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"Today marks President Biden’s 100th day in office, and tonight we will discuss the early returns of an administration put into place in the aftermath of an incredibly fraught election," begins Janine Jackson. #UnderTheBlacklight

"For the Biden administration -- and our society as a whole -- to confront the conditions that stand in our way, there must be multiple reckonings; reckonings with racial justice, reproductive rights, immigration reform, and LGBTQ issues," says Janine Jackson. #UnderTheBlacklight

"Our collective movements... have tilled the soil in ways, have helped to achieve things in ways that I actually didn’t know would be on the agenda. At the same time I think we're constantly dealing with a limited idea of what’s possible." @rashadrobinson on #UnderTheBlacklight

"What we’re going to be coming up against after this 100 days is actually some of the really important things," says @rashadrobinson. "Will Biden actually engage and lean in around the filibuster?" #UnderTheBlacklight

"We also see the thing that we probably most fear in the reproductive rights movement: the notion that reproductive rights are going to be used as a bargaining chip, because we're going to fall off the table immediately during negotiation," says @alexismcgill of @PPact.

"It's not just that we have to fight for the right in Congress— we also have to fight in the courts, where there are 17 cases that are literally one step away from this newly remade Supreme Court that could overturn Roe." @alexismcgill #UnderTheBlacklight

Deep dive into American immigration history from Jennifer Chacon on #UnderTheBlacklight "Anti-Black racism & slavery & the displacement of Indigenous people were our foundational choices in the US, and those choices are built into our immigration history."

"How can we show democracy working when we’re ceding ground to a minority that wants to cling to the past?" @RepMarkTakano #UnderTheBlacklight

"Far too often we tell stories about inequality that make us think that it’s a car accident—that it kinda just happened— instead of that it's structural. And so what ends up happening is that we get charitable solutions to structural problems." @rashadrobinson #UnderTheBlacklight

Power is the ability to change the rules. @rashadrobinson @ColorOfChange #UnderTheBlacklight

"Peoples' lives are at risk every day… if we're confronted with this sort of daily harm then there is always an urgency that remains.. to continue to keep these harms visible, to continue to elevate the dangers and the risks of the existing policies..." -Jennifer Chacon

"What is happening in this moment is that the outside game is as organized and as strong as the inside game," says @alexismcgill. "That's actually what helps us build power. It allows us to have a bigger imagination.. to have a bigger vision." #UnderTheBlacklight

"Don't forget that local power is also important, and vote in every election," concludes @RepMarkTakano. "Organize!" #UnderTheBlacklight

“Budgets are moral documents," says @rashadrobinson. "Budgets say more about what we care about than any other speech." #UnderTheBlacklight @ColorOfChange