60 in my defense, you guys look at C-O-C-C-H-I-A-R-E-L-L-A and try to do that.

Speaker 62 You nailed it.

Speaker 105 It just means you love me.

Speaker 31 That's it. I do.

Speaker 60 He is everywhere online. I am so grateful for his voice in this independent media space.
He is one of the people who gets it beyond everybody else.

Speaker 60 So, Jack, thank you so much for the work that you're doing on a daily basis, helping helping make our independent media ecosystem stronger and stronger every single day.

Speaker 60 And now we have our first Gen Z member of Congress, Congressman Maxwell Frost.

Speaker 60 Congressman, my only hope is that the next generation of Democrats, which I hope we see start to happen in a big way in 2026, that they look a lot like you. So thank you for being fearless.

Speaker 60 Thank you for being outspoken. Thank you for being a leader, not just among folks in your generation, but in the party more broadly.
So go ahead.

Speaker 60 I'll let you guys take it away from here.

Speaker 105 Absolutely. Thank you, Brian.
You're an inspiration to us all. And maybe we're breaking a little bit of news here.

Speaker 105 I think I said this in our last interview, but I am with my member of Congress, so that makes me very excited. We know the facts of this case.

Speaker 105 We know the facts of what's happening right now with this administration.

Speaker 105 We are seeing a rise in a crisis of affordability. That's a fact.
There's more law breaking under this administration than ever before.

Speaker 105 We know it's a fact that Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, they want to disenfranchise black and brown voters around the country.

Speaker 72 But I want to talk about feelings real quick.

Speaker 105 Congressman, how would you feel to make this guy right here very, very, very sad? How would that make you feel? Because I think that's important.

Speaker 100 Yeah, I think it is really important. And people know it makes me feel amazing.
And this is actually part of the reason we need to win the majority because

Speaker 100 I promise you that one of the first people to receive a subpoena will be Stephen Miller. Hell yeah.
This guy is one of the most evil people,

Speaker 100 not just in government, but in this country. And we need to hold him accountable as well.

Speaker 105 And his suits, they just, they don't, they don't fit at all. He looks terrible.
I think it's because like the fabric is repelled by him. Like there's just got to be something about Stephen Miller.

Speaker 105 I also just looking at him. We don't need to like, you know, trash him personally, but I think we can.
I bet he just doesn't smell great either.

Speaker 105 But of course, Republicans aren't just focused on Texas. This fight has spread, or I guess it's not a fight.
We're taking on the fight. What they're doing is a little bit different.

Speaker 105 But we certainly know that it wants to spread across the country. Ron DeSantis, certainly someone

Speaker 105 not new to falling in line with Donald Trump and getting embarrassed because of it.

Speaker 105 How are we going to make sure that this is a tone-setting moment in California, telling the rest of Republicans across the country, hey, if you, I don't want to say it, you fuck around, you find out.

Speaker 100 Well, yeah, and for people who don't know, you know, of course they're moving, they're moving forward with Texas.

Speaker 105 They're trying to figure out other places they can do this as well.

Speaker 106 They're moving forward with this in Florida as well.

Speaker 100 And we have pulled it across the entire state.

Speaker 100 Democrats, Republicans, Independents come out when they're asked, are you in favor of the state of Florida redistricting to help Donald Trump get a majority? They say no, every single time.

Speaker 100 And so part of what we're, you know, part of what we're looking to do in our state is make sure that people understand what they're trying to do. And you brought up DeSantis.

Speaker 72 A lot of people don't know this.

Speaker 100 DeSantis and Trump hate each other. Donald Trump hates Ron DeSantis.
And what Ron DeSantis is trying to do is he's about to not be the governor of Florida anymore next year.

Speaker 100 He's going to be two have two years where he's not an elected official, but he really wants to run for president. And he knows he can't win that Republican primary without Donald Trump's help.

Speaker 100 So he is turned into Donald Trump's lap dog that Donald Trump actually hates.

Speaker 100 And he wants to do everything he can to be in the news, to get a news cycle, to lick the boot of Donald Trump, to try to earn some of that support so he's not completely irrelevant.

Speaker 100 And that's why we've seen all these things from redistricting, even the Everglades detention facility, the internment camp, Alligator Alcatraz, all this stuff he's doing because the dude wants to run for president.

Speaker 58 He has no juice.

Speaker 100 Nobody likes him, even in his own party.

Speaker 105 He does not have the sauce.

Speaker 66 Have you heard his voice?

Speaker 72 Have you seen his boots?

Speaker 67 So

Speaker 100 this is what's going on in the state of Florida. I want to make sure people know.

Speaker 69 Jasmine brought it up.

Speaker 100 I always tell this people, Project 2025, all this stuff everyone's seeing now, that's Florida 2020. Okay.

Speaker 100 This stuff that they're trying across this country, they've been doing in the South for a long time.

Speaker 100 They passed the big beautiful bill for billionaires, the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to billionaires, the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, working class getting poorer as well.

Speaker 100 They know they can't win the election because people are pissed off about it.

Speaker 100 In fact, Donald Trump sent his top people to Capitol Hill to to tell the Republican Party, hey, you got to stop calling it the Big Beautiful Bill Act because it's so unpopular. We got to rebrand it.

Speaker 100 Bro, you named it the Big Beautiful Bill Act. You have the word beautiful in there.
The facts of the matter are so bad that people don't like it, even your own party.

Speaker 100 And now they're trying to figure out how to change it. It's so unpopular.
They know they're going to lose. And so they want to cheat.
They want to cheat because they don't want to lose.

Speaker 100 And that's what's going on right now.

Speaker 105 Yeah, they're terrified. And they're also terrified because they know that we do have a bit of hope and of course the momentum is mounting.

Speaker 105 I want to talk about not just what we'll do when we do, in fact, win the house back, but the successes that you've already had.

Speaker 105 You brought up what Stephen Miller and all the rest of those goons like to call alligator Alcatraz. Of course, you made a big move there that I want you to talk about.

Speaker 105 And maybe we keep it open or reopen it for Stephen Miller. I don't know in a couple of years.

Speaker 105 But can you talk about how we're still winning right now and what that means for when we actually do have the house back?

Speaker 100 Well, something that I always told organizers when I was on the front lines of Black Lives Matter and that I think about a lot now as a member of Congress that doesn't have all the seats we want is when you don't have all the power you want, you use all the power you got.

Speaker 100 And one of the most important things we can do right now as elected officials is use our powers of oversight, especially as it relates to this, what I would say is a campaign of terrorism on our communities of going in and kidnapping people and human trafficking them to other countries and other states.

Speaker 100 And when this facility was open, not just myself, but many other representatives across the state of Florida pulled up and said, we want to go in to see what's going on. And we didn't just do that.

Speaker 100 We coordinated with a lot of the people engaged in lawsuits. And we were able to find out what information do you need from the inside? What can we get? We went in there and we got it.

Speaker 69 I went a second time and spoke with people who were being detained there and got even more information.

Speaker 100 Many of us did declarations. Some of us served as witnesses in the federal case.
And many of you saw that we got that place shut down. A judge came out a few about a week ago and reversed that.

Speaker 100 It's going to be back and forth in court, but as of right now, that facility is not operating because of the work of the organizations that filed the lawsuit.

Speaker 100 But because elected officials said, you know what, we have privilege, we're at positions of power. How can we use that to support organizers?

Speaker 100 How can we use that to support this lawsuit to shut the place down? DeSantis is opening up another one in North Florida.

Speaker 69 And guess what?

Speaker 106 I'll be pulling up to that one as well.

Speaker 100 We got to do everything we can in this moment with what we got.

Speaker 100 And I'm really proud of that, what we did with Alligator Alcatraz, because I think it shows what happens when elected officials work with organizers, work with the people on the ground.

Speaker 100 We're not going to win 100% of the time, but sometimes we will win. And it feels good to win.

Speaker 100 And like, like it's going to feel good on election day at the end of this year when California passes this.

Speaker 105 Absolutely. It is.
And if you want to make sure that that happens, go to yes on 50, the number50live.com, yes on 50live.

Speaker 105 live and i want this segment maxwell you and i to have raised the most i don't know if that's brian's gonna tell me those numbers later but i'm gonna make the point of saying this is the person that you can really upset that is our vice president if you go and donate i'm gonna show it to you again jump scare

Speaker 72 look at that take take a look at that face yeah

Speaker 72 the more you donate the more you don't like him exactly i i need to i need y'all and we'll do it one more time this guy right here right there oh my god please Yeson50live.com.

Speaker 66 Turn out and fight, people.

Speaker 60 Awesome. Thank you both.
I should note that that worked because we just passed $400,000. So thank you.

Speaker 105 Only good thing Stephen Miller ever did is help us raise money.

Speaker 60 Thank you for showing his ugly ass face. We appreciate it.
And thank you to everybody who's donated. For those who haven't yet donated, this is the whole ballgame here.

Speaker 60 We've been begging for Democrats to fight. This is what it looks like for Democrats to fight.
They've done their part. We've got this thing on the ballot on November 4th.

Speaker 60 Now it's just a matter of making sure that we can raise enough money, grassroots, so that people all across this state know what's on the ballot, know what the stakes are in this upcoming election.

Speaker 60 So if you haven't yet donated and you have a few bucks,

Speaker 60 donate here instead of going and getting a coffee somewhere. 5, 10, 15 bucks.
It makes a huge difference. And you can

Speaker 60 add your own name to the throngs of people who've already donated. We are fast approaching a half a million dollars in just a couple of hours tonight.

Speaker 60 And if you really hate that guy, if you really hate Stephen Miller and

Speaker 60 JD Vance, then your way to show that right now is to go to yeson50live.com. All right, Jack and Congressman Frost, thank you so much for being here tonight.
We appreciate it.

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Burns Tucker, who is a graduate of Southwestern Law School, works as a social influencer, a social media influencer under the name I Am Legally Hype.

Speaker 60 If you are not yet following her, you want to follow her, trust me. She's gained over half a million followers across every platform by breaking down complicated political and legal issues.

Speaker 60 She's also a political correspondent with the shade room. So, again, if you're not yet following, do yourself a favor and follow, and thank you for the work you're doing breaking this stuff down.

Speaker 60 i know it is a herculean feat uh uh task that you've taken on um and she's joined by two amazing fighters for democracy we have representative uh komlager dove and also representative aguilar very excited to to introduce you both uh from california's 37th and 33rd thank you so much for being here for supporting independent media looking forward to the conversation

Speaker 87 Yay, I'm so excited. I'm excited to be joined by you both.
Okay, Representative Kalblager Dove and Representative Aguilar.

Speaker 87 We got California in the house, okay, baby, because y'all already know when Republicans go low, baby, in California, we get ready to squabble up, okay.

Speaker 87 And we got two representatives here that are ready to fight for you and fight we gonna do. Because I mean, I know y'all seen my homegirl Liz earlier.

Speaker 87 I don't know if y'all seen her, but um, it's upsetting me and my homegirl, okay, because if you can't go to California to fight Jerry Mandarin, where can you go?

Speaker 87 Where can you go? So, let's get into it. I'm excited.
So my first question is this.

Speaker 87 Come on, Gerdo, I'll let you go first. Republicans are out here and they're just trying to take power.
Okay, they redrawing congressional maps mid-decade so they can stay in control.

Speaker 87 So first tell us, why the hell are they doing this? Then talk about what exactly is Prop 50. And then we're going to go into why Prop 50 is the perfect clapback for all this stuff going on.

Speaker 70 Clap back in the house. So, you know, why are they doing this? They're doing this because they know they're going to lose in November, right?

Speaker 70 First, they did this $4.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires. They thought, oh, okay, people were going to be asleep at the wheel and be okay with that.

Speaker 70 Then we saw eggs started costing $15 a dozen and they were hard to find in the grocery stores, and gas was going up too.

Speaker 70 And then they said, well, we're going to have to pay for all these tax cuts by cutting your health care. So we had a $770 billion cut to Medicare.

Speaker 70 We've seen cuts on Medicaid in the state of of California, you know, shutting down and firing

Speaker 70 federal departments, firing federal workers, shutting down USAID, which is as much about foreign aid as it is about making sure that our farmers, hello, California is a farming state, are being able to get these contracts.

Speaker 70 So all of it's going to hell in a handbasket.

Speaker 70 And the American people started waking up and they were like, oh, homie is not playing any of this because this man ran for office to make the cost of living go down, down,

Speaker 70 not to have it skyrocket and then have all the money go into his pockets because he's so

Speaker 70 confused that all he wants to do is put more golden candelabras in the White House and then lend these arbitrary tariffs around the world so that we as consumers have to pay more.

Speaker 70 So he said, hey, 26 is coming up. Folks are waking up to the game.
They might vote some of these Republicans out of office because these Republicans are not listening to the people.

Speaker 70 So let me call my governors in these red states and see which one will do what I ask. And what I'm asking for is more seats.
I need more red seats.

Speaker 63 I want you to gerrymander.

Speaker 70 They still

Speaker 70 answered the call? Gregory Abbott. And he went into a back room, wheeled on in there, and without even consulting other Republican legislators, okay? That's how nasty they are.
He redrew some maps.

Speaker 70 And in doing that, what he did was he's silencing voters in Texas and he's erasing the possibility for people of color, black folks, brown folks, to be able to run for those seats.

Speaker 70 He is cutting off the pipeline at the local level because he's getting rid of seats at the federal level where folks would run. So, you know, the bear was hibernating.

Speaker 70 We're trying to handle our own business, get these ICE agents all up out of Los Angeles, right?

Speaker 70 Make sure that folks can go to their job, go to their churches, go to their hearings without being snatched, kidnapped, and detained, and deported. But the bear woke up and said, I don't think so.

Speaker 70 And we came up with Prop 50. And, you know, our Democratic caucus chair will, I think, share about, you know, what Prop 50 is.
But what we know, it's transparent. We know it's temporary.

Speaker 70 We know it's fair. And we know that it obeys the law.
Did I set you up, Miki Aguilar?

Speaker 99 You did. You did, SKD.

Speaker 84 I thank you so much.

Speaker 72 Good to be with you, A.B.

Speaker 99 And just like Sidney said, look, this is California punching back, doing everything everything we can. And we know we have the winning recipe because this is transparent.

Speaker 99 As Sidney said, Texas and Greg Abbott just changed the system and try to steal five seats.

Speaker 99 We go to the voters and we created a map collaboratively, working together to punch back, but we made it temporary. The independent commission that we like comes back in 2031.

Speaker 99 We respect the Voting Rights Act. We respect black and brown districts.
and we make sure that we are meeting this moment and punching back appropriately.

Speaker 99 And so that's why we're transparent, we're fair.

Speaker 99 You know, because of that, we're going to have success with Proposition 50. Yeson50live.com is where people can go to help out.
5-0, yeson50live.com.

Speaker 99 Thank you guys so much for elevating this platform and for giving us this space to talk about this because this is so incredibly important. We cannot let Republicans steal an election.

Speaker 99 I absolutely believe, and Cydney and I both subscribe to what Latifah said. This is about free and fair elections in 2026 and in 2028.

Speaker 99 And we won't have those if Republicans can consolidate power around these terrible policies and rig the system as they go each and every month.

Speaker 70 It's also about jobs. It's about health care.
It's about having a future for your family. It's about being able to go to school and get an education.

Speaker 70 You know, it's about not being afraid that all of the colleges and universities in your town are going to dry up.

Speaker 70 It's about knowing that you can walk outside your home and not be detained and deported, not be lynched because of the color of your skin. You know, these are folks that want a national abortion ban.

Speaker 70 They are doing every single thing that they can to take us back to pre-Jim Crow. And I am not being hyperbolic.

Speaker 70 So it is about democracy, but it is also also about the money in your pocket and your ability to earn and learn and have a family.

Speaker 70 And if folks don't want you engaged, if they don't want you to be able to vote, if they don't want you to have love for your country, then they have won. And we cannot let that happen.

Speaker 70 No way, not now, not ever.

Speaker 87 Okay, period. And with that being said, right, not only do we need y'all money, but we need y'all to pull up and actually vote, right? So turnout in special elections are usually pretty low, right?

Speaker 87 Especially in black and minority communities. Rep Aguilar, I think your district is what, something like 60% Hispanic and maybe about 10% Black.

Speaker 87 Rep Pomlager Dove, I think yours is something about 54% Black or Hispanic, about 20% Black, something right there.

Speaker 67 Why do you think?

Speaker 87 Why do you think it's so hard for us to get these people out, like, or get these people out to vote?

Speaker 87 Are we not communicating properly is it a failure on political leadership are we not meeting voters where they are like what do we need to do to make sure not only we get the money to make sure we get the message out but we get these people registered to vote today is national registration day registered to vote and out voting um so that we can redistrict and yes on prop 50 rep arguar i'll start with you Yeah,

Speaker 99 national voting registration day. This is so incredibly important.

Speaker 99 I think the answer to your question is we have to inspire people. And just like Sidney said, we have to make this about the American public and what they benefit when we are able to govern.

Speaker 99 And when Leader Jeffries becomes Speaker Jeffries, we're going to be able to lower the costs of health care for people. We're going to be able to put more money in people's pockets.

Speaker 99 We're going to be able to clean up the culture of corruption that allows the president to trade in meme coins and the Supreme Court to run around

Speaker 99 without a code of ethics or any principles at all. I mean, those are the things that we're going to be able to do when we have the ability to push back legislatively.

Speaker 99 But to Sidney's point, we have to make this and center this around the American public. And they are getting crushed by costs.
They're getting crushed in this Trump economy.

Speaker 99 And we have to connect the dots and tell them why yes on 50 is going to help them.

Speaker 99 And so that's the important piece. But we have to do more.
We got to knock on doors. We got to reach people.
We got to tell them this is just going to be a small ballot.

Speaker 99 We just need them to put in yes and send it back in.

Speaker 99 And because in California, we have an ability for mail-in voting that doesn't exist around the country, and we have a strong ability to allow people to exercise their right to vote.

Speaker 99 We need to make sure that they use it, that they use their voice and that they do it. And around the country, people are waiting in lines for hours.
We are making this easy for people.

Speaker 99 If you're working two jobs, if you're picking up your kids from school late, you don't have to make that choice whether I'm going going to pick up my kids late or go to vote.

Speaker 99 You can do it in the comfort of your own home and you can have, you're going to have a ballot at your home in just a couple of weeks.

Speaker 87 All right. So y'all going to the projects with me, right, to get them folks registered to votes?

Speaker 104 Yes, Queen.

Speaker 87 Okay, that's what I'm talking about. Now, here's the other thing.

Speaker 67 So.

Speaker 87 The message is going out from the other side, right? I didn't seen the commercials. I was at my granny's house this past weekend.

Speaker 87 Actually, my granny in your district, Aguilar, my granny out there in your district, I was at her house.

Speaker 87 I don't got cable at home.

Speaker 87 My granny and them got cable. So they seeing the messages, right? And some Republicans are out here claiming that Prop 50 actually hurts democracy and strips the power from voters.

Speaker 87 Tell us why they lying, Karma Rado.

Speaker 70 Well, I hate to say it, but right now they're lying just because they're Republicans and they're scared to tell the truth under Donald Trump. It just is what it is.

Speaker 70 And so we have to bring courage back up in here into this fight. And Democrats have the courage because, like I said, we weren't trying to do this, but we have to do this.
We have to do it for Texas.

Speaker 70 We have to do it for Missouri. We have to do it for Indiana.
We have to do it for Florida. We have to do it for Ohio.
We have to do it for California. You know, they have more money.

Speaker 70 We're doing this telethon, like world aid. This is world aid for democracy because we need to raise this money to get the information out.

Speaker 70 A single issue ballot in November November when you're already tired from 2024, that is a heavy lift, okay? We've still got the 92% out there.

Speaker 70 Folks are like all these maniacs up in Congress, it's a circus. I'm going to check out, but we have to check back in.

Speaker 70 Like we said, this is temporary. We're trying to go back to having an independent commission.
Hell, we want one for the entire country because ain't nobody got time for none of this.

Speaker 70 But we have to step up and show up come this november to let folks know that we are not going to stand by and let folks that we don't know to let folks who we know don't even love this country okay walk all over our rights the constitution and our ability to make and earn a living for ourselves and for our family members so We have to tell them this is temporary.

Speaker 70 We have to tell them that this abides by the Voting Rights Act. We have to tell them that representation is still important.
We have to tell them that this is fair.

Speaker 70 We have to remind them that these maps are going to be on the ballot, yo. So if you want receipts, the receipts are going to be on the ballot.
We are not trying to hide. We are trying to save.

Speaker 70 And we need everyone to check in. It is like when you watch a game and your folks are playing and they're on the field.

Speaker 70 And, you know, it gets kind of quiet because your folks are way, way behind and you want to check out, but your team cannot have you check out. You got to still be raw ryan.

Speaker 70 You got to buy those concessions. You got to be rooting for your team because they are still on the field.
And Democrats are still on the field. And we all have a role to play in this fight.

Speaker 70 And right now, the role that we have to play is to stay engaged and to talk to our friends and our family members and let them know what's at stake. And then make sure that everybody's asses show up.

Speaker 70 either to vote at the polls or get that ballot, fill it out, and send it in. We need everyone to participate because everyone's rights are at risk.
Everyone's coins are at risk.

Speaker 70 Everyone's future is at risk. I'm trying to be as hype as Latifa Simon, yo, because I think that's so calc and rock like the bay.

Speaker 70 But all of these issues are at stake and will be on the ballot come November.

Speaker 67 Did I do it? Did I do it? Did I do it? I don't know how to put my value. Don't be on my donation.

Speaker 87 We're getting in these streets. We're going to get these people registered.

Speaker 67 Okay.

Speaker 87 Y'all better donate, y'all.

Speaker 87 I didn't put this Vaseline on my face.

Speaker 67 Look, I'm gonna put my hair off, yo. I'm gonna take off my earrings, period,

Speaker 67 period.

Speaker 67 Now, here's the thing: what's happening? What's happening?

Speaker 72 I don't know what's going on here, but I love it all.

Speaker 67 I just look, we from California, okay?

Speaker 87 We from the land, right? And look, and I'm from Compton originally, and now my granny lives in your district on Hub City and IE. We in here, we finna get it in.

Speaker 99 AB, tell Granny I'm gonna pick up her ballot.

Speaker 87 Let's see, okay, i'm gonna tell her she's gonna be so happy i'm gonna call granny right in door to door door-to-door service okay you better come pick it up or my granny gonna come looking for you at the line you bought holiday

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Speaker 60 We have our last guest here, our last two guests here. I'm very, very excited to introduce Lee McGowan.
You might know her as Politics Girl.

Speaker 60 Could not be more excited if, look, I think that we have to call out the people who are doing this for all the right reasons. And Lee exemplifies that better than anybody else.

Speaker 60 This is somebody who truly, truly, truly believes in her mission. I'm sure you've seen her videos from the kitchen.
We have a slightly elevated background right now.

Speaker 60 Lee could not be more grateful for your voice. And of course, Lee is joined by our fearless leader here in California, Governor Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 60 I just want to say, and I know I've repeated this a couple of times throughout this call, but for folks who are just watching right now, we have been begging for Democrats to actually fight back, back, to match their words with action.

Speaker 60 And that's what we got right here. So Gavin Newsom has gotten us halfway here.

Speaker 60 And now the onus is on the rest of us to meet him halfway, to donate to this effort so that we can make sure that everybody in the state knows what the stakes are. So I will stop talking.

Speaker 60 I'll leave it up to you guys now and looking forward to the conversation.

Speaker 71 Aw, thanks so much, Brian. You are the absolute best.
And you are in it for all the right reasons too, my friend. And listen, governor, thank you for doing this today.

Speaker 71 Thank you for bringing the money.

Speaker 56 you and I need a dog or something. I mean, how we, you know, I didn't think we could top a 14-year-old dog.
And then, of course, AB and Sydney, poor Pete, Jesus, that was next level.

Speaker 71 I know you and I both need our Vaseline. You know, that's what we really need.
I'll take out my earrings. You'll get your Vaseline because I'm here for the fight.

Speaker 71 Look, listen, you're here for the fight. Thank you for doing this, right?

Speaker 71 I have to tell you, after watching this live today, what's this feeling I'm feeling? Is it hope? Are you feeling a little hope from watching all this today?

Speaker 56 Yeah, I mean, come on. How can you not be? I mean, I appreciate Brian just saying every single state.
We didn't know that would happen tonight. We didn't know anyone would show up.

Speaker 56 Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have tuned in. Some have been around.

Speaker 56 This is our third hour, which is extraordinary.

Speaker 56 And the fact that things were just tuned up just reinforces your point about optimism and energy. It makes people feel like they're being seen and they're being heard.

Speaker 56 It makes people feel like there's momentum and there's an opportunity here to do something as opposed to talk about doing something, to actually demonstrably have an impact, to be for something, not just against something.

Speaker 56 And so this has been next level. I just want to thank everybody, Lee, you for being here at the end of this.
And by the way, on a personal note, thank you for getting me through the pandemic, Lee.

Speaker 56 I think everybody's shaking their head. You literally got us through the pandemic.

Speaker 56 And you gave voice to so many of us that were so fearful, so isolated at that time.

Speaker 56 And so I think in the spirit that is your spirit, the spirit that defines all of the remarkable hosts we had tonight, just gratitude, thanks, and yeah, optimism and hope.

Speaker 71 Yeah, wouldn't that be nice? I think we've seen the Democrats get attacked across the country for the past week and just treated like with one big brush that we're all the worst people in the world.

Speaker 71 And I keep thinking, how is this the case?

Speaker 71 Like we are the party that wants you to have health care and better schooling and, you know, to take care of your children and to get guns out of our children's faces in their classrooms.

Speaker 71 And I've watched Democrats be attacked this week, and I just, this is such a wonderful evening because California is doing what they're doing now as a direct response to a Republican action.

Speaker 71 And as a California voter myself, I'm going to be voting yes on 50 on November 4th. And I'm going to be contributing to yeson50live.com after we finish this.

Speaker 71 But I really hope that everybody who is listening tonight and is taking this in is as fired up as I am and feels like we see you, that you are not this horrible person.

Speaker 71 You are not the party of murder and death and destruction that you've been told that you are, that you are here for the right reasons, that we can make a difference and we can put people that want to use government for the force of good back in office again.

Speaker 56 Yeah, no, I mean, look, you heard from so many people here tonight. I mean, these guys want to put America in reverse.

Speaker 56 They want to, you know, roll back hard-earned, hard-fought progress and rights. And it's a pre-1960s world that they're preaching.
I mean, Sydney made an even more extreme point.

Speaker 56 But that's a fact on civil rights, LGBTQ rights, on women's rights, on voting rights.

Speaker 56 And they're not screwing around. To your point in this last week, the rhetoric.
I mean, just the rhetoric from the President of the United States.

Speaker 56 He didn't get any memo about coming together and working, bridge the divide and building a bridge and organizing, you know, just sort of the better angels. Quite the contrary.

Speaker 56 Did you hear Stephen Miller on Friday night? Did we hear him over the weekend? Is anyone paying attention to what is going on at the Department of Justice?

Speaker 56 To what the cross-examination today we talked about over the last three hours of Cash Patel. These guys are not screwing around.
And we have been, and I thought Betto said it right.

Speaker 56 We were so consumed we have been as Democrats of being right and not focused on being in power.

Speaker 56 And at the end of the day, all the progress we've made, all the progress the last century and voting rights, civil rights, all those issues were because we were in power.

Speaker 56 We had not just leader Jeffries, we had Speaker Jeffries, Speaker Pelosi, and the progress we were made is because we organized and we turned out in remarkable numbers.

Speaker 56 And we turned out, as you said, for social justice, racial justice, economic justice.

Speaker 56 We turned out because we believe we're all better off and we're all better off. We turned out because we don't tolerate one another.

Speaker 56 We want to celebrate one another and unite around the things that bind us together and the spirit of the best of the founding fathers. So that's what that's what Prop 50 is about.

Speaker 56 And if I may, I just think, you know, I don't want to talk around it.

Speaker 56 You heard a little bit, but just to highlight what everybody means tonight, the fact that you came together, we've raised over three quarters of a million dollars from 50 states.

Speaker 56 I want folks to know every week, one person

Speaker 56 has donated $10 million to defeat us.

Speaker 56 One person.

Speaker 56 Someone who doesn't believe in reproductive freedom, someone who believes in convert, I mean, the extremes of the Republican Party, one billionaire every week, $10 million, $10 million to $30 million in counting.

Speaker 56 You had Mike Johnson write his first check. And who, by the way, who are the biggest donors behind that check? Guys like Elon Musk.

Speaker 56 Know what we're up against and know that you're the antidote to those folks and we can defeat them.

Speaker 71 Yeah, and that's why we need these resources so we can counter the right-wing money machine who are really hoping to defeat this proposition so they can keep Donald Trump and his billionaire agenda going because they're getting everything they want right now.

Speaker 71 And it's so important that we counter their messaging.

Speaker 71 I was talking to one of my neighbors on the dog walk the other day because I do have a big dog I could put right here on my lap, but he could take up the whole screen.

Speaker 71 And he said to me, why am I getting all these emails about no on 50? And I said, because they have so much money, an absurd amount of money to keep

Speaker 71 defeating democracy. These people have spent 40 years trying to dismantle it.
I do not think they thought the Democrats were going to fight back here.

Speaker 71 And it's why we're so grateful to you for stepping up. And now they have to spend a ton of money to make a counter punch look like a first punch.
And they're the ones that brought this fight.

Speaker 71 And we're just finally standing up to the cheating.

Speaker 56 No, I love that. And

Speaker 56 it was said by a number of people, this was not the fight we chose.

Speaker 56 But I think what you just said was even more powerful. I don't think Trump for a second expected us to fight back back like we're fighting back.
And that's why failure is not an option.

Speaker 56 It is not an option. I mean, I can't even conceive of the impact if we run short.
We can't run the 90-yard dash on this. I mean, 2026, if we limp into 2026,

Speaker 56 we're in real trouble. So we can build the kind of momentum.
2026 begins this November.

Speaker 56 And it's November 6th, but as Pete and others just said, it's really October 6th because those ballots land in people's mailbox in just a few weeks. Early voting is October 6th.

Speaker 56 It ends on November 6th.

Speaker 56 And that's the opportunity for folks to remind everybody the power of early voting, the power of emulation, meaning emulate kind of the things you heard here tonight and the kind of energy and the caring and daring that so many people shared tonight.

Speaker 56 And to make sure that we don't dream of regretting. We got to put everything out on the line because this is about holding the line and it's about holding up this democracy.

Speaker 71 Yeah, I know you wish it wasn't like this.

Speaker 71 I wish it wasn't like this, but I keep saying like there's no point in complaining, like these aren't the rules when the other team keeps roundhouse kicking us to the face, right?

Speaker 71 It doesn't matter that this isn't how politics is supposed to be played. If it is being allowed, then the rules have changed.
And we either kick back or we keep getting beat.

Speaker 71 And I think I speak for many of us when I say we are sick and tired of losing.

Speaker 56 You got it.

Speaker 56 And again, we're using, I said it before, not just our formal authority by organizing this construct and putting it on the ballot, but our moral authority by doing something that's never been done.

Speaker 56 If you still have some hesitancy, you still have some doubt, well, you know, I don't like, you know, just emulating the bad behavior. I don't want them to implicate me in the way they do things.

Speaker 56 This is democratic. This is transparent.
The maps are on the ballot. That's never happened in this country.
We have never submitted to the people the ability to draw their own maps.

Speaker 56 So we're giving the people that power. This was not done in Mar-a-Lago.

Speaker 56 This was not done behind closed doors, as was the case in Texas, as is going to be the case shortly in Indiana, and what just happened in Missouri, and what is likely to happen in Florida, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Speaker 56 This is done in the most transparent way, and again, in a temporary response, a temporary response to what Donald Trump and what the Texas delegation delegation did and Greg Abbott

Speaker 56 in just a few weeks ago. So I can't press upon people more

Speaker 56 that

Speaker 56 this is it. This is it.
And we've got to hold the line. We've got to hold each other's hands.
We've got to walk across this line at peak. And we've got to, as you say, fight fire with fire.

Speaker 56 And we've got to be muscular in terms of our approach and response.

Speaker 71 That's right. Absolutely.
I want to thank you so much for doing this today, Governor. It's what we all really, really need.

Speaker 71 And for people who are feeling a little bit like two wrongs don't make a right, and I'm not sure if I should go for this, understand that this is going in the most democratic way possible.

Speaker 71 This is a temporary thing. And the goal at the end of this would be to have no gerrymandering at all.
It's why the Democrats voted for the For the People's Act in 2019.

Speaker 71 It's why they voted for the Redistricting Reform Act again in 2021.

Speaker 71 And why the Republicans voted against it both times, because it is the Republicans who benefit from locking in power so it's no longer accountable to the voters.

Speaker 71 And this is not what we want, which is why we are starting by doing this, by being accountable to the voters. So thank you so much, Governor.

Speaker 71 I hope people will go to yes on 50 live right now and get us past that mark. But thank you, everyone.
And I really hope you're feeling the same hope I'm feeling today.

Speaker 56 Love it, Lee. Well said.

Speaker 60 Thanks so much, Lee.

Speaker 60 And bring it home.

Speaker 56 Bring it home.

Speaker 60 And Governor Newsome, I got to say, and I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.

Speaker 60 There are a million reasons to have not done this, that it's too hard, that it's too close to the election, that there's too many people standing in the way, that it would just be easier if we just practice good governance and unilaterally disarm like Democrats always do.

Speaker 60 The reality is that thanks to your leadership, thanks to the leadership of the California Democrats, we got this thing done,

Speaker 60 which is half the battle right now. And so I'll repeat my plea to those who are watching right now.

Speaker 60 The reality is we got to get this thing in front of as many Californians as humanly possible. And the way that we do that is by looking to those grassroots donations.

Speaker 60 We don't have these billionaires, mega billionaires who are donating 10 million bucks a pop like they have on the Republican side because they know that if they can neutralize what happens in California, then they're good to go.

Speaker 60 There's no other big weapons to deploy like we have in California. And so our antidote to that is going to be getting as many people in the grassroots donating as humanly possible.

Speaker 60 We're just a few thousand bucks away from $750,000, a quarter, three quarters of a million dollars.

Speaker 60 And that money is going to help get this thing in front of so many Californians who don't know what the stakes are of this upcoming election on November 4th.

Speaker 60 It's going to make sure that we can get in front of people's TV screens, on their computer screens, on their phone screens, in their mailboxes.

Speaker 60 And we can't do that without this massive amount of support. So for everybody who's donated, thank you so much for being part of this effort.
Thank you for being part of this movement.

Speaker 60 And also thank you for being part of helping give something of a permission structure for other Democrats across the country to recognize that if they take aggressive action, if they take a forward-leaning posture when it comes to fighting for our democracy,

Speaker 60 that they're going to have the people behind them. This is not just a California thing.

Speaker 60 Not only does it have major implications for the House as we head toward 2026, but this is also a message to other Democratic governors, other Democratic state legislatures, that the answer is not to cower.

Speaker 60 It is not to capitulate. It is to put on your big boy pants and fight.
And that's what we're seeing right now. And the way that

Speaker 60 we make sure to give that permission structure to other Democrats to do that is by making sure that we succeed here. This is the test case.

Speaker 60 If it succeeds here, then it shows every other governor, every other state legislature, every other lawmaker, senator across the country that the answer in this moment is not to bow down, it's not to capitulate to Trump and Republicans, it's not to appeal to our better angels and practice good governance and unilaterally disarm.

Speaker 60 It is to lean forward and fight. And that's what we're seeing right now.

Speaker 60 And of course, the ability to win this fight relies on everybody chipping in whatever we can to make this thing a reality.

Speaker 60 So, Governor, on behalf of everybody watching, cannot thank you enough for leading in the way that we've been begging so many people to lead, which is to

Speaker 60 back up your words with some action here.

Speaker 56 I love it. And I'm asking you for one last action because we're going to hit 750,000, but it's going to require one thing, Brian.
That's not any more of your time, but one more,

Speaker 56 one more opportunity to see that beautiful dog of yours.

Speaker 60 All right. You know what?

Speaker 60 If it's not, this is it.

Speaker 56 This is how we get over three quarters of a million dollars.

Speaker 56 This is it, Brian. Here we go.
No pressure.

Speaker 73 Here we go. Look at this.

Speaker 56 Here we go.

Speaker 60 I'm not asking you to do it for me. I'm asking you to do it for this little guy.

Speaker 60 Don't do it for me. Don't do it.
Don't even do it for democracy.

Speaker 60 Just do it for this child right here. who doesn't know why, doesn't know why I'm subjecting himself to these live streams over and over and over again.

Speaker 56 He's already passed out. Unbelievable.

Speaker 56 Look at that. Hey, Brian, you're a rock star.
The fact you hosted this three hours, unbelievable to all of our influencers, all of our creators, to all the remarkable elected

Speaker 56 officials across the country. For those of you tuned in, even for two minutes for the last two hours, thank you.
Those of you who made a contribution, we're grateful beyond words.

Speaker 56 Get the word out there. Let folks know.
Yes, on Prop 50.

Speaker 60 Thanks so much, Governor. And for those who are looking to donate, yeson50live.com.

Speaker 56 Thanks, everybody.

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