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🎙️ Mindf*ck Monday | Sassy Politics with Christi Chanelle
Release Date: 04/30/25 (Tuesday drop this week)

Episode Title: Mindfck Monday (On a Tuesday): Voter Chaos, Texas Bills, and the Breakdown You Needed*

This week’s Mindfck Monday* may be landing on a Tuesday, but trust me — these headlines couldn’t wait another week.
Between voter suppression sneak attacks, state-level chaos in Texas, and federal fallout from the SAVE Act discourse, this episode is packed with the political shenanigans that demand your full attention.

I’m breaking it all down with facts, fire, and just the right amount of sass — plus a personal check-in on what happens when the trolls get loud… and the quiet thank-yous hit harder.

In this episode:
🔥 What the SAVE Act reveals about name mismatches, ID confusion, and who’s most at risk
🔥 Texas House Bills 2197 and 5510 — why they matter and how they mirror national trends
🔥 This week’s 50 States of WTF court update: whose rights are being protected, and who’s playing fast and loose with the Constitution

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💭 Coming This Wednesday (05/01/25): Woke-ish Wednesday Teaser
Episode Title: I Hit 1 Million… Now What?
This week’s reflection is all about going viral — what it unlocked, what it shook loose, and why hitting a million views doesn’t silence the self-doubt. I’m talking real numbers, real growth, and real fear… plus the grief of not being able to share that milestone with the woman who believed in me most: my mom.

💋 Coming This Friday (05/03/25): Female Friday Teaser
Episode Title: The Motherhood Medal Madness: Why This Should Terrify You
It sounds like a sweet gesture — a national “Medal of Motherhood.” But this new Trump proposal has dangerous historical echoes. I’m connecting the dots between this policy, the Nazi-era Mother’s Cross, and the broader attack on birth control, abortion, and LGBTQ+ rights. This one’s personal, powerful, and unfiltered.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do a B12 vitamin , your voting rights and your
bank account all have in common?
They're all under attack andone of them almost took me out
this week.
Buckle up, it's not our Mondaybreakdown, but it's still just
as relevant.
I'm Christy Chanel and this isSassy Politics.

(00:23):
Welcome to this week's weeklybreakdown.
I know I know usually you hearfrom me on Monday, but real talk

(00:49):
, a rogue B12 vitamin had otherplans.
One second I'm trying to behealthy.
The next second I can't breathe.
I am fighting for air andthinking so this is how it all
ends, really, over a vitamin.
But the universe wasn't donewith me yet and, honestly, it's
a good thing, because when Ifinally caught my breath, I
realized something Our democracyis joking too.
Between the SAVE Act, texasdoubling down on voter

(01:12):
suppression, new executiveorders gutting financial
protections and attacks on civilrights, you'd think someone
wants to suffocate progressaltogether.
Wants to suffocate progressaltogether.
So today we're breaking it alldown the war on your right to
vote, the quiet rollback ofwomen's and minorities'
financial freedom, canada'selection lessons, and whether

(01:36):
protests on the Capitol stepsare enough anymore.
It's going to be a ride.
Let's breathe deep and get loud.
It's time for be a ride.
Let's breathe deep and get loud.
It's time for our weeklybreakdown, because sometimes
life punches you in the throat,literally.

(01:57):
I had a full-on finaldestination moment this week
when my B12 vitamin squirtedstraight down the wrong pipe,
couldn't breathe, couldn't talk,couldn't move.
It took me out Like.
I have to tell you that I don'tknow that I've ever experienced

(02:17):
anything like that and I hopenever will again.
It was very traumatic.
I went into the cabinet, like Inormally do, to get my vitamins
, my vitamin D, just everythingthat I take in the morning,
including my B12 syringe.
You know, I squirted under mytongue.
It's all good to go.
It's like a half a syringe orwhatever.

(02:38):
All good, not so much.
Yesterday morning I squirted itand somehow, I guess, it went
down the wrong pipe and I couldnot breathe.
I'm talking type of breathing.
I couldn't do it.
It was terrifying and somewhereI got a little bit of sanity
and thought you can breathethrough your nose.

(03:00):
That's what I did and it wasterrifying.
Still, my daughter ended upwaking up, coming out and going
oh my god, are you okay?
Are you okay?
I still don't know how I chokedon liquid and I will be more
cautious when it comes to thatlittle syringe choking me to
death.
It took me out so much that Icouldn't film a podcast episode.

(03:24):
Yesterday it was.
I can't explain it, there are nowords, so I'm not going to try.
Just know, be safe with thosesyringes.
Okay, be safe.
That's my PSA for today.
So yeah, I missed Monday, buttrust me, I didn't miss a damn
thing out there.

(03:45):
And today we're unpacking itall.
Deep breath, let's get into it.
The SAVE Act Federal votersuppression in plain sight.
And I'm sure you'll argue withme about it.
But hey, sometimes,unfortunately, you're gonna have

(04:05):
to see it for yourself.
So for now, I'm just going toput the pieces of the puzzle
together and hopefully it mayopen your eyes to some things.
That's all I can do.
Right?
First up, the SAVE Act.
Cute name, right.
Sounds like it's about savingdemocracy, but it's really about

(04:25):
strangling it.
The SAVE Act would forceAmericans to provide documentary
proof of citizenship to vote infederal elections.
And here's the kicker it's notabout illegal voting, it's about
making it impossibly hard forreal citizens to vote,
especially women who've changedtheir names, naturalized

(04:49):
immigrants, indigenouscommunities and people of color.
You thought voter ID laws werebad.
This is voter ID laws onsteroids.
They want you to bring yourbirth certificate, marriage
certificate, naturalizationpapers, maybe even your
grandma's handwriting sample,just to prove you deserve a

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ballot.
And if your documents don'tmatch perfectly, you're out.
And because Texas always says,hold my beer beer, they're
doubling down house bill 2197just dropped, reinforcing voter
id laws even harder.
It targets voter registrationdrives.
It adds extra scrutiny onnaturalized citizens.

(05:33):
It's the save act, but with but.
With a Texas twang.
If the federal attack doesn'tget you, your own state will.
And if you're wondering who thisaffects most, it's women, it's
minorities, it's firstgeneration citizens.
It's the voices they're mostafraid of.

(05:53):
And you know what that feartells me that we're more
powerful than they want us torealize.
While you were worrying aboutvoting rights, they slipped in
another gut punch.
Trump signed Executive Order14281.
What it actually does is killprotections against

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discrimination in credit,housing, education and jobs.
Specifically, it guts disparateimpact liability, the rule that
says, even if you didn't meanto discriminate, you still can't
have policies that functionallyharm women or minorities.
Without it, banks can denywomen loans again, employers can

(06:41):
build hiring systems that leaveminorities out and say, oops,
not intentional.
This is how systematicdiscrimination creeps back in
through the side door whileeveryone's looking at the front.
They aren't just trying tocontrol where we vote.
They're trying to control wherewe live, how we work and

(07:01):
whether we can breathefinancially at all.
Control the money, control thefreedom Every time.
Meanwhile, canada watched theUS circus and said no, thank you
.
In their snap election thisweekend, the Liberal Party under
Mark Carney secured a majority.
Canadians basically ran, notwalked, to protect their

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democracy.
They watched Trump flirt withthe idea of annexing Canada as
the 51st state and they saidhell, no.
Honestly, I wish more Americansvoted like.
Their lives depended on it,because they do.
And then we had the sit-in atthe Capitol, cory Booker and
Hakeem Jeffries led a 12-hourprotest against GOP budget cuts,

(07:49):
cuts that would gut Medicaid,education and voting access.
Here's where I'm torn.
I love the symbolism, I lovethe fight, but I also know
performative politics when I seeit.
Will this sit-in stop thebudget cuts?
Probably not.
Will it wake a few more peopleup?

(08:10):
Maybe I'll give them credit fortrying, but we need action
behind the optics, and fast,because photo ops won't save our
rights.
People in motion will.
50 states of WTF, where we watchthe courts and the states, so
you don't have to.
This week's shout out goes tothe state of Kansas.

(08:33):
Don't have to.
This week's shout out goes tothe state of Kansas.
Their Supreme Court just struckdown an attempt to ban gender
affirming care for adults andminors.
It's a rare W in a sea oflosses lately and a reminder
that sometimes the courts dotheir damn job.
Meanwhile, back in Missouri,lawmakers are pushing a bill to
allow businesses to deny serviceto LGBTQ plus customers based

(08:57):
on sincerely held beliefs.
So yeah, one step forward, twosteps.
Wtf.
Stay mad, stay loud.
We're watching.
This week almost took myliteral breath, but I'm still
here, and so are you.
They want us exhausted, theywant us hopeless, but we are

(09:18):
stubborn, we are breathing andwe're coming for our future with
fire in our lungs.
Stay awake, stay breathing andstay fighting.
I'll see you next week, unlessanother vitamin tries to
assassinate me.
Love you, miss you, bye.