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Nathaniel Markowitz

Sep 28, 2026

2:30
And it started around the time of the Women's March in 2017, correct? That was sort of the impetus for this?
2:39
Yeah, so Doug went out on the Women's March in 2017, and I think I'll speak for you here, Doug, was sort of awed by all of the grassroots energy that he saw springing up around him, but also sort of recognized that there was a danger of not harnessing that energy.
3:00
And so he, along with some early volunteers, launched Flip the 14.
3:07
We were targeting the 14 Republican-held congressional districts in California at the time.
3:14
The conventional wisdom was that maybe we could flip two or three of those seats ended up helping flip seven.
3:21
So, you know, Doug kind of looked around and said, Hey, maybe there's something to this whole organizing thing and decided to carry it forward.
3:30
So that was the 2018 cycle.

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17:21
Yeah.

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