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Sandoval county NM is purple, gerrymandered and democrats lose by 100 - 300 votes. Michael is right the demographics are changing and the old tea party have to wrestle with deregulation, failed no tax policies that gave the community poor roads and inadequate services.

Yet in 2018 we stopped fracking in the middle Rio grande Rio rancho area. We did this by talking about clean water and clean air and healthy communities. We have diehard maga supporters. Since then it became even more polarized.

Right now there is a court case making it’s way through the system challenging the gerrymandering on Native American and Hispanic communities.

Our citizens group is working on doing something about the air pollution. Currently EPA standards on AQI (air quality Index) allows 3xs more premature deaths from air pollution. We are in the 66th percentile for lung cancer from pm2.5. We can change the local area to the WHO AQI standards because we changed the jurisdiction to do so. We can make standards more stringent. This means we have to

have public health education campaign.

The WHO AQI allows for interim target emissions drawdown based on health tract data. It will require a plan to draw down emissions.

Air pollution is expected to rise 400% by 2030 according to studies.

Our work is cut out for us. It work worth doing for our children. Ultimately most people love their children.

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Thank you Mike!! It’s unfortunate the Democratic Party continues to chase the idea of being a moderate party and feeling like they need to do whatever is necessary to get the White suburban vote, especially the vote of White suburban women. I feel they are alienating lots of the very voters you spoke about in your podcast. As a Black women hello, I am one of your most loyal voters! Anyway, It’s unfortunate lots of our politicians don’t see this or choose to really engage and represent all people. I agree we need to organize and appreciate your giving us wonderful ideas! We will have to push through and mobilize for the greater good!

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Michael, Since my updated password would not auto fill, was unable to send you my 60 second voice message. So here it is:

Something I share with friends and strangers is, Quebec Spring. I'm sure you recall that event.

For those who may have forgotten, when the Province of Quebec raised college tuition rates,

the people in that region demonstrated every night after work for 2 years.

It was students, families with strollers, and seniors. They made it festive and fun, banging with pots and pans, playing musical instruments, and bringing their pets along .

After 2 years they were successful, and the tuition hikes were rolled back.

I use this example as a point of inspiration, because they were diligent and didn't give up.

With diligence we can use your beautiful master plan of, The Blue Dots In A Red Sea to restore

our democracy to our FDR roots.

This is possible, we just have to try.

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This episode is one of the most encouraging things I have heard in a long time. I was also touched to hear you mention Bernie.

We deserved a Sanders Presidency, and the DNC robbed us of that.

Can you imagine how different our world would be if it had been allowed to happen?

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Michael...THANK YOU !!! Keep reminding us.....YOU are awesome !!!

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Dec 28, 2022·edited Dec 28, 2022

Michael, this is my favorite Blue Dot Tsunami so far! Great and useful statistics on the percentage of the Black and Hispanic populations in Mississippi and Texas and the continued lack of recognition, attention and funding from the DNC. Also good reminders about the Bronx, NY, Detroit, MI and Ferguson, MO whose voters have taken the lead in TWICE electing AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush with little to no help from the Democratic Party. I've been sorely disappointed with the Party for years now, realizing how much they have in common with the GOP as regards the volume of corporatist elites, actually plutocrats, who fill their seats in Congress, all of whom are beholden to their corporate donors. I see how they are fearful of seizing the time and acknowledging/ acting on the obvious anger and disengagement of the working class and all the People of Color communities who they have ignored......this huge segment across the country who would come out to vote if the Democratic Party would send representatives to listen and respond to their respective needs and to fund the campaigns of young Progressive candidates who run to actually serve these communities. (By the way, whatever happened to Senate passage of HR 1, the For the People bill and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, HR 4 - both passed by the 117th House in Congress? Were they sabotaged by Manchin and Sinema?) The majority of the American population actually align with the entire agenda of Bernie Sanders, now adopted by the Democratic Party in a less aggressive, outspoken form. Bernie has been proposing these exact policies for longer than 30 years with no diversion from them! Yet the Party has yet to support him or give him credit for his prescience and acumen. Indeed, they have only tried to marginalize him. This does not inspire my confidence in the intentions of the Democratic Party. My only hope is that grassroots organizing/ mobilizing/acting and the new engagement of our youth, women and POC communities will gradually result in the election of progressive candidates across the country who will replace the old white male, corporatist, career politicians who comprise the majority of the current Democratic Party. But the wheels of progress move slowly.

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Off-Topic but I would love to see you on Tik Tok! You would reach a new audience and you can just make short clips or up to ten minutes. People share videos there all day. I think it would help you to help people mobilize.

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I wish and pray that some day, the power in the Democratic Party would listen to Michael Moore

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Spot on! Nobody inspires like you do, Michael! Take that, Bill Maher! 😆

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I work with an animal behaviorist. At dog training class she said, "what happens when you push your dog?" as she gently leaned her hand against a dog's shoulder. We're all flummoxed. "He pushes back! Otherwise he'd fall over!"

That's what happens when you argue with people. They push back and dig in. The way Michael does it is with gentleness and love. My behaviorist would approve! Guiding by the elbow and leading with treats, people move in his direction. What a great teacher!

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Insightful and eloquently presented. The GOP is fracturing and fragmenting into obtuse, mutually antagonistic principalities, but so are the anti-progressive DEMS. Trump loathes McConnell, but Biden turns white when Bernie appears.

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Inflation this go around will be related to cost of campaigns. Donald Trump 2020 spent $2 billion alone not even counting the dark money. And he still lost. Those two billion dollars are corporate profit.

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Bravo! Thank you!

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Dec 28, 2022·edited Dec 28, 2022

I have a plan to help end the war in Ukraine faster. We cannot called the Democrats the war party, when Putin is the aggressor promising nuclear attacks.

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Great Episode! Any one listening from Missouri? I would love to connect and organize with you.

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Thanks Mike.❤️

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