>> that is it for us this weekend. you can follow us on x and instagram. next up the latest installment of the turning point documentary series from trevor noah. it breaks down the complex history of voting across the south and how georgia came to lead the change in this pivotal moment. it's called battle ground georgia and starts right now.

[dramatic music] - breaking news out of georgia. democrat raphael warnock and democrat jon ossoff has won the senate runoff election. - this is the new georgia. this is a state that is changing like the country is changing. - the big factor in black voters matter, it's the new georgia project. you have black genius and grassroots genius on display, and black joy. - we vote! all: we win! - we vote! all: we win! - welcome to the new georgia. welcome to the blue georgia. - republicans taking another step to prevent what they believe is voter fraud at the polls. - 48 states have introduced at least 389 bills to restrict voting. - both of those senate seats flipped from red to blue, and so republicans in georgia want to make sure that that doesn't happen again. - anytime a political party abuses their power to actually put laws in place so that whoever does not vote for them,

they can prevent them from voting, that in itself is political corruption. - we are fighting for our lives! we are fighting for our votes! we are fighting for our democracy! - what do we want? all: voting rights! - when do we want it? all: now! - something's got to give. something has to change. the old south is being replaced by the new south. - we are georgia! - this is a national fight. this isn't just a georgia issue. [all chanting] georgia is the beginning. it is only the beginning. as goes georgia goes the rest of the south. [soft suspenseful music] ♪ ♪♪ - after facing deep divisions in the wake of the 2020 election, republicans appear to be uniting around the issue of election integrity. - cleta mitchell, a lawyer for former president trump, who fought to overturn the 2020 election, is heading up an effort dubbed the, quote, election integrity network.

- the language of needing election integrity, that is an old playbook. - last year, we had a rigged election. and the proof is all over the place. they always talk about the big lie. they're the big lie. - it is the playbook that becomes the rationale to then make the massive disfranchisement of black voters seem like a rational response, seem like a legitimate response to an attack and assault on american democracy. - anytime there's an accusation of either voter suppression or voter fraud, we should take it seriously. in this case, it was actually disingenuous. it was the big lie that somehow, joe biden had won due to widespread fraud. - i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which i told the president was bull[bleep]. - and so the whole underpinning was actually a lie. - there has never been any evidence of widespread voter fraud in the united states.

the idea of voter integrity, that particular phrase, emerges almost immediately after the civil war. and it was used by people who were opposed to african american voting rights. - in our history in this country, we always have progress followed by reaction. and i think that the big lie is a part of that reaction. and so voter suppression is in a sense a sort of natural american outgrowth of voter progress. - republicans around the country say they're outraged. their efforts have been labeled as racist voter suppression as they work to make it harder for people to vote in ways that will almost certainly disproportionately affect black voters. - and after the november election last year, i knew, like so many of you, that significant reforms of our state elections were needed. - sb 202 is the republicans in georgia's response to that monumental election in 2020

and the senatorial runoff in 2021 that flipped georgia blue. minorities, african americans, asian americans, hispanics were central to flipping georgia. the voter turnout rates were phenomenal. and what was driving this is the reality of the existential threat that the trump regime played in the lives of minorities, the anti-immigrant bias. - when mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. - the hatred, the xenophobia. - donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. - the anti-blackness of this regime. - complained that the 15,000 haitian immigrants who received visas in 2017 all have aids.

- was just so palpable, so real, that people knew that another four years meant the death of american democracy. and they were like, "not on my watch." - when you've got this white nationalist class that the rest of us won't bow to what they want us to bow to, that they are willing to go to extreme measures. [soft tense music] - never before in my experience here in the united states have i ever felt this democracy under attack the way it's been. i don't care whether you're black, brown, green, white, yellow. each of us have a very unique role to play in this. i think it's important right now make a stand and make sure that we preserve and protect this democracy. - what we're seeing here in georgia is that there are massive demographic changes happening here in this state. you're seeing the percentage of whites in the electorate shrinking.

that has caused a wave of voter suppression laws. "how do we keep these folks from voting? "how do we understand what mechanisms they used "in order to access the ballot box, and how do we create barriers to stop that?" in the 2020 primary here in georgia in cobb county, the lines were stretching somewhere from ten to 12 hours. they interviewed a brother who was standing in line. and he's like, "yeah, i've been here for 12 hours. i'm not leaving." that kind of determination is frightening to those who want to cast black folks as undeserving. we understand what it is. it is the same jim crow mess that we had that led to a voter turnout in the single digits in the 1942 election.

we've been here before. we're saying never again. all: shut it down! - if we don't get them! all: shut it down! - this campaign is grounded in a belief that we are people-powered. i'm stacey abrams, and i'm running for governor. - you can't really underestimate the importance of stacey's run in 2018. it obviously excited people, the thought of having not just the first black governor, but the first black woman governor. - when i say i'm working on the stacey abrams campaign, they're like, "oh, so you think she's going to win?" and i'm like, "hell, yeah. what do you mean?" - we were excited of stacey abrams running because we have seen her at the legislature for many years fighting. when she decided as well to run as a potential governor, we thought, "here is our chance." [energetic music] - it feels as if the final debate about this election has really been about how to count the votes and who gets to vote. how concerned are you that this is going to be a fair vote?

- we have seen unprecedented turnout in this race from people who normally do not engage and do not vote. some of that has been driven by the conversations of voter suppression because one of the best ways to encourage people to use something is to tell them that someone's trying to take it away. i'm excited to be in a dead heat because i know that we are going to turn out voters who have never voted before. - i got a big truck... just in case i need to round up criminal illegals and take them home myself. [engine turns over] yeah, i just said that. - when governor kemp was secretary of state, i thought that he should have resigned from his position to run for governor. it didn't look good. it wasn't ethical. - more than 53,000 voter registration applications are sitting in a desk drawer at brian kemp's office on hold. - many people from central america and latin america probably they were thinking, "oh, my god. in what country i am?" you know? am i in the united states or am i in mexico or in guatemala?

- as overseer of our state's elections, there is no attempt on your part or your campaign's part to suppress the minority vote that would likely benefit a minority candidate, who you are in a statistical dead heat, according to recent polls. - anyone who meets the requirements, that's on the pending list, all they have to do is do the same thing that you and i at home have to do. go to your polling location, show your government id, and you can vote. - voter suppression isn't only about blocking the vote. it's also about creating an atmosphere of fear, making people worry that their votes won't count. this is a man who had someone arrested for helping her blind father cast a ballot. - major news on two disputed midterm election battles. moments ago, democrat stacey abrams ended her campaign and said she cannot win but still wouldn't call it a concession speech. - brian kemp was so efficient at voter suppression that he literally won the governorship by about as many voters as he purged.

so 55,000 or so came off the rolls, and he wins by about 55,000 votes. that is, like, grade a voter suppression. - your opponent says you're trying to suppress the vote by holding up thousands of voter registration applications. what do you say to that? - oh, that's a smokescreen trying to hide her radical views. those folks that are on the pending list, all they have to do is go to the polls, show their photo id, and they can vote. - to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in this state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling. - this propelled stacey to a place that helps all of us because it brought the attention of what was happening in the south and what was happening in georgia. it made it clear that voter suppression is alive and well here in georgia. - what happened in 2018 was that there was a mindset shift. what happened in 2018 was that people saw,

even in seeing their power stolen, they saw their power. that's the kind of frustration that georgia voters, black voters in particular, felt in 2018. that's the energy that then showed up in 2020. - so it was really, really hard for a lot of us. myself included. but then you know, i released my pearls. i got off the fainting couch. i powdered my nose, right? i, you know, adjusted my petticoat. [chuckles] pulled out my parasol... [chuckles] and got back to it. and that is why in the middle of a global pandemic, that we put this on our backs... [upbeat funky music] knocked on 2 million doors, made 7 million phone calls, sent out 10 million text messages. - grassroots organizers have played an enormous role in getting georgia to a rate of 95% of all age-eligible georgians registered to vote.

95%. - what kind of letter did you get? - it said as for the unregistered in ohio. - are you registered in ohio? - i don't live there. i was three years ago. - well, they're doing a list maintenance, and i want to make sure you were not taken off the rolls here. - right, right. - i'm inspired of the resolve that i see with people waiting for two or three hours. and there's something about people really being grounded in a form of resistance. we know, yeah, we should be out here waiting. and yes, there are a whole lot of things that i probably need to do with these hours, but right now, i'm going to stand in this space. ♪ ♪ engineered to minimize noise. and built for adventure. which can also be your own quiet cabin in the woods. the fully electric q8 e-tron.

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a reliable republican state, now having substantial democratic representation. - georgia did an amazing thing. - we helped send the first african american and the first jewish person to the united states senate from the great state of georgia. - change has come to georgia. change is coming to america. [cheers and applause] - people began to think that, "oh, we have arrived!" and then they go like, "oh, it's done." no, it isn't done. - goddamn right we knew that there was going to be backlash, right? - the governor is signing a bill that affects all georgians. why is he doing it in private, and why is he trying to keep elected officials who are representing us out of the process? - georgia troopers arrested a member of the legislature... - are you serious? - park cannon, after she kept knocking on a door outside the room where governor brian kemp talked about signing the sweeping new election law. - he's literally under a giant portrait of a plantation, as if he's sending a message, right? and then outside of that closed room is park cannon,

who's a georgia state representative, who is demanding to come in and saying, "the people and i as a representative "of my constituents, i want to witness this. "you can't do this behind closed doors without the people in this room." and rather than let her in, they have her arrested. - under arrest for what? - why is she under arrest? - for trying to see something that our governor is doing? - she is dragged off, marched off like a common criminal, out of what should be the people's house. that is the state of play among republicans in this country. - sb 202 ensures that georgia elections are secure, accessible, and fair. - it will be one of the nation's most restrictive voting laws in the whole country. - this legislation is based on a lie told by the former liar in chief. - georgia senate bill 202 passed the republican-controlled legislature in that state exactly 80 days after warnock and ossoff

are elected to the u.s. senate. so georgia gives democrats control of the u.s. senate, and the georgia legislature takes steps that are likely going to make it difficult for similar victories in the future. - what sb 202 does is a twin pincer motion against american democracy. and so one part of this twin pincer motion is to look at how african americans access the ballot box and to create obstacles, hurdles, or to shut it down. the second piece of sb 202 goes after how the votes are counted and what votes are counted. it looks at lowering the guardrails that were already in place that stopped donald trump from being able to find 11,780 votes. - but the most nefarious component of sb 202 is these voter challenges. you can have a random person off the street

go challenge 33,000 voters at the board of elections. and then the onus is on those voters to prove that they are who they are. that's insane to me. [dramatic music] ♪ ♪♪ - sb 202 impacted me personally. i was on a board of elections since 2010 on morgan county, georgia. previously, my board was made up of two representatives from the republican party, two representatives from the democratic party, and one person that was a representative of the county commission. but the reconstitution of our board allowed the county commission to solely select all five members of that board. so guess how that board is going to be structured? - the vice chair of the dekalb county election board, baoky vu, a republican, signed on to a letter

protesting a voter restriction bill. his party proceeded to censure him and then chose not to renominate him for his post after 12 years of serving on the elections board. - never did i think in my, you know, 50-odd years of being on this earth that i actually i would be speaking out about democracy in this country. i was censured by the executive committee and the dekalb county voting members of the republican party at their county convention. but i viewed it as a badge of honor. it means that i did something right. it means that i did not sell myself to the devil. i was trying to be a loyal american. and i wanted to make sure that i made the statement that i was going to put country above party. in my perspective, the republican party is actually the republican party in name only now. there is a malignancy that's taking place right now. we thought it was going to end with this past administration ending, but it hasn't because it continues to this day.

- we just finished the state election board monitoring the meeting today. and i wanted to update you on what was the outcome of that, especially with regards to how it impacts our help, our assistance that we give voters. - i feel very overwhelmed. they're trying to take over fulton county. and so then we're fighting against all the misconceptions of fulton county. we're still trying to get people to know that their vote matters... - mm. - and we're still, you know, just fighting on the ground trying to get you to register, just to get out to vote, you know? and i feel overwhelmed because, again, my dad already-- my dad and my mom already fought this fight. so why am i having to do this all over again because some people got they feelings hurt? you know what's brilliant? boring. think about it. boring is the unsung catalyst for bold.

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and we think we have evidence of a lot of it. - when you hear newt gingrich talk about, "they stole the election in atlanta, they stole the election in philadelphia." notice he didn't say, "they stole the election in salt lake city." so what he was really identifying was that in these urban areas that are teeming with black folk that good, honest, hardworking white americans had their democracy stolen from them by these black people. the big lie then is based on decades and decades of the lie of massive, rampant voter fraud. this is why we saw massive violence against black folks right after the civil war when black men got the right to vote with the 1867 reconstruction act because it was changing the demographics of who could be able to vote. it is what we heard in the mississippi plan of 1890

that justified the rise of jim crow and the massive disfranchisement of black voters. in 1890, you had over 190,000 black men registered to vote, and two years after the mississippi plan, only 8,600. you had these poor, black voters who were pairing up with poor white voters to have a vision of what government could do. and it wasn't being responsive to the very rich, it was being responsive to the working poor. and you saw the power structure in mississippi going, "oh, no. we can't have that." and this is where you get judge chrisman, who was one of the delegates to this rewriting of the mississippi state constitution. judge chrisman said, "look, we have not "had a free and fair election since 1875 in mississippi. "why we haven't had a real election "is that we have been stuffing the ballot box, "we have used violence, "we have used all kinds of chicanery

"in order to embed white people's power in mississippi. "and it has been so corrupting, "that our system is getting ready to collapse. "we have got to remove black people "from having access to the ballot box because it is "their presence that is causing this corruption. "it is their presence that is making "whites fearful of what would happen "if black people really voted. "so if we can remove black people, then we can have a free and fair election of whites only." so the method was you see the corruption and then you identify the corruption as being black people. but it's white people's fear of black people that is the corrupting catalyst for this massive disfranchisement of black voters. - and so that sort of flipped, flipping history on its head, and making black people those who you should fear, rather than white people who were committing terrorism

against black people. you started to see violence become this sort of premier first choice of the way to stop them. if you can intimidate and terrify black people out of voting, then you don't have to worry about them outvoting you at the ballot box. and doing that, they actually undid reconstruction completely in mississippi so that by 1890, a terrified black population, most of whom would no longer take advantage of their right to vote. the black men who could vote were sometimes too afraid to vote because of lynching and murder and mayhem and terrorism. and so white mississippians were able to pass a constitution in 1890 that essentially was the first pass at jim crow. - they cobbled together these disparate policies that had been used after the civil war, a poll tax, for instance, a literacy test, a good character clause, as ways to keep black people from voting without saying, "we don't want black folks to vote." the mississippi plan was then sanctioned

by the u.s. supreme court in the williams decision in 1898. and that was like the go-ahead for these states to have the mississippi plan spread throughout the south. the mississippi plan was the onset of the rise of jim crow in the united states. coming out of reconstruction, you had somewhere between 60% to 90% of black men registered to vote. by 1940, only 3% of age-eligible african americans were registered to vote in the south. disfranchisement was full and total. you had counties in mississippi where there were zero african americans registered to vote. and so that's why the 15th amendment could not go after the subtle and the frankly maniacal ways that these regimes rose up to stop black people from voting.

- the governments that were created during reconstruction were violently overthrown by white southerners who could not accept the idea of living in a pluralistic society where black people had power. [clamoring and shouting] - and so it took this massive, cataclysmic eruption on the edmund pettus bridge in selma in march, 1965, so stunned the nation. and you saw the voting rights act of 1965 come into being. that was landmark legislation. - i urge every american to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people. - it's considered one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed. but by five to four, the u.s. supreme court today took the teeth out of a law enacted nearly 50 years ago. - shelby v. holder was a 2013 case before the supreme court.

shelby county, alabama, argued that they should no longer be subject to preclearance, which is essentially a process under the voting rights act that gave the federal government the power to approve any sort of changes to voting in that area before those changes were made. there were 13 states that were subject to preclearance, and then there were some counties in a few other states. what the supreme court essentially said is that to subject these states to preclearance is to essentially discriminate against these states. and so shelby v. holder, that decision essentially neuters section 5 of the voting rights act. 12 hours later, within a day, texas passes its restrictive voting rights. and then state after republican-led state follows suit. - that's why since 2013, what we've seen all across the country has been, you know, the expansion of all these policies

whether it's been closing polling places, voter id, photo id, cutting back on hours. all these attacks that we've seen were literally made possible because of that shelby decision. - and we won't stop spreading the word about the impact that georgia has on the nation. - and so this is where you see the new georgia project. this is where you see fair fight for action. this is where you see the peoples' agenda. this is where you see asian americans advancing justice. we see that with the black voters matter fund. - what do we want? all: voting rights! - when do we want it? all: now! - these folks are on the ground in their communities in 159 counties in georgia registering folks to vote because democracy is that important. they're not registering democrats. they're registering georgians. they know that a vibrant democracy requires all of us.

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no, this is a whole new generation. that ain't going to happen. - i'm a motherfucking proud boy! [all shouting] [dramatic music] - what you're seeing then is this clash between two different visions of american democracy. there's the trumpian vision. that's where you have this vast, rightless labor pool that's generating enormous resources, and those resources flowing up to a small strata of whites. - what do we want? all: justice! - the other vision is a truly multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy. that is the battle that is going on right now in the united states. - efforts to stop republican-controlled states from restricting access to the ballot are now gaining momentum. - when we saw that the sb 202 had passed,

that 48 states were dealing with voter suppression laws, we knew that this is a national fight. this isn't just a georgia issue. we knew that we had to come out strong. - ♪ ain't gonna let nobody turn me around! ♪ - we knew that we were entering a phase where we have got to increase our direct actions, where we have got to reconnect with the spirit of the civil rights movement and the voting rights movement. and so in honor and tribute to the freedom rides in the 60th anniversary, we said, well, let's do a reverse freedom ride and call it a freedom ride for voting rights. and instead of going from dc down to the south, let's go from the south to take it to dc. [upbeat jazz music] - today's ride was dedicated to the three workers in mississippi: chaney, goodman, and schwerner. and they were murdered because they were registering people to vote. we will never forget them. we will continue to make sure that the work that they started, it is completed. and that is securing free and fair access to the ballot.

[indistinct chanting] we're going to hold this administration accountable. we're demanding that we have voting rights passed. - there's this thing called civil disobedience, and we have to get back to that sometimes. sometimes, the only way you can get someone's attention is to be civilly disobedient. ♪ ♪♪ - we walked over to the senate building. we were able to get into the senate building. we went in it, stood in the middle of the atrium in the center of the building. and we actually lifted our voices, let our voices be heard. [all singing] - we've got to be willing to engage in nonviolent, civil disobedience. we've got to be willing to get arrested, and to do so in a way where they can't stop each wave. just like with the children's movement, that there always be another wave coming behind it. [all chanting] - it shouldn't be this doggone hard just to get some doggone voting rights. it shouldn't be this hard to get something that the 15th amendment said we were supposed to have in 1870.

we shouldn't have to take to the streets and be arrested and do civil disobedience. but doggone, if that's what it's going to take, then we're going to answer the call. - take your hands up and vote! all: take your hands up and vote! - i was taught to be a strategist. i was taught to be a political scientist. i was taught how to organize and register people to vote. and so it's my job to teach as well. [soft upbeat music] put the arms up and stop. lock arms. ♪ ♪♪ it's the same discontent that our people felt in the '60s. this is not a new movement. this is a continuation of the movement. we are georgia! all: we are georgia! we are georgia! - you got to send a message that we will not be governable until they give us the voting rights that we demand! they don't have the power! we got the power! the only question is are we willing to use it? and so there may come a day

when the answer to that question is no, cliff, i'm not willing to use that power! i'd rather just sit in the corner and complain about it! that day may come! but guess what? today is not that day! there may come a day when we turn our backs on the history that was made right here in this sacred space by so many people that risked so much. that day may come. but guess what? today is not that day! everybody here who believes in freedom, everybody here, if you believe that you got a role to play, i need you to put a fist out and say real loud, say, "i am"... all: i am... - "an organizer." all: an organizer! - say "i am"... all: i am... - "an organizer!" all: an organizer! - now let's leave here and get it done, y'all. i love, y'all. ♪ ♪

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and republican challenger, herschel walker, have hit the 50% threshold to win outright. - the reality is that georgia's had a runoff that has always been racist. this version of the runoffs goes back to 1964, where there was an avowed segregationist candidate who was mad because he lost an election to a black candidate. and so they literally created this situation so that if you had black folks getting a plurality, that wouldn't be enough that we'd have to go into a runoff which would then allow the white candidates or the white voters to be able to galvanize their support. - and so when raphael warnock gets elected to the united states senate, he then has to win a runoff election. so he has to win a second election, which cost the state a lot of money. and it seems really inefficient. he has to do it again. then he wins again. then when he runs for re-election, he gets in yet another runoff. and because he gets just under 50% against herschel walker and then has to do yet another runoff. - it was designed to ensure that black voters would not be able to elect on a statewide basis

the candidate that resonated most with them. denmark groover, he in fact, in a deposition said, "was i segregationist and a racist? yeah. "did this policy that i put forth have racist intent? yeah." so part of what we have to really look at with the runoff for the u.s. senate between herschel walker and senator raphael warnock is that walker was tapped by donald trump. - i am concerned about the candidates that the republicans have put forth. in fact, when you look at the kari lakes of arizona, the herschel walkers of georgia, and then the doug mastrianos of pennsylvania, then those are the people we should be most afraid of. - incumbent senator raphael warnock has defeated trump-picked republican challenger, herschel walker, in georgia's runoff election. - there are many republicans across the country who have begun to see the light of day

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and because texas had had some population growth, it was one of a few states that got some new congressional seats. and almost all of that population growth, 90% of it came from black and latino families. and they drew districts to account for none of that population growth. almost the entire south at this point are states where all three branches of government are controlled by one party. in this case, it happens to be the republican party. - when you have hyper-gerrymandered state legislatures that are not responsive to voters because they have drawn the legislative boundaries in such a way that they're basically immune to voters, that case has so much to do with whether we're going to be a viable democracy or not. - if democracy is really a form of governance that we want to be in place, right, and if that's to be so, then people are going to have to make that be so. and i think that if we're looking

at all of these systems, from the electoral system to the economic system to all of those different systems, if they are to change, it won't because they changed on dc. it will be because we literally created the change, and the change has to start from the ground. - now research and data shows us that most americans didn't vote republican or democrat. most americans don't vote at all. there are a lot of people who are falling away from both parties. the independents are growing and growing and growing. and you can almost create a profile of them now. a majority of americans, yes, they have to choose one or the other. but a lot of them are saying neither one of them truly represent what we want. independents are the largest unbranded political party that we have in our country. - we have been forced into a construct. you either have to be a or b. that's it. that's not choice, ok? that's not real option. why do we have a two-party system?

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- the baby boomers are no longer the largest electoral bloc. imagine, you've got a whole generation of new voters coming to this process that think about gender differently. they think about race differently. they think about economic security differently, right? that means that the political landscape that we currently have, it is shifting. and the politics of yesterday will not be the politics of tomorrow. we're seeing a crop of young progressive candidates like stacey that are seeking office in the south, not where it's easy, right, but where it is hard, where it is challenging. we're in this transition where the old south is being replaced by the new south, and there is some friction. i think that is natural in any transition that you see whether it's political, economic, or otherwise. and i think that we're in that moment. that gives me an incredible amount of hope. - georgia, almost more than any other state, has shown republicans the future, that it's not just black voters. it's asian american voters. it's latino voters. it's young, white voters.

and starting in 2018 and then again in 2020 and again in 2022, white voters have snuck into a majority democratic voting constituency. so republicans are losing young collegiate white voters too, and they see the writing on the wall. - here in georgia, we take a lot of pride in the fact that we showed, you know, our fellow brethren across the former, you know, confederate states, that you can catch a w out here statewide. [chuckles] and that it is possible you know, not to sit around you know, licking your wounds after every election and that, you know, if you just believe and, you know, keep your nose to the grindstone, because people are paying attention to georgia now, but i want to be clear. before 2020, they left us for dead too. and they told us that, you know, it wasn't possible. so you know, what my message to, you know, the rest of the folks in the south is that, listen, help is coming. - i think the next election, the 2024 election, hold on to your butts. i think it's going to be filled with insane rhetoric,

insane lies. i think we should be wary, and i think we're in for a very wild year. - people are really ready for 2024. they're going to look at the candidates intensely and make an informed decision. but they're not going to let jim crow or anything else stand in the way. - long gone are the days that people are suppressed. we're coming, and we're coming, and we're coming organized. we're organizing, we're mobilizing, and we're coming for you. so either people can be on our side and with the momentum of the community, or they're going to get left out. and our job is to make sure that our people win. - we are radically reimagining an america that is going to be the america that we desire and we deserve. i think of myself as a founder of a new america. i think of myself as someone who is setting the tone

of what the next 50 years, the next 100 years, the next 200 years are going to be. and those 200 years are going to literally look very differently than what the 200 years previously looked. i can guarantee you that. [dramatic music] welcome, to this