In terms of impacts, look, there's a ton of things, I'll start off and
give you guys a chance to think.
So yeah, I'm proud of just democrats, and yeah,
it's been an interesting sometimes bumpy ride, right?
But I remember when Ro Khanna came here and he said, yeah,
I joined just democrats and he was an incumbent and had no reason to do it.
It was nothing but risk for him and it involved primary incumbents and
he was going to catch a ton of crap for that and he knew it.
He was already one of the guys who didn't take corporate pac money.
So that was easy but it was good and he was already in honest and decent person.
And then when we started and nobody thought we can get anybody and
then we won those four spectacular victories.
AOC receded to leave Ilhan Omar Ayanna Pressley for
the establishment that one left a mark.
And it's still leaving a Mark and Jamal Bowman and
Cori Bush and Marie Newman and others came in afterwards.
And so along with you guys and by the way,
you guys put in $2.5 million in that first 2018 cycle.
Okay, if you hadn't done that,
I don't know that that crew exists and certainly exists in that form.
Cuz they became friends and they became the squad,
because they were all injustice Democrats together.
Right, Katie Porter was in the same class, but was not injustice Democrats, so
she didn't become part of the squad for better or for worse, right?
And so she does wonderful work, so does Jamie Raskin etcetera.
But that's what brought them together and you guys did that.
And I don't know if all four win, I don't know if all four lose without you guys,
right, but it's certainly possible that two of them wouldn't have one, right.
>> Some of those races were close.
>> They were really, really close.
>> As they were coming in.
Yes and obviously AOCs was literally the most
amazing political upset in American history.
And so we pulled that off together guys.
And so the mainstream media, we tell you every once in a while but
yeah, we annoy them, we bother them because we're constantly criticizing them.
I get it from their perspective, but they're doing it wrong [LAUGH].
>> And it's it's a similar thing is what you talked with shows and
stuff here when you can't pay off people and they were coming for your donors.
They can tell these folks will come to your donors and be like, okay.
>> And they backed down right away, but we won't back down and
that's because of you guys.
And so it drives them nuts, so they're not gonna wanna give us and
give you guys a lot of credit for starting an entire wing of the Democratic Party.
But you did, but you did okay.
And they're there and they're strong and they're only gonna get stronger,
by the way, Nina Turner dot com slash hello?
Let's make that much stronger.
Nina turner.com/hello, see I'm still doing it, I'm still plugging.
>> [LAUGH] >> And then I'll end on this and
then I want to let you guys talk the rest of the time.
The night that Trump won, we were at our lowest, but
at that moment instead of giving up what we decided to do was fight back harder.
And that's where justice democrats came from.
And Ida Rodriguez says that quote all the time,
which I love her for, she reminded me of it.
She said, I turned to you on air and said Jank we lost, now what are we gonna do?
And I said now we fight, okay, and the idea that I told you guys about
at that time was we're gonna build a pirate ship of progressives.
We're gonna pull it up to the Democratic Party's aircraft carrier and
we're gonna board the ship and then we're gonna take the ship.
What cost us in 2016 and this monster got elected was democratic weakness.
So we are going to use democratic weakness against them and
we have now boarded the ship.
We haven't yet taken it over, but they're on the ship and
the takeover has begun, we will eventually take the over.
The corporate democrats are too weak by their nature and
we will run the Democratic Party.
>> You haven't noticed there's two different kinds of criticisms that many
opponents to Democrats have.
You see the kind of the kind of criticisms there for Nancy Pelosi's and the chuck
schumer's versus the lcs, Rasheeda Talib, Ayanna Pressley's it's different.
It's just straight for look at these limousine lives and you know what they're
saying and they do this and they do that, they don't really mean what they say.
All the attacks on many of these younger more hungry folks that wanna follow
through on their promises when they campaigned is,
can you believe they said that?
What is this policy the LC wants?
Can you believe he's talking about the green new deal?
They have to address the issues cuz that's what they're talking about rather than
man, which we did as well.
Pelosi and her ice cream freezer cuz that's what she's putting herself out.
Pelosi and Chuck Schumer standing looking like the farmer and
the wife because that's the stuff they do.
And and the kneeling down with the kinetic loss because that's what they do.
It's a lot of show and you'll be able to see the two differences.
So this may be like we seem like there's this fight when it comes to how
conservatives are addressing many progressives.
The actual progressives in the party and
how much more viciously they come for them.
But that's a bit of a badge of honor because those are the ones that they're
most afraid of.
These are the folks that are continuing through with what they said,
they'll do even if it's not all there yet.
They're still continuing what they said they'll do, and
they're afraid that it just might happen.
And their biggest allies could be some of these most establishment democrats who
are just window dressing and then doing nothing behind the scenes.
As you said, they still have the control, but we're seeing the differences here and
maybe even Democratic voters do too.
>> Yeah, John.
>> I mean, I think one of the big ones, obviously you talked about us helping
raise awareness of a lot of candidates, including many who didn't win.
But might run again and might win the next time around,
how many primary nights have we done over the past years?
Like literally coming in, everybody together, full production for
one states primaries because we believe all of these elections matter.
Now the mainstream media is not gonna cover this and
we didn't win a lot of those.
But you grind it out and
gradually you you get a suite of people in Congress that are awesome.
But I think the large one obviously is, I'm sure he would have been fine anyway.
But we were very important early on and
raising awareness about Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
And providing a place for community to come together for
coverage of it discussion, like to take it seriously.
It wasn't just a joke to us, like the mainstream media was addressing it like,
it's him and Mike O'Malley or whatever, like it's inevitable.
Hillary's gonna win, whatever, it doesn't matter what they do, but
we knew that it did matter, and even though he lost and that was devastating.
So much of what's true about our politics has been fundamentally altered by his run.
And we helped to make sure that people knew that he was a person that you
can get excited about and you can and should take seriously.