Pramila Jayapal
Appearances
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2158 - Democrats CAVE, Trump Chalks Up Another Win!
I'm very proud that House Democrats stayed united in voting against this Republican funding bill. Please don't call it a continuing resolution. It's not because a continuing resolution keeps the levels of funding the same. This is a Republican funding bill. And I hope and we have been working all day to help.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2158 - Democrats CAVE, Trump Chalks Up Another Win!
Our Senate colleagues understand that they too need to stand united against a Republican funding bill.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
Just because of not... Tesla takedowns popped up across the country and here in Western Washington. Linwood, University Village, Soto, South Lake Union, Fife, Bellevue, and beyond. All the way from Linwood down to Vancouver, Washington. We just rocked it today. It was a great day. At the U Village protest.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
I am so proud to represent you.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
Representative Pramila Jayapal was among those to address the demonstrators.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
It appears that the Trump administration is willing to ignore judicial decisions. And so that brings us to you in this room. It brings us to the people. That is really the bulwark, the wall against the crumbling of democracy. There's really no other savior or option than the people.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
Yeah. I mean, what we decided is that we really need to help Americans understand what happens when democracies fall, when dictators take over. We've been pretty complacent in America. We haven't had to really deal with this in any real way. And now I think people need to understand, what are the lessons from other countries? And working with experts who have studied democratic backsliding
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
in countries around the world and the resistance movements that emerged to take on that democratic backsliding, we've developed a curriculum where we help people understand, how do you go after the pillars of support—not necessarily the person at the top, but the pillars of support that allow that person to continue to have power? And how do you shift allies from being sort of
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
passive opponents to being active supporters of taking down a dictatorship. And so it's been very practical. It's been very hands-on. We've taken the principles of Dr. King's, the six principles of nonviolent resistance. That is threaded throughout.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
And we're going to have a second training that goes deeper into what happens if you are trying to do nonviolent protest, but others are coming and instituting violence on you. Think of church basements across Selma, Rachel, all the training that went into preparing people.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
And at the end of the day, we are plugging people in both to actions that are happening right now in their locale that they can get engaged in, but also preparing them for the moments that will come of coordinated resistance, whether it's distributed action or mass action, that people need to be ready for.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
And we're increasing the understanding, which also increases the ability for people to think about taking more risk, perhaps, than they might have otherwise, because that level of risk tolerance goes up based on how severe people think things are. So we're really readying us for those big moments that we hope don't come, but certainly look like that is the direction that we're headed.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
Yeah, that's the other thing. We have created modules so it can be replicated. I'm offering it, of course, to my colleagues here in Congress. But we're also really testing this model. The first one was in person, as you said. The second one on Sunday was delivered virtually. But we encouraged people to actually host sessions.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
house parties and zoom into it from the house party because the breakout sessions, there's actually a breakout session, believe it or not, with hundreds and over thousands of people, we can do these breakout sessions. And they're important because people have to test their analysis. They have to test their ideas. And there have been some fabulous ideas coming forward
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
given the frameworks that we're offering. So we offer frameworks of how to think about what actions are most effective. We offer examples of those. We offer specific tactics. But we encourage people to be creative about the principle of what they're trying to achieve and then how to best achieve it. So the breakouts are important. We can deliver the whole training in mass without those breakouts.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
But I'm also finding, Rachel, that people really do want to be in community with other people, and they want to be talking to others. And being able to play off of others is very, very useful. So we are perfecting the technology on what can allow us to have thousands of people on beyond the current technology that we have access to. And we're doing it in person.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
We're also trying to figure out, since we have 31 states, and by the way, two countries, Austria and Canada were also on the Zoom, the training that we did on Sunday, but we're trying to figure out now how to take the people in different states, right? People in Idaho calling in. How do we take all the Idaho people and group them together?
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
And we're encouraging people to sign up for the next resistance lab training because we're going to keep doing these and to get people in their community involved, because that sense of community also helps to create a community. you know, kind of a bigger coordinated resistance and the sense of safety for people to be able to do things in big numbers. So we're really excited.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
This has just been literally two weeks in the making, but we have an amazing curriculum. It is replicable and we're super excited to spread it as far as we can go. And people can go to PramilaForCongress.com to sign up.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
Can you hear me? I said, when's the next one?
The Rachel Maddow Show
Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridicule
I think it's going to be in two weeks. We haven't quite said it yet. But if you sign up right now, you will get an email. And I should mention, we have a resistance rapid response email list that sends out weekly to do's for people, as well as a reading list to continue to deepen people's understanding.