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Unity Talks, produced by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, is series of conversations and interviews featuring its co-chairs—Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Vanderbilt faculty member and entrepreneur Samar Ali—and renowned guests from the media, academia and government, focusing on the important issues facing and dividing America today. These conversation aim to restore and reinvigorate the national discourse, supplanting reflexive partisanship with reflective citizenship, anchored upon facts and evidence.

We are parents, we are doctors, we are first responders, teachers and concerned citizens who have found ourselves at a crossroads. We see our freedoms being stripped away, and we can no longer stay silent. We are millions strong, united in a thundering voice and imperative mission that cannot, and will not, be ignored We are standing up for the basic human right to raise our own children, earn a living, and make our own medical decisions without the tyrannical overreach that has been forced upon us here in California, across the country and around the world. We are here to amplify the voices ...