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Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally about talking about the bigger and bolder issues. We have a great panel here today. They are going to be with us talking about issues. Im going to let each person kind of say whatever they want to about themselves, other than a brief introduction, everyone has five minutes to make initial comments. And then we will ask a couple questions from the panel based on that discussion and then well like t ....
[ applause ] so, heres the reality. We have seen one of the most dramatic and inspiring upticks in progressive action that i can remember. I mean, right out of the gate, you know, on january 21st, a womens march kicked it off in a fine fashion. Literally millions of people organizing, marching all over the country, and how fitting it was for the womens march to kick off this moment of resistance, given the incalculable sexism and massageny trump ran on during the campaign. The women led us then, are leading us now. But the movement kept going. We saw the science march, we saw the tax day march. Help me out here this is audience participation. Are there any im leaving out . The Public Education march. We saw all kinds of stuff, activity. And i can tell you that in my own district in minnesota, we have a campus that were running where were literally knocking hundreds of doors every day, not every week, every day were knocking lite ....