answer the call

It was a full-blown cross-organization team running things behind the scenes, with Zoom engineers, Indivisible tech experts, and Answer the Call organizers all coordinating through Slack channels and group texts.

I spoke with the leaders of both Win With Black Women and White Women: Answer the Call to learn how they made the technical aspects of their respective conferences work, to great success.

Another giant video conference on Thursday, "White Women: Answer the Call", kept crashing as more than 160,000 people hopped aboard - the largest call in the history of Zoom, according to organisers.

If his mother were on her deathbed and one of his “brothers” asked him to do something, Martinez said in another intercepted call, “I need to answer the call of obligation, you know, because that’s what I signed up for.”

Groups coming in to support McGuire don’t make it a race about McCarthy, who recently himself called on his followers on X to contribute to the challenger’s campaign, saying McGuire “is ready to answer the call to serve our country again. Chip in $5 today.”