Felony Disenfranchisement

Yeah What up y'all what up what up what up what up what up what up it is our two With the grapevine crew rain hitty DJ brother Z I Don't know how much more time we got here.

You know what a week Two weeks we'll see

We'll see, man.

Welcome back, y'all, to the award-winning one-on-one, seven-to-truth live from the American Family Insurance Studios.

We talking about.

We transitioning, rather.

To Project 2025.

What's this whole thing about Project 2025?

Call it back, caller.

I'm seeing you.

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

833-212-1017 is the number to dial.

What's actually been implemented?

This is fact check confirmed via the Center for Progressive Reforms Executive Action Tracker updated February 2026.

Project twenty twenty five dot observer and PBS news hour.

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Give us one second call as soon as our brother Z get back, we don't we don't get to you.

As of most recent update.

This is crazy.

Remember they said it didn't exist.

Didn't exist all of these things, right?

As of the most recent update, two hundred and eighty three.

Of the five hundred and thirty two specific executive action recommendations tracked from Project twenty twenty five.

have been initiated or completed.

Remember when we was trying to educate people on what Project 2025 was, what it meant, what it was going to mean for ourselves and others?

Y'all remember that?

I remember that.

I remember it vividly.

We had a whole event about it.

At our building.

It's not a fact.

You know, I don't talk about that tomorrow or something.

Find that tomorrow.

Roughly half, 53% of the tracked domestic agenda achieved within about the first 12 to 18 months of the administration.

They said it wasn't real.

I don't know anything about Project 2025.

Y'all remember that?

Now we don't remember.

Now we don't remember.

Independent Trackers Center for Progressive Reform, NAACP LDF.

Project 2025.Observer.

Mainstream outlets like PBS and Axis coverage on the same rough estimate.

Even though they count differently.

This is not.

a one source partisan claim.

Okay.

Okay.

Real quick.

Update in the Lindsey Clancy defense attorney request a juror be removed from the case

Yes, cuz the judge like Defined the law to them or just trying to explain to them like all you have to you know judge you're based off of this exact definition But now like I guess one juror doesn't want to listen or something.

Yeah, that's what I'm so yeah,

that's now.

Yeah, that's why they're asking like

We'll just get them off the

juror.

One juror that refuses to listen to the law.

I don't even know.

How are you not going to listen to the law?

I don't know.

What's the point?

I would.

I'm very interested in understanding what part of the law they not listening to.

And for the defense attorney.

To want them to be removed makes me believe.

That that person is like, now you're going to jail.

Because if that person was in her favor, I'm assuming they wouldn't want that person removed.

You had the right ideas.

Where'd you go?

Is that saps that?

Uh, jealous.

Specifically targeting black communities and voting.

Let's do a status check on that, right?

DEI elimination largely in place, y'all.

We know it's been a sweeping

sweeping, Thanos style removal of DEI efforts, executive orders banning DEI programs and systemic racism slash privilege.

Curricula in federal contacts were issued essentially on day one.

Day one.

The Education Department's Office of Civil Rights has sent their colleague letters threatening funding cuts to any K through 12 school or college with DEI programs.

Moving voting fraud prosecutions from Department of Justice Civil Rights Division to its criminal division.

This was a specific project 2025 recommendation.

Moving things from the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.

Why?

Why?

For those that say racism don't exist, they don't see race.

Why?

I'm sure they got a reason why that they would love to share.

I'd love to hear it.

833-212-1017.

Voting rights groups, LDF, leadership conference on civil and human rights have flagged actions consistent with this shift already underway since criminal division attorneys lacked the civil rights division specific training in voting rights laws and historical.

discrimination pattern.

Call us up.

833-212-1017.

Census restructuring slash citizenship question partially advanced.

Proposals to add a citizenship question and replace career census bureau staff.

with political appointees remain a live priority.

The 2030 census cycle is the actual target, meaning the full impact hasn't even landed yet.

The full impact hasn't even landed yet, y'all.

Let's keep it going.

dismantling the Department of Education.

Oh boy.

Substantially.

That's underway right now.

Widely confirmed by NPR and other outlets among Project 2025's most visibly implemented items directly affecting the office that enforces school discipline and civil rights protection.

Why?

Why so much focus on us?

Let's go talk to Miss Sandra on the call.

How you doing, Miss Sandra?

You live on the lunch break.

OK.

Hi, I'm fine, again.

I was just listening.

It's really sad that, you know, we have to go through this, but it didn't just that.

We've been doing this for years and this Project 25 book and they got another one coming out 2030.

So all this, I think what they're trying to do is put everything into a pay deal where we're going to have to pay for education, you know, money, you know, how you can put everything in the stock market, just like the prisons now are in stock markets and stuff like that.

Yep.

So they could legislate new laws where they could make sure they get 80% prisoners in prison.

So they want black folks, black bodies, and especially black men, because really I had a son.

He died in Walpons.

He was in prison in Walpons.

And he had spent 22 years in prison and he got 60 over a little mess.

You know, and then I turn around and I look at that mess we got up in the White House, all kind of rapists and everything.

They get nothing.

They get to tear up America.

They get to bring in Elon Musk from Africa to tear up our structure and some more of them.

And I'm just sitting here.

I think what we have to do, we got to get everybody educated, especially our kids, and get behind the Iron Curtain and come up with strategies because that's what they did and that's what they're still doing.

They keep us focused on Donald Trump and the war I ran this and that.

Tell Donald Trump to go to the war.

My son went to the Navy.

So I do reserve work.

Tell him his key is to get out there and fight.

Oh, no.

They choose prestigious and the rest of them.

So I have no use for none of them.

They're chairing up the country and they're going to succeed because they don't get their white people back.

I said, they're on the type.

And they don't think they are, but they

are.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's sinking and they don't even know it.

It's sinking and they don't even know it.

Thank you, Miss Sandra for calling here.

It's always a pleasure hearing from our truth family listeners.

It's the Titanic.

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

When we come back, we're going to get into some more of this Project 2025 stuff that they said wasn't real, but it's more than 53% complete or started.

You listening to the grapevine live on the award winning one on one, seven, the truth.

What up y'all welcome back welcome back welcome back It's a boy Ray nitty holding it down on the grapevine The award-winning one on one seven the truth lie from the American family insurance studios I'm gonna catch this nap before this day over with I swear to God I Refuse to believe it's that stealthy Ron says I Remember it.

I remember people denying it and they ran it

Like a playbook because it was.

Said that woman yesterday was videotaping the jurors.

That's a felony.

Well, I ain't seen no woman.

What I mean?

In the Lindsey stuff.

Yeah, she got arrested for videotaping them.

Damn.

And she posted it too.

Then she probably posted it on social media.

If they are on the Titanic.

How come they not sink?

It's sinking.

They just don't know it.

We're sinking.

A three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17 is the number to dial.

A three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17 is the number to dial.

Talking about Project 2025.

The playbook that they lied about and said they didn't know anything about it wasn't real.

Well, it's almost more than halfway complete, 53%.

We're talking right now about the dismantling of the Department of Education, which is substantially underway, widely confirmed by NPR and other outlets among Project 25 most visibly implemented items, directly affecting the office that enforces school discipline and civil rights protection.

Once again, I asked the question.

If our voting and our vote isn't that important, why is so much being done to disenfranchise us from voting, give us felonies to keep you from voting?

Federal.

Consent decrease on police accountability.

Targeted for rollback.

Okay.

These decrees which prevent racial profiling and misconduct in departments under federal oversight are specifically named in Project 2025 as targets for elimination.

We need to roll this back, man.

We need our boys to be able to do what they need to do.

You already taking the flock cameras away.

Don't piss me off, man.

So for balance, we're going to talk about what has not happened so far, right?

It's on the list, but it hasn't happened yet.

A nationwide abortion ban has not been enacted.

They want it nationwide.

Despite of rape or incest.

Shannon was just talking about the case of the 14 year old.

Young girl who was raped.

forced to have the baby on the side of a road.

Is on the run now.

Ain't.

I don't think they arrest her dad yet for it.

But they looking for her to charge her with murder.

A nationwide abortion ban has not been enacted yet.

Thirteen states have complete bans and others have restrictions.

But not nationwide restrictions.

No, no nationwide restrictions exist as of this show today.

Per CS monitors August 26 reporting.

This is a useful honest example of a major project 2025 goal that remains unrealized showing the tracker isn't just checking every box as done.

53%

Not basically everything and not barely anything.

Several specific items are already in place, y'all.

Several items are already in place in place.

That Queen Latifah look good, girl.

I bands.

The Department of Justice shift affecting voting rights enforcement.

Education Department dismantling are the clearest, most documented examples touching black community specifically.

Some of the others is census restructuring.

scheduled for full impact in 2030.

Pay attention to what's going to happen in 20 to three years, y'all.

Three years.

I'm already looking at is that we're in 27 already.

This is a live partially executed blueprint, not a finished one and not a fictional one.

OK.

eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17 is the number to dial.

Laurent Taylor says project 25, 2025 is an insurance policy.

So in case they are outnumbered, they can have lost lots to fall back on.

I'm assuming that's what you meant to say.

It's called being prepared.

We knew they were going to interact.

Probably meant to say enact voter ID legislation.

What if all the black folks got their photo ID?

I agree.

I agree.

I agree.

We should just have one.

We should.

We should just have one.

We shouldn't allow not having an ID be a realistic reason that they could use for our community.

But.

The broader question is, how do they know to use it?

These niggas don't got IDs.

Let's say you need an ID to vote.

I agree.

Yes.

We should just go get the IDs.

Go get it.

Be prepared don't let them use that as a reason to why they could disenfranchise our vote because it's really probably the most Stupidest one if you ask me go get ID But I lose so many IDs too Go get your ID man, go get your kid you are a parent so there's your kid turns like

Do we not take our kids to get IDs no more?

Y'all don't take your kids to get identification.

Let's not have them use that as an excuse.

All right.

We have to pay attention.

to the attack on our community.

We can't ignore it and we can't fall for the division and the conversations that they have a spend our time talking about.

It keeps us from focusing on what we need to focus on.

We got to stay focused.

We have.

to stay focused.

But shifting the gears when we come back.

More lighter, I guess it's not really that much lighter.

But where prices are actually rising and how consumers are responding.

It's expensive in this damn country, man.

Things are high.

Food gas.

Medical, everything.

When we come back, we're going to talk about where this pressure is coming from.

Right here on the award-winning 10170 Truth.

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What up?

Welcome back.

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You are now swinging from the grapevine with your boy Ray nitty The award-winning one on one seven the truth live from the American family insurance studios We're talking about money man We're talking about that money Where prices are actually rising and how consumers are responding?

How you feeling about the things that you got to buy out there?

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I almost gave my phone number out.

I'm tripping.

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This is this is something in this green tea.

I almost gave my government number out.

4144 like, wait a minute.

Hmm I don't need whiskey lips calling me whoever that be on our show and show Showing got a wild show man.

That is like Rated and NC 17 All right x rated show Hughes views after dark should be a name of that show where the pressure is coming from

Core goods inflation has risen sharply.

The 12 month change in core goods prices hit 2.4% in May 2026 compared to just 0.6% a year earlier.

Federal reserves on report ties part of this directly to tariff effects with categories most exposed to tariffs, household appliances, consumer electronics, seeing the steepest increase.

Chill out, girl.

All right.

Every day sticker shock is real and measurable.

Bloomberg's price tracking shows a basic bacon, egg and cheese sandwich with a coffee is up 38 percent since 2020.

$1.87 to $2.58.

And the cheeseburger fries combo was up 42%.

$3.12 to $4.

First of all, where y'all getting these egg sandwiches and cheeseburger combos?

Because there ain't no damn combo I bought was $4.43.

What sandwich are they referring to?

Middle East conflict driven prices for gas increases.

Has specifically hit low income households the hardest, according to Goldman Sachs research.

The firm has twice cut its 2026 forecast for how much extra spending money the average consumer will have this year, now projecting just 3.7% growth in discretionary income down from the initial.

Five point one estimate.

I'm trying to tell you on that.

Trying to tell you.

I know it don't cost no more to make no damn sandwich.

Why are you charging me more?

I'm already paying.

for your staff that you hire and you want to give them $2.13 so you add gratuity on there and force me into a business partnership that I don't see any of the proceeds from your business at the end of the year.

If I'm playing, if I'm paying for employees directly because you want to give them $2.13 sub minimum wage.

I'm a partner in that business.

Man, that combo meal shot up before the fight for 15.

That combo meal shot, first of all, I remember when I could get two McChickens for $2.

That was a thing.

Then it went from two to 222.

Now it's like two for six.

I don't even want to make chicken any damn more.

Consumer sentiment has cratered.

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell to an all time low.

of 45 in May 2026, a level typically only seen during recessions.

We in the middle of a recession and nobody is calling it that because they change the rules.

They change what they call it.

We in a recession.

They just not saying it.

They keep moving the goalposts on what it.

Mackenzie's Q2 2026 tracking found a shrinking share of consumers feeling optimistic and a growing share feeling pessimists, pessimistic with intentions to pull back spending across most discretion discretionary categories.

We better start.

Sacrificing.

These next few years is going to be.

It's gonna be hard.

We need to start managing our wasteful spending.

We talk about it all the time on the show.

They might not think we talk about things of substance.

But we got a lot of substance.

Our wasteful spending.

I'm doing a study right now on all the liquor licenses in the city of Milwaukee.

It's over 1300.

And that doesn't include.

Like bars and taverns and restaurants.

This is just liquor stores.

Let me be clear.

And I was doing that study because I wanted to really get an idea of.

How much money the black community pours into alcohol.

And the way I was going about trying to get to that number is like, OK, let's figure out the average of how many liquor stores we have here.

Milwaukee County based, not Milwaukee County City of Milwaukee, particularly.

And then average how much does a liquor store make?

But the information that I was researching, they said it was so many liquor stores that they had to stop at H. So I got to continue.

I got to go back and finish doing the research.

Our wasteful spending.

Taking that trip when you don't need to take that trip, spending that money to go see that girl, that girl, going to go someplace with that other boy.

Hmm.

How consumers are actually responding.

Don't keep it moving.

All right.

How consumers are actually responding.

So this is an interesting part.

You would think.

You know.

Cheyenne going up.

T move going up.

Everything going up.

Tariffs.

The tariff on the Cheyenne package got to be crazy right now.

Sheen.

Sheen Cheyenne?

I don't know.

Who's Cheyenne?

Cheyenne.

Sheen.

Shoot.

Teemu.

Alibaba.

You sure it's not Timua?

It might be.

Is the A in there?

It's an H. It's an H at the end of Teemu.

T-E-M-U-H.

Oh.

Timua.

Timua.

It might be Arabic.

I don't know.

I don't know.

75% of US households are now actively trading down.

Shifting to value retailers, private label store brands and resale slash second hand goods.

Per Rebecca's 2026 analysis.

Speaking of.

These type of things, Larry is going to be hosting an open warehouse sale for some of his things, man.

A lot of his antiques.

Pay attention for that.

We're going to be promoting that to help him try to get some of the value back from all of those items that was broken.

He's probably lost over $200,000 in items.

That's the sad part about it.

No, no, no, no.

Larry Brazil from the warehouse where the kids broke in.

And destroyed a lot of those antique stuff that we had in that warehouse.

So now Larry Sanders.

Larry Brazil.

You know Larry Brazil, call him up.

Get the information, y'all.

We're gonna have an open warehouse.

Amazing items.

Come down.

Purchase it.

Let's help get some value back.

Retail transaction count is down 7% year over year, but average order value is up 16% from $111 to $130.

Consumers are shopping less often, but more deliberately doing more research before buying and choosing quality over impulse purchases.

Don't go anywhere y'all when we come back.

We're gonna talk about some more of the places Where consumers are actually responding and then I got a question how should our community respond In times like this, how will we respond as a community?

Don't go anywhere.

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welcome back welcome back to the award-winning 10170 truth live from the american family insurance studios it is your boy Ray nitty holding it down on the great vine brother z holding us down on the production it sound how y'all feeling today it's friday eve it is friday eve what y'all doing this

Weekend Eve.

How you spending that money?

What you spending that money on?

What you spending that money on?

Consumers are responding to the rising costs.

You know what they didn't do?

They didn't blame all rap music from Milwaukee.

They didn't do that.

Private label store brands have shifted from being seen as a fallback trade down option to a genuine first choice for many shoppers.

Retailers are now marketing store brands as reliable and trustworthy rather than just cheap.

They thought it was crazy when we was.

Always wearing fly gang shirts like ah, you know how much a shirt is a silver star?

$80 for a t-shirt Come buy this fly gang.

So matter of fact, we about to relaunch the good noise We got good noise brands gonna be coming up.

You want t-shirt you want some affordable comfortable that you could wear fashionable I'll let your boy man.

Good noise somewhere to message Good noise apparel

We keep it very, very affordable.

But don't try to, don't try to, you know, got support black businesses.

Ask if I know free stuff.

Say no democratic socialist shirt.

This is a for profit.

Spending is diverging sharply by income.

Affluent households are still driving consumption growth.

While lower income households are cutting back, meaning the inflation story is not hitting everyone equally, even as headline numbers apply to the whole economy.

How do we do it?

The other day we talked about power, nomics, group economics.

What are we doing as a community to help make life a little bit easier for you?

You know what I'm doing?

I'm going to a place like restaurant Depot.

Are we going to buy stuff in bulk?

And I'm going to tell them for a man.

I don't need all these pack of wings, but a case comes with four packs.

Mommy, you want a pack of wings?

Shit, you want a pack?

I got it.

I caught that damn that.

It's been bothering me since noon.

Leave it right here so his friends can see.

Are we going to start buying things in bulk and sharing food with families?

Growing our food, maybe.

I know it was Wisconsin, so we only got about 60 days to really get some seeds in the ground.

We have some indoor gardens that we could do.

You could grow tomatoes in your house.

You could grow tomatoes in your house.

I'm just saying, what are we going to do?

I'm also looking into just buying me a half a cow.

I'm tired of just keeping having to go back and buy these expensive meats.

I'm tired of it.

Trying to get my family to go half on a steer.

And I want the ox tails too.

I want any extra ox tails that.

Anybody don't want from a cow.

Give me the tail.

What is it like?

What would it be like if you bought.

A cow taken to the butcher, but you don't need a whole one.

Trust me.

They say half a cow go a long way.

They said a quarter cow.

You probably could feed a family for a year.

and still have some left.

Let me Google how much a quarter of a cow costs.

Just for the sake of pricing.

Let me Google this real quick, y'all.

Help our listeners out be more financially.

Responsible.

How much?

Does it have?

He said, remember, tomorrow is beater Friday.

We saving money on shirts now, too.

You don't like my shirt?

It's too sexy.

My shirt too sexy for the radio.

A half a cow typically costs between $1,500 and $3,500.

The final price varies based on the animal's weight.

the region where you buy it and whether the beef is grass fed or grain finished.

All right.

When purchasing direct from a farm, you will usually pay a refundable deposit of 200 to 250 and upfront to reserve your share.

Average hanging weight is 350 to 450 pounds.

Take home finished 200 to 250 where's all this wait a minute now?

How does about 200 pounds of meat just I need to know I Want to buy a cow man Has anybody ever bought their own cow?

How long did I know my hairdresser did culture culture she be buying cows and then saving them

I'ma give me a cow.

And I'ma let y'all know.

Reina, I know Reina, she's selling like cows.

She hooked people up with a butcher, you know what I'm saying?

Hook you up with a nice farm.

I wanna meet mines though.

I wanna talk to it.

I wanna see what type of energy it was.

I wanna pray with it.

Can they make me like a jacket from the hide of the cow to or they don't?

That's a whole different part of it.

I want the rug, like make a nice little steer rug, cow rug off of it.

I want all parts.

But how are we responding as a community?

What are we doing to help each other?

Or are we just?

I guess this is a little button.

I can button this up a little bit.

Put a button.

What was a little sexy out here?

Well, you know had to let him know I'm son of an immigrant My bad y'all I wasn't I ain't mean to get too handsome on y'all today.

I let my hair down man He said they had three deep freezers in the backyard The cost is going up y'all but our spending habits are rising as well

They still waiting to hear what they gonna do with Lindsey Clancy They said one of the jurors refuses to listen to the law Whatever that means We got miss jazz Tyler up next on the tap in y'all don't go anywhere.

Don't go anywhere My quota today, I'ma leave y'all with this Quotas by

Rep John Lewis.

The vote is precious.

It is almost sacred.

It is the most powerful, nonviolent tool that we have.

I appreciate your time for kicking it with me here today.

Miss Jazz Tyler is up next with Tap In.

Make sure you tune in tomorrow as well, man.

We got something special that we cooking up.

For all my music heads all my artists don't go anywhere y'all.

I'm out

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You are now tuned in to the grapevine with your boy Ray nitty holding it down on the award-winning one-on-one seven the truth live from the American family insurance studios Happy Thursday Happy Thursday.

Happy Thursday Man How y'all feeling this Thursday man we had a

Good conversation in the last couple of hours talking about.

Humanity, who gets it?

Treat people like humans.

That's what we talked about.

As I'm sitting here, a three three, my bad, two on two, 10, 17.

That's the number to dial.

A three three, two on two, 10, 17 is the number to dial.

Today we're going to talk about.

Black history, disenfranchisement policy.

Project 2025 in the economy.

So we're going to be talking about.

As I sit here and.

Await.

To see if we're going to hear anything.

From.

The Clancy child, they sent the letter in.

It's been deadlocked for some time.

Spend deadlock for some time days.

I think what this day five Day four something like that So the jury sends The court a note so we'll find out what that note says we'll be on watch for that But make sure y'all follow us on YouTube

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All right talked about humanity Talked about brother Pierre took his life for how he was treated.

He couldn't deal with it anymore Zenhumane it's 20 years old It's 20 years old We live in a society now where

We think people.

Should operate and handle things the exact same way we would or how we should.

And it's interesting because.

I'm seeing.

I don't want to say a country.

I'm seeing a good amount of people.

rallying and having support.

Around Clancy.

I haven't took a stance on it.

You know, I don't I don't know too much of the details.

I know she killed her kids.

I know they said she was suffering from.

Postpartum psychosis or something like that.

But people are having enough empathy to say she wasn't in her right mind or, you know, mentally, she was going through a lot.

Physically, she was dealing with a lot.

We can understand and have the empathy for her.

We can.

We can.

Nothing is wrong with.

understanding and being empathetic, but who we choose to show it to.

This double standard, right?

The double standard of.

Who we have understanding for.

So interesting because as we're talking about this.

I'm looking at the title on TV, TMZ Live.

They're saying Nancy Mace.

They're talking about if Lindsey Clancy were black.

Hmm.

If she was black.

I don't want to assume.

I don't want to assume.

But I'm sure we have cases.

That we could point to.

I'm sure we got cases that we could point to.

That answer that question.

What if she was black?

All right.

But today's show on the grapevine.

I wanted to talk about black history.

Disenfranchisement policies of Project 2025 in the economy.

It's fact check confirmed by National Archives, Library of Congress and NAACP historic records.

OK.

This first segment.

This little opener, whatever we want to call this.

This first.

Poor wine,

I guess, from the grape.

I don't

know.

Whatever we want to call it.

We want to talk about black history and the fight for the ballot.

Black history and the fight for the ballot.

We've been talking about voting.

The governor's race.

Local elections.

Been talking about referendums.

Been talking about.

You know, Milwaukee being one of the worst places.

To raise black families.

We talked about.

The redistricting.

Of maps.

Trying to.

Weekend.

Black votes, brown votes.

We talk about all these different things, voter ID bills.

All these different things.

And it's all to.

What do you think?

We got a real fight for the ballot.

I always say we need to vote, but I also always say it's not the only thing, right?

We can't just organize our vote.

We got to organize our dollars.

We have to organize our minds, our communities and our money.

And our money.

We have so much buying power.

That we don't organize.

We don't be intentional about where we put that money.

How we invest that money.

We don't do it.

We don't pay attention to the little things that add up over a year.

Food is a little bit more disciplined.

I'm talking about myself.

Talking about myself.

When I speak, I'm really speaking about myself.

And if you could find some similarities, then so be it.

But I'm sure there's things that we all have.

Put money towards spent money on that we didn't need to.

I just talked about me wanting to damn extra peanut sauce.

I didn't need the sauce.

I didn't need the sauce, but I had an attitude that they was getting ready to charge me.

For some more peanut sauce after I gave it to.

We got to organize.

And when we come back, we're going to talk about the fight for the ballot.

We got some stats.

We got some data that we're going to share, but we're going to educate everybody and we're going to have a good time.

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What up y'all welcome back.

It's your boy Ray Nitty on the award winning one on one seven the truth.

Live from the grapevine it is.

Oh we live from the grapevine in the American Family Insurance Studios.

Talking about black history to fight for the ballot y'all.

We want to talk about

how we got here.

raised a chair today.

See how I feel about that.

I sit high.

Swing my feet like short people do.

That's how Shannon be when she in studio swinging her feet from.

I don't like it.

I don't like it.

I don't see how you do it, Sherman.

I don't like it.

Lower.

There we go.

The 15th Amendment.

1870 technically gave black men the right to vote.

But for nearly a century, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and outright terror kept most black Southerners from actually casting a ballot.

OK.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

passed after Bloody Sunday in Selma where state troopers where state troopers beat peaceful marchers on live television.

This was 1965.

This was 1965.

OK.

State troopers beat peaceful marchers on live television.

Band literacy tests and required federal.

Preclearance for election law changes in states with histories of discrimination.

Black voter registration in Mississippi alone jumped from about 6 percent to nearly 60 percent within a few years of passage.

Six to 60 percent.

within just a few years of passing.

OK.

This is.

What we had to do to even earn this right.

And I feel like our listeners know.

Our truth families, pretty educated people on black history.

I just think it's funny that.

We still fight.

that we still have to.

We still have to fight for the right because they have constantly been attacking it, obviously, since 1870.

And before that, because 1870, as we stated, was the 15th Amendment, technically gave Black men the right to vote, but there was still poll taxes.

a literacy test.

You know, they wouldn't let us read back then.

If you was reading, they'll poke your eyes out, but they wouldn't poke your eyes out because they needed you to see what you was working on.

Shelby County versus Holder 2013 gutted the preclarence.

Requirement with the Supreme Court ruling the formula used to decide which states needed federal oversight was outdated Within 24 hours of the ruling Texas announced it would enforce a strict voter ID law that had previously been blocked 2013 Steel trying to find new ways

to make it harder for us to cast our vote.

Participate in the American dream.

Land of the free and the home of the slaves.

This show, well, the lunch break show, when I say this show, I'm talking about lunch break show.

We've covered the direct.

measurable result before.

With the voter ID, okay?

But if you forgot, here it is.

Black voter turnout in Wisconsin fell from 74% in 2012 to 59% in 2016.

19 point collapse.

The same year the state's voter ID law took effect for the first time in a presidential race.

With the UW Madison study estimating it deterred 16,800 to 23,250 Dane and Milwaukee County voters.

None of what we're about to discuss today.

Project 2025, felony disenfranchisement, census manipulation, redistricting, remapping.

None of it is a new playbook.

This ain't new, okay?

It's the same fight.

over who gets to vote that's been running since 1870.

It's just with different tools for each generation.

And one tool that they have used so effectively is getting us to think that our vote does not matter.

That your.

individual vote does not matter.

They've gotten us to think that so much so that we say, oh, my vote don't matter.

I ain't going to vote.

When we know.

The Democratic governor race was decided by less.

The Democratic primary for the governor was decided by less than a percent.

David Bowen ran against Andrea Pratt.

I think he lost by less than 15 votes.

Every vote matters.

It all matters.

But we have been taught and not even taught, programmed to believe that they don't.

Why?

Because then you vote for somebody, then you see nothing happens.

Even when you vote for somebody and you think you got your person in that's going to make things happen for you or your community or the issues that are important to you.

You got to deal with the opposition, putting things in place to block.

The ability to produce policies that are.

Working your favor.

And let's be clear, they do it to everybody is doing it to each other.

Republicans do is the Democrats.

Democrats do it to Republicans.

But throughout this show.

The things we are talking about are not new, just evolved.

Just new strategy.

And when we come back from break.

We want to talk about.

The policies as currently on the table.

All right.

Beyond Project 2025, the broader current landscape.

We want to take a look at what felony disenfranchisement look like.

It's already active.

It's not proposed.

We want to talk about voter ID registration barriers.

It's expanding.

It's not shrinking.

So we'll talk about that.

Census undercounting.

That's more of a quiet, more structural version, right?

Purges and election integrity.

We gonna talk about it.

Don't go anywhere, y'all.

Don't go anywhere.

I know.

Buckle up, take your time.

We gonna take our time with this one, all right?

We're gonna take our time with this because it's important.

Got an opportunity to, and I don't even want to say the first black governor because he's an amazing candidate before anything, right?

He just happened to be black.

What does it mean?

What could it mean for a city?

For a state for a nation Who's only a nation who's only and it's 250 years elected if I'm not mistaken less than four Black governors in the United States don't go anywhere.

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Felony Dish and Franchisement.

745 and yes, they are.

OK, appreciate that.

It was fireman.

I don't know what that was.

It was like like real ham on it.

Like look like a charcuterie board type presentation that Sherwin had in there.

I know me and Zach ate like half of it ourselves.

I had two slices.

I know he had to show and he was probably regretting even off.

He was talking about leaving it for one second.

He was talking about leaving it for a second.

He took that pizza with him, though.

Dumb dumb.

What are they going?

It would have been gone, man.

I was like, please leave it.

I'm here for four hours.

Man.

Share the name in the chat one more time.

Share the name of the shot one more time in the chat, Laurent.

He says it was a prosciutto, mushroom, and arugula.

felony disenfranchisement, already active, not proposed.

Roughly four million Americans are currently disenfranchised due to felony convictions.

One in 22 black adults nationally is disenfranchised this way.

A rate more than three times higher than non black adults.

So as it don't even sound.

Like a lot, right?

One in twenty two, you're like, OK, too bad, but it's still three times higher.

Three times higher than non black adults.

And that's something very interesting.

to think about knowing that.

Milwaukee has incarcerated more than 55 percent of its black male population.

Hmm.

Hmm.

Mad Rush Pizza, that's the name.

We got to break this down for a second yard.

We got to understand the game.

That's being played.

The many ways.

I guess was it nothing that just started in 2013 with voter ID bill or.

Mass incarceration.

No.

Back.

After slavery, we just talked about it.

They made it illegal to not have a job, so they locked us up and then I was able to put Cass back in jail and work for free.

The 13th Amendment, we spoke about it.

We spoke about it.

We talked about it.

So since back then to now.

We still overpoliced, still incarcerated the most.

Still face felonies as at a higher rate than our counterparts.

And we don't think that voting is important.

If voting wasn't that important, it wouldn't be a strategic plot.

And what's the easiest way to take away your right to vote?

Put a put a felony on you.

Put a felony on you.

More than 55% of our black male population has been incarcerated.

I'm not saying more than 55% of them have felonies.

That's not what I'm saying.

I'm saying out of more than 55%, I'm sure it's a good amount of that percentage that is probably felonies.

Let's just call it 25.

25%, 20%.

Probably lead to felonies.

But imagine if we just looking at the numbers, right?

We talking about chipping away at our vote.

If we saw what voter ID did.

Right.

If we saw that our participation.

Dropped.

Nearly 20 points, 20%.

Black voter turnout in Wisconsin fell from 74% in 2012.

That was the year before voter ID.

To 59% in 2016.

The same year the state's voter ID law took effect for the first time in a presidential race.

Twenty four thousand Dane and Milwaukee County voters were deterred.

And it was probably more.

They just going based off of who typically voted.

The felonies.

Now, always remember, if you no longer own papers, you can get that right back to vote.

Voter ID and registration barriers.

All right.

It is expanding.

It is not shrinking.

I feel like we should all have IDs anyway, right?

I do get it like, are you just doing this to make it hard?

Yes, but.

Let's just go get ID.

Just go get ID.

You need a driver's license.

Go get your driver's license.

Go get a permit.

Go get a state ID.

So let's just go do it.

Let's eliminate that as being a reason.

Arm yourself, arm ourselves.

Loran says, I know that if I committed felony, I cannot own a gun or be in possession of one.

That is the consequence.

It is not called gun ownership disenfranchisement.

Same as voting.

Same as adopting a child.

But here's the difference.

Here's the difference.

Our community is targeted.

And actually, they do call it gun ownership disenfranchisement.

It's called something else.

They call it the rights to bear arms and the NRA.

They show up for all of the things that people have been trying to push against them.

Gun violence is the number one cause.

of teen deaths in our communities.

Yeah, they try to put more strict laws around guns.

But you know what they say?

You will not infringe on my rights.

Yeah, they don't call it disenfranchisement.

Since Shelby County 2013, dozens of states have passed new voter ID or registration restrictions.

The Brennan Center tracks new restrictive voting bills introduced in most state legislative sessions since 2021 with a fresh wave introduced again in 2025, 2026 sessions.

I want you all to think about what's getting ready to happen.

Why is it being introduced again?

Why do we think it's being introduced again?

When we come back y'all We'll get into some more to vote our ID restriction and barriers and some more of the policies currently on the table Don't go anywhere.

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What up?

How you doing?

It's your boy Ray Nitty holding it down on the grapevine.

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Talking about our community, man.

If you just joining us, eight, three, three, two, one, two, ten, seventeen is the number to dial.

Share your opinion.

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Right.

Talking about the policies is currently on the table.

Just talked about voter ID registration barriers, how they're expanding it and not shrinking.

They introduce some in most states.

with a fresh wave, introduce it more in 2025, 2026 session.

Because some elections is coming up.

And they need.

A need to be able.

To limit our vote.

Because if we got.

A party that's in control of the House and Senate that is.

That one would hope would be favorable.

And ensuring that we are protected, our rights are protected, that all people's rights are protected.

So we would hope.

But in order to stop that, they need to stop us from going to the polls and vote.

So they have all of these different scare tactics.

They have all of these different new policies, all of these different procedures.

Changing poll locations, closing certain poll locations down.

Tom Barrett pulled the move so cold.

I don't even.

Yeah.

allegedly.

When he ran against Lena, I felt like I randomly heard that all of a sudden you couldn't vote in midtown.

The highest polling.

All right, y'all.

All right.

Census.

Undercounting.

It's more quiet structural version, right?

You like to talk about polls and all of this stuff.

Because numbers don't lie.

But the 2020 census under counted black, come on now.

Numbers don't lie to census do.

Under counted black residents by an estimate of 3.3 percent.

According to the Census Bureau's own.

Survey.

Undercounts directly reduce a community's congressional representation and it's shared.