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00:00This is the first election that we're having after the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative
00:08action, which also put DEI on its deathbed, that we're trying to resurrect.
00:16It is the first time we've had an election since voting rights was taken out by the Supreme
00:24Court in terms of the guts of it.
00:26And it's the first time women's right to choose is taken out.
00:30I raise that to say that we have seen much of the gains around civil rights, voting rights,
00:38and women's rights wiped out in the last 18 months because we did not vote in the numbers
00:46we should have, could have, and in some ways, as Damon said, were blocked or in many ways
00:54obstructed by local, state, and county election boards.
01:00They knocked us out, and then many of us did not vote at the numbers we could.
01:05And we ended up with a president that was able to nominate three Supreme Court justices,
01:13confirm them through a Republican Senate, and was able then to surgically and strategically
01:21remove a lot of the rights that were gained.
01:24So when we talk about voter protection and fighting voter suppression, we're also talking
01:29about preserving what gains we already had.
01:33A lot of people are saying, what am I going to get out of voting?
01:38First we need to restore what we've lost, and then go forward on what we can gain.