April 14, 2025 • 48 mins
The Push The Line nonpartisan political training program, founded by Tezlyn Figaro, is designed to train political candidates, campaign workers, activists, and organizers.
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Good afternoon, everybody, Good afternoon. So I wanted to do
a quick training guy, So push the line in case
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you don't know. It is a training program that I have.
It is nonpartisan, nonpartisan training. The first one that we
did was in twenty twenty two in Atlanta, Georgia. We
had three hundred people that came from all over the
country to Atlanta. The training is for those who may
want to possibly run for office, those who make you know,
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think about running or maybe running a campaign right now.
The second is for campaign workers. We call them or
campaign operatives as well, so you may hear a campaign
operative or campaign worker, which means like your volunteer coordinator,
your campaign manager, your volunteer coordinator, anything that actually works
on a political campaign. The third is organizer, a community
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organizer which rallies people around certain issues, may be pushing
a certain issue. And then activists. I've even parsed out
activists because an activist may be somebody screaming and yelling
in the comments, protests in person, but may not actually organize,
meaning actually do the work, the planning, everything that's required.
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And you may see a lot of these folks on
YouTube who are galvanizing, getting you engaged, excited, upset, aware
of an issue, but it doesn't mean that they actually organize,
that they actually organize. So I've even set that to
the side to make sure that we deal with these
issues separately. If you come to the training, I am
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your trainer. The first one will be June fourteenth, Saturday,
June fourteenth virtual. People have asked what can you do
the training virtual? And I was kind of hesitant. I
only want to do it in person, but it looks
like virtual is the best option. I have invested in
the training platform. I'm very very excited about it. I've
been working on material today. You're gonna get a lot
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of information in the course. Information I'm giving you that
you can download and then a live, interactive, interactive session
with me two hours and we're gonna go through the
information now. Push the Line is a five course, five
different courses. Each one deals with a certain issue. But
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whether you're running, thinking about running, or want to be
an organizer or an activist, you will get something out
of it. Even people get a lot out of business
as well, because I give you so much information, Thank you,
doctor Tiffany. I give you so much information that you
just absolutely no way in hell you don't get something
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from it. Now, the first course is called We Are Soldiers.
That's where you actually find out what you want to
do if you want to be an activist, a campaign organizer,
a work on a campaign, as a campaign operative. You
actually get to learn those different roles, what those roles
and responsibilities are. And then the second one is Ambition
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of a Rider, and that's and shut out to me
for these titles number one. That's where you actually where
we start talking about the roles in depth, and we
go a little bit further. I'm not gonna give it
all the way because you guys need to get enroll
in the course. The third one after Ambition of a Rider,
the third one is thinking of a master Plan. That's
where we go through planning, fundraising, all those different things
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that you need regardless if no matter what role you play.
Then Stand on Business. That's my favorite one. And then
the final one is showed me my Opponent. So all
five of these courses, all of them will give you
the tools that you need at least as a starting point. So, guys,
I wanted to do this little free tutorial today just
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to give you a piece of what you will learn
in the class. By the way, the class is not free,
because things just can't be free. It will be fifty
bucks for two hours, twenty five dollars an hour, which
is certainly reasonable. As FYI, my raid, just so you know,
for my clients is one hundred and fifteen hour. Just
want to make sure we're clear. I start at one
hundred and fifteen hour. But this training is affordable. You
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don't have to do all five courses. You can do
whatever one you feel is important to you. You're going
to learn something regardless, and I think I'm going to
do it once a month. So it also gives you
time to work it in your budget to say, Okay,
fifty bucks a month, I'm going to go to this
class now. Right now, I'm going to give you a
piece of the type of information you will be learning.
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And the reason why I'm doing this because I had
a one of somebody on my team that sent me
a post about Jasmine crockett ysband. Crockett was talking about
immigrants and many of you, especially in the conscious community,
you know, said well, why she don't ever talk about
black issues, and why she not talking about reparations that way,
and why she not talking about this all the time.
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So I said, this will be a good, free, free,
little bite size information that I can give you, guys,
so that you can actually learn what you need to
know and have that information with you as you are
doing your critique of candidates. So, guys, the reason why
this course has candidates, operative organizers, activists is because each
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one of those are a different role. If you look
at my push the line logo, I have one person.
I could have two logos, the main one that you
see in the training, but then I have another one
where you have a person that pushes the P, the U,
the S, and the H. Each person does something individually.
You may be a part of comment caucus. You may
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be which is those who want to get on the
digital organizing. You may be an actual campaign worker and
operative like what Marcelli's does when he's working what we
call advance. You may want to be an actual candidate,
an elected official, or you may want to be an activist.
The problem is people don't understand the different roles. So
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what you do is you set yourself up for an
expectation that is one not accurate based upon the job description,
and two you set yourself up to say, well, the
elected officials not doing anything. Now, I also want to
put ownership on the elected official for not properly telling
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people what it is they actually do. The problem with
today's elected official is they want to do it all.
They want to be the elected official, they want to
be the organizer, they want to be the activist, and
they sometimes they want to be the campaign worker. Now
you will learn if you're running your small campaign how
you will have to put on multiple hats. But we'll
get to that in the actual training. But for the
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sake of this impromptu training, I want to talk about
thank you Tamer for asking people to hit the like button,
share it like button, all of that. And for those
who are asking what's the one for organizers again, co
T just help people in the comments. The training is
for everybody, whether you're an organizer, an activists, a candidate,
a campaign operative. You're going to get all of the
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information in any training that you sit down with me,
because the principles are the same and I'm going to
deal with each one depending on what your role is.
So let's just for this particular training, let's deal with
the elected official versus the activists. So many of you
are saying, well, why Jasmine or anybody else for that matter,
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why is she not talking about black issues all the time. Well,
let me tell you exactly why. Now, whether y'all like
this or not, this is just a fact. And what
has happened is, guys, you have set yourself up to
expect an activists, to expect an elected official to be
an activist. Let me give you the definition of a
political candidate to seek election and convince the public that
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they are the best choice to represent their interests and
make decisions on their behalf. I want to make sure
I got people in the classroom. I need somebody to
put there thh ei r there there there there their interests,
meaning their constituent's interests. Now, let's deal with the activists.
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Definition of activists to raise awareness, influence the public, which
is what a lot of y'all doing these podcasts on
YouTube and pressure somebody, put pressure institutions or government to
make changes related to a Pacific issue specific issue like
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human rights, climate change, racial justice, education, etc. Now, this
is where y'all get the This is where y'all get
a twisted and confused. The elected official. The there, the
d h ei R is the constituents in their district.
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A congressional candidate has, probably, depending on how big it is,
hundreds of thousands, which is why I would never be
a federal candidate. When may y'all say tells you, why
don't you run for Congress, I'm not interested in that
at all. Explain why, uh a federal candidate has hundreds
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of thousands of people in their district? That is the there. Sean,
you're about to get put out of class? Do you
want to get put out of class? Because that's what's
about to happen. Sean, You're about to get put out
of class. Don't worry about the back. You don't already
made a comment about lipstick. You're not already comment about plant.
You're about to get y'all know you one of my regulars.
You're not gonna sit up here and to be disruptive
in this class. So, Sean, do you want to get
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put out of class? Or what I'm I'm gonna make
you put out of class? And then write one hundred times,
a thousand times. I will not disrupt the class and
make you upload it to my DM before you get
back in alive. That's what's going to happen if you
keep it up, because I know you want of my
regulars stop disrupting. You're doing the work of the enemy
right now. So they're the t eir No, it's not
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a problem, love it the tchei R. They are representing
hundreds of thousands of constituents. This is not making an
excuse for any black elected official. Absolutely, they should be
concerned about their community, like Rachida Taliba is concerned about
the Palestinian community. They absolutely I would expect them to
lead most things considering their black blackness. However, if you
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are a political candidate, hundreds of thousands of people vote
for you, and you are representing all of their interests.
So when you hear elected officials talk about a little
bit of everything, that's what they're supposed to do. Because
if they especially if they're a congressional candidate, are a
presidential candidate, that's exactly what they're supposed to do. So
I know you guys love sharing the wyn. Harris said,
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I can't just only help black people I know y'all
love sharing it. I know y'all love talking about that,
but that's the point of being an elected official. That's
why I'm not interested in being one, unless it is
for a city commissioner, which you guys don't like. Y'all
don't like city commissioner because y'all it's not sexy enough
for you. But a city commissioner in a small town
like South Fulton, because South Fulton in Georgia is ninety
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eight percent black, so all of my constituents would be black,
so I could just talk about black black black black
black black black. Not interested in a congressional position because
that means I got to talk about everybody's issues and
everybody's community, and I'm just not that type of a candidate.
I would rather only talk about the issues that motivate
me in politics. So that is why I'm not a candidate,
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especially on a federal level. Maybe possibly one day on
the local, but why I can't be a candidate on
a federal level because I actually understand the job description. Now,
these candidates they go wrong and making you believe that
they're going to talk about one thing more than the other.
That's on them because they should absolutely be clear on
what their job description is, and it is to represent
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everybody in their district. Now, Trump did a little bit different.
He said, damn everybody in America. He's only gonna push
a line for the people that voted for him. That's
actually kind of how it works. But if you are
in a district, I know y'all want, oh, he everybody's president,
and no, not really, he only got to please the
people that put him in. I know y'all don't like that.
I know that's not the way that y'all are. I
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know y'all got y'all felt real good when Obama said,
I'm still your president. I'm everybody's press. But the reality
is you're supposed to cater to the people that got
you in because those are going to be the people
that keep you in. Will deal with that later on.
With that said, if you are depending upon your district,
and you are at a diverse district, and I'm using
jas Min Crockett as an example, not making excuse. Y'all
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love running with excuses. Y'all really got a cult mentality.
But anyway, using Jaz mccrockett as an example, the reason
why she's talking about immigration she's in Texas, somebody put
in Texas. Are you aware how many immigrants are in Texas?
Is on the border, guys, So she's going to talk
about immigration. And if you don't get that, it's because
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you've been listening to outside influences that are saying she
should be this and she should be that, which that
is what an activist is supposed to do. We're gonna
get to that in a moment. But the elected official
talks about their thh eir their constituents, not you there,
not me there, I'm not the there, the actual constituents.
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That's a lot of times why you see these nationalties
candidates that go national and do a lot of these
national media why they end up crashing out. What do
you mean by that, Teslam? It's not about doesn't make
it right? A little walk, It's what it is. See,
when you sign up for a job, you have to
do the job descriptions. What do you mean it doesn't
make it right? If I'm saying I am asking a
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hundred one thousand people to vote for me to represent
their interest, that means I have to do a little
bit of both. See, this is where you're getting confused.
The activists is supposed to push the candidate to make
sure that their interest is getting pushed. That there's an
animation the who WHG. I love that cartoon because it's
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a bunch of little people screaming, say, hey, what about me?
What about me? The activist is supposed to put the
pressure on the candidate to make sure that their interest.
So that means, if I'm a black actives, hey what
about black people? What about black people? If I'm a
immigration what about immigration? What about immigration? If I'm health care,
what about health care? What about health care? And whoever
is the loudest, whoever puts the most pressure, whoever is
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the most responsible to get that candidate elected or unelected,
those are the ones that get their their issues handled first.
That's how it works. It's not about don't make it right.
Let's be smart, let's put on our thinking caps. I'm
telling you what the job description is. So you're supposed
to push the candidate. For sure, talk about black iss,
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you talk about black as, you talk about black iss,
you talk about black gets absolutely, But that candidate also
has to listen to everybody else that votes them in.
That's why I'm not interested in a congressional seat because
you have to plase too many people. What do you mean,
how do we get ahead? You organize harder, you activate harder.
I'm glad you asked that question. There's a big difference
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between an activist that is screaming and yelling online and
an organizer. There is a big difference. This is what
y'all don't want to hear, but this is how it is.
There's a big difference between the activists and the organizer.
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The organizer actually gets people in the room, actually organizes,
actually plans, actually puts policy together, actually starts a pack,
actually gets movement. See. I can be an activist and
scream on this podcast all day, post these videos all day.
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But two weeks ago, when the one hundred and fifty
people came to the room, somebody in the comments put
came to the room, showed up in the room, drove
six hundred miles to be in the room, came from
Cleveland to be in the room, claim from New Jersey
to be in the room. Came from Houston to be
in the room, came from California to be in the room.
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That's called organizing. That's a difference between activists screaming in
the comments, what about us? And organizing to actually get
it done, boots on the ground, come on in the room.
Big difference. And how do you activists want to scream
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and yell online but you don't want to organize, and
then y'all run around saying the immigrants ain't got organized.
That's a flat out lie. Let's look at Michigan. The
Michigan campaign, will Rashida Talib organized. See, she wasn't just
yelling on the microphone, she wasn't just yelling on YouTube.
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She organized one hundred thousand people to raise their hand
and say I'm willing to sit out of the election
if there's no cease fire. And she didn't just say it. See,
anybody can say something in the comments. They actually organized,
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meaning put money together to actually get it on the ballot.
The word uncommitted. Are y'all following what I'm saying? I
know the podcasters don't want to tell you this because
then it makes them happy to actually organize. I appreciate
the activist. I appreciate the podcasters that activate, that do
activism work. But you must understand the difference. You gotta
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understand the difference, guys, when they started that Michigan campaign.
They got the money, they got a local pack political
action committee. Be quiet a little wat just listen. Of course,
you can focus on your people. Are you listening? What
I'm telling you is you need to find your role
within this and right now you're just talking and it
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needs you to listen. Needs you do more listening. Of course,
you can let me say loud. Of course you can
focus on your people. You're supposed to focus on your people.
But it's not just focusing on your people, it's finding
what your job is in this. I'm answering your question
on how do we get changed? Put your thinking cap
on and be quiet for a minute, or see me
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at the class Rashida to leave. They organized money, resources, muscle,
and hustle to get uncommitted on the ballot and had
one hundred thousand people go down to the voting precinct
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and not vote for Joe Biden but actually checked the
box to vote for uncommitted. Then they took those hundred
thousand numbers because now it's not just talking in the comments.
Y'all do a good job of talking in the comments,
but as soon as you start organizing, you're gonna really
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start seeing some real pressure because talking in the comments
does do a lot, don't get me wrong, but it's
the organizing side that you're missing. Then the media knew
for sure that it was one hundred thousand people that
said we ain't rocking with you, and that's when Trump
sided and the Democrat side had went and had a
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conversation with them. You're saying, how do we leverage that? First?
You need to organize. Don't worry about leveraging first, you
need to organize. See it steps to this. It's a process.
What do you mean you can leverage what you do?
You haven't organized yet, y'all love skipping the process. Yesterday
at the my ups store, he said, I'm looking for
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a sign. You know, I'm going to law school. I said, well,
I'm you a sign I just got admitted. He said, yeah,
I'm thinking about going to this school and going to
that school, and then after that, I'm gonna practice this
and I'm a practice dad. And da da da da dah.
He said, don't you have to take the l SAT?
I said, hold on, wait a manu, you don't even
know you have to take the l SAT. Okay, let
let's let's slow it down a little bit. First, take
the l S ahead, get a median score, then see
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where your score aligns with the school. Then actually put
it in your application, then put in your letters of reference.
Then do the work to be competitive. Then actually go
to law school. Then actually graduate law school, then actually
past the bar. Y'all love skipping the process. Y'all love
skipping process. Law school is a process. Organizing is a process.
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Politics is a process. Y'all hate process. Y'all want everything
to be in two minutes. That's why we got to
put too many clips out because y'all hate the process.
So you're not at the leverage stage. Because if I
would to ask you right now what organization are you
a part of that's actually organizing, you wouldn't have an answer.
So first you need to figure out how do I organize?
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How do I get busy? Being active in the comments
is one part of it, but you must organize. And
to say immigrants are not organizers is a lot because
dak of the Dream Network is one of the largest
packs in the country. They absolutely are organizing. They absolutely
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have a political action committee, They absolutely raise funds to
push immigrant issues. To say otherwise, it's just say flat
out live and it's miss leading you and to the
information that you actually need to organize put a five
minute chatter if it makes sense. So, yes, you are
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supposed to pressure the elected official. Absolutely, that is the
number one job of an activist, stay on their head
about our issues. But if you are expecting an elected
official to only talk about one single issue and not
everybody in their in their district, they will lose. That's
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why Bowmen who talk so much about the Palestinian plight,
which I'm mad, but he operated it like an activist
and crashed out. You know why he crashed out because
the majority, if not half of his district are Orthodox
Jewish people. So y'all mad, y'all blaming it on APAC No.
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And Bowman's a friend of mine, our colleague of mine,
and I told him the same thing. You can't do it.
Rashida to live do she as derboy Michigan. That's the
majority of Palestinians. So she was able to push a
hard line for GAZA and still be elected. You came
over and pushing a hard line with some of your
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district black folks, who I'm sorry, that's not what they're
talking about on a daily basis, it ain't no thin
line to walk. Listen to me. I'm the trainer. It
ain't a thin line to walk. So actually, very clear line.
You're not listening. I'm gonna have you see me after
the class a little walk. You're gonna be writing in
a minute're gonna be right now. I will listen. I
will slow down on ADHD, I will slow down on
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the knee to hurry up and type and not listen.
I'm just teasing. I will make you right though, and
submitted PDF. Well, you don't have to read the room,
miss Sumbling. You just need to read your constituents in
your district. The district is very clear. It tells you
who's in your district, how, what their issues are, what
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the demographics are. You ain't got to read the room.
The information is right there. Go to ballot Pedia, guys
and look at anybody's district, Like right now, Jasmin Krack,
at one hundred and thirty thousand people in their district.
I can see how everybody vote, who they rock with.
I can see her vulnerability, I can see all of that.
I'm gonna drop the link in here for any questions
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that you guys have taking questions on the YouTube. You
want to jump in and ask questions, you can turn
your lovy not you, sweetheart, because you love coming on here.
This is not we talk all the time. Let somebody
else come in and ask questions. Love you to death.
He's gonna always rock with me heavy. But this is
for people that have actual questions about the lesson today.
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I just dropped the stream. You can turn your camera
off if you have any questions. This is what you're
getting in the push the line training that we're doing
two hours at a time. This is the style of
training that you're getting, real life examples, real life on
how it actually works, on real time, real definitions, and
the absolute truth, the absolute truth. This is not about
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me trying to get clicks and likes and tell you
what you want to hear and throw out red meat
because I need to keep you upset. This is about
the real deal, based on the thirty plus campaigns that
I've worked under my belt. I'll take your questions now.
You can either type it in the at the bottom
of the comments or jump on the live. I am
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going to upload this to straight Shot No Chaser because
the information is just really, really good and we need
to get this information out. We must train you guys
on the various roles and how you can actually help
and get in where you fit in and what does
that look like in realistic expectations for the various roles.
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And I blame candidates for real, I really do. I
blame candidates because they want to do too much. They
want to be the activists, they want to be the
loudest one. They also want to be the candidate. They
also want to be the organizer, they want to be
a campaign managed, they want to do everything. And candidates
this is the reason why you see four hundred and
thirty five people in Congress and you only see less
than ten who are always on the microphone because they're
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filling many, many roles. And a lot of that is
because we don't have the leadership. We really don't. So
I know, I know why they feel like they gotta
do it. Because if I ask you to name five
activists who are loud on the national stage, you probably
can't name five. Damn show can't name ten unless you
go way back to the sixties. Al Sharpening all them.
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And I know a lot of y'all don't rock with
Al Sharping. Let's see up We're gonna bring Casey up,
and you are welcome to turn camera on or off.
I know a lot of people don't like the camera,
but I'm gonna bring you on up.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I don't mind having don't I don't mind having the cameraing.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Hello, I see you all the time to comments, thank
you for joining me.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
So I just thank you for this information. I'm super
excited that it's gonna be virtually because trying to make
them person is difficult, especially me who stays in Seattle.
My question is are you able to like what if
you're not sure where your strengths is? So like if
we take this these courses. When we take this courses,
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are you able to pinpoint or somebody on your team
able to pinpoint a strength and a person that can
guide them to You're better over here, you're better over there.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Make little sense. First of all, the training is with me,
So when you sign up a training, you're working directly
with me. When we open up the floor for questions,
if people have questions, I can answer that in order
for me to tell somebody, Hey, you know, is it
Casey or Cassie, Cassie Cassie. In order for me to say, oh, Cassie,
you're better at this or that. I would never do
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that because I haven't done a strength of SWAT analysis
with you. So when I'm working with people on on one,
I do a SWAT analysis for those who don't know strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. I can't just do that just off cuff.
You know that you're welcome to ask me a question
because it will be interactive just like this, but I
wouldn't be able to tell you what you're better at,
and also even what I what what I find a
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lot and I and by the way, i'm not working
with people one on one. I do want to put
that out there because a lot of people do ask
I don't. I just don't have that availability. But I'm
always able to answer questions. What people also will find
is you're going to give me the strengths and weaknesses
that you have assessed. I'm usually at my best when
I'm telling people something that they don't know. I'm telling
them what they think they know. I'm telling them what
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they thought you know. I've worked with a lot of people.
I'll use the Michelle's examples. She's like, oh no, I'm
good at this. No, actually you're good at something else.
So a lot of that comes in observation and working
with people. Somebody may not know their gift and they
may not be like you know, have you ever thought
about X, y Z. But to answer your question, the
training does like boot camp. So with boot camp in
(29:58):
the military, and I reference this on Jamal both of
Jamal Brin's podcast in the military's design to get you out.
It's designed when you sign up to make you question
everything about yourself. My style is very similar. Most of
your political trainings are designed to hype you up and
(30:18):
make you feel good and make you think you can
take on the world. I'm saying that as being a
student of Congressional Black Hawcast Political boot Camp. I've been
to Yell Law School for Women of Training. I've been
to Go Run Lead, I've been to the White House Project,
I've been the Ruthless Emilis List. I've been to all
the top trainings and they all kind of have the
same vibe with more focused on motivating you to take
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on the world. And then you leave with no real expectations.
You leave with feeling defeated when you get your first
know when you get your first reality of what it
really is. And so that's the reason why I did
this training because people need to know the real real deal.
So once you get through with my training, whether you
take one or off five, you will at least have
(31:02):
the information the toolbox to question yourself on I don't
know is this really for me or not me? So
you do get the information. I just can't tell you individually.
So for example, if somebody saying, I just do not
like raising money, I hate asking people for money, I
do too. I hate it. I even struggle with even
put my cash apt out. If you struggle with raising money,
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being a candidate's not gonna work. If you struggle with
people like you don't want people thinking they got something
on you. You know, I gave you money. So this
this that you're gonna struggle with being a candidate. So
I give you all of the different things that you
need to know, you know, to be aware of, so
that you can kind of find your place. If you're saying,
if you're somebody that never want to put your name
(31:48):
out there, never want to say your name, you always
want to hide under the hot dog eighty five ninety two,
where you're not going to be an effective activist if
you can't stand on business on who you are, because
your credibility has to mirror that. You can't just run
around saying anybody can say whatever they want to say
on this line. You know, anybody say what they ever
want to say on ig The credibility has to align
(32:10):
with your actual receipts. So somebody saying, damn, I don't
want to really put my name out there, I don't
want to risk my family, Okay, cool, Then maybe you
can get in the digital organizing of it all the activist,
you know, the organizer. Maybe there are some other things
you can do, Maybe you can work behind the scenes.
So yes, regardless of And the reason why this training
is so important is because I'm not When we did
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it in Atlanta, we had a room for each one, candidates, operatives,
and organizers, and I went in each room to try
to touch on as much as I can. But I'm
the trainer, so I'm talking to all three virtually, so
I will be able to say, Okay, for organizers, this
applies to you. For activists, this applies to you. For candidates,
this applies to you, so you'll get the basically the
(32:52):
fundamentals it's not an advance. You know, there's other things
that I do for advance, but you'll get the core
fundamentals that will either or help you assess what you
need to do, will either confirm that you're in going
in the right direction and then also giving you the
actual tools the steps. You know, a lot of these
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people who be talking they can't give you the steps
and never worked on a campaign, so they can't tell
you one, two, three, four five. You know that type
of thing? Does it answer your question?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That answers my question? So I'm like, what I mean
because my dog's making noise in the background. But I
just wanted to say thank you for that that answers
my question. But also I would be remissed if I
didn't say congratulations.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
You are such a h I look up to everything
that you be doing.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So I just say thank congratulations to the.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
H Law School.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Just manulations and just keep being the best that you are.
I just man, You're just so amazing. So they no,
I'll be taking my question, oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I asked me in real time, and maybe I
can give you an answer. What prompted you to ask
that question?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
If you feel like you and I don't mind answering
because to ask the question about like knowing.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Where you get in, like you know, telling people with
their strengthen you.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Because if I I've been thinking about getting into like
maybe for the like on a city council or something,
and so I'm getting ready to submit a application for
it's like a community leadership. You don't know if you
get im just gonna apply, but they train you into
or they kind of move you into being on like
boards or in community.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Or just I want to get more involved in my city.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I'm already involved, but I want to get more involved
like on a maybe a politics side when you think
of of the what my city is not doing for
the city.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
If you have been slow politics, yes, what are you thinking?
You want to be a candidate or you're trying to
decide do I want to run for office? Or you
trying to decide what you want to do within leadership.
I'm trying to decide either like where I fit in.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Like like when you said if you're not good at
asking for money, I'm good at asking people.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Money, but I will if you don't like it. You
may not be good at it, but you can still
do it. So most candidates. We literally have to like
force some do call time. So let me give some
clarity on that. I have triggers around asking, like real
triggers around people feeling like they got something over me
or what I got, real like psychological triggers. So it
(35:23):
doesn't work for me. But it doesn't mean I don't
do it. I have I have to put I'm putting.
I got my cash up here. Now, y'all tip the trainer,
like I have to do it or you're not going
to run a business. So when I say that, it's
just certain things like but you can get good at
it because we're gonna force you your campaign manag We're
gonna force you to sit down and do caught well
we call call time. But to answer your question on
knowing if you want to be a candidate or not,
(35:44):
and this applies to everybody you, this is not something
that you can That leadership course, my course, anything else
can teach you the tools you need. But to be
a candidate, in my opinion, is a calling. It's not
a career. You know, plenty of people learn all the tools.
It is a calling. It has to be something in you,
(36:07):
especially in these days. It has to be something in
you that keeps you up, what brings tears to your eyes,
what makes you, what bothers you to you the pity
of your soul. You'll hear people, especially conservatives, Oh, you're emotional.
It's supposed to be. It's supposed to be something that
puts a fire in you. And that's the difference between
(36:28):
people who are just going along to get along and
they look at being a candidate it's just writing laws,
and the difference between those who really are change makers.
For me, it has to be something that like when
y'all hear me, bring tears to my eyes, I talk
about my mother, I talk about healthcare reform, I talk
about what has been for me. I talk about those
are the things. Because everything that puts you in this,
(36:49):
whether you're a candidate and activist, an organizer, every principality
is gonna come against you. Everything that tells you don't
do it is gonna come against you. Every spirit, the mind,
spirit that's gonna tell you, hey, don't do it, do
something else. So you have to be so full of
the armor, so full of the anointing, so full of
passion to keep you pressing on. And that's not something
(37:12):
you can learn. You can learn the tools. I just
got chills on my body. You can learn the tools,
but it's the passion is going to keep you in there,
and that's when you'll decide, Okay, do I want to
be the front facing the actual candidate, or do I
want to be a support. So I've ran my communications
business being a support for many, many years. Even though
I can rock the mic and I do, I know
I'm better as a support. I know I'm better at
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getting people prepared. I know I'm better. That's what I enjoy.
I enjoy training and teaching and getting others out there.
It's not that I wouldn't be good as a candidate,
It's just this is where I feel my gift is
best served, at least in this particular moment. So whatever
it is that's pressing you. I got a girlfriend I'm
working with and she says she wants to be a
candidate for the school board, and she talks about school
(37:56):
all the time. But the only time they ever heard
her shed tears was when she was listening to the
story of my mother and she said, this reminds me
of my aunt who was on disability. Da da da
da da da. I said, it's that thing that's making you.
You can look at your resume and say, oh I
would be good at this and that and da da
da da No no no, whatever made you send that
voice memo to put them tears in your eye. You
(38:18):
may think it's for the school, but it may be
for disability. So as you continue to grow in this,
as you continue to go to these different classes, as
you sit in these meetings, and that thing that keeps
pushing you and saying something ain't right about this, This
ain't making sen That thing to make you stay up
at night to keep raising your hand to keep this
or that it'll it'll, it'll work itself out. Nobody can
(38:39):
tell you that it's gonna keep. As you keep getting
more involved, it's gonna wake you up. That's thank you. Yeah, okay,
I got it. Yeah, be hoping and listen to what
God has for you. When I said I was going
to law school, the first thing people thought civil rights
because I worked with Attorney Crump, so you would think
civil rights. But no, it's not. It's criminal defense. Actually,
(39:02):
you know, talking about going to prison and how many
people we got going to prison. That that's what I
will do. Civil rights work, but that's not what keeps
me up at night. That's not you know, if anybody
followed my work, you know I'm always talking about incarcerated
and recidivism, and those are the things from personal experience
that motivate me. And so in order to get through
law school, in order to get through the tough times,
(39:23):
in order to get through all that, it got to
be something that's gonna keep you up. So you may
think it's one thing, but as you grow, it'll start
to reveal itself. Just keep getting information, keep getting the knowledge. Okay,
thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
And I'm class. I'm excited as soon as I got
a clock out first and then sign up. But I
didn't want to miss this opportunity to see you face
to face, so oh no godge.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, thank you. So guys, that's how the training to be.
That's how the interactive training will be. I'll be bringing
people up, we'll be talking about it. It is a
closed training, so it is just you and I the
people in the classroom. I unveil it next, we'll unveil it.
It's not unbailed, like it's literally some of them unbailed.
But the website will be up next week for you
(40:07):
to sign up. I'm going on the Breakfast Club to
talk about it. Something just downloaded in you. Okay, good chante,
we're downloaded in you. September. We're downloaded and you just
so we just know if you just give me a
preview of it, you don't have to share it all
because sometimes keep your gift to yourself. But anyway, I'm
(40:27):
going on to the Breakfast Club next week to talk
about this training and I am not yes, not on
the website yet, but it will be will be next
week where people can sign up.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
It's fifty bucks for the training. It's June fourteenth. Until
you got plenty of time, but don't wait till the
last minute. Yep. Each class would be fifty bucks each one.
Not do it charging any more than that. It's twenty
five an hour. My normal rais one hundred and fifty
an hour. Just so we're clear, you know, but this
is you know, enough to take care of build our
(40:58):
business officerly trying to do invest in the train, any platform,
all of that good stuff. So it will be June fourteenth, Saturday,
June fourteenth, I'm going to do a couple of different
national platforms. So we can have enough people in the
classroom and there'll be your classmates hopefully going with through
the whole program. And if you can't come to everyone, cool,
I'm not trying to break the bank. I'm not telling
you you need to pay for it all at once
or not doing that. It'll likely be once a month
(41:22):
and we'll pick up where we left off each training.
And if you can't come to them all then you
don't certainly don't have to. You can jump in at anytime,
but if you really really want to get you know,
the full training, then I recommend you sign up for
all five. If you don't have sign up for all
five at once, you do it as you can. They
will be availables, pre orders all be available, but the
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first one is absolutely June fourteenth. My website is Teslimfiguaro
dot com. It will be on the website next week
for sure. I'm just waiting on gold Daddy to it
to populate the change that the actual new website that
we got built for at the platform, it's all virtual.
It's all virtual, Attorney Shelby all virtual, So we're doing
(42:05):
all virtual and we'll release it next week. No worries,
I'll be talking about it every day, y'all. You know
I go online, you know I go live. I'll talk
about it all day and be talking about it on
the podcast we talking about every volt. So there will
certainly shout out to comedian Little Reil in a bilding.
Y'all show him some love. One of the few in
Hollywood guys that when I say few, I mean few.
I can count on one hand between him, Tyresee Dion Taylor.
(42:29):
There's a couple other I may be count on two hands.
Let me give two hands, but Little Reil is certainly
one of the few, if not only, I would say actor,
established actor that actually jumps into these comments and supports
my work. So y'all show him some love and support
one of his one hundred and fifty movies because he did.
He does one hundred and fifty movies at best a year.
(42:51):
At best that's on a slow year. Little Real be
working his asshole, So y'all show him some love. And
I do appreciate, you know, those that really try to
help me. If nothing else, just an encouraging word to say,
tells and keep doing what you're doing, because we have
to fight on the front line, and so we hope
to make it easier for everybody else to get rich
(43:12):
because we damn sure ain't gonna be rich. We definitely
ain't gonna be rich or the activists. So at least
help us help you stay rich. And that that means
by making sure that we have a quality inequity. If
I love you to a little real, y'all supported me.
Do what's what you gotta coming out next? Little Reil
and the commist. Let them know because you know you
got something. I know you got something coming out next
(43:34):
week and the week after that or something. I know
it's something. If you want to share, make sure you
go to this page not free. He be working his
ass off every time I look up there. I mean
another movie, another movie. Really does work his ass off, guys,
and so show him some love. And it's a lot
of people, you know that they support what we do,
(43:55):
but this is not their you know, their ministry. Sometimes
I wish it wasn't my ministry. Honest with you, On
most days I wish because it get on my nerve.
On most days, I wish it wasn't my ministry. On
most days I wish I could just do something else.
Thank you, Trina on most days I wish I'd do
something else, but this is what God has had. What's
he called me to do? Guys, So that's just what
we're gonna do. If you want to tip the trainer,
(44:16):
you're trainer today, you certainly can. You can cash out
me a tesslim figure O. Certainly appreciate it, he said, yeah,
it's always something. But here to support you, and thanks
for educating. I don't thank so much. Little real he
mustn't feel like typing what he got. He got something, y'all,
so just go check it out. If you want to
tip your training today, my name is telm figure O.
Tipping means absolutely paying staff. Marcellus who say he be
working like a dog, working like a dog. So we
(44:38):
want to keep him on the payroll and keep j
on the payroll. Want to keep everybody on the payroll
and appreciate your support. Go to the page today, let
me put my cash out. See this is why I'm
not good at being a candy, y'all, because y'all got
to raise this money. We gotta raise his money, and
y'all really gonna be hearing about it now. I got
a baby. I'm going to law school. The baby going
(45:00):
to PV so all this old do it for free
doing for the community. No, five dollars help, two dollars help,
ten dollars help. Marcella's is in the comments. M I
talking about where's Marcella's. He's always in the comments. Count
on to be in the comments anyway. Guys, you want
to tape of training today, I surely would appreciate it,
because you did just get free training. If you found
if you found it helpful in any way, send two
(45:22):
dollars over for a cup of coffee because I absolutely
will accept it. Other than that, guys, I will see
you next time. Make sure you check out this week's podcast.
I did a Bernie Sanders recap. Also, Christy Williams Black
History Saturdays, guys, that's coming to the training platform as well.
(45:43):
So she will be doing a custom Black History Saturdays,
a Black History class that will also be on the
training platform. Put a five if that sounds good to you.
So I've hired her to pay her to teach Black
History Saturdays virtual right now out It is just in
Oklahoma in person, and so we're going to add her
(46:04):
to my platform. Since I have a little bit more
national whatever, I got to get the program out there
and so she will be on as well. You will
need to pre order that so we can make sure
we got enough people in the class before she comes
to do her thing, but that will also be available. No, sweetheart,
I don't accept ZEL. And this is a tidbit I
(46:26):
gave the other day on the platform.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
If you really want to help us in the movement,
that kind of stuff, you really got to get on
cash app. You really got to get on cash app
or Bimo or something like that. People don't like giving
out their ZEL because that means I have to give
you my phone number or my email and people don't
want to have that. So ZEL is a these are
things you learned in the training, guys. Zel is for
you sharing between your family and your friends. It's not
(46:48):
when you're trying to, you know, help somebody that you
don't know. People don't like giving out their information on ZEL.
So as we talk about the third thing that you
need to do to secure, remember I talk about save
stack and secure. One of the things under Securre is
secure your nonprofit, secure your podcast or whatever little donation.
I I only got fifty dollars a month, and I
want to be able to give to this or that
ten dollars over here, ten dollars of teslent ten dollars
(47:11):
to the church. Then you guys got to get into
the digital of it all, got to get into the
digital of all because theell's just it's a great way,
you know, to exchange money. But people, just public people
like myself were just not giving out zel. But I
do appreciate it thought, so cash app is the way
to go. I will add a donation page because I
(47:32):
need to do that on my website so that you
can pay, you know, in any other electronic way, credit
card or you know, however you want to do it.
But we're not at that stage yet. So it's just
if you got cash app, great, If you don't find
I appreciate it all, right, guys. I do have PayPal,
but not set up for this. I will have it
on the website though at some point. But thank you
so much. I appreciate your support guys, and just even
(47:55):
asking because it really does make a difference. Yes, I
will add it to my page. Y'all have a wonderful weekend.
I'm in my Revolt office chilling, just finished doing comments
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Good afternoon, everybody, Good afternoon. So I wanted to do
a quick training guy, So push the line in case
(01:17):
you don't know. It is a training program that I have.
It is nonpartisan, nonpartisan training. The first one that we
did was in twenty twenty two in Atlanta, Georgia. We
had three hundred people that came from all over the
country to Atlanta. The training is for those who may
want to possibly run for office, those who make you know,
(01:39):
think about running or maybe running a campaign right now.
The second is for campaign workers. We call them or
campaign operatives as well, so you may hear a campaign
operative or campaign worker, which means like your volunteer coordinator,
your campaign manager, your volunteer coordinator, anything that actually works
on a political campaign. The third is organizer, a community
(02:03):
organizer which rallies people around certain issues, may be pushing
a certain issue. And then activists. I've even parsed out
activists because an activist may be somebody screaming and yelling
in the comments, protests in person, but may not actually organize,
meaning actually do the work, the planning, everything that's required.
(02:27):
And you may see a lot of these folks on
YouTube who are galvanizing, getting you engaged, excited, upset, aware
of an issue, but it doesn't mean that they actually organize,
that they actually organize. So I've even set that to
the side to make sure that we deal with these
issues separately. If you come to the training, I am
(02:50):
your trainer. The first one will be June fourteenth, Saturday,
June fourteenth virtual. People have asked what can you do
the training virtual? And I was kind of hesitant. I
only want to do it in person, but it looks
like virtual is the best option. I have invested in
the training platform. I'm very very excited about it. I've
been working on material today. You're gonna get a lot
(03:13):
of information in the course. Information I'm giving you that
you can download and then a live, interactive, interactive session
with me two hours and we're gonna go through the
information now. Push the Line is a five course, five
different courses. Each one deals with a certain issue. But
(03:35):
whether you're running, thinking about running, or want to be
an organizer or an activist, you will get something out
of it. Even people get a lot out of business
as well, because I give you so much information, Thank you,
doctor Tiffany. I give you so much information that you
just absolutely no way in hell you don't get something
(03:57):
from it. Now, the first course is called We Are Soldiers.
That's where you actually find out what you want to
do if you want to be an activist, a campaign organizer,
a work on a campaign, as a campaign operative. You
actually get to learn those different roles, what those roles
and responsibilities are. And then the second one is Ambition
(04:19):
of a Rider, and that's and shut out to me
for these titles number one. That's where you actually where
we start talking about the roles in depth, and we
go a little bit further. I'm not gonna give it
all the way because you guys need to get enroll
in the course. The third one after Ambition of a Rider,
the third one is thinking of a master Plan. That's
where we go through planning, fundraising, all those different things
(04:41):
that you need regardless if no matter what role you play.
Then Stand on Business. That's my favorite one. And then
the final one is showed me my Opponent. So all
five of these courses, all of them will give you
the tools that you need at least as a starting point. So, guys,
I wanted to do this little free tutorial today just
(05:05):
to give you a piece of what you will learn
in the class. By the way, the class is not free,
because things just can't be free. It will be fifty
bucks for two hours, twenty five dollars an hour, which
is certainly reasonable. As FYI, my raid, just so you know,
for my clients is one hundred and fifteen hour. Just
want to make sure we're clear. I start at one
hundred and fifteen hour. But this training is affordable. You
(05:27):
don't have to do all five courses. You can do
whatever one you feel is important to you. You're going
to learn something regardless, and I think I'm going to
do it once a month. So it also gives you
time to work it in your budget to say, Okay,
fifty bucks a month, I'm going to go to this
class now. Right now, I'm going to give you a
piece of the type of information you will be learning.
(05:50):
And the reason why I'm doing this because I had
a one of somebody on my team that sent me
a post about Jasmine crockett ysband. Crockett was talking about
immigrants and many of you, especially in the conscious community,
you know, said well, why she don't ever talk about
black issues, and why she not talking about reparations that way,
and why she not talking about this all the time.
(06:11):
So I said, this will be a good, free, free,
little bite size information that I can give you, guys,
so that you can actually learn what you need to
know and have that information with you as you are
doing your critique of candidates. So, guys, the reason why
this course has candidates, operative organizers, activists is because each
(06:33):
one of those are a different role. If you look
at my push the line logo, I have one person.
I could have two logos, the main one that you
see in the training, but then I have another one
where you have a person that pushes the P, the U,
the S, and the H. Each person does something individually.
You may be a part of comment caucus. You may
(06:55):
be which is those who want to get on the
digital organizing. You may be an actual campaign worker and
operative like what Marcelli's does when he's working what we
call advance. You may want to be an actual candidate,
an elected official, or you may want to be an activist.
The problem is people don't understand the different roles. So
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what you do is you set yourself up for an
expectation that is one not accurate based upon the job description,
and two you set yourself up to say, well, the
elected officials not doing anything. Now, I also want to
put ownership on the elected official for not properly telling
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people what it is they actually do. The problem with
today's elected official is they want to do it all.
They want to be the elected official, they want to
be the organizer, they want to be the activist, and
they sometimes they want to be the campaign worker. Now
you will learn if you're running your small campaign how
you will have to put on multiple hats. But we'll
get to that in the actual training. But for the
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sake of this impromptu training, I want to talk about
thank you Tamer for asking people to hit the like button,
share it like button, all of that. And for those
who are asking what's the one for organizers again, co
T just help people in the comments. The training is
for everybody, whether you're an organizer, an activists, a candidate,
a campaign operative. You're going to get all of the
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information in any training that you sit down with me,
because the principles are the same and I'm going to
deal with each one depending on what your role is.
So let's just for this particular training, let's deal with
the elected official versus the activists. So many of you
are saying, well, why Jasmine or anybody else for that matter,
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why is she not talking about black issues all the time. Well,
let me tell you exactly why. Now, whether y'all like
this or not, this is just a fact. And what
has happened is, guys, you have set yourself up to
expect an activists, to expect an elected official to be
an activist. Let me give you the definition of a
political candidate to seek election and convince the public that
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they are the best choice to represent their interests and
make decisions on their behalf. I want to make sure
I got people in the classroom. I need somebody to
put there thh ei r there there there there their interests,
meaning their constituent's interests. Now, let's deal with the activists.
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Definition of activists to raise awareness, influence the public, which
is what a lot of y'all doing these podcasts on
YouTube and pressure somebody, put pressure institutions or government to
make changes related to a Pacific issue specific issue like
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human rights, climate change, racial justice, education, etc. Now, this
is where y'all get the This is where y'all get
a twisted and confused. The elected official. The there, the
d h ei R is the constituents in their district.
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A congressional candidate has, probably, depending on how big it is,
hundreds of thousands, which is why I would never be
a federal candidate. When may y'all say tells you, why
don't you run for Congress, I'm not interested in that
at all. Explain why, uh a federal candidate has hundreds
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of thousands of people in their district? That is the there. Sean,
you're about to get put out of class? Do you
want to get put out of class? Because that's what's
about to happen. Sean, You're about to get put out
of class. Don't worry about the back. You don't already
made a comment about lipstick. You're not already comment about plant.
You're about to get y'all know you one of my regulars.
You're not gonna sit up here and to be disruptive
in this class. So, Sean, do you want to get
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put out of class? Or what I'm I'm gonna make
you put out of class? And then write one hundred times,
a thousand times. I will not disrupt the class and
make you upload it to my DM before you get
back in alive. That's what's going to happen if you
keep it up, because I know you want of my
regulars stop disrupting. You're doing the work of the enemy
right now. So they're the t eir No, it's not
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a problem, love it the tchei R. They are representing
hundreds of thousands of constituents. This is not making an
excuse for any black elected official. Absolutely, they should be
concerned about their community, like Rachida Taliba is concerned about
the Palestinian community. They absolutely I would expect them to
lead most things considering their black blackness. However, if you
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are a political candidate, hundreds of thousands of people vote
for you, and you are representing all of their interests.
So when you hear elected officials talk about a little
bit of everything, that's what they're supposed to do. Because
if they especially if they're a congressional candidate, are a
presidential candidate, that's exactly what they're supposed to do. So
I know you guys love sharing the wyn. Harris said,
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I can't just only help black people I know y'all
love sharing it. I know y'all love talking about that,
but that's the point of being an elected official. That's
why I'm not interested in being one, unless it is
for a city commissioner, which you guys don't like. Y'all
don't like city commissioner because y'all it's not sexy enough
for you. But a city commissioner in a small town
like South Fulton, because South Fulton in Georgia is ninety
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eight percent black, so all of my constituents would be black,
so I could just talk about black black black black
black black black. Not interested in a congressional position because
that means I got to talk about everybody's issues and
everybody's community, and I'm just not that type of a candidate.
I would rather only talk about the issues that motivate
me in politics. So that is why I'm not a candidate,
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especially on a federal level. Maybe possibly one day on
the local, but why I can't be a candidate on
a federal level because I actually understand the job description. Now,
these candidates they go wrong and making you believe that
they're going to talk about one thing more than the other.
That's on them because they should absolutely be clear on
what their job description is, and it is to represent
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everybody in their district. Now, Trump did a little bit different.
He said, damn everybody in America. He's only gonna push
a line for the people that voted for him. That's
actually kind of how it works. But if you are
in a district, I know y'all want, oh, he everybody's president,
and no, not really, he only got to please the
people that put him in. I know y'all don't like that.
I know that's not the way that y'all are. I
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know y'all got y'all felt real good when Obama said,
I'm still your president. I'm everybody's press. But the reality
is you're supposed to cater to the people that got
you in because those are going to be the people
that keep you in. Will deal with that later on.
With that said, if you are depending upon your district,
and you are at a diverse district, and I'm using
jas Min Crockett as an example, not making excuse. Y'all
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love running with excuses. Y'all really got a cult mentality.
But anyway, using Jaz mccrockett as an example, the reason
why she's talking about immigration she's in Texas, somebody put
in Texas. Are you aware how many immigrants are in Texas?
Is on the border, guys, So she's going to talk
about immigration. And if you don't get that, it's because
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you've been listening to outside influences that are saying she
should be this and she should be that, which that
is what an activist is supposed to do. We're gonna
get to that in a moment. But the elected official
talks about their thh eir their constituents, not you there,
not me there, I'm not the there, the actual constituents.
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That's a lot of times why you see these nationalties
candidates that go national and do a lot of these
national media why they end up crashing out. What do
you mean by that, Teslam? It's not about doesn't make
it right? A little walk, It's what it is. See,
when you sign up for a job, you have to
do the job descriptions. What do you mean it doesn't
make it right? If I'm saying I am asking a
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hundred one thousand people to vote for me to represent
their interest, that means I have to do a little
bit of both. See, this is where you're getting confused.
The activists is supposed to push the candidate to make
sure that their interest is getting pushed. That there's an
animation the who WHG. I love that cartoon because it's
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a bunch of little people screaming, say, hey, what about me?
What about me? The activist is supposed to put the
pressure on the candidate to make sure that their interest.
So that means, if I'm a black actives, hey what
about black people? What about black people? If I'm a
immigration what about immigration? What about immigration? If I'm health care,
what about health care? What about health care? And whoever
is the loudest, whoever puts the most pressure, whoever is
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the most responsible to get that candidate elected or unelected,
those are the ones that get their their issues handled first.
That's how it works. It's not about don't make it right.
Let's be smart, let's put on our thinking caps. I'm
telling you what the job description is. So you're supposed
to push the candidate. For sure, talk about black iss,
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you talk about black as, you talk about black iss,
you talk about black gets absolutely, But that candidate also
has to listen to everybody else that votes them in.
That's why I'm not interested in a congressional seat because
you have to plase too many people. What do you mean,
how do we get ahead? You organize harder, you activate harder.
I'm glad you asked that question. There's a big difference
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between an activist that is screaming and yelling online and
an organizer. There is a big difference. This is what
y'all don't want to hear, but this is how it is.
There's a big difference between the activists and the organizer.
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The organizer actually gets people in the room, actually organizes,
actually plans, actually puts policy together, actually starts a pack,
actually gets movement. See. I can be an activist and
scream on this podcast all day, post these videos all day.
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But two weeks ago, when the one hundred and fifty
people came to the room, somebody in the comments put
came to the room, showed up in the room, drove
six hundred miles to be in the room, came from
Cleveland to be in the room, claim from New Jersey
to be in the room. Came from Houston to be
in the room, came from California to be in the room.
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That's called organizing. That's a difference between activists screaming in
the comments, what about us? And organizing to actually get
it done, boots on the ground, come on in the room.
Big difference. And how do you activists want to scream
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and yell online but you don't want to organize, and
then y'all run around saying the immigrants ain't got organized.
That's a flat out lie. Let's look at Michigan. The
Michigan campaign, will Rashida Talib organized. See, she wasn't just
yelling on the microphone, she wasn't just yelling on YouTube.
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She organized one hundred thousand people to raise their hand
and say I'm willing to sit out of the election
if there's no cease fire. And she didn't just say it. See,
anybody can say something in the comments. They actually organized,
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meaning put money together to actually get it on the ballot.
The word uncommitted. Are y'all following what I'm saying? I
know the podcasters don't want to tell you this because
then it makes them happy to actually organize. I appreciate
the activist. I appreciate the podcasters that activate, that do
activism work. But you must understand the difference. You gotta
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understand the difference, guys, when they started that Michigan campaign.
They got the money, they got a local pack political
action committee. Be quiet a little wat just listen. Of course,
you can focus on your people. Are you listening? What
I'm telling you is you need to find your role
within this and right now you're just talking and it
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needs you to listen. Needs you do more listening. Of course,
you can let me say loud. Of course you can
focus on your people. You're supposed to focus on your people.
But it's not just focusing on your people, it's finding
what your job is in this. I'm answering your question
on how do we get changed? Put your thinking cap
on and be quiet for a minute, or see me
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at the class Rashida to leave. They organized money, resources, muscle,
and hustle to get uncommitted on the ballot and had
one hundred thousand people go down to the voting precinct
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and not vote for Joe Biden but actually checked the
box to vote for uncommitted. Then they took those hundred
thousand numbers because now it's not just talking in the comments.
Y'all do a good job of talking in the comments,
but as soon as you start organizing, you're gonna really
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start seeing some real pressure because talking in the comments
does do a lot, don't get me wrong, but it's
the organizing side that you're missing. Then the media knew
for sure that it was one hundred thousand people that
said we ain't rocking with you, and that's when Trump
sided and the Democrat side had went and had a
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conversation with them. You're saying, how do we leverage that? First?
You need to organize. Don't worry about leveraging first, you
need to organize. See it steps to this. It's a process.
What do you mean you can leverage what you do?
You haven't organized yet, y'all love skipping the process. Yesterday
at the my ups store, he said, I'm looking for
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a sign. You know, I'm going to law school. I said, well,
I'm you a sign I just got admitted. He said, yeah,
I'm thinking about going to this school and going to
that school, and then after that, I'm gonna practice this
and I'm a practice dad. And da da da da dah.
He said, don't you have to take the l SAT?
I said, hold on, wait a manu, you don't even
know you have to take the l SAT. Okay, let
let's let's slow it down a little bit. First, take
the l S ahead, get a median score, then see
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where your score aligns with the school. Then actually put
it in your application, then put in your letters of reference.
Then do the work to be competitive. Then actually go
to law school. Then actually graduate law school, then actually
past the bar. Y'all love skipping the process. Y'all love
skipping process. Law school is a process. Organizing is a process.
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Politics is a process. Y'all hate process. Y'all want everything
to be in two minutes. That's why we got to
put too many clips out because y'all hate the process.
So you're not at the leverage stage. Because if I
would to ask you right now what organization are you
a part of that's actually organizing, you wouldn't have an answer.
So first you need to figure out how do I organize?
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How do I get busy? Being active in the comments
is one part of it, but you must organize. And
to say immigrants are not organizers is a lot because
dak of the Dream Network is one of the largest
packs in the country. They absolutely are organizing. They absolutely
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have a political action committee, They absolutely raise funds to
push immigrant issues. To say otherwise, it's just say flat
out live and it's miss leading you and to the
information that you actually need to organize put a five
minute chatter if it makes sense. So, yes, you are
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supposed to pressure the elected official. Absolutely, that is the
number one job of an activist, stay on their head
about our issues. But if you are expecting an elected
official to only talk about one single issue and not
everybody in their in their district, they will lose. That's
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why Bowmen who talk so much about the Palestinian plight,
which I'm mad, but he operated it like an activist
and crashed out. You know why he crashed out because
the majority, if not half of his district are Orthodox
Jewish people. So y'all mad, y'all blaming it on APAC No.
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And Bowman's a friend of mine, our colleague of mine,
and I told him the same thing. You can't do it.
Rashida to live do she as derboy Michigan. That's the
majority of Palestinians. So she was able to push a
hard line for GAZA and still be elected. You came
over and pushing a hard line with some of your
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district black folks, who I'm sorry, that's not what they're
talking about on a daily basis, it ain't no thin
line to walk. Listen to me. I'm the trainer. It
ain't a thin line to walk. So actually, very clear line.
You're not listening. I'm gonna have you see me after
the class a little walk. You're gonna be writing in
a minute're gonna be right now. I will listen. I
will slow down on ADHD, I will slow down on
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the knee to hurry up and type and not listen.
I'm just teasing. I will make you right though, and
submitted PDF. Well, you don't have to read the room,
miss Sumbling. You just need to read your constituents in
your district. The district is very clear. It tells you
who's in your district, how, what their issues are, what
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the demographics are. You ain't got to read the room.
The information is right there. Go to ballot Pedia, guys
and look at anybody's district, Like right now, Jasmin Krack,
at one hundred and thirty thousand people in their district.
I can see how everybody vote, who they rock with.
I can see her vulnerability, I can see all of that.
I'm gonna drop the link in here for any questions
(25:22):
that you guys have taking questions on the YouTube. You
want to jump in and ask questions, you can turn
your lovy not you, sweetheart, because you love coming on here.
This is not we talk all the time. Let somebody
else come in and ask questions. Love you to death.
He's gonna always rock with me heavy. But this is
for people that have actual questions about the lesson today.
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I just dropped the stream. You can turn your camera
off if you have any questions. This is what you're
getting in the push the line training that we're doing
two hours at a time. This is the style of
training that you're getting, real life examples, real life on
how it actually works, on real time, real definitions, and
the absolute truth, the absolute truth. This is not about
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me trying to get clicks and likes and tell you
what you want to hear and throw out red meat
because I need to keep you upset. This is about
the real deal, based on the thirty plus campaigns that
I've worked under my belt. I'll take your questions now.
You can either type it in the at the bottom
of the comments or jump on the live. I am
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going to upload this to straight Shot No Chaser because
the information is just really, really good and we need
to get this information out. We must train you guys
on the various roles and how you can actually help
and get in where you fit in and what does
that look like in realistic expectations for the various roles.
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And I blame candidates for real, I really do. I
blame candidates because they want to do too much. They
want to be the activists, they want to be the
loudest one. They also want to be the candidate. They
also want to be the organizer, they want to be
a campaign managed, they want to do everything. And candidates
this is the reason why you see four hundred and
thirty five people in Congress and you only see less
than ten who are always on the microphone because they're
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filling many, many roles. And a lot of that is
because we don't have the leadership. We really don't. So
I know, I know why they feel like they gotta
do it. Because if I ask you to name five
activists who are loud on the national stage, you probably
can't name five. Damn show can't name ten unless you
go way back to the sixties. Al Sharpening all them.
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And I know a lot of y'all don't rock with
Al Sharping. Let's see up We're gonna bring Casey up,
and you are welcome to turn camera on or off.
I know a lot of people don't like the camera,
but I'm gonna bring you on up.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I don't mind having don't I don't mind having the cameraing.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Hello, I see you all the time to comments, thank
you for joining me.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
So I just thank you for this information. I'm super
excited that it's gonna be virtually because trying to make
them person is difficult, especially me who stays in Seattle.
My question is are you able to like what if
you're not sure where your strengths is? So like if
we take this these courses. When we take this courses,
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are you able to pinpoint or somebody on your team
able to pinpoint a strength and a person that can
guide them to You're better over here, you're better over there.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Make little sense. First of all, the training is with me,
So when you sign up a training, you're working directly
with me. When we open up the floor for questions,
if people have questions, I can answer that in order
for me to tell somebody, Hey, you know, is it
Casey or Cassie, Cassie Cassie. In order for me to say, oh, Cassie,
you're better at this or that. I would never do
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that because I haven't done a strength of SWAT analysis
with you. So when I'm working with people on on one,
I do a SWAT analysis for those who don't know strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. I can't just do that just off cuff.
You know that you're welcome to ask me a question
because it will be interactive just like this, but I
wouldn't be able to tell you what you're better at,
and also even what I what what I find a
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lot and I and by the way, i'm not working
with people one on one. I do want to put
that out there because a lot of people do ask
I don't. I just don't have that availability. But I'm
always able to answer questions. What people also will find
is you're going to give me the strengths and weaknesses
that you have assessed. I'm usually at my best when
I'm telling people something that they don't know. I'm telling
them what they think they know. I'm telling them what
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they thought you know. I've worked with a lot of people.
I'll use the Michelle's examples. She's like, oh no, I'm
good at this. No, actually you're good at something else.
So a lot of that comes in observation and working
with people. Somebody may not know their gift and they
may not be like you know, have you ever thought
about X, y Z. But to answer your question, the
training does like boot camp. So with boot camp in
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the military, and I reference this on Jamal both of
Jamal Brin's podcast in the military's design to get you out.
It's designed when you sign up to make you question
everything about yourself. My style is very similar. Most of
your political trainings are designed to hype you up and
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make you feel good and make you think you can
take on the world. I'm saying that as being a
student of Congressional Black Hawcast Political boot Camp. I've been
to Yell Law School for Women of Training. I've been
to Go Run Lead, I've been to the White House Project,
I've been the Ruthless Emilis List. I've been to all
the top trainings and they all kind of have the
same vibe with more focused on motivating you to take
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on the world. And then you leave with no real expectations.
You leave with feeling defeated when you get your first
know when you get your first reality of what it
really is. And so that's the reason why I did
this training because people need to know the real real deal.
So once you get through with my training, whether you
take one or off five, you will at least have
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the information the toolbox to question yourself on I don't
know is this really for me or not me? So
you do get the information. I just can't tell you individually.
So for example, if somebody saying, I just do not
like raising money, I hate asking people for money, I
do too. I hate it. I even struggle with even
put my cash apt out. If you struggle with raising money,
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being a candidate's not gonna work. If you struggle with
people like you don't want people thinking they got something
on you. You know, I gave you money. So this
this that you're gonna struggle with being a candidate. So
I give you all of the different things that you
need to know, you know, to be aware of, so
that you can kind of find your place. If you're saying,
if you're somebody that never want to put your name
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out there, never want to say your name, you always
want to hide under the hot dog eighty five ninety two,
where you're not going to be an effective activist if
you can't stand on business on who you are, because
your credibility has to mirror that. You can't just run
around saying anybody can say whatever they want to say
on this line. You know, anybody say what they ever
want to say on ig The credibility has to align
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with your actual receipts. So somebody saying, damn, I don't
want to really put my name out there, I don't
want to risk my family, Okay, cool, Then maybe you
can get in the digital organizing of it all the activist,
you know, the organizer. Maybe there are some other things
you can do, Maybe you can work behind the scenes.
So yes, regardless of And the reason why this training
is so important is because I'm not When we did
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it in Atlanta, we had a room for each one, candidates, operatives,
and organizers, and I went in each room to try
to touch on as much as I can. But I'm
the trainer, so I'm talking to all three virtually, so
I will be able to say, Okay, for organizers, this
applies to you. For activists, this applies to you. For candidates,
this applies to you, so you'll get the basically the
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fundamentals it's not an advance. You know, there's other things
that I do for advance, but you'll get the core
fundamentals that will either or help you assess what you
need to do, will either confirm that you're in going
in the right direction and then also giving you the
actual tools the steps. You know, a lot of these
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people who be talking they can't give you the steps
and never worked on a campaign, so they can't tell
you one, two, three, four five. You know that type
of thing? Does it answer your question?
Speaker 3 (33:20):
That answers my question? So I'm like, what I mean
because my dog's making noise in the background. But I
just wanted to say thank you for that that answers
my question. But also I would be remissed if I
didn't say congratulations.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
You are such a h I look up to everything
that you be doing.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
So I just say thank congratulations to the.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
H Law School.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Just manulations and just keep being the best that you are.
I just man, You're just so amazing. So they no,
I'll be taking my question, oh for sure.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
And I asked me in real time, and maybe I
can give you an answer. What prompted you to ask
that question?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
If you feel like you and I don't mind answering
because to ask the question about like knowing.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Where you get in, like you know, telling people with
their strengthen you.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Because if I I've been thinking about getting into like
maybe for the like on a city council or something,
and so I'm getting ready to submit a application for
it's like a community leadership. You don't know if you
get im just gonna apply, but they train you into
or they kind of move you into being on like
boards or in community.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Or just I want to get more involved in my city.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
I'm already involved, but I want to get more involved
like on a maybe a politics side when you think
of of the what my city is not doing for
the city.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
If you have been slow politics, yes, what are you thinking?
You want to be a candidate or you're trying to
decide do I want to run for office? Or you
trying to decide what you want to do within leadership.
I'm trying to decide either like where I fit in.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Like like when you said if you're not good at
asking for money, I'm good at asking people.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Money, but I will if you don't like it. You
may not be good at it, but you can still
do it. So most candidates. We literally have to like
force some do call time. So let me give some
clarity on that. I have triggers around asking, like real
triggers around people feeling like they got something over me
or what I got, real like psychological triggers. So it
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doesn't work for me. But it doesn't mean I don't
do it. I have I have to put I'm putting.
I got my cash up here. Now, y'all tip the trainer,
like I have to do it or you're not going
to run a business. So when I say that, it's
just certain things like but you can get good at
it because we're gonna force you your campaign manag We're
gonna force you to sit down and do caught well
we call call time. But to answer your question on
knowing if you want to be a candidate or not,
(35:44):
and this applies to everybody you, this is not something
that you can That leadership course, my course, anything else
can teach you the tools you need. But to be
a candidate, in my opinion, is a calling. It's not
a career. You know, plenty of people learn all the tools.
It is a calling. It has to be something in you,
(36:07):
especially in these days. It has to be something in
you that keeps you up, what brings tears to your eyes,
what makes you, what bothers you to you the pity
of your soul. You'll hear people, especially conservatives, Oh, you're emotional.
It's supposed to be. It's supposed to be something that
puts a fire in you. And that's the difference between
(36:28):
people who are just going along to get along and
they look at being a candidate it's just writing laws,
and the difference between those who really are change makers.
For me, it has to be something that like when
y'all hear me, bring tears to my eyes, I talk
about my mother, I talk about healthcare reform, I talk
about what has been for me. I talk about those
are the things. Because everything that puts you in this,
(36:49):
whether you're a candidate and activist, an organizer, every principality
is gonna come against you. Everything that tells you don't
do it is gonna come against you. Every spirit, the mind,
spirit that's gonna tell you, hey, don't do it, do
something else. So you have to be so full of
the armor, so full of the anointing, so full of
passion to keep you pressing on. And that's not something
(37:12):
you can learn. You can learn the tools. I just
got chills on my body. You can learn the tools,
but it's the passion is going to keep you in there,
and that's when you'll decide, Okay, do I want to
be the front facing the actual candidate, or do I
want to be a support. So I've ran my communications
business being a support for many, many years. Even though
I can rock the mic and I do, I know
I'm better as a support. I know I'm better at
(37:34):
getting people prepared. I know I'm better. That's what I enjoy.
I enjoy training and teaching and getting others out there.
It's not that I wouldn't be good as a candidate,
It's just this is where I feel my gift is
best served, at least in this particular moment. So whatever
it is that's pressing you. I got a girlfriend I'm
working with and she says she wants to be a
candidate for the school board, and she talks about school
(37:56):
all the time. But the only time they ever heard
her shed tears was when she was listening to the
story of my mother and she said, this reminds me
of my aunt who was on disability. Da da da
da da da. I said, it's that thing that's making you.
You can look at your resume and say, oh I
would be good at this and that and da da
da da No no no, whatever made you send that
voice memo to put them tears in your eye. You
(38:18):
may think it's for the school, but it may be
for disability. So as you continue to grow in this,
as you continue to go to these different classes, as
you sit in these meetings, and that thing that keeps
pushing you and saying something ain't right about this, This
ain't making sen That thing to make you stay up
at night to keep raising your hand to keep this
or that it'll it'll, it'll work itself out. Nobody can
(38:39):
tell you that it's gonna keep. As you keep getting
more involved, it's gonna wake you up. That's thank you. Yeah, okay,
I got it. Yeah, be hoping and listen to what
God has for you. When I said I was going
to law school, the first thing people thought civil rights
because I worked with Attorney Crump, so you would think
civil rights. But no, it's not. It's criminal defense. Actually,
(39:02):
you know, talking about going to prison and how many
people we got going to prison. That that's what I
will do. Civil rights work, but that's not what keeps
me up at night. That's not you know, if anybody
followed my work, you know I'm always talking about incarcerated
and recidivism, and those are the things from personal experience
that motivate me. And so in order to get through
law school, in order to get through the tough times,
(39:23):
in order to get through all that, it got to
be something that's gonna keep you up. So you may
think it's one thing, but as you grow, it'll start
to reveal itself. Just keep getting information, keep getting the knowledge. Okay,
thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
And I'm class. I'm excited as soon as I got
a clock out first and then sign up. But I
didn't want to miss this opportunity to see you face
to face, so oh no godge.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, thank you. So guys, that's how the training to be.
That's how the interactive training will be. I'll be bringing
people up, we'll be talking about it. It is a
closed training, so it is just you and I the
people in the classroom. I unveil it next, we'll unveil it.
It's not unbailed, like it's literally some of them unbailed.
But the website will be up next week for you
(40:07):
to sign up. I'm going on the Breakfast Club to
talk about it. Something just downloaded in you. Okay, good chante,
we're downloaded in you. September. We're downloaded and you just
so we just know if you just give me a
preview of it, you don't have to share it all
because sometimes keep your gift to yourself. But anyway, I'm
(40:27):
going on to the Breakfast Club next week to talk
about this training and I am not yes, not on
the website yet, but it will be will be next
week where people can sign up.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Again.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
It's fifty bucks for the training. It's June fourteenth. Until
you got plenty of time, but don't wait till the
last minute. Yep. Each class would be fifty bucks each one.
Not do it charging any more than that. It's twenty
five an hour. My normal rais one hundred and fifty
an hour. Just so we're clear, you know, but this
is you know, enough to take care of build our
(40:58):
business officerly trying to do invest in the train, any platform,
all of that good stuff. So it will be June fourteenth, Saturday,
June fourteenth, I'm going to do a couple of different
national platforms. So we can have enough people in the
classroom and there'll be your classmates hopefully going with through
the whole program. And if you can't come to everyone, cool,
I'm not trying to break the bank. I'm not telling
you you need to pay for it all at once
or not doing that. It'll likely be once a month
(41:22):
and we'll pick up where we left off each training.
And if you can't come to them all then you
don't certainly don't have to. You can jump in at anytime,
but if you really really want to get you know,
the full training, then I recommend you sign up for
all five. If you don't have sign up for all
five at once, you do it as you can. They
will be availables, pre orders all be available, but the
(41:44):
first one is absolutely June fourteenth. My website is Teslimfiguaro
dot com. It will be on the website next week
for sure. I'm just waiting on gold Daddy to it
to populate the change that the actual new website that
we got built for at the platform, it's all virtual.
It's all virtual, Attorney Shelby all virtual, So we're doing
(42:05):
all virtual and we'll release it next week. No worries,
I'll be talking about it every day, y'all. You know
I go online, you know I go live. I'll talk
about it all day and be talking about it on
the podcast we talking about every volt. So there will
certainly shout out to comedian Little Reil in a bilding.
Y'all show him some love. One of the few in
Hollywood guys that when I say few, I mean few.
I can count on one hand between him, Tyresee Dion Taylor.
(42:29):
There's a couple other I may be count on two hands.
Let me give two hands, but Little Reil is certainly
one of the few, if not only, I would say actor,
established actor that actually jumps into these comments and supports
my work. So y'all show him some love and support
one of his one hundred and fifty movies because he did.
He does one hundred and fifty movies at best a year.
(42:51):
At best that's on a slow year. Little Real be
working his asshole, So y'all show him some love. And
I do appreciate, you know, those that really try to
help me. If nothing else, just an encouraging word to say,
tells and keep doing what you're doing, because we have
to fight on the front line, and so we hope
to make it easier for everybody else to get rich
(43:12):
because we damn sure ain't gonna be rich. We definitely
ain't gonna be rich or the activists. So at least
help us help you stay rich. And that that means
by making sure that we have a quality inequity. If
I love you to a little real, y'all supported me.
Do what's what you gotta coming out next? Little Reil
and the commist. Let them know because you know you
got something. I know you got something coming out next
(43:34):
week and the week after that or something. I know
it's something. If you want to share, make sure you
go to this page not free. He be working his
ass off every time I look up there. I mean
another movie, another movie. Really does work his ass off, guys,
and so show him some love. And it's a lot
of people, you know that they support what we do,
(43:55):
but this is not their you know, their ministry. Sometimes
I wish it wasn't my ministry. Honest with you, On
most days I wish because it get on my nerve.
On most days, I wish it wasn't my ministry. On
most days I wish I could just do something else.
Thank you, Trina on most days I wish I'd do
something else, but this is what God has had. What's
he called me to do? Guys, So that's just what
we're gonna do. If you want to tip the trainer,
(44:16):
you're trainer today, you certainly can. You can cash out
me a tesslim figure O. Certainly appreciate it, he said, yeah,
it's always something. But here to support you, and thanks
for educating. I don't thank so much. Little real he
mustn't feel like typing what he got. He got something, y'all,
so just go check it out. If you want to
tip your training today, my name is telm figure O.
Tipping means absolutely paying staff. Marcellus who say he be
working like a dog, working like a dog. So we
(44:38):
want to keep him on the payroll and keep j
on the payroll. Want to keep everybody on the payroll
and appreciate your support. Go to the page today, let
me put my cash out. See this is why I'm
not good at being a candy, y'all, because y'all got
to raise this money. We gotta raise his money, and
y'all really gonna be hearing about it now. I got
a baby. I'm going to law school. The baby going
(45:00):
to PV so all this old do it for free
doing for the community. No, five dollars help, two dollars help,
ten dollars help. Marcella's is in the comments. M I
talking about where's Marcella's. He's always in the comments. Count
on to be in the comments anyway. Guys, you want
to tape of training today, I surely would appreciate it,
because you did just get free training. If you found
if you found it helpful in any way, send two
(45:22):
dollars over for a cup of coffee because I absolutely
will accept it. Other than that, guys, I will see
you next time. Make sure you check out this week's podcast.
I did a Bernie Sanders recap. Also, Christy Williams Black
History Saturdays, guys, that's coming to the training platform as well.
(45:43):
So she will be doing a custom Black History Saturdays,
a Black History class that will also be on the
training platform. Put a five if that sounds good to you.
So I've hired her to pay her to teach Black
History Saturdays virtual right now out It is just in
Oklahoma in person, and so we're going to add her
(46:04):
to my platform. Since I have a little bit more
national whatever, I got to get the program out there
and so she will be on as well. You will
need to pre order that so we can make sure
we got enough people in the class before she comes
to do her thing, but that will also be available. No, sweetheart,
I don't accept ZEL. And this is a tidbit I
(46:26):
gave the other day on the platform.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
If you really want to help us in the movement,
that kind of stuff, you really got to get on
cash app. You really got to get on cash app
or Bimo or something like that. People don't like giving
out their ZEL because that means I have to give
you my phone number or my email and people don't
want to have that. So ZEL is a these are
things you learned in the training, guys. Zel is for
you sharing between your family and your friends. It's not
(46:48):
when you're trying to, you know, help somebody that you
don't know. People don't like giving out their information on ZEL.
So as we talk about the third thing that you
need to do to secure, remember I talk about save
stack and secure. One of the things under Securre is
secure your nonprofit, secure your podcast or whatever little donation.
I I only got fifty dollars a month, and I
want to be able to give to this or that
ten dollars over here, ten dollars of teslent ten dollars
(47:11):
to the church. Then you guys got to get into
the digital of it all, got to get into the
digital of all because theell's just it's a great way,
you know, to exchange money. But people, just public people
like myself were just not giving out zel. But I
do appreciate it thought, so cash app is the way
to go. I will add a donation page because I
(47:32):
need to do that on my website so that you
can pay, you know, in any other electronic way, credit
card or you know, however you want to do it.
But we're not at that stage yet. So it's just
if you got cash app, great, If you don't find
I appreciate it all, right, guys. I do have PayPal,
but not set up for this. I will have it
on the website though at some point. But thank you
so much. I appreciate your support guys, and just even
(47:55):
asking because it really does make a difference. Yes, I
will add it to my page. Y'all have a wonderful weekend.
I'm in my Revolt office chilling, just finished doing comments
here for today, and I will talk to you guys
later peace. If you like what you heard on Straight
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