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>> breaking news out of georgia, democrat raphael warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the senate runoff election. >> this is the new georgia. this is a state changing like the country is changing. >> this is a new georgia project. you have black genius in grassroots genius on display, and black joy. >> we vote! >> we win! >> welcome to the new georgia, welcome to the blue georgia. >> republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. >> 48 states have introduced bills to reduce voting. >> the senate seats flipped from red to blue. republicans in georgia want to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> any time a political party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so whoever does not vote for them, they could prevent them from voting,

that in itself is political corruption. >> we are fighting for our lives. we are fighting for our votes. we are fighting for our democracy. >> something's got to give. something's got to change. the old south is being replaced by the new south. this is a national fight. this isn't just a georgia issue. georgia is the beginning. it is only the beginning. as goes georgia goes the rest of the south. ♪ >> after facing deep divisions in the wake of the 2020 election, republicans appear to be uniting around the issue of election integrity. >> a lawyer for former president trump who fought to overturn the 2020 election is heading up an effort dubbed the, quote, election integrity network. >> the language of needing election integrity, that is an

old playbook. >> last year, we had a rigged election. the proof is all over the place. they always talk about the big lie. they are the big lie. >> it is the playbook that becomes the rationale to then make the massive this and tries meant -- disenfranchisement to seem like a legitimate response , and attack on american democracy. >> there's an accusation of voter suppression or voter fraud, we should take it seriously. in this case, it was actually disingenuous. it was the big lie that somehow, joe biden had won due to widespread fraud. >> i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff. i told the president it was [ bleep ]. >> the whole underpinning was a lie. >> there has never been any evidence of widespread voter fraud in the united states.

the idea of voter integrity, that particular phrase, emerges almost immediately after the civil war. it was used by people who were opposed to african-american voting rights. >> in our history in this country, we always have progress followed by reaction. and i think that the big lie is part of that reaction. so, voter suppression is, in a sense, a natural american outgrowth of voter progress. >> republicans around the country say they are outraged, as they make it harder for people to vote in ways that will almost certainly disproportionately affect black voters. >> after the november election last year, i knew like so many of you that significant reforms of our state elections were needed. >> sp 202 is the republicans in george's response to that monumental election in 2020 in the senatorial runoff in 2021 that slip georgia blue.

minorities, african-americans, asian americans, hispanics, were central to flipping georgia. voter turnout rate were phenomenal. and what was driving this is the reality of the existential threat that the trump regime played in the lives of minorities. the anti-immigrant bias. >> when mexico sends its people, they are not sending their best. they are bringing drugs. they are bringing crime. they are -- >> the hatred, the xenophobia -- >> donald trump is calling for a shutdown of immigrants entering the united states. >> the anti-blackness of the machine -- >> cleaning the 15,000 haitian immigrants who received visas all have aids.'s >> -- it was so palpable, so real, that people knew that

another four years meant the death of american democracy. and they were like, not on my watch. >> when you have this white nationalist class that the rest of us won't bow to what they want us to bow to, they are willing to go to that extreme, that is just -- >> never before in my experience here in the united states have i ever felt this democracy under attack the way it has been. i don't care whether you are black, brown, green, white, yellow, each of us have a unique role to play in this. i think it is important right now to make a stand, and make sure that we preserve and protect this democracy. >> what we are seeing here in georgia is there are massive demographic changes happening here in this state.

you are seeing the percentage of whites in the electorate shrinking. that has caused a wave of voter suppression laws. how do we keep these folks from voting? how do we understand what mechanisms they used in order to access the ballot box, and how do we create barriers to stop that? in the 2020 primary here in georgia, in cobb county, the lines were stretching somewhere for 10 to 12 hours. they interviewed a brother who was standing in line. and he's like, yeah, i have been here for 12 hours. i'm not leaving. that kind of determination is frightening to those who want to cast black folks as undeserving. we understand what it is. it is the same jim crow mess that we had that led to a voter turnout in the single digits in the 1942 election. we have been here before. we are saying never again.

>> shut it down! >> this campaign is grounded in a belief that we are people powered. i am stacey abrams, and i am running for governor. >> you can't really underestimate the importance of stacy's run in 2018. obviously, excited people, the thought of not just having the first black governor, but the first black woman governor -- >> people were like, do you think she's going to win? i was like, hell yeah! >> she decided to run as a potential governor. we thought, here is our chance. >> it feels as if the final debate about this election has been about how to count the votes and who gets to vote. how

concerned are you this is going to be a fair vote? >> we have seen unprecedented turnout in this race from people who normally do not engage and do not vote. some of that has been driven by the conversations of voter suppression. one of the best ways to encourage people to use something is tell them someone is trying to take it away. i'm excited to be in a dead heat. we will turnout voters who never voted before. >> i got a big truck in case i need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself. yup, i just said that. >> when governor kent was secretary of state, i thought that he should have resigned from his position to run for governor. it didn't look good. it was not ethical. >> more than 53,000 voter registration applications are sitting in a desk drawer at brian kemp's office, on hold. >> many people from central

america, probably they were thinking, oh my god, what country i am? you know? am i in united states, mexico, or -- >> as overseer of elections, there is no attempt on your part or your campaigns part to suppress the minority vote that would likely than if it a minority candidate who you are in a statistical dead heat according to recent polls. >> anyone who meets the requirements that is on the pending list, all they have to do is do the same thing you and i at home have to do. go to your polling location, show your government i.d., and you can vote. >> voter suppression is not only about blocking the vote. it's about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worry their votes won't count. this man had someone arrested for helping her blind father cast a ballot. >> major news on two different disputed election battles. moments ago, stacey abrams ended her campaign and said, she cannot win. but still wouldn't call it a concession speech. >> brian kemp was so efficient at voter suppression that he literally won the governorship by about as many put -- voters

that he purged. 50,000 or so came off the rolls, and he won by 50,000 or so. that is grade a voter suppression. >> your opponent says you are trying to suppress them by holding up registration applications. what do you say to that? >> that is a smokescreen trying to hide her radical views. the folks that are on the pending list, all they have to do is go to the polls, show their voter i.d., and they can vote. >> to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in the state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling. >> this propelled stacy to a place that helps all of us, because it brought the attention of what was happening in the south and what was happening in georgia. it made it clear that voter suppression is alive and well in georgia. >> what happened in 2018, there was a mindset shift. what happened in 2018, people saw, even in seeing their power

stolen, they saw the power. that's the kind of frustration that georgia and black voters felt in 2018. that's the energy that showed up in 2020. >> it was really, really hard for a lot of us. -- myself included. but then, i release my pearls. i got off the -- i powdered my nose, right? you know, i adjusted my petticoat. i pulled out my parasol. -- and got back to it. and that is why, in the middle of a global pandemic, we put this on our backs. we knocked on 2 million doors. we made 7 million phone calls, set up 10 million text messages. >> grassroots organizers have played an enormous role in getting georgia to a rate of 95% of all age eligible georgians represented to vote. 95%. >> what kind of letter did you

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stormer -- former vice president joe biden has been elected president of the united states. >> the people have spoken. they delivered us a clear victory. >> we were not surprised by the election. we were not surprised by the results. we are not surprised georgia is at the center of the universe flipping the whole country. because a number of us have done the work and built a base that made it possible. >> let's go! >> we have been blessed to experience a range of

coalitions in different states. arguably, none more effective than the one we were able to be part of here in georgia. i think, the entire country was able to see that during the georgia runoffs. >> a victory by both democrats. >> now you have a city that was thought of as a red state, a reliable, republican red state, having substantial democratic representation. >> georgia did an amazing thing. >> we have added the first african-american person and first jewish person from georgia. >> changes coming to georgia. >> people begin to think, oh, we have arrived. and they go, oh, it is done. no, it isn't done. >> right we knew there was going to be backlash, right? >> the governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. why is he doing it in private? why is he trying to keep elected officials representing us out of the process? >> troopers arrested a member of the legislator after she kept knocking on the door outside the room where brian kemp talked about citing the sweeping new election law. >> he is literally under a giant portrait of a plantation as if he is sending a message, right? and then, outside of that closed room is part cannon, who

is a georgia state representative who is demanding to come in and saying, the people and i as a representative of my constituents, i want to witness this. you can't do this behind closed doors without the people in this room. rather than let her in, they have her arrested. >> i am being arrested for what? for trying to see something that our governor is doing? >> she is dragged off, marched off like a common criminal out of what should be the people's house. that is the state of play among republicans in this country. >> sb 202 ensures georgia elections are secure, accessible and fair. >> it will be one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws in the whole country. >> this legislation is based on a lie told by the former liar in chief. >> georgia senate bill 202 past. the republican-controlled legislature in the state exactly 80 days after warnock and all software elected to the u.s. senate.

so, georgia gives democrats control of the u.s. senate. the georgia legislature takes steps that are likely going to make it difficult for similar victories in the future. >> what sb 202 does is a twin pincer motion against american democracy. and so, one part of the twin pincer motion is to look at how african-americans access the ballot box, and to create obstacles, hurdles, or just shut it down. the second piece of sb 202 goes after how the votes are counted and what votes are counted. it looks at lowering the guardrails that were already in place that stopped donald trump from being able to find 11,780 votes. >> but the most nefarious component of sb 202 are the voter challenges. you could have a random person off the street go challenge 33,000 voters at the board of

elections. in the onus is on those voters to prove they are who they are. that's insane to me. ♪ >> sb 202 impacted me, personally. i was on a board of elections in 2010, morgan county, georgia. previously, my board was made up of two representatives from the republican party, two representatives from the democratic party, and one person that was a representative of the county commission. but the reconstitution of our board allowed the county commission to solely select all five members of that board. so, guess how that board is going to be structured. >> the vice chair of the dekalb county election board, a republican signed onto a letter protesting a voter restriction bill. his party receded to censure

him and chose not to renominate him for his post after 12 years of serving on the elections board. >> never did i think, you know, in my 50 odd years of being on this earth, actually, i would be speaking out about democracy in this country. >> i was censured by the executive committee and the dekalb county voting members of the republican party at the republican collection. i viewed it as a badge of honor. it means i did something right. it means i did not sell myself to the devil. i was trying to be a loyal american. and i wanted to make sure i made the statement that i was going to put country above party. in my perspective, the republican party is actually the republican party in name only now. there is a malignancy that's taking place right now. we thought it was going to end with this past administration, but it hasn't. it continues to this day. >> we just finished the state

election board monitoring the meeting today. i wanted to update you on what was the outcome of that, especially with regards to how it impacts our help, our assistance that we give voters. i feel very overwhelmed. they are trying to take over fulton county. >> we are fighting against the misconceptions of fulton county. we are still trying to get people to know that their vote matters. we are still, you know, just fighting on the ground, trying to get you to register, just to get out the vote, you know? i have been overwhelmed. because again, my dad and my mom already fought this fight. so, why am i having to do this all over again because some people got their feelings hurt? start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. when you smell the amazing scent of gain flings...

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we are watching. we think we have evidence of a lot of it. >> when you hear newt gingrich talk about, they stole the election in atlanta. they stole the election in philadelphia. notice he didn't say they stole the election in salt lake city. so, what he was really identifying was, in these urban areas that are teaming with black folk, that good, honest, hard-working white americans had their democracy stolen from them by these black people. the big lie that is based on decades and decades of the lie of massive, rampant voter fraud. >> this is why we saw massive violence against black folks after the civil war when they got the right to vote with the reconstruction act. it was changing the demographics of who could be able to vote. it is what we heard in the mississippi plan of 1890 that justified the rise of jim crow, and the massive

disenfranchisement of black voters. in 1890 you had over 100,000 black men registered to vote. two years after the mississippi plan, only 8600. you had these poor black voters who were pairing up with poor white voters to have a vision of what government should do. and it wasn't being responsive to the very rich. it was being responsive to the working poor. and you saw the power structure in mississippi going, oh, no. we can't have that. this is where you get judge kristen tuell who was one of those who rewrote the mississippi state constitution. judge christmas said, look, we have not had a free and fair election since 1875 in mississippi. why we haven't had a real election is we have been stuffing the ballot box. we have used violence. we have used all kinds of chicanery in order to embed white people's power in mississippi.

and it has been so corrupting that our system is getting ready to collapse. we have got to remove black people from having access to the ballot box because it is their presence that has caused this corruption. it is their presence that is making whites fearful of what would happen if black people really voted. so, if we can remove black people, then we can have a free and fair election of whites only. so, the method was, you see the corruption. then you identify the corruption as being black people. but it is white people's fear of black people that is the corrupting catalyst for this massive disfranchisement of black voters. >> so, that was flipping history on its head, making black people those you should fear, rather than white people

who are committing terrorism against black people. you started seeing violence become this sort of premier, first choice of stopping them. if you could intimidate and terrify black people out of voting, then you don't have to worry about you being outvoted at the ballot box. doing that, they actually undid reconstruction completely in mississippi. so by 1890, a terrified black population, most of whom would no longer take advantage of their right to vote, the black men who could vote were sometimes too afraid to vote because of lynching, murder, mayhem and terrorism. so, white mississippians were able to pass a constitution which was the first pass at jim crow. >> they cobbled together these policies that had been used after the civil war, poll tax, literacy test, good character clause as ways to keep black people from voting without saying, we don't want black folks to vote. the mississippi plan was

sanctioned by the u.s. supreme court in the williams decision in 1898. that was like the, go ahead -- for the states to have the mississippi plan spread throughout the south. the mississippi plan was the onset of the rise of jim crow in the united states. coming out of reconstruction, you had somewhere between 60 to 90% of black men registered to vote. by 1940, only 3% of age eligible african-americans were registered to vote in the south. disfranchisement was full and total. you had counties in mississippi where there were zero african- americans registered to vote. so, that's why the 15th amendment could not go after the subtle and frankly, maniacal ways that these regimes rose up to stop black people from voting.

>> the governments that were created during reconstruction were violently overthrown by white southerners who could not accept the idea of living in a pluralistic society where black people had power. >> and so, it took this massive, cataclysmic eruption on the edmund pettis bridge in selma in march, 1965, so stunned the nation. and you saw the voting rights act of 1965 come into being. that was landmark legislation. >> i urge every american to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people. >> it is considered one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed. but 5-4, the u.s. supreme court took the teeth out of a law enacted 50 years ago. >> this was a 2013 case before

the supreme court. shelby county, alabama, said they should no longer be subjected to preclearance which is essentially a process under the voting rights act that gave the federal government the power to approve any sort of changes to voting in that area before those changes were made. there were 13 states. there were some counties and a few other states. what the supreme court essentially said was that to subject these states to preclearance is to discriminate against these states. >> so, shelby v holder, that decision essentially neuters section 5 of the voting rights act. 12 hours later, within a day, texas passes its restrictive voting rights. then stayed after republican- led state follows suit.

>> that's why since 2013 what we have seen all across the country has been, you know, the expansion of all these policies, closing polling places, voter i.d., photo i.d., cutting back on hours, all these attacks we have seen were literally made possible because of that shelby decision. >> we won't stop spreading the word about the impact that georgia has on the nation. >> so, this is where you see the new georgia project. this is where you see fair fight for action. this is where you see the people's agenda. this is where you see asian americans advancing justice. we see that with a black voters matter fund. >> voting rights! now! >> these folks are on the ground in their communities, in 159 counties in georgia, registering folks to vote because democracy is that important. they are not registering democrats. they are registering georgians. they know that a vibrant democracy requires all of us. u to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day.

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we have seen our businesses burn. this is a whole new generation. that ain't gonna happen. ♪ >> what you are seeing then is this clash between two different visions of american democracy. there is the trump he and vision. that is where you have this vast labor pool that is generating resources. those resources flow up to a small strata of whites. the other vision is a truly multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic, multireligious democracy. that is the battle that is

going on right now in the united states. >> efforts to stop republican- controlled states from restricting access to the ballot are now gaining momentum. >> when we saw that the sb 202 passed, when 48 states were dealing with voter suppression laws, we know this is a national fight. this isn't just a georgia issue. we know we have to come out strong. ♪ >> we knew that we were entering a phase where we have got to increase our actions. we have got to reconnect with the spirit of the civil rights movement and voting rights movement. so, in honor and tribute to the freedom rides, we said, let's do a reverse freedom ride. call it a freedom ride for voting rights. instead of going from d.c. to the south, let's go from the south to take it to d.c. ♪ >> today's ride was dedicated to the three workers in mississippi. they were murdered because they were registering people to vote. we will never forget them. you know? we will continue to make sure the work they started, it is completed. that is securing free and fair access to the ballot.

we are going to hold this administration accountable. we are demanding we have voting rights past. >> there is a thing called civil disobedience. we have to get back to that sometime. sometimes, the only way you can get someone's attention is to be civilly disobedient. ♪ >> we walked over to the senate building. we were able to get into the senate building. we went and stood in the middle of the atrium. in the center of the building, we lifted our voices. we let our voices be heard. >> we have got to be willing to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience. we have to be willing to get arrested. and to do so in a way they can't stop each wave, like the children, there will be another wave coming behind it. >> it shouldn't be this dog on

hard just to get some dog on voting rights. it shouldn't be this hard to get something the 15th amendment said we were supposed to have in 1870. we shouldn't have to take it to the streets and be arrested and do civil disobedience. dog on it, if that's what it's going to take, we are going to answer the call. >> gets your hands off our votes. >> i was taught to be a strategist, political scientist, i was taught how to organize and register people to vote. so, it is my job to teach as well. >> put the arms up. we stopped, lock arms. >> it is the same discontent that our people felt in the 60s. this is not a new movement. this is a continuation of the movement. >> we are georgia! we are georgia! >> we have got to send a message that we will not be governable until they give us the voting rights that we demand. they do not have the power! we've got the power! the only question is, are we willing to use it? and so, there may come a day when the answer to that question is, i'm not willing to

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- it looks like we're headed for another runoff this year as neither democratic senator raphael warnock and republican challenger, herschel walker, have hit the 50% threshold to win outright. - the reality is that georgia's had a runoff that has always been racist. this version of the runoffs goes back to 1964, where there was an avowed segregationist candidate

who was mad because he lost an election to a black candidate. and so they literally created this situation so that if you had black folks getting a plurality, that wouldn't be enough that we'd have to go into a runoff which would then allow the white candidates or the white voters to be able to galvanize their support. - and so when raphael warnock gets elected to the united states senate, he then has to win a runoff election. so he has to win a second election, which cost the state a lot of money. and it seems really inefficient. he has to do it again. then he wins again. then when he runs for re-election, he gets in yet another runoff. and because he gets just under 50% against herschel walker and then has to do yet another runoff. - it was designed to ensure that black voters would not be able to elect on a statewide basis the candidate that resonated most with them. denmark groover, he in fact, in a deposition said, "was i segregationist and a racist? yeah. "did this policy that i put forth have racist intent?

yeah." so part of what we have to really look at with the runoff for the u.s. senate between herschel walker and senator raphael warnock is that walker was tapped by donald trump. - i am concerned about the candidates that the republicans have put forth. in fact, when you look at the kari lakes of arizona, the herschel walkers of georgia, and then the doug mastrianos of pennsylvania, then those are the people we should be most afraid of. - incumbent senator raphael warnock has defeated trump-picked republican challenger, herschel walker, in georgia's runoff election. - there are many republicans across the country who have begun to see the light of day and realize that neither party is right all the time, right? and that somehow, we have to come together to pick candidates, to choose and elect candidates who actually are qualified intellectually, character-wise,

to represent us. ♪ ♪♪ - part of what we're seeing then is you have more and more people flee the republican party. you see it grasping for how can it stay in power. - so gerrymandering is at the core of republicans' strategy to hold on to power. - gerrymandering is the practice of drawing very, very specific, sometimes oddly-shaped districts to try to create a specific election outcome. you're trying to put the voters that you want into one district. shortly after the 2010 census, texas goes about creating new districts, redrawing its legislative map, just like every state has to. and because texas had had some population growth, it was one of a few states that got some new congressional seats. and almost all of that population growth, 90% of it came from black and latino families.

and they drew districts to account for none of that population growth. almost the entire south at this point are states where all three branches of government are controlled by one party. in this case, it happens to be the republican party. - when you have hyper-gerrymandered state legislatures that are not responsive to voters because they have drawn the legislative boundaries in such a way that they're basically immune to voters, that case has so much to do with whether we're going to be a viable democracy or not. - if democracy is really a form of governance that we want to be in place, right, and if that's to be so, then people are going to have to make that be so. and i think that if we're looking at all of these systems, from the electoral system to the economic system to all of those different systems, if they are to change, it won't because they changed on dc. it will be because we literally created the change, and the change has to start from the ground.

- now research and data shows us that most americans didn't vote republican or democrat. most americans don't vote at all. there are a lot of people who are falling away from both parties. the independents are growing and growing and growing. and you can almost create a profile of them now. a majority of americans, yes, they have to choose one or the other. but a lot of them are saying neither one of them truly represent what we want. independents are the largest unbranded political party that we have in our country. - we have been forced into a construct. you either have to be a or b. that's it. that's not choice, ok? that's not real option. why do we have a two-party system? now some people may not like me saying this, but it's the truth. it's not to make it easier for you or me. it's to make it easier for the corporations to purchase both sides of the political coin.

there are industrialized nations that have over 80 political parties. you know how complex that is for a corporation? - why is there are only two parties? why couldn't we have a labor party? why can't we have a workers party, right? why can't we have parties that represent different interests, that when you have these multiple parties, you can have coalition parties? it would actually work better for all of us because it would force people to come together and work collectively on an agenda that would serve more folks, right, instead of just having these two opposite ends. like we're going to have to think very, very differently. - when i talk to republicans who i know who are disenchanted with their party, what they say essentially is that one of our two parties is dying and is probably going to fail, and that is the republicans. as they're currently constructed, they can't continue. because you can do voter suppression, but you can't always win that way. hello, georgia. and so i think what might happen is that party might collapse, and something more like a normal political party will have to emerge. - i think one of the biggest shifts that we're going to see

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welcome the people... ♪ back to the people's house. [people cheering] so i come here to stand with my constituents, with the people of tennessee, to say that no unjust attack on democracy will happen unchallenged. - the baby boomers are no longer the largest electoral bloc. imagine, you've got a whole generation of new voters coming to this process that think about gender differently. they think about race differently. they think about economic security differently, right?

that means that the political landscape that we currently have, it is shifting. and the politics of yesterday will not be the politics of tomorrow. we're seeing a crop of young progressive candidates like stacey that are seeking office in the south, not where it's easy, right, but where it is hard, where it is challenging. we're in this transition where the old south is being replaced by the new south, and there is some friction. i think that is natural in any transition that you see whether it's political, economic, or otherwise. and i think that we're in that moment. that gives me an incredible amount of hope. - georgia, almost more than any other state, has shown republicans the future, that it's not just black voters. it's asian american voters. it's latino voters. it's young, white voters. and starting in 2018 and then again in 2020 and again in 2022, white voters have snuck into a majority democratic voting constituency. so republicans are losing young collegiate white voters too,

and they see the writing on the wall. - here in georgia, we take a lot of pride in the fact that we showed, you know, our fellow brethren across the former, you know, confederate states, that you can catch a w out here statewide. [chuckles] and that it is possible you know, not to sit around you know, licking your wounds after every election and that, you know, if you just believe and, you know, keep your nose to the grindstone, because people are paying attention to georgia now, but i want to be clear. before 2020, they left us for dead too. and they told us that, you know, it wasn't possible. so you know, what my message to, you know, the rest of the folks in the south is that, listen, help is coming. - i think the next election, the 2024 election, hold on to your butts. i think it's going to be filled with insane rhetoric, insane lies. i think we should be wary, and i think we're in for a very wild year. - people are really ready for 2024.

they're going to look at the candidates intensely and make an informed decision. but they're not going to let jim crow or anything else stand in the way. - long gone are the days that people are suppressed. we're coming, and we're coming, and we're coming organized. we're organizing, we're mobilizing, and we're coming for you. so either people can be on our side and with the momentum of the community, or they're going to get left out. and our job is to make sure that our people win. - we are radically reimagining an america that is going to be the america that we desire and we deserve. i think of myself as a founder of a new america. i think of myself as someone who is setting the tone of what the next 50 years, the next 100 years, the next 200 years are going to be. and those 200 years are going to literally look very differently than what the 200 years previously looked. i can guarantee you that. [dramatic music]

-(clock ticking) -(birds chirping) j. robert oppenheimer: i have been asked whether, in the years to come, it will be possible to kill 40 million american people by the use of atomic bombs in a single night. i am afraid that the answer to that question is yes.