For those of you who didn't see it yesterday, we're trying. to crowdsource a peaceful revolution. And so what we're going to try to do is unite folks, left, middle, right, on things we agree on and see if we can actually bring change from the outside. Has this ever been done before? Actually, one time, by John Stuart. [00:00:18] He put so much pressure on Congress from the outside to fund the health care of first responders. On nine over 11, the sick, corrupt politicians, after talking about nine, 11, nine, 11, nine, 11, had cut the funding for health care, [00:00:34] for those first responders. And John Stuart did such a brilliant job of putting pressure on publicly that they said, oh, yeah, we meant to do it. Yeah, of course, of course we meant to serve the American people, the first responders. They got caught. That was the first time that I've ever seen anyone catch them from the outside. [00:00:50] And so I love it. And I think it could be done again and again and again and again. Look, you'll have the skeptics. No. No question. In fact, we did the, first episode yesterday. And then I checked out some of the comments. And I don't know if it's like Israeli bots that are doing some sort of talking point [00:01:07] or some other disaffected weirdos or something, but they're like, oh yeah, you want us to do this revolution together? Well, I'm not going to pay you. Who asked you to pay me? Like, we literally say the exact opposite. Normally paying members pay for this bonus episode. [00:01:23] And normally we don't do this. We do more stories, we do personal stories, etc. But in there, like infinite generosity, in my opinion, they were like, no, let's make it free to everyone. So look, every part of this is optional. That no one asks you for money, no one's asking you like, oh, [00:01:41] you have to do this if you like the idea and you think that maybe we should try, maybe we can regain our democracy. Maybe we can work together. Then do it if you want. Do it if you like, right? If you don't like it and you just want to make fun, by the way, that's okay too. [00:01:57] God bless. I don't mind. I don't need the whole country to do it. We only need actually, within the scope of the 350 million people in America. We need less than 1% to actually try this together. And if we try it together, I swear to you, we're going to get the results. [00:02:13] I saw Jon Stewart do it. We can do it. I'm positive of it. Okay. And again, I think I can show you how. And we are going to go step by step. So now that brings us to the second step today. So yesterday I laid out what the program was. Today we're going to be more interactive okay. [00:02:29] And today we're going to do something where we're going to try one thing together if we can. Okay. So I'm in a whole bunch of you wrote in yesterday with suggestions. And I'm going to touch on some of those. I liked some of those. [00:02:45] I want to talk about whether we should do some of those. And and I love what you guys are doing in that regard. But if we can, let's do. Kate, do you have Mark Perkins, graphics. So if. You get them ready, don't don't put them up yet. So we've been, one of the things that I suggested yesterday was, [00:03:03] why don't we try to lower drug prices? You say, well, that's impossible. You got big pharma. They're even bigger than AIPAC. Way bigger. They control almost all of Congress, etc.. But, good news. Rokana took a Donald Trump executive order verbatim, turned it into a bill, [00:03:20] and that would actually, create, give us the drug prices that other developed nations pay, which is way, way, way lower. So it would do a great job of lowering drug prices. There's no reason for Republicans to object to Trump's executive order, no reason for Democrats to object because it's completely Democratic policy. [00:03:37] Great. Trump and the Democrats agree. Wonderful. So let's get it done. So how many co-sponsors does he have now? By the way? It's called H.R. 3493 Global Fairness in Drug Prices Act. Right. So how many co-sponsors does Rhokana have now? [00:03:53] Three. Okay. So that's the name of the act. And Don Dada Dragon already wrote in during the show, saying that he already pushed it out. I love it, and we have a tool that you could use to to do that in, in terms of emailing your representatives. [00:04:09] And that's Titcomb slash prices. And what you'll see is there's already a little bit of a script. You can change it any way you like, write whatever you want, but always be polite. Guys, I'm going to talk more about that in a second. But if you're a Republican Senate to your Republican congressman, if you're [00:04:25] a Democrat, Democratic congressman, but or any congressman and ask them, hey, if they're Republicans, please pass this bill, which is Trump's executive order. If they're Democrats, please pass this bill that is Democrat or Democratic health care policy. Okay. So this is an interesting list of the folks who are co-sponsors of this bill. [00:04:44] You got Ro Khanna on the left and you've got, Marcy Kaptur on the left. And she's a solid, Democrat and progressive largely throughout her career. And then on the right you have three people, actually. Actually five overall. Elijah Crane, a Republican of Arizona. [00:05:02] Andy Biggs, Republican of Arizona, a very extreme right winger. But he's like Trump's executive order. Yeah. I'm in. And then the fifth person is Representative Luna. Anna. Paulina. Okay. So and she's on board. So those are two very right wing folks I don't know much about. [00:05:21] Elijah Crane, but okay, that's a good start. So you got, you know, five guys, but five out of 435 members of Congress. They should all be on board for this. So that's why we want to reach out to them. So today we're going to try something where we all reach out to the same person [00:05:38] on in all these different ways, including social media. And that's representative Mark Pocan. Now, why are we picking Mark Pocan? Is that because he's a bad guy? No, we're picking him from the exact opposite reason. He's a really good guy. He's a good progressive and I'm sure that he's in favor of this policy. [00:05:55] I'd be shocked if he wasn't in favor of this policy. So it's like you'd be surprised at how little communication there is within Congress. And as long as leadership isn't pushing something, sometimes a really good idea will just stay dormant there. [00:06:10] So in the most polite and friendly way we can, let's all, In a sense, you're helping Representative Pocan. Hey, representative Pocan, we know you're a progressive, and we know you like this idea. So can you sign on to be a co-sponsor of H.R. 3493? [00:06:29] Okay, so we got a social media. Can we put that up? All right. So on ex, he's representative Mark Pocan. So rep Mark Pocan Mark with a K on Instagram Instagram. Same thing rep. Mark Pocan Facebook. Just mark Pocan okay. [00:06:46] So reach out to him in those ways. Do not be impolite. He's a good guy. There's no need to do anything wrong, just say, hey, there's this great bill Global Fairness and Drug Prices Act. Can you help? Right. And if you want to email him, remember, that's easier in a sense [00:07:01] because we already have that program that allows you to do it automatically. So title drug prices for that. Okay. So now this started from operation Hope, which is a lot of great Young Turks viewers who've been trying to drive for positive change now for well over a year. [00:07:19] We worked on the Maine Ballot initiative to get money out of politics, and it passed, and that felt great. And so some of them might start to gather up some volunteers and help in that regard, but they can tell you they've sometimes gotten people to sign on representatives [00:07:36] or candidates to sign on to the populist plank that I couldn't get. So we're going to see if combined, we have a little bit more power than individually. So and and guys, as I've been saying throughout, I'm not promising any results. I'm promising effort, so I don't know how many of you guys are going to reach out [00:07:54] to Representative Pocan on social media and how many are going to email him, and I don't know how much of a difference it's going to make. But what's interesting and amazing about this is we're going to find out together. Okay. And if, by the way, if one method fails, then we'll try another method. And another method. Right. [00:08:09] So this is the first thing we're trying in terms of reaching a specific congressperson. And again we're picking him because he's a good guy and likely to respond. And then if that works with Representative Pocan, then we'll go to the next representative and the next representative, and we'll do both Democrats and Republicans. [00:08:26] Okay. Imagine it works. How good will you feel? And then you will definitely get to say, I did that right. Imagine. It works so well eventually. Then we get a vote on the bill and it passes. And then you have lower drug prices. And so do your neighbors, your family and your friends. [00:08:42] You walk around town like the most proud person in America, because you'll have participated in democracy and moved move democracy and gotten real results not just for yourself, but for all Americans. And that'll be beautiful thing if we can get it done. [00:08:57] Okay. So again, right in today and I will, tell you guys I'll interact with you more. Oh, I see they can email Pokemon through the website if they live in his district. [00:09:14] So that's if you live in Pokemon's district in Wisconsin, but otherwise. And here's another thing, guys. If you know a better way to reach legislators, you're going, oh, Jake, you're asking him to do social media or email. No, no, no, there's already a program that does X, Y, or Z write in and tell us, [00:09:31] okay, no pride of authorship here. Guys. We want you to come up with better ideas than us and better methods than us. All right. Just real quick on the members. One last thing about that. And then I'll go to, some of the suggestions that you guys had. So, we did a poll, right? [00:09:49] Of, Should we make the bonus episode free and public for everyone? And 73% said yes and 19% said not sure yet, but I'm open to the idea and 8% said no. I like the traditional bonus episode format, and I don't blame you. [00:10:05] A lot of people do love it, and I appreciate that. And in fact, one of you guys wrote in and convinced me, who was it? Oh, it was patience. A couple of you wrote in, But patience, made a really good point. She said, hey, you know, you guys sometimes talk about the old days when the [00:10:24] bonus episodes were more personal stories. And whenever you do that on either a bonus episode or an old school, you know, I really love that. And a lot of our members. Do you know what? Okay, so we came up with an idea. Look at how interactive this is. Your idea turns into this at the end of all of these episodes, [00:10:42] I'm going to do a story of the day that is just for our members. So that doesn't have to do with operation Hope. That doesn't have to do with this campaign. And by the way. Like, for example, today we have an interview coming up at 530, so I'll do it after the interview. Okay. So whatever's the end of the day, I'll do about five ten minutes [00:10:59] on a story of the day. And today's story of the day is, and if you're a right wing, brace for impact. Remember, we're on the left. We're working together. But I'm on the left, and most of our viewers are on the left. So I'm going to tell you how I changed my behavior because of what Ice is doing. [00:11:18] And I noticed that I changed it. I was like, oh, no. So, that story is from when I was in Chicago. I'll tell you about it, at the very end of this stuff. So end of this and end of the interview. Okay. You get it. So now let's, let's go to some of your suggestions. [00:11:36] Okay. First of all, I asked for, polls showing that the American people, think the politicians are not honest, that they mainly represent their donors. I, we couldn't quite find the one where they had that. Great question. [00:11:52] Do you think the politicians represent their donors or their voters? And 93% said donors. But there's many other polls and they're all sky high numbers, right? So, for example, in peace for peace wrote in yesterday, saying a Gallup poll asked, how much influence do you think each of the following has on how members [00:12:09] of Congress vote on legislation? Among four groups, major donors got far more a lot of influence responses than people in their district. 64% said donors have a lot of influence versus only 14% for their constituents. So that's a much lower number than one than that I cited. [00:12:26] But even if you take that's the most, that's the lowest number I've seen. But even then, 64% say they represent their donors. Only 14% say they represent their constituents. How broken is this democracy? There's one more poll. [00:12:41] Eclectic. Found this one. I don't know if this is what Jack is thinking of, but a Pew study that says 80% of donors have too much influence on elected politicians, and 73% say lobbyists and special interest groups have too much influence. Large majorities of Republicans and Democrats alike say campaign donors, [00:13:00] lobbyists and special interest groups have too much influence. So that ones that got it at 80%. So at a bare, bare minimum, 80% of Americans say donors have way too much influence. 100% of mainstream media says no, they don't know they're having real debates, and none of them are crooks [00:13:19] that are just taking money from the donors and doing as they're told. No. And if you say that you'll be fired from mainstream media. We need access. We need access to the politicians here at TYT. We don't need access. Politician does the right thing. Ro Khanna on this drug bill. Tom Massie on opposing Israel's genocide. [00:13:37] Super happy to give them credit. But if they do the wrong thing, which is 95% of politicians, When we rhetorically, verbally kicked their ass. Okay. Never physical, never violent. I'm going to say that 100 times. Always peaceful. Okay. [00:13:52] But we are going to engage in democracy aggressively, verbally, rhetorically and politically. Okay. So by the way, guys, there you go. I asked you to be our research department. You're our research department. I asked for polls. You give me polls, I love it, I love it. That's how we work together, okay? [00:14:09] And others volunteered different things. And I appreciate all you guys. All right, so questions. Just read a book. Said do we email Pokemon Daily? Yeah, that's a good question. Look, I don't want to get to the point where it looks like we're harassing them. That. Could there be a time for that later? [00:14:27] Not physically, but verbally. Politically could. But this is definitely not the time. We're being polite here. So let's whatever you think is a cadence that makes sense to you, right? So if you were a representative and someone emailed you [00:14:45] every five minutes, you'd be annoyed. You'd be like, all right, dude, I got it. Hold on. I didn't even get a chance to respond yet. But if it's an important thing and it's something that I'm likely to agree on, and they remind me once a day, yeah, that might make sense. We're figuring this out on our own. Right? And you guys tell me, hey, if they wind up having a good reaction, great. [00:15:04] And then I got to come back out here and go. Stop, stop, stop. They already said yes. Right. So. But until you hear that. Yeah, as politely as you can remind them, daily makes sense. So. And it's better than emailing just once as Kara's pointing out. [00:15:23] Yeah. So. All right. Good question. Looking for Hope says I sent mine. I love this method. Tight is amazing. This is where my hope is. Strength in numbers, guys. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. Don Dada says. [00:15:38] Jake, could you please clarify for me? You said HR 3093 is the bill. But I also saw another bill by Senator Khanna, HR 3546 Prescription Drug Price Relief Act. Did I accidentally reference the wrong bill? No, you got the right bill. Ro Khanna is prolific, so he has so many bills like other congressmen are like, [00:15:58] oh, I introduced a bill in 2008. So and I do constituent services. Right. Ro Khanna is like I introduced 12 bills today and eight the day before and 12 the day before. Right. So, that is in fact a different bill and also a good bill. [00:16:16] But why are we focusing on the one that, lowers drug prices in the way that I described? Because that's Trump's executive order. So the Republicans have no reason to object. We're trying to find things we agree on. Right? By the way, if Republicans and independents saw Karna's other bill on [00:16:34] drug prices, they might love that one too. But that's for another day. Okay, but look at you doing the research? I love that you're looking it up already and seeing other things that are up there. So, Great. [00:16:51] All right. So. Oh, interesting. And, guys, I'm gonna have to read a lot of these blind. And then I want to come to some of the ones that you sent in yesterday. But let me do this one from Twitch. Salty Almond 9286 said former congressional aide here. [00:17:08] Congressman will only be influenced by their constituents. It also doesn't matter how you contact them, you'll be a tally for or against. It's nothing personal. It's just that a congressional office gets hundreds of thousands of comments, requests a year and has a staff under 20 people. You only count on one issue once. [00:17:24] Also, signing a petition does Jack, because we don't know if people are real or in the district. Okay, so that might sound like, oh wait, that sounds pessimistic or depressing. No, no, no, this person is trying to help us be more effective. So now, look, I think I get a couple of things out of that. [00:17:44] And Salty Almond if I've got it wrong right back in. Okay. But my sense of it is what they're saying is if you're in the district, great, awesome, wonderful, that's going to count a lot, right? I would argue call in and write in even if you're not in the district, because it gives them some sense. [00:18:01] Like there's basically they just said they're telling yes's and no's. So all of a sudden a ton of yeses show up. It's at least going to grab their attention right now. On the other hand, it seems like they're saying don't do it every day because once you call in and you're one person, they've [00:18:17] already counted you so and fair, fair. And they worked in a congressional office. But but I think that telling of the yes and the Nos is the biggest takeaway. So let's pile up a whole bunch of yeses and see if, if because especially [00:18:34] in the case of Mark Pocan, because I think he's likely to agree it just probably hasn't caught his attention. So let's see if we can catch his attention and and and get him to say yes. Oh. Here. Look. See, I knew it. Now we're getting somewhere. [00:18:50] Ford Country 420 writes in Mark Pocan, appears weekly on Thom Hartmann Show, and they take calls on the air. So that would be a good way to contact him. So look. Thom Hartmann and I used to be really good friends and allies. [00:19:06] He's a smart guy. He's a good progressive. During this election cycle, a little bit of a falling out, because Thom was disastrously wrong about something. That's my interpretation. So, Who cares? The past is the past. [00:19:21] Okay. So if it's on, Hey, can you tell us which day Mark Pocan is on Tom show? Because then I'll have you guys go watch Tom show and call in and ask Mark Pocan if he can do this. If he hasn't said yes by then. And. And I'm going to repeat it for a billion times. [00:19:38] And we're going to ask him as friends, not enemies. Right. And so, and he's never said no, that's super clear. He just hasn't had a chance to to voice his opinion on that. So if we don't reach him through social media or emails, [00:19:53] we'll call him on Tom Hartman's show. Perfect. Beautiful. Okay, guys, when it works, you're going to love it and you're going to feel really good about it. All right. Let's see what happens. Kg writes in on YouTube. Love this idea. Tight. [00:20:08] His office met with me in DC about mental health for students. See, that's what I'm telling you. He's a good guy. He's the most likely to listen. I didn't pick him by accident. Okay. Kg also wrote it's all about the staffers. Reach out to the staffers and get to know them. They're the ones that bring ideas back to the legislators. [00:20:26] Another good point, KG so when you're on, if you get them on the phone, be polite and say, hey, we're on your side. And we believe in Representative Pocan and we think that he's likely to sign on to this. We just wanted to let you know. And if you get into a little bit of a conversation with the staffer, [00:20:42] that's friendly, that's a good thing. That makes them more likely to support you, more likely to bring it to the representative. So we're starting to build those muscles for how to reach our legislators and for how to do democracy. Okay. Sid wrote in yesterday I love this idea. [00:21:00] Get users to upload an infinite scroll with search. I want to help with the design. Oh, that's about the kids in Gaza. And a lot of people wrote in about that. All right, let's try something on that too. So and maybe another person wrote in, maybe we could use AI for this. [00:21:16] Guys, I wish I could do this more efficiently, give you all the credit you deserve for whoever comes up with the ideas. But so many of you wrote in yesterday, I'm just trying to synthesize it, right? But can someone out there find a list of the names of folks who have [00:21:33] died in Gaza and send it in to us. So at least that's a starting point. And if. And can any of you out there find a list of children in specific who have died in Gaza with their names? And so that's point one. [00:21:48] And oh, you could always email us if you found something at Hope at Titcombe. That's hope at Typekit. Okay. Very simple email address for you to send in that information. Then I came up with an idea based on what you guys sent in, as I said, [00:22:06] and I thought, hey, you know, we already know one name, right? And that's Henry John. And so so she's, of course, a six year old girl, who was killed by the IDF. And they killed the ambulance drivers that came to rescue her, etc.. [00:22:23] There's a great movie about it from Watermelon Pictures. Got like a 20 minute standing ovation in the Cannes Film Festival. It's heartbreaking to see what happened to her, but. So we got this website Kids of Gaza. Com do I know how we're going to take your stuff and put it on there? [00:22:38] No I don't are we going to figure it out together. Yes. Right. So we somebody has her picture. Send it in. And if a lot of you send in her picture that's okay. Could we find her picture on our own. Yeah. But participate. Right. But okay, so that's the easy one. Slightly harder one, although it's out there in a lot of places. [00:22:57] Is her bio just like, I don't know, two, three, four paragraphs about who she was and what happened to her. Okay. And and then, you know, at the end, you know, we tell folks if and I'm [00:23:12] not quite sure how we're going to do this and we'll do it in social media, I don't know if we'll do it on the website, but, you know, whether they've passed away or they're still alive. And in her case, we obviously know that she's passed away. Right. But she could be the first person we put up on Kids of gaza.com. [00:23:27] And then maybe we could take that and put it up as a social media post on tight, or if some of you turn it into a social media post of your own, maybe we could just amplify your social media post, right? And remember, guys, we can't do every idea and we can't amplify every [00:23:44] social media post, but we can do some. And so if you've got a great one, great, wonderful, let's all push that one out, let's like it, share it, etc.. So I'm like, maybe by tomorrow we'll already have it up on the website, [00:24:00] or somebody will already have put it up on social media, or we'll have put it up on social media and we'll try our first one and see what the reaction is. And then by the way, after that, you know, if we do it tomorrow, then on Monday, I'll tell you how it went. And that's, by the way, another interesting mystery. [00:24:17] So are they are the posts going to get 13 likes and not be a big deal. And it didn't work or whoa, 200,000 people, saw that post. 2000 people shared it. ET etc. I don't know. We'll find out. Okay. [00:24:34] So I like that we're building on these ideas. Eddie Jameson made a point about primaries and how he's gung ho on pushing for that because we were talking about primaries yesterday. Dominic. The seventh, maybe saying he's starting an independent party in upstate New York, [00:24:54] because he can't stand the Democrats and the Republicans, and they never do anything for us. Look, brother, give it a go. I want everybody participating in democracy. Okay. Oh, Ford country for 20 wrote back in Spokane is on. [00:25:09] Thom Hartmann show on Wednesdays. So watch or listen to Thom Hartmann show on Wednesday if we haven't already gotten Mark Pocan to say yes and call in and politely ask him to sign on to H.R. 3493, Global Fairness in Drug Prices Act, Global Fairness and Drug Prices Act. [00:25:29] Okay. Sutton says tight needs a hashtag to amplify members posts. There it is. Yeah. You know, hashtags don't work as well as they used to, but, but they still work in some instances, so that's a good point. [00:25:46] You guys suggest hashtags both for the drug prices one and for the, kids of Gaza one. Okay. And and we'll pick one and we'll use it in social media. Jack Callahan said I sent that in regarding Gaza children. [00:26:01] All right. Thank you. Jack. Nice job. Oh, I did see your name on the list. That's right. Oh, good point. Church says Jack. Maybe, Palestine Children Relief Fund people can help you get those names, so that's a good point. Plus, I know the guys that care. Right. [00:26:18] That's the Council on American-Islamic relations. And maybe they could reach out to their, followers because a lot of them have family in Gaza. So all right Now you're. That's good. That's what we want. You. So both Cara and I will, Oh, Cara is saying it's better for people to tag us, [00:26:39] I hear you, maybe we'll try both. We'll try both and see what happens. Anyway, Cara is our community director. Cara, in the middle of Nebraska, nearly won, nearly beat Don bacon. And she's an amazing community director. So car and I will chase down those ideas. So, Palestine Children's Relief Fund and care to see if they can help [00:26:58] with this project? I mean, Jesus, we could do this all day. You guys are coming up with terrific ideas and and trying to make and getting this to work. And here we go. All right, these are done. I've only got, like, 90s left. [00:27:18] Oh, Corey. Jonathan. Is it Jonathan or Corey? No. Corey suggested that we do crowdfunding. Hold on, hold on. We're not going to do any funding until we know what we're funding. Right? So maybe that comes way later. But it has to be a good reason. But I don't want to ask anybody for money. [00:27:33] I just want effort. I want to do this through democracy and and, you know, and tears. But not the first one. So. Others suggest there's so many good ideas. [00:27:50] All right. I'm going to run out of time today. All right. We'll synthesize more tomorrow. We'll get your ideas from today. All right. Last one here. Over 9000 road. Can we start drafting a bill that will call for an American equivalent of the vote of no confidence that Parliament has? [00:28:06] We need a way to hold elected officials accountable without just sitting around waiting for the next vote. So, no, unfortunately, there is no such process in the American system. But, voting all of the incumbents out in primaries, that's a vote of no confidence if you're an incumbent. [00:28:22] So last thing, then, the example of AIPAC and the Israeli lobby. We have a pledge on on our website. That if your representative has taken money from a foreign government or allies [00:28:39] of a foreign government like the is the PACs that support Israel and America, you pledge to never vote for them again, and you don't have to vote for the other party. That's why primaries are awesome. You go vote in your primary, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, and just vote against that incumbent who took Israeli money because you're supposed [00:28:57] to represent us, not a foreign government. All right, we're on the board. This is our second day. A bunch of great ideas. We're going to try to execute a couple of these. We're going to try the kids of Gaza. We'll start with Henry. We'll try Mark Pocan, see if we can get a win on the board. For all of you who are participating, I love you for participating. [00:29:16] And tomorrow I'll give you updates on it. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.