Ken Martin’s fiery speech: choosing between billionaires and the american people

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1/2/2025

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00:00Thank you so much! Thank you!

00:04Well, look, thank you so much! Thank you! Thank you!

00:08I've just got a few minutes left and I've got a long speech, so thank you to Peggy, my great friend.

00:12Thank you to Supervisor Solis, and of course to my wonderful friend from labor, Sandra Lee Williams, for her support.

00:19I want to take a moment to thank my friend, my brother, our fantastic chairman, Jamie Harrison, for his wonderful work.

00:25Look, to my fellow Democrats, we got punched in the mouth in November. There's no two ways about it.

00:32I'm running for DNC chair because it's time to get off the mat, to dust ourselves off, and to get back in this fight.

00:40A lot of people in this country right now are going to need us to walk and chew gum at the same time,

00:45meaning we're going to have to fight the extremes of Donald Trump while we make a sharp case to families in both red states and blue states

00:52about why they should trust us with their votes.

00:55The thing is this, when the Trump agenda fails Americans, which it most certainly will and already has,

01:01we have to be there with a legitimate alternative to this chaos.

01:05You know, while Donald Trump was being sworn in, Sandra and I marched with labor leaders outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church,

01:12the home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

01:15As we marched in the streets of Atlanta, we sang the song, the old union song, Which Side Are You On?

01:23For a pro-labor progressive like me, a guy who has carried a union card and organized for the labor movement throughout his life,

01:31that cuts straight to my core.

01:33For the past few nights, and for these brief moments of stillness that we get these days, I keep thinking about that song.

01:40As we move through the next year, Democrats need to ask ourselves each day,

01:44Whose side are we on? Which side are we on?

01:47Are we on the side of the robber baron, the ultra-wealthy billionaire, the oil and gas polluter, the union buster,

01:55or are we on the side of the American working family, the small business owner, the farmer, the immigrant, and the students?

02:04Let me tell you, I know which side I'm on. I know which side you're on.

02:09Let me tell you, folks, look, Black History Month started today.

02:15So are we on the side of this grotesque brand of politics that bans us from observing this month,

02:22stops us from celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

02:26and expressly aims to turn back the clock to a pre-civil rights era?

02:31Or are we on the side of a fiercely and compassionately defending the rights, freedoms, and dreams of the American people?

02:39I'll tell you which side I'm on. I know which side you're on.

02:45Look, I'm just going to end with this, because I've got 40 seconds left.

02:54You've heard a lot.

02:56If you vote for me as DNC chair, you're going to be getting a father, a husband,

03:00and the first son of a single mom who had me when she was 15 years old,

03:04who was raising four kids by the time she was 20.

03:07We were in and out of shelters, we knew what poverty felt like,

03:10and we saw what she sacrificed to make sure we could have a warm dinner most nights.

03:15Because my mom gave a damn about me, and because my community gave a damn about my family, it meant we had a chance.

03:21I ended up being the first kid in my family to go to college and get a degree.

03:25I got involved in politics because I believed that government should give a damn, too.

03:31For me and for all of us, the Democratic was our party. I trust that it still is.

03:36With that, I hope to have earned your vote, just as we once again rightly earned the votes of millions of families who are counting on us.

03:44Thank you so much.

03:46Let's go! Let's win! Let's fight!

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