HEARSAY CULTURE RADIO
In this powerful episode, longtime Hearsay Culture guest Lorelei Kelly returns to share her groundbreaking new project, Defend the Constitution, which empowers citizens to hold their own congressional-style field hearings. Drawing on decades of experience in and around Congress, Kelly lays out how everyday people can create a civic record, influence policy, and repair democracy from the ground up. She explains why traditional outreach—like emails and protests—often falls short, and how local, structured engagement can become a game-changing tool. If you’ve ever felt powerless or frustrated by politics (and who hasn’t?), this episode offers a real, practical, and unique path forward.
“As someone who worked in … East Germany, I am always extremely aware of the capture and cartel -like intentions of leadership that doesn’t want to share information or that privatizes it into exclusionary private hands. And in Congress that sort of ends up being, giving the upper hand to purchase access to lawmaking.” — Lorelei Kelly
“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” — Tom Clancy
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