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Through The Years, this is 
Rumble with Michael Moore. 

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Welcome everyone. 
Episode 6 of our Series this 

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week called Old blue dots in a 
Red Sea. 

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This episode, we are calling our
civic duty. 

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We must attend, it's been great 
hearing from all of you. 

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How you're already acting on the
things, I'm suggesting that 

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people do in Red towns and red 
counties, instead of just 

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sitting there and feeling sorry 
for the fact that we're 

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surrounded by so many, right? 
Winger so much hate. 

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There are now numerous examples 
across the country where 

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liberals lefties. 
Democrats progressives have been

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elected in the midterm elections
and elsewhere across the country

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and this can happen where you 
live and if you live in a what 

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we call a blue area, there are 
parts of your state that are red

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and republican-dominated, you 
have family and friends who live

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in Texas and Florida and North 
Carolina on And on and on and 

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you can tell them about what 
we're talking about, you can 

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send them this blue dots in a 
Red Sea series. 

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Now, we're already up to episode
6. 

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If you missed the previous 
episodes, there's a link to 

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these episodes on this page. 
Go back and listen to them. 

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Just like we built the blue 
tsunami for the midterms that 

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stopped the Red Wave. 
People are already now at work. 

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In red areas across the country 
to get ready for the next 

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election and to do it now. 
Not wait. 

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So in this episode here, let me 
explain what I mean by our civic

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duty and how we must show up. 
We must attend Every month in 

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every County in America in every
town or city in America, there 

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are meetings of elected 
officials and sadly. 

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In a lot of red areas. 
There are only Republicans on 

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the Town, Council on the County 
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And most people don't go to the 
public meetings, they don't pay 

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attention to them in a lot of 
areas, especially rural areas. 

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They no longer have a A media 
oppress that covers what's going

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on at these meetings. 
And because they then operate 

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mostly in the dark, they get 
away with murder. 

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They do stuff against the public
interest. 

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And these Republicans who 
control these County 

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commission's, these town 
council's, they do the bidding 

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of the people who have the 
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We have the power in town, You 
know what I'm talking about? 

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If you live in one of these 
areas, I've lived in areas like 

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this. 
So I want to propose something, 

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very simple and that's for you 
and your newfound friends who 

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vote for Democrats who are 
themselves of a liberal mind. 

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I want each of you to sign up to
attend a governmental meeting. 

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Who here doesn't have the time 
to go to one public meeting of 

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the elected representatives to 
see what they're doing and to 

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report back to the larger group.
This is what's going on. 

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This is what I witnessed. 
We all have the time to do this 

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because we're not asking a lot 
again, if you've got 50 or 100 

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people who have already signed 
up to be part of this new 

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movement in your town, in your 
county. 

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You just need 12 people, that 
would cover a whole year of 

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school board meetings. 
They'll go once a year and it's 

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better if there's two of you Two
Democrats to liberals to 

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Progressive, whatever you want 
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There's two of you. 
At next month's school board 

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meeting sign up right now I'll 
take February. 

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No, I'll take March okay, you'll
do may just create the list, 

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amongst the people who are going
to show up in a tent and there's

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two of you, you sit there in the
audience and you take notes. 

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So that after the meeting you 
could write up a report as to 

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here's what the school board did
at this meeting and you send it 

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to each of the people who joined
your group, the blue people in 

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your red area and now they know 
and I would make yourself known,

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I would wear a button that 
wherever you live. 

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If you live in red snake County 
just wear a button that says, 

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red snake Dems. 
And they're going to be like, 

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what there's Democrats in the 
room. 

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Are you kidding? 
Oh yeah, I know. 

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We're citizens. 
We vote. 

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We want to see what's going on, 
and we want to report back to 

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people seriously, it will blow 
their mind. 

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They're not used to our site 
showing up in red states. 

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Red counties. 
If you show up, and you're 

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sitting there, You're writing 
stuff down and then your 

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reporting back to the larger 
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That's one of the first steps 
that needs to be taken another 

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thing you can do. 
While you're there, let's say 

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it's the County Commission 
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meeting Town, Council, Village 
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you're there in the audience, 
there's always a public comment 

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section at these meetings. 
And all of a sudden, you find 

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yourself in a meeting where the 
school board is talking about 

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banning books. 
Because there are characters in 

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these books that have lgbtq 
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So, you know, there's a huge 
effort afoot here to ban these 

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books in public schools across 
the country, or you're at a 

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County Commission meeting where 
they've decided to ignore the 

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recommendations on how to deal 
with the climate catastrophe 

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that were in the middle of And 
then one of you, the two of you 

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who are, they're attending the 
meeting you decide you're going 

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to stand up at the public 
comment section and say 

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something about this to defend 
these books, they want to ban to

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force them to acknowledge that 
the local environment, the 

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little piece of the planet that 
this red Town occupies is 

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committing actions that are 
making things worse. 

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You can report that back to the 
larger group, you can also stand

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up and say something that 
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five minute time limit. 
But if you find yourself there 

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and all of a sudden, there's a 
group of people that have been 

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lining up at the podium to talk 
about how they don't want their 

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children, being taught in school
about America's racist past 

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about how we enslaved human 
beings. here's your chance to 

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let them hear for the first time
probably ever somebody stand up 

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and say, no, you know, I think 
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that and give the reasons why 
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accomplishing anything, isn't it
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You have to show up? 
It seems like the simplest of 

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ideas and yet so often we don't 
or we leave it up to somebody 

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else or we think somebody else 
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No, this has to be done by you. 
so in your new blue group in red

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snake County, you know, you get 
out of calendar and you pass it 

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around and you ask people to 
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meeting this year or sign up for
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County Commission meeting. 
You don't need a lot of people. 

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Like I said, if you've got 50 to
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enough people. 
If everybody just chose one or 

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two meetings, a year to attend, 
you've got the time, we all had 

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the time to show up, jeez. 
If we can't do that, what's the 

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point? 
We all need to put ourselves on 

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the map and again if you live in
a blu-ray, you should do this to

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it shouldn't just be in a red 
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We should all be attending and 
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attention to what our elected 
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This is our moment. 
And this is going to feel really

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good doing this and doing it 
with others, doing with 

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strangers. 
You are voice at these meetings,

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you are going to pull the 
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So they do not operate in the 
dark, any longer you're going to

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shine a light and you're going 
to let the rest of us know in 

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our group? 
What happened last night? 

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At that school board meeting at 
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I know, like I said, it's so 
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important. 
And you will put the local blue 

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group on the map. 
And they will know that there 

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will be somebody there at every 
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There may be two people. 
There, there may be more, you 

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may decide to bring friends and 
family on your night that you're

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covering it. 
Bring five people. 

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Make sure everybody's wearing a 
button or something to identify 

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themselves. 
I know you're thinking Mike I 

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really don't want to go into the
Hornet's Nest here of these 

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right-wingers and identify 
myself. 

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Don't worry about it. 
Seriously, the first of all 

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they're so cocksure of 
themselves that they're going to

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keep running things and that 
there are no Democrats. 

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There are no liberals in our red
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They're not going to actually be
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Your presence, your presence 
must be felt and seen. 

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You are the bulwark that stands 
between tyranny and a free 

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people. 
Because if democracy is allowed 

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to operate in the dark behind 
closed doors, no press covering 

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it. 
Oh, that's there Nirvana. 

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You prevent that from happening,
simply by being there. 

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That's all I wanted to say 
today. 

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These are short podcasts. 
There's not a lot to think about

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here. 
Make this part of your mission 

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in your blue group. 
I can't believe all the mail 

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that you've been sending me in 
these last few days during the 

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week between Christmas and New 
Year's and you're already 

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planning your first meeting in 
January. 

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Somebody sent me a posters that 
they're putting up around 

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Portland for the the group that 
they've formed here this week, 

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the Portland Democrats and 
Independence, broadening that 

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tent bringing in more people and
not just waiting for the party 

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hacks to do this, but you the 
people you do it. 

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Thank you for participating in 
this. 

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Thank you for doing what you're 
already doing. 

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To preserve our democracy. 
On this New Year's Eve. 

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We end 2022. 
What a year of the suspend. 

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Oh my God, but we made it. 
We got through it. 

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The Red Wave didn't come 
crashing down and destroy 

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everything. 
Yeah, they got a little piece of

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the cake. 
But as I told you there will be 

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many of them that won't make it 
through the two years whether 

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because of Scandal weather 
because one of their own elected

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representatives are discovered 
as being a fraud and a fake. 

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The Republicans are having a 
very hard time trying to create 

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any control there in the middle 
of chaos and we want to help 

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them but that chaos Thank you 
for listening to this. 

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Today, I'll be back tomorrow on 
New Year's Day with a special 

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edition of this blue dots in a 
Red Sea mini podcast series for 

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you. 
I'm going to go over some 

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suggestions for your local 
groups for you and your friends,

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New Year's resolutions for our 
democracy, actual things that 

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you can do. 
That'll be tomorrow on New 

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Year's Day. 
Thank you again enjoy this 

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evening. 
Say goodbye to this year and 

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let's look forward to all the 
good that we're going to do in 

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2023. 
It's an exciting thought. 

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They had no idea what was coming
at them on November 8 this year 

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and they really, really have no 
idea what you and I and 

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thousands of others are cooking 
up here for the new year of 

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2023. 
Be well, everyone take care and 

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happy New Year.