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00:09The Trump administration knows that their policies are not only crazy and cruel, they're
00:15increasingly unpopular.
00:18But they recognize what they're doing is turning away people.
00:22They can't get support from the voters.
00:24So what do they do?
00:25They try to take our votes away.
00:27Are you kidding me?
00:30Hands off our votes.
00:36Let me put it another way.
00:39Keep your hands off our votes.
00:48Now with your commitment and support, we won't just send them a message, we're going to send
00:53them away.
00:58Take back the House.
01:00Yes.
01:02Take back the Senate.
01:04Yes.
01:05Take back the power.
01:07Yes.
01:08Take back our country.
01:09Yes.
01:19This midterm election is going to be one of the most consequential elections of our lifetimes.
01:25I mean, we always hear that, but this is the one.
01:31We got to make him a lame duck.
01:33We have to stop his policies now.
01:36Another two years of this, and who knows what he'll be doing.
01:42He's calling to throw Democrats out of the country.
01:47And he means it.
01:49The guy means everything he says.
01:53I know we're all tired.
01:55We are so tired.
01:56But we can't give up now.
01:58We got the ball on the two-yard line.
02:01And we got to run it in.
02:04And then we got to keep running.
02:07We got to run to January.
02:09We got to make sure our people get seated.
02:12They're going to try and stop them.
02:14They're going to try and stop us.
02:15They're going to try and stop us from taking our country back.
02:19And we're not going to let them.
02:21Trump, we're not letting you.
02:23Hands off.
02:25Hands off.
02:27Hands off.
02:29Hands off our vote.
02:36Hands off.
02:36Now, the last.
02:42I'm going to Hulk out.
02:45You won't like me when I'm angry.
02:48Hey, I'm still here.
02:50They thought I was out for the count.
02:52I'm still here.
02:53I'm still playing the Hulk.
02:59Don't be scared.
03:00Don't be scared.
03:02They want to keep us afraid.
03:05Their only weapon is our fear.
03:07That's all they got against us is our fear.
03:11But when we see people step out, we get courage.
03:17We find ourselves belonging to something.
03:19It speaks to something inside of us that we're squelching, that we're hiding.
03:24We can't hide.
03:26We have to be together.
03:27And we have to fight for each other.
03:29And we have to be brave.
03:30And our time to be brave is coming.
03:32I'm telling you, brothers and sisters.
03:34They're going to do everything they can to keep us in our homes.
03:37They're going to do everything they can to make us feel small.
03:41They're going to do everything they can to make us feel lost.
03:44To make it feel inevitable.
03:46It's not inevitable.
03:48We're inevitable.
03:50The truth.
03:52The truth is inevitable.
03:56What's happening?
03:59Hello, hello.
04:01It's absolutely crucial that every vote actually counts.
04:06Everyone holds those representing us in office accountable.
04:14Quite honestly, it just hurts my heart because I believe most of these people are actually good people,
04:19but they believe they're misguided in such a really dangerous way where they're fed all this information on a consistent
04:29basis.
04:30It's not their fault.
04:31I don't want to close the door on them either.
04:33It's very important as someone who lives in the South, as someone who has dealt with everything that you could
04:38imagine.
04:39And I call myself a privileged refugee because I am.
04:42I'm blessed that God has protected me and my family and allowed me in a space like to be in
04:48America and to achieve the level of success that I'm able to have.
04:52I feel insanely grateful to just Friday sold out Radio City Music Hall as the first Arab American comedian to
05:01ever do so.
05:05To share it with my family, to share it with my family and and and the New Yorkers here and
05:11just to know that everything is truly achievable.
05:14But we can't lose hope.
05:17We cannot lose hope.
05:18These politicians are currently taking all this money and guiding everyone astray is just making me sick to my stomach.
05:25So get out there and vote again.
05:27Get out there and vote and make sure that every vote counts.
05:36How many kings?
05:38How many kings?
05:40Y'all, the enemy is not Trump right now.
05:42It's not the saboteurs.
05:43It's not the fascists.
05:45They're the opponents.
05:46We're going to crush them electorally.
05:47They're not the enemy.
05:48The enemy right now is fatalism and nihilism and cynicism.
05:51The thought that we're victims of world events.
05:54We are not victims.
05:56We are defining the future and we do it by reaching out to each other, organizing,
05:59training up and building a force that is impossible to ignore.
06:02The best way to take down an authoritarian is democratically.
06:05We're doing it in a couple of weeks.
06:16What's so fragmented is that we're not seeing each other as one group.
06:22We're seeing each other as, you know, this person or that person or that group.
06:26So when I look at that, it's coming together.
06:29We need to do that because this is much bigger.
06:32We have a challenge with, you know, our mayor who's, you know, remarkable,
06:37especially what we've gone through in past years and the resistance that he's getting.
06:43It's a reflection of hands off and let us do what we need to do,
06:48which is to have a city where people can grow and a world.
06:51So that's why I'm here. I just do every, it's like all these small acts are the important things.
07:01Get out and vote. I mean, it's really important.
07:05If we want to see change, the only way we're going to see it happen is if we participate.
07:12Let our voice be heard, you know, let us vote.
07:14I mean, that's a common thing that you should be able to just be, you know,
07:17this is American right is to vote. And, you know, if they're trying to suppress it and trying to
07:23make it harder to vote, it's not right. So, you know, New York is strong. So New York is going
07:28to stand up.

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