constituents in that district were able to show up and say, you have to side with us. and we were able to help limit the harm from this member of congress. we re going to try and do that in every single one of the districts. sometimes we ll get them to go on the record, sometimes they ll vote against us. so it s up to the constituents to hold them accountable and make sure there s a price to pay for their extremism. over the past six years you ve been involved in this organizing effort that started small and turned into this big thing, dowless feel like there are big lessons learned in terms of what works, what s effective, and things you thought might work but didn t and things that have been more effective than you thought. we always say pictures or it didn t happen. you can call your representative, 1 of the 18, and they ll have a staffer taking down your message saying we re really concerned
the best disinfectant. and constituents based in that 17th congressional district were able to show up and say, hey, you ve got to represent us, don t side with marjorie taylor greene. and in this one instance we were able to help limit the harm from this member of congress. now, we re trying to do that in every single one of these 18 districts. sometimes we re going to get them to go on record. sometimes they re going to vote against us. so it s going to depend on constituents in those districts to hold them accountable and make sure there s a political price to pay for their extremism. over the past six years you ve been involved in this organizing effort which started small and turn into this big thing do you feel there are lessons learned of what works, things you steered more toward because they have had multiplicative effects, they ve been more effective than you
of the reason that we re having this discussion tonight, about this part of the president speech, and part of the reason this is gonna be remembered as part of the state of the unit, and of ongoing policy residents, as because of the organizing work that you in the congressional black caucus did, to get those members, there they change conversation around this entire speech and address, without organizing effort. i ve a feeling you knew that might be the, impacts if this works successfully, there s a remarkable act of politics, and its own right. it wasn t so much about politics, yes it took some strategic thinking. and execution, but i ll tell you this. the president called, i talk to him earlier, last week, that vice president called. they mediately took us up on our request to have a meeting, to discuss how the president could use this moment, of the state of the union, thoroughly center this issue of public
black or brown or white issue. this is a public safety and accountability issue, and all of us can do something, as the president said today, we can do big things. we did it on gun safety. we did it on infrastructure. we did it on bringing american jobs back and manufacturing, clearly we can do it, to keep our communities safe from violence, particularly police related violence. congressman, i think it s fair to say the presidents remarks tonight, live in their own sort of status here, part of the reason that we re having this discussion tonight, about this part of the president speech, and part of the reason this is gonna be remembered as part of the state of the union and we ll have ongoing residents, is because of the organizing work that you in the congressional black caucus did, to get those family members there, to change this conversation around this entire speech and address, without that organizing effort.
race right now? i feel really good. we have more than 92,000 volunteers now. and we are going to try to knock on over 5 million doors over the course of these next 45 days. it s the largest organizing effort in america right now. probably one of the largest in u.s. history. and it s happening in texas because not the candidate, not the political party, but this moment, abortion ban, and nearly 18 weeks since those 19 kids and two teachers were taken from us and uvalde. the governor hasn t done a thing. the brit has collapsed, and still hasn t fixed. and you have the single greatest attack on voting rights and democracy right here in texas. these folks, they are not taking it. they are standing up to the accountant, bergen if i, back in together, we will win. why are the polls even as close as the? are there a lot of people who say, greg abbott is going to win this. how can that possibly be true after you list a a little knee of things that should have