Giles County
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Oct 22, 2026
Justin PearsonGUEST
But I will say it has not deterred us at all.
Justin PearsonGUEST
The next week, I traveled all 15 counties on a listening tour, and I started to meet people and understand that the same systems impacting people as it relates to housing, for instance, in Memphis are hurting people who are up in Giles County.
Justin PearsonGUEST
The same corporations that I fight are maybe called XAI by Elon Musk or Valero or Refinery, but my farmers...
Justin PearsonGUEST
In Savannah, they're dealing with Cargill and John Deere and Monsanto, the same billionaire class we're up against.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
I mean, that's a lot, and by the time you put a 7.5 interest rate on top of that, it's hard.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
So you'll see a lot of our public servants, our nurses, our police officers start to str- go down to Lawrence County or Giles County.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
But Giles County's getting a pop because it, Pulaski sits the same distance to Huntsville as Columbia does to Nashville, and Hu- Huntsville, of course, is crazy right now because of the FBI, Redstone, uh, NASA, all of that.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
So people are moving into Tennessee to have the no-tax, uh, property, uh, pr- you know, no state tax.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
They're coming into Pulaski.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
You know, if you're looking for places to invest, Ron, Pulaski m- and Giles County is the place.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
Beautiful farmland, not a lot of rock to build on.
Debbie MatthewsGUEST
It's an insane purchase right now.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And so when I think about the corporations and the conglomerates, that's hurting them.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And then I go to Giles County, right, in Pulaski.
Justin PearsonGUEST
We had 150 people showing up in Pulaski, believe it or not.
Justin PearsonGUEST
Uh, and a young lady comes up.
Dan MandisHOST
Our...
Dan MandisHOST
Giles County, Adams, Tennessee.
Joan JonesHOST
SpaceX does not have a rocket.
Joan JonesHOST
Oh, huh.
Chad WatsonGUEST
So we know that record, uh, that they currently have is not fooling us.
Chad WatsonGUEST
I mean, when you've played Page and Brentwood and Giles County, uh, and all the teams that they've played, they're gonna be battle tested and ready to go.
Tate MathewsHOST
Yeah.
Tate MathewsHOST
That, that, that's a ...
Chad WatsonGUEST
So we know that record, uh, that they currently have is not fooling us.
Chad WatsonGUEST
I mean, when you've played Page and Brentwood and Giles County, uh, and all the teams that they've played, they're gonna be battle-tested and ready to go.
Tate MathewsHOST
Yeah.
Tate MathewsHOST
That, that, that's a ...
Justin PearsonGUEST
And so Republicans are terrified about what we're going to be able to accomplish with early voting starting next Wednesday and obviously Election Day on November 3rd.
Justin PearsonGUEST
But I am getting a great reception all across the state in every county, including one like Giles County, where Pulaski, the home of the Ku Klux Klan, We had over 150 people in the community center gathered who are ready to organize, who are knocking doors, who are making phone calls because they want new energy, they want a new direction, and they want the issues that matter to Tennesseans to actually be addressed.
Al SharptonHOST
Now, the redrawing of Tennessee's 9th District came as part of a wave of Republican redistricting in the South after the Supreme Court decision earlier this year, gutting the part of the Voting Rights Act that protected majority black districts.
Al SharptonHOST
Can you talk about the consequences that ruling has had in the South, threatening black representation, but also perhaps motivating black voters to turn out and fight back?
Ben CarterHOST
To understand how it formed, the story has to move back from Colby's testimony to a town in Tennessee after the Civil War.
Ben CarterHOST
Pulaski, in Giles County, Tennessee, was a Confederate town facing defeat, emancipation, and a new political order.
Ben CarterHOST
In 1865 and early 1866, former Confederates across the South confronted facts they had not chosen.
Ben CarterHOST
Slavery had ended.
Micah HanksHOST
But then on October first, things became stranger still.
Micah HanksHOST
Near the Anthony Hill community in Giles County, Tennessee, three teenage boys claimed they had watched an egg-shaped craft descend to the ground.
Micah HanksHOST
And apparently, it wasn't empty.
Micah HanksHOST
The teenagers described seeing a large, hairy figure near the object, something that reportedly moved with an unusual stiff-legged gait.
Justin PearsonGUEST
And here's the shocking thing.
Justin PearsonGUEST
That people would not expect in a place like Giles County, right? Pulaski.
Justin PearsonGUEST
Tell me about Giles County.
Mary HarrisHOST
I don't know anything about Giles County.
Mary HarrisHOST
Okay,
Justin PearsonGUEST
so Giles County is the county seat is Pulaski.
Justin PearsonGUEST
Pulaski is where the Ku Klux Klan was founded, right? And so when our new district was created, the city that founded the Ku Klux Klan became part of District 9.
Justin PearsonGUEST
So I said, let's go there because we have an amazing organizer, Cassie, who's organizing people and bringing folks together.
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