Constituent To Ilhan Omar: How Can Dems 'Go On The Offensive' As Trump Is 'Dismantling' Government?

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During a tele-town hall on Wednesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was asked how Democrats can go 'on the offensive' in the face of a Republican trifecta.

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00:00Hi, Congressman Omar.

00:03Many of the people ahead of me have already asked it, but there was one person in particular

00:08who said, how can we go on the offensive?

00:11I'm seeing so much of what's going on is just being business as usual when Trump is dismantling

00:18all the agencies, I'm guessing, in order to recruit the money to give in order to fund

00:23the tax breaks for the wealthy.

00:25So how can we get a single voice, try to, which is difficult for Democrats, and go on

00:33the offensive?

00:34We need something really creative and very loud, not business as usual.

00:38I mean, I can never even get through to your office, so just doing that usual thing of

00:44calling our representatives is not going to work, I'm afraid.

00:49Thank you so much, if you can shed some light on this.

00:53Judy, I appreciate that.

00:56One of the tactics that the White House and congressional Republicans and mega supporters

01:03around the country, one of their strategies is to flood the zone.

01:09And at this moment, we are getting more calls from folks that we don't represent across

01:15the country than we are from constituents.

01:19And so we can change that by flooding the system ourselves instead of waiting for that

01:25one leader to give us our margin orders.

01:31I think it is really important for every single person who cares about this country to take

01:36the initiative, to shed light on what's happening, to share it, to speak to people, to do everything

01:45that they collectively can, and to uplift our messages that we are putting out as well.

01:55Because the Republicans have developed a strategy to basically rule over us when it comes to

02:04any avenue of messaging, we're going to need folks to be able to help us to uplift the

02:13messages that we are putting out on our website, on our official website.

02:19We have a tracker on all of the litigation that's currently happening in the courts against

02:26the executive orders, against the firings, and that's something that you all can help

02:36uplift to make sure people have access to that so that they can track and they can follow

02:42and they can see when we have these wins, and they can help amplify so that everybody

02:49knows what is taking place and the ways in which we are pushing back.

02:53There is a lot of information out there about, you know, Trump did this today, Trump did

02:57that yesterday, and half of the things that are being put out or the money that is being

03:03discovered as waste or fraud, we know a lot of that information is just wrong.

03:12We have the proper information on our platforms and channels, and we just need the people

03:20to share and amplify those as well.

Constituent To Ilhan Omar: How Can Dems 'Go On The Offensive' As Trump Is 'Dismantling' Government?

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