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Gavin Newsom

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This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

He risked his life and his fortune.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And his sacred honor in support of this thing.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And that's unbelievable.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And so did a 14-year-old kid named John Greenwood from Boston.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

So did a 15-year-old named Joseph Plum Martin from Connecticut.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

So did a lot of people that we don't know their stories who just said, yeah, I'm throwing in with this lot.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

it behooved most Native Americans to side with the British because they think at least they could forestall the onslaught into their territory of the Ohio Valley.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

It was a short-term arrangement.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And then many times the British, whose empire depended entirely on the wealth that was generated from slavery, particularly in the Caribbean, they had 13 colonies there that were huge profit centers, only South Carolina and Virginia, for the reasons you can assume,

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

our profit centers.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

The rest of the colonies aren't.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

But we're populated and we make things.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

So we're good trading partners.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And they want to keep us from taking Indian land because they can't afford to protect us.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And we want to take Indian land.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

So it's not just taxes and representation.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

So you begin to see this like dropping a stone in the water and you follow the ripples out and it becomes so amazing that we see... Lexington Green...

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

April 19th, 1775, the chances of success are zero.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

And six and a half years later, on the 17th of October at Yorktown, they're 100%.

This is Gavin Newsom
And, This Is How To Preserve Our Democracy With Filmmaker Ken Burns

Don't you want to know how that happened?