so ann petri is writing.she writes a little for the amsterdam news, she sells ad space, but when adam clayton powell finds "the people's voice," he come comes on board there with a number of very interesting journalists. and it's the way she gets to know harlem. she's a reporter, and she has a reporter's eye, and she literally writes all of harlem. she writes from the high to the low about everything. it informs her fiction. it's a, you know, i mean i think now we think of certain spaces as being intellectual, and they're very narrow. we think of the academy or the classroom. all of these spaces had such incredible intellectual and political energy. so for her, for ann petri it would be "the people's voice." for pearl primus it would be the new dance group where she was taking these dance lessons and learning from martha graham and any number of people. and for pearl and for mary lou williams, it's place like cafÉ society, the nightclub where at any given night langston hughes and eleanor roosevelt might be i

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petri dish for this infection of conservatism. karl rove practiced on texas, started by taking out ann richards out of the governor's office and wentcting they did there, focused on democratic women. they got rid of five women in the legislature. and they have put in the most conservative, the most reactionary and the most anti women state house, you know, possibly in history. and women -- and their male allies are slowly going to take that back. i don't know that we can do it in 2014. it's possible. but we can't do it ever if we don't start trying. and the idea that texas is going to someday eventually go purple and then blue, it will, but it will happen faster if national democrats get involved and help texas people do it themselves. >> all right. joan walsh, sarah slaman. great to have you on "the ed show." we'll have you back. you're a fresh voice, no question about it. and with a lot of enthusiasm and common sense. and i appreciate the fact that you went oafter the senate talking about the filibuster. that's really what it's going to take. if we're going to have change in this country, the senate is going to have to change the