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Battle with republicans trying to overthrow our democracy and ban abortion. even as i've pushed my party to fight harder for working people, i'm running to finish the work i began. he's back. [laughter] >> he finally found his way back to the hudson valley after running away from his constituents last year, just a year ago running for congress in brooklyn. he closed down his office several months early, wouldn't take any constituent cases. the arrogance here is amazing. he thinks he's god's gift to democracy, talking about saving democracy. look, he is a radical socialist. he believes in the d...

This sweeping bill, and it expanded state power over jackson's policing and court systems. so, how much of a mobilizing fact or do you think the national democratic party apparatus understands the state legislators could be in the upcoming election? >> i think we have to see that the biggest risk to democracy is at the state level. if you're goal in life, and this is the far-right school, they have a toxic minority viewpoint agenda. meaning, they know their agenda is not supported by the majority. the perfect place to put that into place is through state houses, that they can gerrymander and u...

Going back to the office analogy, think about state houses as all on the soccer healed kicking at the goal, again and again. we're going to be blocking the shots. we think that if we had a better goalie somehow will save the day. we have to get into these states, recruit, support, not just in a few areas, everywhere. you will not win everywhere, but we have and -- a lack of accountability crisis in the states, because these people feel like nobody's ever going to run against them. they feel like they will never be pushed back. we have to bring accountability back to extremism or it will still ...

Resources, because there is another beast in the room that no one wants to talk about, simone, and that is the disinformation campaigns that are waiting in the wings, not just from the right, but from the foreign actors. and that is what concerns me when i see someone say, i'm going to look kind of cute right now and jump into the game, when in fact, we have democracy on the line and the biggest -- what concerns me the most, is that no one's talking about the disinformation and deepfakes that we can expect from nefarious actors. >> this is something we're going to continue to stay on throughou...

Former Rep. G.K. Butterfield has added his first lobbying clients since he left office earlier this year.