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Dee Clarkin

Dee Clarkin

Executive Director of Indivisible Montgomery, a grassroots progressive advocacy group in Maryland.

May 29, 2026

15:00
How do you balance that?
15:02
Anybody who has come out to a large protest, whether it's be a No Kings protest or May 1, um, you know, they feel f- I, I think they feel successful because there's a tremendous amount of positive energy that, that is, you know, pres- present at those events.
15:22
We have a group that stands out every Friday evening in Silver Spring.
15:26
It's at the corner of, uh, 16th Street and 2nd Avenue.
15:30
We've noticed that the people going by every Friday night are getting more and more strong in their response to us, with the thumbs up and the honking and sometimes we walk away from that and your ears are ringing, you know? So that is a, a form of success that we can have and that we feel good about.
15:49
I put in our newsletter every week what I call bright spots, where I've captured something good that has happened, you know, this week, either locally or nationally, and we highlight that.
16:01
It-- So for example, just this week we highlighted the fact that Abigail Spanberger approved a package of health bills in Virginia, capping the cost of a dose of, weekly dose of insulin at $35.

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