or cousins. i don't want you to lose any of this stuff. just trust folks. don't trust them too much where you're not fact checking them, but trust folks and make sure you're listening around you. don't listen to one side or hear the conservative commentator say something, and you are like democratic, liberal nonsense. listen to your people around you. >> knowa de baraso, thank you for being here. that's going to do it for me. i'm charles coleman jr. thank you to ali for letting me sit well, if we've learned anything over the past few weeks since the election, it's that we are in for one heck of

a ride. donald trump hasn't even been sworn in yet. that day is going to come before we know it. that will come with a lot of big questions. i mean, is trump actually going to implement tariffs that could raise costs for the american people? maybe. will he really carry out his cruel promises of military mass deportations? maybe. will he pardon january 6 rioters on day one? will he put liz in jail? are his concepts of a plan as he describes it on healthcare ever going to materialize into an actual plan? what about elon musk? will that guy still be lurking around mar-a-lago and the west wing, being trump's best buddy? it will be a lot. we'll be talking about it all right here on the show next year. at the same time, there's also a lot that will be happening next year within the party not

in power. we're going to talk about all that, too. a governor's race in new jersey. mayoral race in new york. state supreme court cases in pennsylvania and wisconsin. before we know it, midterm elections. the first big race for democrats in 2025 is the election for the next chair of the democratic national committee. that's coming up in february of next year. now this may not be -- always be the most visible role in politics. it's a very important one. especially in this moment. because this is the person tasked with funding and rebuilding state parties, executing the ground game. and articulating the vision of the democratic party. in other words, they are the person who will start to chart the course forward from here. over the past few weeks, i have spoken with several of the candidates right here on the show. i want you to take a listen to what some of them had to say.

starting with ben wickler. >> i'm running for chair of the democratic national committee to unite the party, to fight everywhere and every state up and down the ballot and nationally and win elections. we're in a moment of crisis for the country. the republican narrative -- communicate a language that doesn't just feels good to say. our values are america value. we need to demonstrate that through the way we communicate, where we communicate, who communicates, and through our actions. >> and here's the head of minnesota's democratic farmer labor party, ken martin. >> i'm running for the dnc chair, because there's too many in washington who want to win the argument. i want to win elections again. republicans have beaten us to the punch here, right? for the last four years, they spread misinformation and lies on platforms from gaming services, to podcasts, to nontraditional information site. we need to go to where the voters are. we need to go where people are at and where they are getting

their information. we have to be much more sophisticated in how we do that. we can't just send political folks or talking heads. we have to use trusted messengers, microinfluencers and validaters to get our message across. >> change is good. new blood is good. that's exactly why i'm running. i'm not an operative. i'm not a state party chair, although i have great respect for them. we tried many of these approaches over and over again, and here we are. so yes, i'm the outsider candidate who wants to throw away the stale tactics, the old play book. one of our major problems is that we stopped becoming a national party within the big democratic tent. we lost traditionally in communities like mine, because we've stopped showing up. >> there is a through line here, i mean, they don't think the status quo is working. lots of ideas about what to do

differently. above all else, they want to start winning again. and seeing and recognizing all of this as an important step. then comes the hard questions. what can they do about it? what does change feel like? how do democrats turn out? how do they reach the voters who chose to stay home? how do they win? for that, i want to bring in one of the few candidates for chair, i have not yet spoken with, former maryland governor, martin o'mall ey. it's great to see you. i just played a couple of other people running for dnc chair. i am sure you agree on a lot of things. what makes you different as a candidate than those other candidates? >> what makes me different, one of the threw lines is, this is what i heard, and i've been talking to a lot of dnc members on the phone. the through line is, look, this is not a caretaker election, not a change maker, continuity. i mean, not a caretaker election, not a continuity election.

it's a change-maker election. we need to make some changes if we're going to win. so, i am the only candidate in this race that is actually led a national committee. democratic governors for three years in a row. i'm the only one that has been a chief elected executive officer of a state, as governor, also as mayor of the city. and reelected after a recession, with a message that focused entirely on people's economic, kitchen table concerns. and then finally, i am probably one of the best operational turn around leaders in our party today and i have proven that at every level, including most recently, when the president asked me to turn social security around, so it would not collapse in the customer service meltdown. >> i want to talk about ai tools. it's an interesting thing that you're talking about, first, change maker. and there are changes that need to be made. a lot of people want to know, like what?

what would you change?? >> two things really. one of the biggest wastes in our party is not the hundreds of millions we spent on ads that didn't work, but it is failing to tap into the great new leaders we have out there. many of them already serving as mayors. as governors, state treasurers, lieutenant governors, we almost treat them like they are not allowed to be at the big person table at thanksgiving. we need to bring them into the center of what most people are telling me as a war-time leader dnc chair. secondly, what i've heard as an operational turn around leader, what i learned early on is that we want to figure out what needs to be changed. talk to the people on the front lines that are engaged in the fight. we need to create a center for digital communications excellence within the dnc. our candidates should not have to rely on their brother-in-

law's best guess. we should be able to provide the best marketing analytic, the best technology, the best techniques, so our candidates can communicate that economic message, which is another big, important first change and that is, we have to return to the strength that deserves party strength since 1930s, which is we are about the economic security of every man, woman, and child in the nation. and when we do those things, we request accomplish many other progressive goals, but first, we have to reconnect with people's concerns. >> you touched on this a little bit. this was a very interesting thing. you want to talk about providing campaigns with world class ai tools for communications and financial management. sometimes when people hear ai tools, they panic or it sounds like a bad thing. are you talking about targeting? is there more that you're talking about? tell me about that. >> i'm talking about the ability to test messaging. what i'm talking about is the ability to understand the phrases that work before a

candidate spents half of their budget on a brochure or other advertising that is not as well crafted as it could be. and these things can now be done very inexpensively. most of our candidates across the country don't have an awareness of these sort of technologies that we could offer as an enterprise service, if you will, since our party is now the common platform for all pro democracy forces in the united states. >> let me ask you about something that david said. something you and i both know. he said quote, we have to stop playing a different game as it relates to super packs and republicans. they coordinate more than we do. i'm just sick and tired of it. he was talking about legal advisers saying to the dnc and others, you can't coordinate while republicans are doing that. what do you make of that? >> there is a lot of merit to that observation. that's what i heard as well, talking to people, both lawyers and people within the dnc. we need to make greater use of the flexibilities, not to do

things illegally. we need to be making greater use of the flexibilities in the law, especially for moving money around, spending dollars appropriately on things so that jeffreys and his congressional candidates don't have to spend that money on, if we can do it as a party. we need to make better use of all of the flexibilities that are in the law, because lord knows we're getting pounded because of some of them. we need to make sure that we are playing by this new and ever developing set of rules. without compromising our principles. we're not above the law. we believe in a republic, where no one is above the law. we have greater flexibilities than we are currently using. >> from when you ran for the dnc chair the last time in 2016. so, we're going to play that and we'll talk about it. >> i say to hell with trump's american nightmare. we believe in the american

dream. >> to be clear, that was from the dnc in 2016, just for clarity. >> that was my talk for hilary clinton. it was the best talk i gave. >> there you go. we brought it back to the surface. so, moving forward, i mean, how do you think democrats should talk about -- should balance talking about trump and this economic agenda and this economic message that i agree with you, needs to be more intertwined, but trump is also the president and this is now the opposition party given democrats loss in november. how do you balance that? >> this is like deja vu all over again. after a surrogate for hilary clinton, i continued to annoy my friends for asking them for money so i could continue to travel through the next two years, lifting up candidates, my leadership pack was called, win back your state. i gave a lot of talks at state party dinners. we flipped 17 legislative

chambers with new candidates emerging. what i learned over the course of that, was this. in my early talks, 90% of it was about all of the horrible parade of horribles coming out of the trump administration, and only 10% of it was about the future. by the end, 90% of my talks to the party faithful was about preferring the future and this time of enormous opportunity and only 10% of it was how donald trump wasn't going to lead us there. so donald trump has a twisted talent for tapping in to the fears that especially hard working americans who are barely getting by have about tomorrow. about tomorrow's economy. about tomorrow's diminishing opportunities for their kids. that talent is fear. our talent as a party, is we have nothing to fear, but fear itself. we need to speak to how our actions and the things we're doing to combat donald trump is making people's lives better at

their own family's kitchen table, or protecting them from his desire to make things worse. so that is the fight we're in. i think there's two pillars of opposition. one is, every time he makes a decision that hurts the economic well being of hard working people, we are combating that and connecting dots back to the kitchen table. secondly though, are the things that he does to undermine the principles of a republic. for these next two years, we're going to be living through something that is less than a republic. >> governor martin o'malley, thank you so much for joining me. coming up, 2024 was a tough year for the women of america. for a lot of people, not just women, but definitely women. so how do we turn the page heading into the new year? our friend, molly and cofounder, sami sage are standing by to brainstorm. they join me after a quick break.

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okay, i'm going to level with you right now. i think you all know this. 2024 was a tough year for women. this is the year we started to see the impacts of the dobbs decision in visceral, heartbreaking ways. stories like amber thurman. a young georgia mother who died from delayed abortion care. thurman was rushed to the hospital after complications from a medication abortion, doctors waited 19 hours before performing surgery. she died on the operating table, leaving behind her six- year-old son. and there are more stories like amber's. in texas, one woman died after her abortion care was delayed for over 40 hours during a miscarriage. another died after visiting the emergency room three separate times in attempts to get care. and those were just some of the stories we heard in 2024. and then of course came the presidential election. when another woman took on donald trump and once again another woman came up short. so yes, it was a hard year for

the women of america. my question is, where do the women of america go from here? joining me now is molly, and sami sage, it's great to see you. wouldn't be wanting to chat with this about anyone else. let me also mention, sami is the author of the new book, democracy in retrograde. let me start with you, i'm a believer, loss is not the fault of voters. i say that all the time. failure to inspire them to come vote for your candidate. there are lots of factors here. there's a period of time where i thought, you and i talked about this.. i know you thought about this. why didn't they? >> yeah, that was -- you and i, including on elthe idea was tha

women, noncollege educated women might vote for trump. they might vote for harris, i'm sorry. vote for harris, might not vote for trump. the idea here was that they would vote on dobbs, they would vote on democracy. they would vote on even liz cheney. they would say democracy matters more to us than partisan politics. but what happened instead was not that. i think, look, you know, there were a number of things going on and there's no simple answer for what happened in 2024. but certainly some of dobbs, we saw it. remember, it was repealed a year before. so, abortion had been illegal in texas and we've seen results of that more. increase in infant mortality. some of the real results of the overturning of roe v. wade are not quite as, i think we'll see a lot more.

i hate to say this, we're going to see a lot more widespread, and i think that will affect the calculus. >> yes, there's going to be more amber thurmans, unfortunately, i think that's what you're saying. the devastating impacts will continue. sami, one of the things a lot of people have been reflecting on and working in politics or talking about politics is just this failure to connect. and your podcast is great and so fun and entertaining and interesting and part, one of the reasons i think is that you have this ability to cross over between pop culture, you dip into policy issues, people care about. it's a very accessible and fun, interesting, sometimes serious conversation. i think one of the things i've been reflecting on, democrats seem to not know how to show they can have fun, while also being able to talk about serious issues. it's like, if we talk about fun things or interesting things or life things, then we're not as serious, and i'm just

wondering, you do this well. what advice you might have for people. >> well, i think it depends who you're speaking to. in general, i think what democrats fail to connect with specifically is the extent to which culture influences politics and what people's expectations are from the political space. much more than the reverse. it used to, i would say, maybe be the other way. but what we're looking now is a situation where people's language, their feelings, their emotions, the way they receive information, the way they connect with politicians, all comes from culture and predominantly social media at this point. so, i think to your point about, you know, having fun. a lot of people will say, the democrats chase people away with cancel culture, because it felt like you couldn't have honest conversations. or you had to kind of watch what you're going to say or say things in a certain way. and i think that sort of

unforgiving tone was really unhelpful. both for people who would identify with progressive policies, and for the politicians who are trying to convey them. and then there was something that we had said this on the show once. i think it really speaks to what you're looking at is the issue here. is that say what you want about them, but marjorie taylor green and lauren are of their constituencies. they are small business owners in their communities and they connect with the people who they represent. and i think when you look at the average democratic politician, especially those that have the most influence in the party, that is not who is making the decisions. and i think that we really need to re-examine the extent to which our -- sorry, the extent to which democrats are actually representing their constituencies. >> people connected to the people they are representing and speaking about the things

they care about. sometimes, that can be talking about the local football game and abortion rights. you can do both. let me be self-reflective going through a lot of people's minds as we're looking to 2025. it felt like a gut punch to many that donald trump defeated a woman twice. how have you reflected on that and motivated yourself to stay engaged in the conversation and the fight next year. >> yeah, it definitely did and i think it says, it may say more about the voting population than it does necessarily about donald trump, right? i mean, it may not have been as much -- i mean, it's impossible to know. let's just rephrase that. i do think when i look at these numbers, she definitely didn't do as well with certain groups and those groups may be, i

don't know. a lot of us thought that trump being a felon would have been disqualifying or january 6th would have been disqualifying or any number of things that he did would be disqualifying and for a large chunk of the american voting public, they were not disqualifying. i also do think one of the things that he did that was really smart was that he went to these websites. he went to these podcasts. he met people where they were. so for example, we often talk about this idea of the liberal joe rogan, right? joe rogan was liberal. he endorsed bernie sanders. right? nobody went to joe rogan, so there was, you didn't get joe rogan's audience. like joe rogan is the gate keeper of his audience. if democrats want to win those voters, they must go to those spaces. that's it, right? >> it's a very important part of it. i think a tactical one, but important one. before i let you go, sami, the

subtitle of your book is so applicable. how to make changes big and small in our country and our lives. i want to ask you about the small part that you reference. people are making their new years resolutions, what can they do that is small? >> so, i think something that we're looking at right now is a problem is that we have a really broken civic fabric, so to speak. and obviously, people are super polarized, but people, i think just generally don't want to bridge to the other side. and one of the most effective ways of building a democracy are valuable, fragile remaining one is actually people speaking to each other. and connecting with their neighbors and right now, we are each so isolated and i think this is kind of part of the problem, with why democrats have trouble connecting with, you know, the average disengaged person. and i think what people really

need is to have conversations and commit to hearing and listening and putting human connection over, you know, culture issues. and i think that can be a really effective way of overcoming some of these issues. >> very good advice to end on. molly jong-fast and sami sage, thank you very much. the holidays are the time to give back. today, we're going to be highlighting one of my favorite organizations, the elizabeth dole foundation. i'll speak with belinda edwards, and share her story after this quick break. this is our story

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there is a lot of busy, a lot of to-do lists packed into this time of year. it's also an important time to reflect on people and organizations that are doing amazing things. and one organization that is close to my heart is the elizabeth dole foundation. started the foundation after her husband, senator bob dole was hospitalized for 11 months due to service related injuries. she saw the challenges military care givers faced in the lack of assistance for them.

the foundation's mission is to support the care givers often forten. today, i wanted to highlight the story of the remarkable care givers. belinda edwards is the sole care giver for her dad, an air force veteran, and mom, betty, who have been married for 57 years. that is a long time. robert is fighting cancer and has survived multiple strokes and both of her parents have mild dementia. as an only child, the responsibility of care giving falls solely on belinda, leaving to long days of cooking, and managing finances. all while balancing her own life and career. that is a lot for any one person to carry. on top of it all, belinda is a passionate advocate for other single care givers. she's the leader of an initiative and her workplace to help care givers connect to work sources so they have someone to turn to on difficult days. joining me now is belinda edwards. what a remarkable human you are. >> thank you. >> seriously. i want to start and ask you you

to talk about your parents. >> our parents are robert and betty edwards. this is year 58. >> amazing. >> they met when my father was stationed in bowling air force base. and after three months, i think, they got married. >> wow. they knew something, 58 years. >> they knew something, so i was born during one of his tours in the southern part of the united states, and then my parents and i, my mother and i moved to massachusetts when my father was stationed in alaska. and then once he returned home and i didn't know who he was, he decided that it was time to separate from the military, because he wanted me to know him. >> and here you are. >> and here i am. >> care giver for him and your mother as well. the need for support, this is one of the reasons i love the elizabeth dole foundation.

this is an issue that touches so many people, but it's not one a lot of people know about. more than 65 million people in this country provide care for a loved one. that's nearly 30% of americans, which is a remarkable statistic. i mean, that's a huge statistic. i would love for you to talk a little bit about, what the needs are, the struggles, the day-to-day challenges for care givers out there that people who are not doing that may not really understand. >> so, the struggle, but also the blessing is that your loved ones are here and need you. but the true struggle is support. it's also it could be transportation. it could be empathy. my struggle is also because people see me as being well and i'm also not well. so, it's a combination of just having support for me, again, i'm the sole care giver. so, i need help.

i need sleep. but i still have to push, because my parents need me and i'm just happy that they are still here. so, if anything, any message i can get across is that i hope if you know or someone knows a care giver, just give them a moment of your time so they can rest or run errands or just do something fun they haven't had the opportunity to do. >> that's a very good piece of advice for people out there. congress did recently pass the bipartisan elizabeth dole act, improving the lives of veterans and increased access to support services. is there anything about that legislation that strikes you as being something that could be particularly impactful? >> impactful to me is the push to have veterans stay at home and age in place. and that's what my parents want. that's especially what my father wants to do.

i'm trying to aid in my parents to do so. i'm very grateful for senator dole for her policies and the fact it is now law. so i'm very happy. >> that's great. i know people love to hear that congress is actually doing something that can impact people's lives and make them better. i imagine, and you talked about this a little bit. it's a blessing, but it can be challenge. people can also be care givers. maybe it's a veteran. maybe it's an elderly parent, an aging parent, maybe it's another loved one. you have kind of a brightness about you, which is i can tell you from sitting here on set with you. what was your message to people out there who are struggling, who are trying to get through what can be a difficult and emotional season, who are care givers, who are trying to get by, who recognize it's a blessing, but are also going through the struggles of it. >> my message is to take some

time to yourself. find a creative outlet. i color, which i didn't do before. find some music. there's a song called, care giver, and in that song, it says don't give up. please don't give up, because people need you. i also would like to talk to those who are grieving, because their loved ones are no longer here. and i want them to know that they are not alone and that we see you. we send hugs and prayers. that may be me one day, too. >> it's important. >> i always take that to heart, too. >> an important message. the last thing i want to ask you about, often people of care givers or people who are being given care as being a physical and there is a mental care giver, but there's also a mental load when you are going through a challenge of a sickness or an illness. i want to ask you about the mental health aspect of this

and what you pope people understand. and anything else that could be helpful to care givers. >> it's not just the mental and the physical and the financial. it's all of them. specifically to mental health, the elizabeth dole foundation offers mental health services and also financial support as well and services for training for those who are caring for military and veteran care givers. so i definitely take advantage of that. also, because, just because of the load of helping both parents, i also have a therapist and therapy is not -- you shouldn't be ashamed to say that you seek therapy. it's what you need at the time and take full advantage of it if you have the opportunity. >> it's a wonderful message. my mother is a therapist. everybody should be in therapy. there you go. it can help many people out there. belinda edwards, thank you for sharing your wonderful story. share a happy holidays from us

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i'm joined now by the author of that book, my friend, jared cohen. i don't know how you have all the time to do all the things you do. you have written two best selling books about u.s. presidents. you now have a children's book out there. why did you want to write this children's book? what are you hoping kids who read it take away from it? >> well, jen, for starters, i got my first children's book when i was eight years old about presidents. the idea of this book came from the idea of wanting to read to my kids. they started repeating things about politics they saw on tv or someone said on the bus. it occurred to me, we have to figure out how to talk to our kids about politics, long before they will learn about it in school. what i wanted to do was use the 45 characters in american history that have served as president, 46 times. and as we always tell our kids to use their words, i wanted to

take one sentence spoken or written by every single president. talk about what was happening in the country. what they meant by the words and how those words shaped the course of history. >> so as you just referenced, it literally goes president by president. not every president has the soaring rhetoric of jfk or barack obama. how did you choose quotes from the presidents not known for being as inspiring or memorable, in terms of how they spoke. >> for some of the presidents, it was a stretch. william henry harrison dies after 30 days in office. so finding a quote from him that is inspiring is challenging. but there's recurring themes throughout history. presidents spoke about civil rights and social progress. they spoke about innovation. they spoke about peace. they defended the country. they defended their policies. there's a lot of reflecting back on the principles of the founding fathers. so what i tried to do is

balance those themes and the book is really, it's a story about america. it's the full ark of american history, but it is told through these diverse spoken words from all the men that served as president. by the way, i also picked quotes that are reminiscent of less positive times. i use nixon's resignation speech, ford's long national nightmare is over to show acknowledgment of sin and forgiveness. i use andrew jackson's speech announcing the trail of tears, where the u.s. government got the authorization from congress to forcibly remove native americans from their land so america could expand. i thought it it was important to show that words have both a positive and a complicated and negative impact and the words that come out of the president are a major consequence, and no more true is that than today. >> you're a dad, i'm a mom. i'm sure you have been struck by this recent reporting about the decline of civic awareness

in this country. not just among young people, but adults. a survey found that less than half of u.s. adults could name the three branches of government. and that one in four could not name any. i literally did a bodily injury for my daughter's girl scout troop on exactly this. that aside, that's in part because americans have never agreed about what should be taught when it comes to our nation's history and government. that's part of it, i think, that's what the explanation is. do you see that as a big problem? do you think books like yours could help young people or is there any solutions you have to that challenge? >> i think it's a huge problem. i think we can't be afraid to talk to our kids about politics. we certainly in our schools can't be afraid to teach kids about politics. by the way, it's not like we have a choice. they are getting exposed on social media. they are getting exposed on television. they are hearing their parents talk about it. one of the things interesting about this book that i didn't

expect. i got great feedback from friends i gave it to when it first came out and they all said the same thing to me. one of the best parts about reading the book as an adult is it gave them a refreshing course on american history. even as adults, we can forget what leaving kansas was. we can be forgiven for the fact that we don't remember james garfield, and he had one of the most inspiring quotes in 1881 at his inauguration, when the elevation of the black race from enslaved people to the full rights of citizens is one of the most important moments in american history since the constitution. we can be forgiven for forgetting those things. for giving parents a book they want to read to their kids, they are educating their children and relearning american history at the same time. >> jared cohen, anybody, if they are doing last minute holiday shopping, birthday shopping, maybe they have a new years resolution that their kids should learn the presidents, they can buy this book, wherever books are sold. thank you so much for joining

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okay, so one thing i'm seeing anything you don't know here. 2024 was a crazy year for news. so much happened this year. i would definitely not blame you if you forgot things that happened along the way. i have know i have. we have you covered. roll the tape. >> let's get right to this week's big story. >> the francis scott key bridge partially collapsed. >> the release of evan. >> massive global tech issue bringing flights and businesses to a standstill. >> the death of alixei. >> donald trump shot by a gunman at a campaign rally. >> an apparent second assassination attempt. >> continuing war in gaza, and now in lebanon. >> students protesting the war in gaza at college campuses across the u.s. >> now cease-fire between israel and hezbollah is now in

effect. >> senator robert menendez guilty on all accounts. >> mayor eric adams of new york city has been indicted. >> the supreme court's ruling on presidential immunity. >> donald j. trump was found guilty. >> a disgrace. >> we turn to the 2024 presidential race. >> chris christie. >> florida governor, ron desantis. >> nikki haley suspending her presidential campaign. >> the first presidential debate of 2024. >> a disaster for president joe biden. >> 30 congressional democrats called for president biden to end his reelection campaign. >> president biden announced he will stand down from the race. >> joe biden says it has to be kamala harris. >> we are not going back. >> presidential debate between vice president kamala harris and donald trump. >> they are eating the dogs. the people that came in. they are eating the cats. >> these are weird people on the other side. >> in short, kamala is -- >> nbc news can now project the donald trump nor return to the

white house. >> the news decided we haven't had enough. >> the united states had the rare chance to watch a solar eclipse. >> team u.s.a. winning 126 medals. >> hurricane helene, the most destructive storm in north carolina's history. >> president biden is expected to pardon his son, hunter biden. >> jack smith filing a motion to dismiss both federal cases. >> that was a lot of information in a short period of time. that was fascinating. >> it has been a wild year, but that does it for me today. i hope you're having a happy holiday season with friends and loved ones and as we go today, i want to express my deep gratitude for everyone who makes what we do here possible. there are so many brilliant and passionate people working tirelessly behind the scenes to put this show on every single week. and i literally could not do it without each and every one of them. as we prepare to say good-bye to 2024, i'll leave you with their names and faces of some of the people i'm so grateful for and i'll see you in the new

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