we need crime control. we don t need lectures about the liberties of law abiding citizens we need solutions to protect our kids i don t play that sound lightly. i play it because i want you t understand what is that they are selling their audience selling their potential voters here s the thing, americans do need solutions, they just don buy these same republica policies touted for decade that we know, we know do not work a poll last year in tennesse found that seven out of te people, they want to expan background checks. that is in tennessee as you know, the gop has lon held a fantasy of arming teachers with guns only a third of tennesse voters see that idea as a good idea, which brings us to the tennessee state legislature an the republican serving in. they were consolidating powe to silence the very dissen that our democracy demands
and they want to put us back i history. we re not going back, and we are seeing a cultural an political uprising here s a thing, tory, i car about what happened to peopl in tennessee, i care about wha happens to people in texas, care about people in florida but i didn t affect that you have a potential front runne for the republican in th primaries for president, as ro desantis, he is telecastin what it is that he wants to do we don t against you were a column this month about iran desantis s hi power. he writes that desantis condom suffolk king in florida nationally, his brand is far less known researchers from several polls showed that latinos care deepl about protecting democracy democrats have a rea opportunity to brand desanti nationally, as an ultra maga authoritarian looking to tak away people s freedom, which strikes me because it is the complete opposite of what he i trying to south florida as a bastion of freedom absolutely, ron desantis in so many ways it s so much more
our america, you don t have to wait some of our time. there is a time where time itself is ready for a change the time has come for tennesse and for america. it s the people that we must continue to step into power, hold the forces of white supremacy and patriarchy accountable and that has put a new salt, and in so doing, build a new nation, becaus they say the south will rise again. i want to say that the south will rise a new. i was so struck by that line part of the reason that i want to talk to you, andrea, becaus you are doing this organizin in the south what is that change going to require? what is all the work that yo are doing, the research that you are doing tell you about what that will look like you know, demographics are condition and opportunity, not a strategy in and of itself. with the gop is doing by using old, still playbooks - the idea of using race as tool to divide us was were i in 1968 southern shouted she playbook
with the democratic party in tennessee we saw a remarkably rapi mobilization over the weekend, part of because of wha congresswoman jasmine crockett has said, i don t know wha republicans in that state hous were thinking this was going t end up as, but they ended up creating democratic folk her is after the two - democrats. justin jones was back on - tell me about this coalition that comes into play that we don t even know exists people who, on thursday an friday, did not know that they were warriors for democracy, who suddenly went into douma action they say democracy dies i darkness well, it thrives in th sunlight when people see what they do - when people see thes authoritarian attacks across the country they will rally to your side. and there have been hundreds o thousands of dollars floatin into both justices campaig accounts, to the tennessee democratic party s account people are ready to make phone calls, to go to the bat to support them not only are they coming bac
what the to justin s did i tennessee what are the lessons for bot democracy, for legislators, an for voters to look at thes things and say, we are in doom loop? we can t get out of here i think we as the texas democrats, we ran the alarms and we basically said, listen. democracy is under attack. most people were not payin attention to what the suprem was doing as it relates to the voting rights act. most people had not connecte the dots around gerrymandering most people don t quit understand what gerrymandering looks like but when you talk abou wisconsin wisconsin really is a very goo example. how is it that you have th u.s. senate race that it s almost 50/50 - how is it that you have democrat that winds for th supreme court and winds by ove ten points but for some reason when you look at how the state is broken up, it does not look anywhere near like 50/50 whe it comes to representation but one of the things that the justin s have brought out is that representation matters,