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I’ve spent a lot of time talking about what’s broken. This time, I want to show you what’s starting to work. In Colorado, we’re seeing signs of real change driven by activism and community. It’s early, but it’s real and it looks like an emerging trend of replacing the old guard with the new.
It gives me hope.
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Resistor Vic Podcast — Resistance Hope 3.18.26. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
I'm Vick Myers. Welcome to the Resistance. Folks, I do believe that we're turning the corner. In the past few days, I've seen some things that give me hope. To start out, here in Colorado, two of our carbon-dated members of Congress, Hickenlooper and Digett, are struggling to find votes in our caucuses. In fact, Hickenlooper has pulled out of the caucus. Now, there hadn't been any announcement of him dropping out, so I'm guessing that he's going to petition on. If he stuck in the caucus and didn't get enough votes, he couldn't do that. Hicken to get are both getting trounced by younger, more progressive candidates who are expressing the same frustration we feel, and they're promising to fight with more than just strongly worded letters. Hicken to get are left staring at their sundial wristwatches and wondering if their time is up. This is happening because activism works.
When people see your activism in any form, from protests to calling elected officials and talking about it, to any other way that you can think of, it builds community, and people in a strong community will fight for their community. That's why Colorado's caucus turnout has almost doubled for Democrats. Our party is being flooded by activists who are given the old guard the boot. Now, it's too soon to definitely say, but this looks like maybe part of a nationwide trend to rejuvenate the Democratic Party with younger, progressive, populous Democrats. And the IC on the cake is this. Remember several weeks ago when I was running about do nothing Democrats? I told you about the House and Senate rules. I talked about how they could be using them to gum up the works. Well, maybe those DC Dems are recognizing an anti-incomement way of starting to build.
Because those Dem leaders have dusted off the rulebooks. And they're using them to stop the Save Act and force hearings on Trump's Epstein Fury War. It's better late than Neverboys, but it's still not going to pull your bacon out of the fire. And that right, Buster. They're looking at how well young Dem challengers are doing. And they're scared the good old boys club is being dismantled. Folks, it's possible that we'll drag the Democratic Party away from the consultants and back to Main Street in a single election cycle. That makes me happier than Athena with a new rock. Meanwhile, Republicans are showing cracks. And voters are pulling back, and even some traditional Republicans are starting to step away. That's what happens when chaos gets too big to ignore. I want to think about how very possible it is that the November election could be a giant step forward.
I can't help but smile. Activism matters, and we're starting to see what happens when it works. Thanks for listening. See you next time.
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