Singers: ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ [Cheering and applause] ♪ Woman: [Shouting in Filipino] ♪ Different woman: [Shouting in Filipino] Both: [Shouting in Filipino] ♪ Woman: [Singing in Filipino] Different woman: [Shouting in Filipino] ♪ [Singing continues] ♪ [Shouting continues] Group: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ [Cheering] [Singing continues] ♪ Women: Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Group: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ [Traffic passing] [Vehicle horn beeps] [Vehicle horn beeps] Rodrigo Duterte: [Blow dryer whirring] Duterte: [Speaking Filipino] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] Duterte: [Speaking Filipino] [Laughter] ♪ Oh... [Laughter] Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Duterte: [Speaking Filipino] [Laughter] ♪ But... [Laughter] ♪ ♪ Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering and applause] [Cheering and applause] Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

[Cheering and applause] [Cheering and applause] Man: [Speaking Filipino] Thank you.

[Siren] [Vehicle horns honking] [Whistles blowing] [Percussion playing] ♪ Woman: [Shouts] Different woman: [Speaks Filipino] [Percussion continues] ♪ ♪ [Cheering] Woman: We love you, Leni.

We love you.

We love you.

[Clamoring] Salamat.

Thank you to all of you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, señor.

Man: Cooper!

Ha ha!

Woman: Whoo whoo!

♪ Maria Ressa, voice-over: The Philippines saw 6 of its bloodiest years in recent history under Rodrigo Duterte, the opposition crushed, institutions weakened.

Reporter: The International Criminal Court seeking authorization to open investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed as part of Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs.

The crimes include murder, torture... Reporter: Duterte's bloody war on drugs left thousands dead or disappeared.

Ressa: More than 27,000 people killed in a country that has no rule of law, that normalizes extrajudicial killings.

We have to demand better.

Duterte: ♪ You know... ♪ Ressa, voice-over: The Philippine government has 10 cases against me, 9 against Rappler.

I've been convicted under a law that wasn't even in effect when I supposedly violated it for a story I didn't write, edit, or supervise, and now I have to fight just to stay out of jail and keep Rappler open.

♪ Their attacks assume you are like them-- corrupt, fearful.

♪ If you can be taken away and handcuffed and silenced, then every other journalist knows what they need to do to stay safe, corruption anchoring all of it.

Over time, it becomes imperative to retain power because all that has been done for money would be exposed if power transfers hands.

♪ Man: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ [Speaking Filipino] [Laughter] [Camera shutters clicking] ♪ Reporter: Here comes the former senator Bongbong Marcos with members of his family, all wearing red, the color of his father, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Marcos ran for the vice presidency in 2016 but lost to Leni Robredo.

He believes he can win in this rematch of that race.

♪ Good morning, everyone.

As you have just witnessed, I have filed for my-- I filed my certificate of candidacy for president just now, uh, so I guess that makes it all official and that-- so now if you have-- if you would like to ask any questions.... Woman: I would not file my certificate of candidacy if I was not ready to campaign, if I was not ready to answer all your questions, and if-- so I am ready to answer your questions.

I am ready to campaign, and that's what we are going to do.

Man: Good morning, sir, Dwight de Leon from Rappler.

Are you willing to accept more media interviews where you can be asked about your father's martial law?

I have never refused any interview on any basis whatsoever.

I don't know where that's coming from.

de Leon: So if we asked or signed up for an interview with you, you would accept?

Well, my--my comment to other people always is, if you have something new to ask me.

I wonder if we will be talking-- having the same conversation I've been having for 35 years.

de Leon: For instance, the conviction of your mother for 7 counts of graft...

I don't-- and your siblings were named beneficiaries of overseas foundations.

I misunderstood.

Not here and now.

Narrator: Ferdinand Marcos would end his days a frail figure, a shadow of the man once feared as dictator of the Philippines.

For dictators and democrats, saints and sinners, death bears final witness to their deeds.

History serves as final judge of their souls.

♪ Man: [Shouting in Filipino] ♪ Ferdinand Marcos: As of the 21st of this month, I signed Proclamation No.

1081, placing the entire Philippines under martial law.

[Whistle blows] ♪ Rodel Briones: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ ♪ Lourdes Victoriano: [Speaking Filipino] Rosetta Rosales: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Neri Colmenares: [Speaks Filipino] ♪ ♪ Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ [People shouting] ♪ Reporter: It's just been confirmed that Mr. Marcos has indeed left, and there's absolute chaos outside his palace.

[People shouting] ♪ Reporter: It was reported today that Marcos arrived in Honolulu carrying large amounts of cash, gold, and valuables.

Different reporter: For two decades, Ferdinand Marcos looted the Philippines of billions of dollars, estimated to be one of the world's largest private fortunes.

♪ Leah Navarro, voice-over: I'm part of that generation.

The decisions I've made to stay in this country to try and do and live as a Filipina in this country is fueled by that memory of what we lived through, the preparations of how things developed from the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, culminating in EDSA 1986.

It's very recent history.

You know, we're not talking about something that happened 300 years ago.

This is a scant 40 years, right?

Manolo Quezon: But, Leah, very frankly, history goes in cycles, and what was down can be up, and what was up... That's-- is down.

30 years for a-- from a point of view of our being a newly restored democracy, of our being a People Power country is a really long time in any society.

um, and so it's sort of amazing it's lasted this long.

How can people say that, you know, you can erase it?

And that, for me, is the crux of this election.

If-- if Leni doesn't win, OK, and Marcos ekes out a victory, everything that we worked for is gone for nothing.

It's a waste.

♪ Bongbong: It is traditional in the Filipino family that the eldest son take his father's place.

I can only tell you, at the risk of some presumption... that, as the head of the Marcos family, personal and political and professional... we shall always continue to stand for what he stood for.

We will always stand for stability, development, justice, and unity and nationalism.

[Distant siren] Reporter: A new Pulse Asia survey has former senator Bongbong Marcos in the lead for president, with more than 50% in the poll.

Vice President Leni Robredo is a distant second, with only 20% support.

Duterte: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Woman: At this point, we'd be welcoming on stage former senator Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr., but he has declined our invitation.

[Speaks Filipino] Hi, Mom.

I'm sorry.

Did we wake you up?

I was supposed to be in Greece starting today.

I got approval from 6 courts, and then the last one, the Court of Appeals, denied travel yesterday.

Even if the June 15th-- even if the conviction happened last year, I'm out on bail.

I technically have my rights, right, so they've taken it away, and I'm gonna hold someone accountable for this.

I'm so angry.

Well, good.

Good for you.

Yeah.

We're so sorry to hear that.

♪ Ressa: In the end, if Filipinos don't get off their asses, we will descend.

We're just going down the drain like this, you know, you just-- and that's it.

We're already there.

That's it.

♪ ♪ Ressa: All the government's actions--the online attacks, the threats of the president, the legal cases they filed-- all these are meant to frighten me.

Duterte admitted that.

He leads with violence and fear.

This is why I kept coming home and why I will stay and fight until the end.

I'm so angry.

I've done nothing wrong, and I believe that the way to fight back is to expose every single abusive step in what this government is doing to me, Rappler, other journalists, human rights activists, Filipino citizens.

OK, so that's the biggest insight.

"You have always had the choice to be who you are, so I choose, as I always have--" Oh, man, these are the last toughest.

They're easy to read.

You read it.

[Speaks Filipino] [Exhales] Right.

"...so I choose, as I always have, to live--" I hate this.

Come on.

Oh, give me two seconds.

It's like the end times.

Ha ha ha!

What happens in the Bible?

The headless--ha ha!

The horsemen of the apocalypse.

That's where we are.

That's where we are.

[Thunder] ♪ Man: [Indistinct conversation] ♪ [People clamoring] Reporter: 5 1/2 years ago, the Filipino people drove the Marcoses into exile.

♪ Today thousands cheered as Imelda came home.

Different reporter: Like royalty, like a rock star, she lit up the crowds, moving them with her piety, dazzling them with her glam.

♪ Imelda: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] ♪ Quezon, voice-over: The Marcoses somewhere along the line discovered, "The generation that threw us out of power is never going to let us come back."

Navarro: Mm.

"We have to get the next generation."

They started it the old-fashioned way.

They started coming out with books, established the Marcos Presidential Center.

And then... [Speaks Filipino] [Speaking English] [Speaking Filipino] Quezon, voice-over: I remember one journalist was showing me exercise books to learn penmanship... Mm.

and these were donated to schools, but the sentences that you practiced to learn your penmanship were like, "Ferdinand Marcos was the greatest President of the Philippines."

"Ferdinand Marcos loved his country."

[Indistinct conversation] Women: [Singing] Mabuhay!

Reporter: Um... [Giggles] [Cheering] Ha ha ha!

♪ [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [Insects and birds chirping] ♪ Ha ha ha!

[Helicopter approaching] Robredo, voice-over: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ [Vehicle horn beeping] [Cheering and applause] Crowd: Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Robredo, voice-over: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ [Pop music playing] Woman: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ ♪ Leni is the one ♪ [Sings in Filipino] Man: [Sings in Filipino] Both: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ Singers: [Sing in Filipino] ♪ Leni is the one ♪ ♪ We love Leni ♪ ♪ L-E-N-I, whoo!

♪ ♪ ♪ [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ [Vehicles passing] [Speaks Filipino] [Chuckles] [Speaking Filipino] [Vehicle horns honking] [Cheering] [Cheering continues] Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering and applause] [Cheering and applause] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Bobby Hebb's "Sunny" playing] Man: ♪ Leni ♪ ♪ [Singing in Filipino] [Singing in English] ♪ Jimmy Fabregas: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] Crowd: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ ♪ [Shouts in Filipino] ♪ 5, 6, 7, yo ♪ Singers: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ ♪ [Speaking Filipino] Thank you.

Woman: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering and applause] All: Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

[Cheering] Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] [Cheering] [Cheering] [Laughter] Woman: AGI.

AGI?

AGI.

"AGI for Leni."

[Speaks Filipino] [Cheering] [Percussion playing] ♪ Crowd: Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

[Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] [Speaking Filipino] [Continues speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ Cepeda: The daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte is now running for vice president.

Sara Duterte is the running mate of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator, ending months of speculation about her election plans.

♪ Sara: [Speaking Filipino] [Crowd cheering] ♪ [Indistinct conversation] Glenda Gloria: [Speaking Filipino] Ressa: Gloria: Shh.

Ha ha ha!

Yes?

[Speaking Filipino] [Speaks Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Indistinct conversation] Oh.

Ah.

OK.

Uh... [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Relax.

[Speaking Filipino] Chay Hofileña: Sir, sir...

Both: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Man: Agent?

Hofileña: Sir... We're not going to leave here.

[Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Continues speaking in Filipino] [Shouting in Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Laughter and applause] [Laughter continues] [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaks Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] [Speaks English] Woman, voice-over: Good afternoon, all.

Welcome to our regional forum on "Press in Distress: Will Independent Journalism Survive in Southeast Asia?"

Ressa: Advertising is dead as a business model, and the social media platforms, the tech platforms have fine-tuned it to a point that it can micro-target.

It is cheaper for an advertiser to do that, and what that means is that news organizations have to find an alternative business model, or we die.

Zulkifli: We have to have a collaboration-- that's the key word-- collaboration with the social media activist... [Phone ringing] collaboration with the academician, the activist, the demonstrators, for example, and also the social media analysts.

Ressa: Hello?

Olav Njolstad: Am I talking to Maria Ressa?

You are.

Yes.

Njolstad: Yes.

I'm Olav Njolstad calling from the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, and I'm calling you on behalf of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and it's a great pleasure for me, Maria, to inform you that at 11:00 local time here in Oslo, it will be announced that you are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for your courageous fight... Ressa: Oh, my gosh.

for freedom of expression in the Philippines.

I am speechless.

I actually live on another event, but, my God, thank you.

Oh, my gosh.

Yee: I suppose also, I think we need to take a-- Maria, I'm assuming she left because she has to record a statement or something because she has just been announced as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Wow.

Oh.

Zulkifli: Congratulations.

Ooh.

Ha ha ha!

Yeah.

I think she's still processing that information, so... Wow.

Wow, amazing.

very well-deserved.

Are you back with us, Maria?

Are you OK to-- Are you available to say something?

Could this be your acceptance speech or something?

Ressa: Uh, this is for all of us.

Oh, my God, you know, I--I am in shock, but I actually-- See, I mean, I actually-- Sorry.

I think it's a recognition of how tough it is.

See?

I don't cry.

It's just-- OK.

Wait.

Wait two seconds.

So this is a recognition of how hard it is to be a journalist today, how hard it is to keep doing what we do, right?

[Typing] Ressa, voice-over: Every time I get rid of 100, I get 100 more on every single platform.

99.

See?

That was nothing when we started all the interviews.

I had already cleared my Facebook.

And the attacks begin.

They called the Nobel Peace Prize a fake award.

Do you like this?

Look at this.

Oh, my gosh.

[Horns playing fanfare] ♪ [Applause] [Exhales] Thank you.

Ressa, voice-over: So I wanted to start, just, you know, make it uncomfortably silent... Caoilfhionn Gallagher: OK. and then say, "I stand before you a representative "of every journalist around the world "who's forced to sacrifice so much to hold the line, "to stay true to our values and mission "to bring you the truth and hold power to account.

"I remember the brutal dismemberment "of Jamal Khashoggi, "the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta, "my friend Luz Mely Reyes in Venezuela, "Roman Protasevich in Belarus.

"Imagine a government plane "sent to bring his plane down so he could be arrested.

This is day to day.

This is our new reality."

Gallagher: Yeah.

I agree.

That brings it to-- back to the t-shirt.

Did you see the t-shirt?

Yeah.

Well, I saw the line about the t-shirts.

I haven't seen it.

Oh, you haven't seen the tee?

Hold on.

OK. Ha ha ha!

Ressa: This is something that we did from 2014.

This is the one... Let's see.

I'm gonna-- Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I have.

I've seen-- You see?

In order to be the good, you have to believe that there is good in the world.

Yeah, so I've seen this.

I've seen this.

I screenshot it before... Yeah.

but so that's kind of-- This was, like, a 2014 thing we did just because that's-- I think this is who we are... Yeah.

right?

Should we go back to it?

Yeah.

OK. OK?

[Exhales] "Democracy has become a woman-to-woman, man-to-man defense of our values."

How can you have election integrity if you don't have integrity of facts?

That's the problem facing countries with elections next year, among them my Philippines, where we are at a do-or-die moment with presidential elections on May 9.

35 years after the People Power Revolt ousted Ferdinand Marcos and forced his family into exile, his son Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is the frontrunner for president, and he has built an extensive disinformation network on social media, which Rappler exposed in 2019.

♪ It's literally changing history in front of our eyes.

♪ [Cheering] Sangkay Janjan: [Siren] Crowd BBM!

BBM!

BBM!

BBM!

BBM!

Pam Asis: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ ♪ Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] Woman: [Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking Filipino] Future generations.

[Speaking Filipino] Woman: Ha ha!

BBM!

Anton Carranza: ♪ ♪ ♪ Woman: [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Carranza: ♪ [Speaks Filipino] Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] Carranza: Ressa, voice-over: Yeah.

Look.

60% of the online violence is meant to attack your work, right, but my work stands.

There's nothing they can attack about it, so what they do is, they look for anything inside you that they can poke.

That includes your sex, the way you look, the way you sound.

In my case, it's my skin, right, so I was like, "OK.

I can handle that.

I have dry skin, and then they began calling me Scrotum Face.

It's gross.

It dehumanizes, and at the beginning, you absorb it.

You're embarrassed.

You don't know whether it's-- You know, what do you do?

Carranza, voice-over: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] ♪ [Speaking Filipino] [Crowd cheering] ♪ ♪ [Cheering continues] ♪ Robredo, voice-over: [Speaking Filipino] Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

[Pop music playing] ♪ ♪ Carranza: [Speaking Filipino] ["Let It Be" playing] ♪ Woman: ♪ When I find myself in times of trouble ♪ ♪ Mother Mary comes to me ♪ ♪ Speaking words of wisdom ♪ ♪ Leni Be... ♪ ♪ OK. Fine.

[Indistinct conversation] Ressa: You're so early!

Ha ha ha!

Robredo: I'm always early.

So hello.

I haven't had a chance to congratulate you yet.

Oh, my God, I-- We are so proud of you.

How are you?

The cameras are all on.

Not as tired as you, I'm sure.

You've been incredible.

I'm enjoying everything.

I was just going to run and get water.

Let me walk you to your seat.

Don't feel rushed.

I love your jacket.

Ha ha ha!

Welcome.

I'm Maria Ressa.

This is "#WeDecide: The First 100 Days of Leni Robredo."

Thank you so much for coming to Rappler, Vice President.

Thank you, thank you.

And I'm going to pull this down a little bit.

Um, we'll give you shoulders.

[Both laugh] You are one of the-- I think you may be-- As a political figure, you're one of the most targeted online, really horrific stuff.

I mean, I came very close, but not quite, because I'm not running for president.

I'm not sure about that.

But we've done the... You have your-- You had your-- You continue to have your fair share of the muck.

How did you handle it, and--and how do you deal with this?

[Speaks Filipino] so, you know-- Um, now... [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] [Speaking Filipino] Ressa: [Speaking Filipino] Ha ha ha!

[Speaks Filipino] [Speaks English] [Laughter] [Speaks Filipino] Can I?

Can I?

Oh, then I realize this is-- Ready?

[Camera shutter clicks] Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bongbong: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering and applause] Crowd: BBM!

BBM!

BBM!

Reporter: Bongbong Marcos Jr. continues to outpace his rivals in this presidential contest.

56% of voters surveyed would elect Marcos Jr. as their president, while only 23% indicated they would vote for Vice President Leni Robredo.

[Rock music playing] Navarro: Look at the outpouring of love and concern for the vice president, and then the numbers come out the next day, and it's like, "Oh, my gosh, how can she be so far behind?"

Quezon: Well, she's inched up, and she's sort of hovering there, but will there be a breakthrough moment where Marcos suddenly caves and Leni suddenly takes off?

If Leni pulls it off, it will be the biggest upset there ever was.

Man: [Brass band playing] ♪ ♪ Crowd: ♪ Hey, hey, let's go ♪ Man: ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, let's go ♪ ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, let's go ♪ ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, let's go ♪ ♪ [People cheering] [Brass band continues] ♪ [Crowd cheering] ♪ Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Techno music playing] ♪ [Cheering] ♪ Man: [Speaks Filipino] Man and woman: [Techno music playing] ♪ Sharon Cuneta: This is your chance to make your voices heard.

Do we want to bring decency back to the presidency?

[Cheering and applause] [Pop music playing] Woman: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ Leni and Kiko, Leni and Kiko ♪ Chorus: ♪ Leni and Kiko ♪ ♪ Leni, Kiko... ♪ [Singing in Filipino] ♪ [Cheering] Pangilnan: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] [Percussion playing] ♪ [Whistle blowing] ♪ ♪ Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] [Pop music playing] ♪ Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] Crowd: Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

[Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Crowd cheering] [Cheering] Leni Robredo!

[Crowd cheering] ♪ [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

[Cheering] [Cheering] [Techno music playing] ♪ Man: [Speaks Filipino] Woman: [Speaks Filipino] [Cheering] ♪ Man: Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

Leni!

Kiko!

[Speaking Filipino] [Continues speaking] [Indistinct conversation] [Vehicle horn beeps] ♪ Reporter: [Speaking Filipino] Man: [Speaking Filipino] Woman: 4,428.

[Speaks Filipino] 2,943.

Ka Leody de Guzman-- 2,419.

Borja Gonzalez--2,272.

If we are going to base it at, you know, over at least 53% transmission, then it means that Bongbong Marcos could really be the next President of the Philippines, but, of course, we do have to wait for that.

Officially, there has still been no word from key people on the campaign, but we know that... ♪ ♪ [Cheering and applause] Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

Leni!

♪ [Indistinct conversation] ♪ [Speaking Filipino] Carranza: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] I don't know.

Ha ha!

Ressa, voice-over: He's the first president to be elected who has never had the checks and balances of a free press because he avoided it successfully.

Does it even make sense to continue working as a journalist under these conditions?

I mean, it seems to be impossible.

As long as there's a semblance of democracy, we'll continue, but we won't whitewash.

When this country-- if this country is no longer a democracy, we'll be the first to call it out.

[Indistinct conversation] Man: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] Hofileña: [Speaking Filipino] Ressa: [Speaks Filipino] [Speaking English] Ressa: Do you think we can do that?

I don't know, I'm not sure.

Lian Buan: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaking English] [Speaks Filipino] [Speaking English] Ressa: [Acoustic guitar playing] [Singing in Filipino] ♪ ♪ ♪ All: [Singing in Filipino] Robredo: [Speaking Filipino] [Cheering] [Cheering] Crowd: [Chanting in Filipino] [Chanting continues] ♪ Carranza: [Speaking Filipino] [Speaks English] [Speaking Filipino] [Sniffles] [Speaking Filipino] ♪ Women: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ All: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ Cepeda, voice-over: The key to winning the next election is starting the necessary grassroots work as early as now, the day after the previous election.

Maybe in the next 6 years, they will be able to inspire more people to fight back against the different forces eating up our democratic institutions and to take back democracy and to fight for truth.

[Speaks Filipino] [Speaking English] Women: [Singing in Filipino] ♪ [Crowd cheering] [Singing continues] ♪ ♪ [Crowd cheering] [Singing continues] ♪ [Vehicles passing] [Dogs barking] ♪ Singers: ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa, oh ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ ♪