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They're turning it into political power. and the important thing is that if you believe in democracy, if you believe that everyone should have a say in determining self-government in our country, you've got to support the folks that are fighting for democracy. in wisconsin, that means going to withstems.org or tonyevers.com, chipping in. we're hiring organizers right now. to make sure that across the state we're talking to voters about the fact they do have voting rights. they can request absentee ballots. republicans can't shut that down, as much smoke as they like to kick up. so we've got to...

And make sure our democracy actually works in 2022 so that it's not gone in 2024. >> ben wickler, wisconsin democratic party chair. ben, thank you for joining us. a pleasure to have you here. >> thanks so much. >> all right. we've got more ahead tonight. stay with us. ight st ay with us ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ it's a new dawn... ♪ if you've been taking copd sitting down, it's time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with...

State's republican secretary of state purged more than 300,000 voters from that state's voter rolls. democrats for their part are doing everything they can to push back against these republican efforts. in wisconsin the state democratic party plans to use the open records law to find the names of everyone who's been purged and then work to reenroll likely democratic voters. wisconsin democratic chairman ben wick ler tells nbc news, quote, this is an organizing effort. it's a reason to work, not to freak out. joining us now is ben wick ler, chair of the wisconsin democratic party. thank you for...

Spine. any voter has the power to shape human history. you're exactly right. you're 100% right. we're seeing people in the world today taking up arms for that right. we have it. and you're just telling people they need to use it. ben, thank you for joining me. thank you for your efforts. >> thank you so much. ben wick ler. more news ahead, stay with us. blended and aged again. it's the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar's. double aged for extra smoothness. steven could only imaginem 24hr to trenjoying a spicy taco.burn, now, his world explodes with flavor. nexium 24hr stop...

Michigan and pennsylvania. what all three of those states have in common is that donald trump indeed won all three states in 2016, and then we swept all the state-wide elections in 2018. we did so, ali, because we started organizing in 2017 and we haven't stopped. give you one example. just this past weekend in wisconsin the party there under the very able leadership of a guy named ben wickler knocked on 50,000 or 60,000 doors. we're going to be at 200,000 doors in 2019. four years ago it was a small fraction of that. >> let me put it a different way -- >> we're organizing early, everywhere an...