00:00Every election is important and part of what we're trying to do is change the
00:03culture around voting and get people to appreciate it is our basic
00:06responsibility of citizenship. Really our voices are our power and our vote is the
00:11best way to express that voice. It's the first way. Now we should also do more but
00:16we've just got to get out and vote and I think what we have been seeing is the
00:20incredible impact that women, particularly African-American women, can
00:25have elections. If you look at what happened in Alabama with Doug Jones,
00:29everybody knows that it's because of their turnout and it isn't just that we
00:33vote. We get our children to vote, we get our spouses to vote, we get our community
00:37to vote. Everybody pays attention to what women in the family tell them to do and
00:41so if we empower women we really empower everyone. Mrs. Obama created a new
00:46organization called When We All Vote and you can go on whenweallvote.org and it
00:52will link you to everything you need to know, how you can vote, all of the
00:56different ways that for example votes are being suppressed and how you would
01:00combat that. There's a another site if you were to text election protection to
01:05nine seven seven seven nine then you'll find out what to do in the event that for
01:11example we know already that in Georgia they passed a law that makes it very hard
01:16you have to have a precise name match but you can still show up you just have to
01:19have your ID and so figuring out what do you do in these instances of suppression
01:24of the vote is important to be armed as well and what we cannot do is allow anyone
01:29else to disenfranchise us but we also can't disenfranchise ourselves. I think
01:34our democracy is only as strong as we the people demand that it be and that if we
01:38don't vote then we're basically usurping our power we're giving it up to
01:42somebody else because there are a lot of other people who will vote there are a lot
01:45of special interests that will weigh in and use money to try to sway public
01:49policy their way and our voice is the best counter to all of that. There are a
01:54record number of women who are running for office this time and I have often
01:58said after spending eight years in Washington if we had had more women at
02:02the table we would have made a lot more progress than we made. This is not just
02:05about one election it's about every election it matters not just who's in
02:10Congress it matters who your mayor is, who your state's attorney is, who your
02:14attorney general is, who this who the secretary of state is, whoever sees the
02:19election. All these offices matter and I think what we want is to really change the
02:24culture and that I think begins with women. We are the leaders in culture and
02:29when we start to talk within our own families within our own communities in our
02:34places of work and worship that's when change happens.
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