Thank you so much. Yeah, we went about for Tom and Hawkins and Angela Watson. Yep. We're at our DNA for Sam. We're at the Monster Justice Canada on the outskirts. There's a big issue up there. Yeah, that's true, yeah. There may be other kind of reenforters. I like how Australians vote everyone to vote, even if they come and drunk and vote for them. Well, you've got to talk and pull one of the good positions on your house. There are no. Well, I vote for Bob. No, of course not. I'm like, what do you need a thousand across that much, but it's like more than you think. Yeah, no, I get to, I get to say, I'm sure. I do have a great green t-shirt on. Pretty, pretty froggy. Sister's gender frogs. Okay, so we're gonna let me see your faces, let me see your faces, let me show you my faces. All right, so we're gonna do a quick interview here. This is going to go down our permanent records. So we've got a volunteer here with us today from the Hong Kong's campaign. Hi Ashley. Hello. So Ashley Crab Tree is with us here today and helping us gather ballot signatures here in Washington State, Allison. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? Yeah, so my name is Ashley and I am currently working as the assistant for Vucacanada Angela Walker. So I live in California, however, I flew up here to Washington to help make sure that we get our ballot access. We need a thousand signatures. Previously, I was a campaign manager for my husband's campaign. He ran for state senate down in California and we actually beat a few Democrats and Republicans in the primary and made it into the top two. So we was pretty exciting. So we ended up getting 32% of the overall vote, which was just over 109,000 votes. We had a lot of success there. So it was pretty exciting and it's just kind of sparked my love for, oh, and we ran as independence. That's an important point there too. We weren't running as one of the establishment parties. So now it's just kind of established my love for politics and making sure that I get to the third party voters and let them know that we're out there and we're advocating for them when the two parties aren't. So how did you get involved with the green party? So it's kind of funny. So I was a Bernie supporter as a lot of people were. I was a Bernie supporter and I was too young to vote for Bernie in the primary and it came around to the general election and I happened to see a meme of Jill Stein. And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, you mean there's someone else I can vote for? Because I was not going to vote for Hillary. I had no idea what I was going to do but I was like, I am just not going to have to vote. That's what's going to have to happen. And then I saw a meme of Jill. And so I joined the Jill Stein pic meme stash found out all about the green party and I have only ever voted green in presidential election elections now. So basically we, I just started from there. It was the Sacramento Green Party. I stayed connected with them after the campaign and yeah, it worked. So I ran the Jill Stein big meme stash. That's all so perfect. It did. Yep, that's where you got me from. And now I run the Howie Hockins Dink Me stash. Right on. Yep. So I started that group with a couple others of orders and we now have the Howie Hockins Dink Me stash. So it's just, you know, now I'll be 22 this year and I now work on the national campaign and I'm very excited to be able to get our message out there to all kinds of different voters. So let me ask you a question. You mentioned your age here and I think that's really a big deal. I know a lot of people think that volunteerism and political activism is for older folks. Right. But it isn't. And in fact, you can have a meaningful, significantly positive role as a young person in the national campaign. How did you, how did that happen for you? How did they, how did they find you? Yeah, well, you know, it's kind of funny. I, I didn't have the easiest growing up and I was somebody who grew up very poor. During 2008, we had the huge recession. My mom was a server and my dad was a construction worker. He specifically, he lived tile. So nobody's remodeling their house and nobody's going out to dinner during, you know, the economy crash. And I remember that it was at that time that people were the ones who were helping us. We didn't have a ton of government services that were really helping. We were right in this weird spot with our house, but our house went into foreclosure. We ended up losing it, had to leave. I don't know. I'm going to grab that. Yes, yes, please. The wind and I'll hold this down. Hold this. So we, um, we, it was just kind of the school card knocks for a while there. And I realized that we had people that would come by and would bring food over the house to try and help out my family. And at the same time, my mom got extremely sick with sick, with grave disease. And so it was like a radical time for me at a really young age where I was like starting to pay attention to my parents and say, yeah, I'm all alone about health. And I started to realize that, you know, sometimes there's not going to be a politician that's going to come and save you. And sometimes it's going to be the community around you that helped, and helps give you those things. Now I know that we really did have some services that helped us, you know, things like food stamps, things like that that really helped. And I realized that it was like, I want to keep advocating for things like that for people that need these services. And I think that at that time, it kind of made me a bit radical. And I remember hearing Bernie speak, once I got into really paying attention realizing I could vote. And I was all of a sudden like, this makes sense. We have a world that's set up for the 1%. And as people who were the 99, this is really hard for us. And so it was kind of just started from there. I've always kind of, I know my mom was big into we help other people. We go down, we feed them was we do these things. We make sure that we volunteer. We do things. We just shoot kitchen. I just remember that having been good. And it just made it where I realized that I never let my age get in the way of making a difference because even if I've only touched a couple of people, I could make an impact with them that kind of just snowball effects. You can have you can inspire and radicalize, you know, more and more people. And it doesn't really matter if you're young or not. And I think the Green Party gives a really good opportunity for people who are my age. Like I last last year I was the co-chair of our national youth caucus. And from there, it was like for us to have a youth caucus where they give delegates to the youth where they say, listen, we want we know that you're a minority in politics. We want to hear your voice. We want to hear your experiences because it's going to be different than people and than others in the party. And I think that this is such a special political party for the youth. And I want to see more of us feeling empowered and having our voices heard and being able to make the differences that we don't need to wait for older people or politicians that are, you know, Biden's age to take care of, you know, we don't have to just wait until you're over 35 to make a difference. That's a really great point. So we're kind of close on our battery times and everything else. So if there was, if there is an inspirational message that you could give to Greens or other people who are in states right now who are doing ballot access, what would that be? Don't be afraid to ask, you know, I, to quote Wayne Gretzky, he missed 100% of shots. You know, tank, you know, it's going to be awkward. You're going to have people that are like, nothing's and walk away. And it hurts sometimes because you're like, I really care about this. And like, you're shutting me down without even giving it a shot. My biggest thing is it's just get out there. Talk to your friends, talk to your family. Let them know that it's okay. If you're signing a petition, it doesn't mean you have to vote for them in November, but just give me a chance to prove myself to you before November. Just give us a shot. And I think that that is something that you have to just keep going and realize that this is a bigger movement and reach out to those who are in other states who are petitioning. Get it all support through going because it can be hard work, but also it's really important work. And it matters so much to us as a campaign team. I mean, I know that the Hawkins team, we talked about it Wednesday. That was a bulk of our meeting. Try not how much we value our volunteers. And my biggest thing is, don't let fear keep you from the change that we know we need. Right on. Thank you very much. We really appreciate being on the stream and talking to us and helping us with valid access. And the fan on the stream really appreciated your interview. Basically, congratulations on the votes and lots of other words which I can't read because the screen would dark. No worries. Thank you. And that is where we are for today on our stream right now.