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Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week.

• Markets! The stock market is a bit up and down around the world, but nothing to cause too much concern. Crypto is neutral as well, but with some gains made in the last week.
• Big news! Anaplan is selling to PE for more than $10 billion. Notably the deal is not cheap, which means that we're seeing private equity get its checkbook out as software company prices come down and become, well, targets.
• Unicorns! FTX is heading to Australia, more indication that some crypto trading platforms are going to every market that they can. What will happen to smaller crypto platforms? And when does that consolidation land?
• Startups! Powered by People raises $5 million, CommerceIQ raises $115 million, and Sequoia debuts Arc, which is a non-accelerator accelerator.

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It's Day 13 of The Rabble podcast's Daily Democracy Challenge, where we count down 46 days of impactful-yet-achievable action items to flip Texas and elect our 46th president.

Only 33 more days until the election and 12 more days until early voting! 

TODAY'S ACTION:

Tonight! tonight! tonight! We're gonna make calls with Beto's org Powered x People for SIX different Texas House candidates (septuple whammy!): Joanna Cattanach, Sharon Hirsch, Natali Hurtado, Eliz Markowitz, Celina Montoya, Alisa Simmons and Jeff Whitfield. (Psssst... we heard Alyssa Milano was at the last one.  Never know who might show up!)

Register here and we'll see ya 6:30 - 9pm tonight!: https://act.betoorourke.com/event/tx-house-phone-bank/34446?source=map&akid=

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It's Day 12 of The Rabble podcast's Daily Democracy Challenge, where we count down 46 days of impactful-yet-achievable action items to flip Texas and elect our 46th president.

Only 34 more days until the election and 13 more days until early voting! 

TODAY'S ACTION:

This one will be a great palate-cleanser after last night's debacle of a debate. We're going to write letters with Swing Left for Sharon Hirsch -- a Texas House candidate in Plano who only lost by 391 votes last time!! While we write, we'll listen to the soothing songs of Christina Cavazos. Register here now if you haven't already: https://www.mobilize.us/swingleft/event/304577/

And while you're here on the internet, sign up for tomorrow's action with Beto's org Powered x People -- we're gonna phone bank for SIX different Texas House candidates (septuple whammy!). We heard Alyssa Milano was at the last one. Register here: https://act.betoorourke.com/event/tx-house-phone-bank/34446?source=map&akid=

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Beto was here! We got him to play "two truths and a lie," give us his thoughts on the presidential race, and tell us about his new organization, Powered by People. Plus, he tells us how we can turn Texas blue and have fun doing it. (Shout out to Flip the TX House, an amazing org that was built by former Beto Ambassadors!)

THIS WEEK’S GUEST:

Beto O'Rourke - founder of Powered by People, former U.S. Representative from TX, former U.S. Presidential candidate, former U.S. Senate candidate, reason for many of Ted Cruz's gray hairs

https://poweredxpeople.org/

https://twitter.com/BetoORourke

https://twitter.com/PoweredByPeoplx

https://www.facebook.com/betoorourke/

https://www.facebook.com/PoweredByPeople/

BLUE SQUAD MISSION OF THE WEEK:

Download the Blue Squad App & follow The Rabble podcast to find this week's mission: https://bluesquad.page.link/XSCR

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OTHER LINKS WE MENTIONED:

THE PUSHBACK, a documentary about people working to turn Texas blue that we are featured in is premiering at SXSW! Richard Linklater produced, Kevin Ford directed. Join us at a screening: https://schedule.sxsw.com/2020/films/2026248

Pritesh Gandhi, candidate for U.S. Congress in TX10: https://www.gandhifortexas.com/

Ashley's Instagram story about her block walk for Dr. Gandhi: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17879894263514857/

Find a Texas Tribune event near you: https://www.texastribune.org/events/

Good Politics Party for the People happening Thursday, February 20 in Austin: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/party-for-the-people-candidate-happy-hour-hang-out-tickets-90896894057?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Eliz Markowitz, candidate for Texas House in HD28: https://www.eliz4tx.com/

Beto's new organization, Powered by People: https://poweredxpeople.org/

Go to https://www.vote411.org/ to find out who is on your ballot and decide which TX House candidate to support

Donate to and volunteer with Flip the TX House! We firmly believe this is the most targeted, strategic way to have an impact on the 2020 elections in Texas (and Beto will back us up): https://flipthetxhouse.com/

Sign up with Postcards to Voters if you need a more chill option: https://postcardstovoters.org/