WE CALL FOUL — NEWSROOM EDITION: TIMED FILM TRANSCRIPT
Darren Raye Fonzseau | Workers Won’t Be Silent | October 2, 2026
Video: https://youtu.be/EBz7a0AghXY
Runtime: 31:19.611. Transcript covers the opening song excerpt, report, original clips, and full closing song.
Prepared from production captions and speech recognition of the finished film. Timestamps are approximate. Punctuation and name spelling are normalized. Unclear wording is marked; this is not a certified legal transcript. Consult the video for speaker changes, tone, overlapping speech, and exact wording.
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[00:00:00–00:00:14] Song opening — My Father’s Voice
Format: music excerpt. Source: Uploaded Suno song, 66.000–80.500 seconds.
[00:00:00] I’m at that waiting door again.
[00:00:00] My father’s voice, my father’s fight,
[00:00:04] The words I understand tonight.
[00:00:07] I’ll turn that anger into song,
[00:00:10] And name the rights we’ve waited on.
[00:00:14] No raised fist, no broken door,

[00:00:14–00:00:18] AMNESTY. FAMILY UNITY. WORKER RIGHTS.
Format: title card. Source: Darren Fonzseau.
[On-screen title / music; no additional intelligible dialogue transcribed.]

[00:00:18–00:00:33] AMNESTY FIRST
Format: AI presenter. Source: Darren’s advocacy statement.
[00:00:18] Amnesty. Family unity. Federal protection for injured workers. Tonight, an Everett father's
[00:00:25] ten-year appeal to his own political side. We Call Foul examines the
[00:00:29] recordings, the correspondence, and the unanswered demands.
[00:00:33] Darren Fonzseau says he asked for help and was repeatedly redirected. We

[00:00:33–00:00:48] THE RECORD, IN HIS OWN WORDS
Format: AI presenter. Source: Darren’s account + preserved archive.
[00:00:39] will show the dated records, hear the original calls, and examine the
[00:00:43] replies. What commitments will political leaders make now?

[00:00:48–00:01:03] HEALTH CARE AND ENFORCEABLE RIGHTS
Format: source graphic. Source: Darren’s account.
[00:00:48] Fonzseau supports universal health care. His demand goes further: protection after a
[00:00:54] work injury, and permanent security for mixed-status families. He asks his political
[00:01:00] side to put all three commitments on the same agenda.

[00:01:03–00:01:18] SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Format: source graphic. Source: Thunderbird Pond • Sent #16432.
[00:01:03] A preserved Sent-mail header carries a pointed subject: why is a minimum
[00:01:08] federal wage good, but minimum federal workers' compensation standards bad? The date
[00:01:14] is September twenty-first, twenty sixteen. The appeal is documented.
[00:01:18] Recipients include Liias, Ortiz-Self, Murray's office, Sawant's office, and a Jayapal campaign

[00:01:18–00:01:33] TEN YEARS OF ASKING
Format: source graphic. Source: Thunderbird Pond • Sent #16432.
[00:01:24] address. A sent header establishes the outgoing record; it cannot establish personal
[00:01:29] receipt. Ten years later, the same policy demand remains.

[00:01:33–00:01:48] AN EARLIER RECORDED APPEAL
Format: AI presenter. Source: Darren archive • 8iNs-vU1hls • uploaded Sept. 21, 2018.
[00:01:33] The correspondence is one part of the history. In a video preserved
[00:01:38] from twenty eighteen, Fonzseau asks a Human Rights Commission contact about national
[00:01:44] standards. Hear the request in his own voice.

[00:01:48–00:02:11] 2018 Human Rights Commission appeal
Format: original recording. Source: hrc-2018.mp4 0.000–22.333.
[00:01:49] Yeah, is this the Human Rights Commission?
[00:01:51] Yes, it is.
[00:01:53] Hi, yeah, I have a question.
[00:01:54] I feel like my human rights and everybody else's human rights are being violated in the United
[00:01:58] States by our broken state work comp systems.
[00:02:02] And we have some solutions for that.
[00:02:05] Senator Sanders has told us which is some minimum federal standards that need to be put
[00:02:09] on the table for us.
Speaker note: Darren asks the question; the contact answers “Yes, it is.” The excerpt contains no substantive agency answer to the policy request.

[00:02:11–00:02:26] THE CAMPAIGN TABLE
Format: AI presenter. Source: QAeeao01hr0 • 08:33–09:05 • uploaded Apr. 12, 2026.
[00:02:16] and health care. Those concerns matter. His question is where lost wages,
[00:02:22] permanent disability, and family security enter that conversation.

[00:02:26–00:02:58] Rick Larsen campaign priorities
Format: original public speech. Source: QAeeao01hr0-excerpt.mp4 0.000–32.000.
[00:02:26] That's why it is important that we focus on for the national picture on that particular issue [unclear wording] every day because other issues will come and go and they're and they're very important. They are extremely important, but nothing is as important right now as the cost of someone's [unclear word] at the gas pump.
[00:02:45] Nothing is as important as the inability for folks to find affordable housing, affordable rent. Nothing is as important as what they're paying for utilities. Nothing is as important as the cost of someone's health care right now.
[00:02:56] And that's just the truth of it.

[00:02:58–00:03:13] AFFORDABILITY INCLUDES LOST INCOME
Format: source graphic. Source: QAeeao01hr0 + constituent request.
[00:02:58] This excerpt establishes what was said in that speech. It cannot represent
[00:03:02] a speaker's entire career. Fonzseau's challenge to Rick Larsen is specific: publish
[00:03:09] the federal worker protections and legalization proposals you will advance.

[00:03:13–00:03:28] WHOSE MEASURE OF SUCCESS?
Format: AI presenter. Source: Ql1dzmdMXUo • 00:26–01:23 • archived June 10, 2019.
[00:03:13] In an archived public presentation, Marko Liias describes workers' compensation through competitive
[00:03:19] rates and the business climate. Fonzseau asks viewers to compare that scorecard
[00:03:25] with the experience of the person whose body was injured.

[00:03:28–00:04:25] Marko Liias: workers’ compensation presentation
Format: original public presentation. Source: Ql1dzmdMXUo-excerpt.mp4 0.000–57.000.
[00:03:29] Hi. My name is Marko Liias. I'm a state representative from the 21st District. This is today's Washington
[00:03:34] White Board. We're talking about injured workers today and what our state does to get them back
[00:03:39] to work. We do this predominantly through our workers compensation system and employee and
[00:03:43] employer funded insurance program here in Washington State. Some folks tell us that the workers
[00:03:48] comp system is broken. It doesn't do its job. I want to take a look at the facts. Washington's
[00:03:54] rates for workers compensation are better than 38 states. We have one of the lowest rates for workers
[00:04:00] compensation claims across the country. That has helped us get a number 10 ranking for our business
[00:04:05] climate, a number seven ranking for job creation among the states, and number five for one of the
[00:04:12] best places to do business in the United States. We've got a system that gets people back to
[00:04:16] work and takes care of them when they're injured. We have a competitive business climate and low
[00:04:20] rates. I'd say our system is working. [excerpt cuts off]

[00:04:25–00:04:40] THE WORKER’S SCORECARD
Format: source graphic. Source: Ql1dzmdMXUo + Darren’s policy question.
[00:04:32] a fair hearing. Liias's presentation is a public argument, not a personal
[00:04:36] reply to Fonzseau. Where are the enforceable national guarantees?

[00:04:40–00:04:51] EQUALITY SHOULD EXPAND THE TABLE
Format: source graphic. Source: Liias official releases • SB 5462 / SB 5313.
[On-screen title / music; no additional intelligible dialogue transcribed.]

[00:04:51–00:05:06] THE WARNING WAS PUBLIC
Format: source graphic. Source: Murray • Oct. 21, 2015 / DOL • Oct. 2016.
[00:04:51] Murray, Bobby Scott, and Sanders called for stronger federal oversight in twenty
[00:04:56] fifteen. The Labor Department's twenty sixteen report warned about eroding protections and
[00:05:02] costs shifted onto families and public programs. The warning was public.

[00:05:06–00:05:21] CREDIT THE WARNING. DEMAND ACTION.
Format: AI presenter. Source: Murray statement + Darren’s accountability demand.
[00:05:06] Those records contradict a claim of total silence. The accountability question is
[00:05:11] what followed: which legislation, hearing, sustained campaign, or enforceable protection? Murray and
[00:05:17] Sanders, identify the next step, and give injured workers a role.
[00:05:21] Fonzseau also took the question to national radio. In the preserved Thom

[00:05:21–00:05:36] THOM HARTMANN: THE QUESTION ON AIR
Format: AI presenter. Source: Preserved Hartmann excerpt • broadcast date unverified.
[00:05:26] Hartmann exchange, he describes injury, inequality, and the federal standards demand. Hartmann
[00:05:33] expresses sympathy and says he does not know the answer.

[00:05:36–00:06:36] Thom Hartmann exchange
Format: preserved original exchange. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 388.550–448.550.
[00:05:36] Welcome back. Thom Hartmann here with you.
[00:05:39] And that's Anything Goes Friday.
[00:05:40] Darren in Everett, Washington.
[00:05:42] Watching us on Facebook Live.
[00:05:43] Hey Darren, what's up? [unclear] war on injured workers and
[00:05:48] how it's adding to homelessness and inequality here in America that back in
[00:05:53] 2015 OSHA and Senator Sanders and NPR
[00:05:58] all told us and the U.S. Department of Labor with Tom Perez all come out and told
[00:06:03] us we need some minimum federal standards over these broken state work comp systems.
[00:06:06] Yet three years later, the left is silent and I'm begging for help here as an
[00:06:11] injured worker in the state of Washington who has been abused and harmed.
[00:06:14] Yet I have our revolution not wanting to put this issue and Senator Sanders
[00:06:19] solutions on the table and I would like to know why.
[00:06:26] I don't know the answer to your question, Darren, and I'm sorry to hear about your
[00:06:30] circumstances. I hope you get through it.
[00:06:33] I just I'm sorry. I don't know Paul.

[00:06:36–00:06:51] TURN AN UNANSWERED CALL INTO REPORTING
Format: source graphic. Source: Preserved Hartmann exchange + public reporting request.
[00:06:36] That exchange does not establish deliberate suppression. It does establish an unanswered
[00:06:42] question on a national platform. Fonzseau asks Hartmann to bring workers back,
[00:06:47] investigate the compensation gap, and press lawmakers for public answers.

[00:06:51–00:07:07] LABOR RADIO: HEAR THE FULL RESPONSE
Format: AI presenter. Source: UCOMM preserved call • context retained.
[00:06:52] On UCOMM labor radio, Fonzseau raises injured-worker protection. The response discusses safety
[00:06:58] and liability, and offers publication and follow-up. Hear those offers, his response,
[00:07:04] and the comments made after the call.
[00:07:07] And, um, okay. Nah, Darren. Darren's on the phone.

[00:07:07–00:09:41] UCOMM labor radio call
Format: preserved original exchange. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 185.625–339.825.
[00:07:12] Darren, what buddy? We got a, we got, we got, we got important guests.
[00:07:16] What do you need buddy? [partly unclear] we've gone through Labor Day weekend
[00:07:21] and nobody said
[00:07:22] [Darren partly unclear: injured workers and federal protections]
[00:07:28] Reverend Barber to scream louder for med for all plan that section 801 leaves our injured
[00:07:34] workers behind them. I want to know why we are selling the injured workers of America.
[00:07:38] You know what, Darren,
[00:07:41] [Host partly unclear, referring to “injured workers”]
[00:07:47] That what they mean is, is funding OSHA, which Biden has talked
[00:07:53] about, as has everybody running for federal government, as well as what
[00:07:58] Brian? Also, um, uh, the, the, the COVID gag order.
[00:08:04] We're talking about that. And also, no, Brian, and also Darren, you know,
[00:08:09] the corporations don't want to be liable if someone gets sick from COVID and the union community
[00:08:14] is behind it. Yeah. And they're fighting for a federal oversight, uh, and a federal
[00:08:20] regulations for OSHA, uh, in regards to COVID so that everybody's safe.
[00:08:25] Darren, are you talking about, are you talking right now about the people who are hurt right now?
[00:08:29] Now, I'm talking about the ones that get hurt in the future.
[00:08:33] Okay, so are we talking about federal oversight that Senator Sanders told us we needed and
[00:08:38] that we've also been told by the United States Congress that we need and the research service federal
[00:08:43] congressional research service. We need this federal oversight.
[00:08:47] We were told we need this federal oversight but the Jason Call for Congress who's
[00:08:52] running for Congress won't put my issue on the table because he's busy pushing single payer and
[00:08:57] Medicare for all instead of my federal issue.
[00:09:00] All right. Listen, write it up and we'll blog it and we'll target him.
[00:09:04] I've written it to you already several times and you keep failing to push my issue.
[00:09:08] People, I have lawyers behind me say, Darren, you're correct.
[00:09:11] All right. So I am being failed.
[00:09:14] And so the union is telling us I step up and
[00:09:17] [partly unclear] I'll assure you, I'll take a look at it and we'll get it out
[00:09:22] soon. How's that? Okay. Okay. Thank you, brother.
[00:09:25] Thank you. All right. Bye -bye.
[00:09:26] Be safe. You too. Is that his picture in the cowboy hat?
[00:09:30] Yes. He, he is a lot, he is scary.
[00:09:33] He sounds scarier than he really looks.
[00:09:35] I agree. Okay. Thanks James for having me getting screamed at by my number one fan.
[00:09:40] It's your dream.

[00:09:41–00:09:56] WHAT FOLLOWED THE OFFER?
Format: source graphic. Source: UCOMM preserved call • follow-through unresolved.
[00:09:41] The offer belongs in the record. So do the remarks describing the
[00:09:45] caller as scary. Fonzseau asks what happened afterward: was the concern published,
[00:09:52] was a lawmaker pressed, and was a national campaign organized?

[00:09:56–00:10:11] UNIONS AND REVEREND BARBER
Format: AI presenter. Source: Poor People’s Campaign public demands + Darren’s request.
[00:09:56] This challenge extends to union leaders and Reverend Barber: make federal compensation
[00:10:00] standards and broad legalization explicit priorities. The Poor People's Campaign has advocated
[00:10:06] immigrant protections and family reunification. Fonzseau asks for concrete commitments now.
[00:10:11] Labor has published warnings about injury costs shifted onto workers and families.

[00:10:11–00:10:26] WHAT SOLIDARITY WOULD LOOK LIKE
Format: source graphic. Source: AFL-CIO 2024 report / Darren’s proposed actions.
[00:10:16] Fonzseau is asking for organizing power: injured-worker testimony, dedicated resources, legislative
[00:10:21] pressure, and public commitments that extend beyond one state's health-care campaign.

[00:10:26–00:10:41] KAY TILLOW’S NATIONAL ARGUMENT
Format: AI presenter. Source: Preserved March 13, 2022 national-versus-state panel.
[00:10:26] Kay Tillow's preserved panel remarks explain her case for a national approach.
[00:10:31] She describes states competing over workers' compensation costs and warns about a
[00:10:36] race to the bottom. Listen to her continuous argument and its context.

[00:10:41–00:14:08] Kay Tillow: national versus state strategy
Format: preserved original panel. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 498.000–704.800.
[00:10:41] And then I think we should also look at what happens if the
[00:10:46] money gets allocated to the states, and we if we could do it
[00:10:52] one state at a time. And let me just take you through
[00:10:57] what's happened with workers compensation, which I'm familiar with because I've dealt with it
[00:11:02] over and over. The taxing system is different state to state
[00:11:08] [partly unclear]
[00:11:16] And that has led us for states to fight each other
[00:11:20] over who's going to get employers to locate in their state.
[00:11:26] And trying to attract jobs one state after another says, well, we
[00:11:32] have to lower the workers comp because the tax rates too high.
[00:11:36] And we get into a race to the bottom because we're in a fight because
[00:11:41] the race are different in different states.
[00:11:45] I think if you look at not only workers comp, but we can look at a
[00:11:50] couple of other things that are really, really important that we can't leave to the states.
[00:11:56] Look at voting rights. It doesn't help us to get voting rights in
[00:12:01] Illinois. You can't get voting rights in Georgia.
[00:12:07] It doesn't do it. You have to legislate that on a national scale to actually
[00:12:12] make it just. And we can also look at reproductive freedom.
[00:12:18] You know, we're now going through a situation where the right to get an abortion is threatened
[00:12:24] throughout many, many, many states and state by state can't fix it.
[00:12:28] We have to fix it nationally. We need national legislation that's going to put that
[00:12:34] in place. And that's what we need for health care as well.
[00:12:38] In many ways, kind of a states rights plan
[00:12:43] is a backward plan. And it's always played that role within our country.
[00:12:48] So it's not good to divert federal money to the
[00:12:53] states. And it's not good to break up Medicare.
[00:12:57] And I think that one of the biggest difficulties is that
[00:13:03] states in trying to do single payer and
[00:13:08] I don't doubt the good intentions of many of my friends who are working on those
[00:13:14] state plans. But the problem is, because the barriers are greater
[00:13:18] on the state level than they are on the national level, they are likely
[00:13:24] to lend credence to the assertion that single payer doesn't
[00:13:29] work. Because in fact, it doesn't work state by state and it doesn't
[00:13:34] work in one state. And I think there's one more thing and that others will talk about.
[00:13:40] The funding is more difficult. States have
[00:13:44] regulations that they have to balance their budgets and you have to balance
[00:13:50] the budgets. You're going to have health care fighting against education and a lot of other problems
[00:13:55] with being able to fund it on a state basis.
[00:13:59] So what I would encourage people to do is come together
[00:14:04] and talk about how we can do it on a national basis.

[00:14:08–00:14:23] THE INCREMENTALISM CRITIQUE
Format: source graphic. Source: Tillow / Savage Joy • separate panel excerpts.
[00:14:08] Later in that panel, moderator Savage Joy calls state-by-state approaches incrementalism. That
[00:14:13] phrase is hers. Tillow also acknowledges advocates' good intentions. The debate concerns
[00:14:18] strategy and protections; it does not prove an organized refusal to help
[00:14:22] Fonzseau.

[00:14:23–00:14:51] Savage Joy: incrementalism
Format: preserved original panel. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 705.045–732.975.
[00:14:23] and you have touched on something so important that if you take,
[00:14:28] you know, women's rights state by state, if you take,
[00:14:32] you know, even civil rights
[00:14:38] state by state, if you take Green New Deal state by state, this is incrementalism.
[00:14:43] That's what this is. And it doesn't help everyone.
[00:14:46] And you are so right. You nailed it.

[00:14:51–00:15:06] HEALTH CARE AND WORKER PROTECTIONS
Format: source graphic. Source: H.R. 3069 §801 / S.1506 §801 • introduced bills.
[00:14:51] The twenty twenty-five Medicare for All proposals require liable workers' compensation carriers
[00:14:56] to reimburse covered medical services. That matters. Medical coordination does not itself
[00:15:01] supply every national guarantee for wages, rehabilitation, permanent disability, and fair process.

[00:15:06–00:15:21] WHOLE WASHINGTON: SHOW THE SAFEGUARDS
Format: AI presenter. Source: Whole Washington official policy / Darren’s demand.
[00:15:06] Whole Washington advocates statewide and national universal care. Its state proposal is
[00:15:11] a health program. Fonzseau asks Sanders, Jayapal, Jason Call, and the organization
[00:15:16] to explain how health reform and federal compensation protections will advance together.
[00:15:21] In Fonzseau's preserved call, Tyler Vega offers advocacy and a conversation with

[00:15:21–00:15:36] TYLER VEGA: THE REFERRAL AND THE DISAGREEMENT
Format: AI presenter. Source: Preserved Vega call • offers and disagreement retained.
[00:15:27] Scott, described as a lawyer. Fonzseau explains why a referral and a
[00:15:32] state health plan do not resolve his national standards demand.

[00:15:36–00:18:50] Tyler Vega: referral and policy disagreement
Format: preserved original call. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 863.917–1058.120.
[00:15:36] I'm hoping that we can figure out some way to address your issue, and the
[00:15:42] only way I know how to do that immediately is through advocacy.
[00:15:47] Long -term, of course, we can try for legislative solutions, but I don't have any power legislatively yet, nor do
[00:15:52] any of my people. And I know that things are a little crazy online, and the
[00:15:57] response is not perfect, but I just want you to know that people are listening [unclear].
[00:16:03] We're doing our best, and we're all just struggling to make it right
[00:16:08] now. I'd like to set up a call with Scott, but I
[00:16:13] don't know if we can all keep it together.
[00:16:17] Scott is a good man, and he is a lawyer and has worked in...
[00:16:21] [Caller partly unclear] He knows more than all of us.
[00:16:25] [Caller partly unclear]
[00:16:32] I think we can make moves that would affect the situation in a good way if we can all
[00:16:37] get on the same page. So I want to know if you feel like you can be a part of that conversation
[00:16:42] and have it be productive. I wanted to get a sense of...
[00:16:46] Well, yeah, okay, can I talk now?
[00:16:52] Was that a yes? Okay. Well, what I want to say,
[00:16:57] Tyler, is before I go talk to Steve, who I applaud his efforts,
[00:17:03] he's an awesome lawyer. And he helps the homeless, and he's helping with foreclosure lawyers.
[00:17:08] He hasn't practiced work comp law in 20 years, and when he did, it was on the federal level, not on
[00:17:14] the state level. And that's the problem as the state level.
[00:17:17] And now another issue I'm having, sir, is that I don't need to talk to him as a lawyer because we have the State
[00:17:21] Bar Association. Do you know them, the American Bar Association?
[00:17:26] They have written a letter. And in that letter, it talks about the overtaking of the federal
[00:17:31] overtake of a broken state work.
[00:17:34] No, I mean, in there it talks about single payers, sir.
[00:17:37] It talks about how single payer in Colorado was defeated basically because the
[00:17:43] workers were not going to have time loss, and they were not going to have vocational services.
[00:17:47] So in other words, we're being cost shifted.
[00:17:50] And we see the same thing going on here with this single -payer plan.
[00:17:53] And so when you tell me you have a solution, but your solution is single -payer, then yeah, it's going to be hard
[00:17:58] for us to be on the same page with you if your solution for labor and injured workers of America
[00:18:03] is a single -payer plan in one state.
[00:18:06] Now, the American Bar Association wants Medicare for all across the nation and
[00:18:11] we're willing to all fight for that.
[00:18:13] But what they say, they're lawyers.
[00:18:15] You know, the American Bar Association and what they say is a single -payer in one state harms labor more than it
[00:18:20] helps us and it allows the employers to cost shift their burdens under the grant bargains off to weed the
[00:18:26] workers. So, yeah, it'd be hard to me to get on the same page with this other gentleman, but I'm
[00:18:31] willing to work with you guys.
[00:18:33] Yes, I'm more than willing to do that.
[00:18:34] But we have to first put on the plate the American Bar Association's report,
[00:18:40] workers comp report. Have you read that, sir?
[00:18:44] Well, I would I would I would like to do, sir, is have you read that report and then come back and ask us how you
[00:18:49] would like to help us.

[00:18:50–00:19:05] THE CALL’S LIMITS MATTER
Format: source graphic. Source: Vega call • evidentiary limits.
[00:18:50] The recovered exchange contains no explicit instruction to vote Republican. Historical legal
[00:18:56] claims in the call remain the speakers' assertions. Fonzseau's central request is
[00:19:01] clear: put the federal issue on the agenda alongside health care.
[00:19:05] A separate panel tells Fonzseau to get Tyler elected first, then hold

[00:19:05–00:19:21] GET ELECTED FIRST?
Format: source graphic. Source: Separate preserved public panel.
[00:19:11] his feet to the fire. The speakers also say they hear him.
[00:19:16] This is a different recording from the telephone call.

[00:19:21–00:20:38] Separate panel: elect Tyler first
Format: preserved original panel. Source: We-Call-Foul-Documentary-Share.mp4 1153.625–1231.425.
[00:19:21] [Question partly unclear: doing more for injured workers]
[00:19:31] Yes. Yes. And we got to get Tyler elected first before he can do anything about
[00:19:35] [unclear]. When he's elected is when we really hold the feet to the fire.
[00:19:39] Holding his feet to the fire now, that's distracting from the bigger purpose of
[00:19:44] getting a progressive elected in office and getting things like this in place.
[00:19:48] So we totally hear you, Darren.
[00:19:49] We hear you. We've gotten all we've read all your comments on the videos.
[00:19:52] We know that that's super important We're trying to get people in place that can
[00:19:55] deal with that So be here now, that's a prefix for this whole thing.
[00:19:59] Yes. We've got to do this when they're in office
[00:20:05] When They're in office. Yeah, you gotta get him an office and you can't have them
[00:20:10] be have their entire Platform and everything all worked out Tyler said more than
[00:20:15] once during his interview He's going to do what his constituents tell him and ask
[00:20:18] him and what he's not going to be bossed by corporations But he's got to get elected
[00:20:22] first before he has that mandate.
[00:20:23] So So let's concentrate on that.
[00:20:26] And same for all of the candidates, and not just Washington.
[00:20:32] Right, right. We hear you in all caps, Darren,
[00:20:37] honestly we do. And
[00:20:38] Passing a law requires legislative power. Announcing a principle does not. Fonzseau

[00:20:38–00:20:53] A COMMITMENT CAN COME BEFORE AN ELECTION
Format: source graphic. Source: Separate panel + Darren’s political argument.
[00:20:44] asks why a candidate cannot commit to federal injured-worker standards before asking
[00:20:50] for support. The demand is a policy answer in writing.

[00:20:53–00:21:08] THE JASON MESSAGE
Format: source graphic. Source: Original screenshot 15 • preserved Aug. 14, 2026.
[00:20:53] A preserved Messenger capture labeled Jason discusses work with the I-sixteen-hundred group
[00:20:58] and denies Republican association. It also refers to messages described as accusatory.
[00:21:05] The capture is incomplete and does not independently authenticate the sender.

[00:21:08–00:21:24] ANSWER THE POLICY QUESTION
Format: AI presenter. Source: Screenshot 15 + Vega call • public request.
[00:21:09] Jason Call, explain your position on national compensation standards and their place
[00:21:14] beside universal care. The screenshot and referral call do not establish an
[00:21:19] official Republican endorsement. They leave a policy question that deserves an answer.
[00:21:24] Another capture shows a Tracey Carlos-labeled account connecting involvement to its work

[00:21:24–00:21:39] TRACEY CARLOS: WHAT THE CAPTURE SHOWS
Format: source graphic. Source: Original screenshot 13 • preserved Aug. 14, 2026.
[00:21:29] at Labor and Industries. Those are the words on screen. The image
[00:21:33] alone does not establish misuse of authority or authenticate the entire conversation.

[00:21:39–00:21:54] DISABILITY AND LGBTQ ADVOCACY GROUPS
Format: source graphic. Source: Darren’s account / Pierce County labor council biography.
[00:21:39] Fonzseau says disability and LGBTQ advocacy circles also failed to put his
[00:21:44] federal demands on their tables. Patti Dailey-Shives holds documented disability-caucus and labor
[00:21:49] roles. A specific refusal still requires its original message or recording.

[00:21:54–00:22:09] ASK THE GROUPS FOR COMMITMENTS
Format: AI presenter. Source: Public accountability request • no coordination finding.
[00:21:54] Dailey-Shives, Carlos, and the groups Fonzseau approached can answer the policy publicly:
[00:21:59] will you support a federal floor, injured-worker participation, broad legalization, and family
[00:22:04] unity? Public roles alone do not establish coordinated obstruction.
[00:22:09] The reviewed Gmail records show appeals to Reich and Inequality Media on

[00:22:09–00:22:24] ROBERT REICH: THE OUTGOING APPEALS
Format: source graphic. Source: Three outgoing Gmail messages • Sept. 2026.
[00:22:14] September first, sixth, and seventh, twenty twenty-six. Fonzseau asks for coverage and
[00:22:19] a written response. The limited account search located no substantive reply.

[00:22:24–00:22:39] REICH’S PUBLIC RECORD BELONGS HERE TOO
Format: source graphic. Source: Reich testimony • Mar. 17, 2021, p.7 / header limits.
[00:22:24] Reich's twenty twenty-one Senate testimony discussed workers' compensation and risks shifted onto
[00:22:29] workers. We credit that record. Older outgoing headers do not establish a
[00:22:34] decade of personal refusal. Fonzseau asks for a sustained federal campaign.

[00:22:39–00:22:54] JON STEWART: WIDEN THE FIGHT
Format: AI presenter. Source: Nadler official release • Feb. 25, 2019.
[00:22:39] Jon Stewart advocated with nine-eleven responders and survivors seeking compensation. Fonzseau asks
[00:22:45] him to extend that urgency to injured workers across state systems. This
[00:22:50] is a public invitation; personal refusal is not established in this review.
[00:22:54] Ortiz-Self, Sawant's office, and a Jayapal campaign address appear in the twenty

[00:22:54–00:23:09] ORTIZ-SELF. SAWANT. JAYAPAL.
Format: source graphic. Source: Sent #16432 • public accountability questions.
[00:22:59] sixteen outgoing record. Fonzseau asks for specific proposals, endorsements, hearings, and referrals
[00:23:05] that move the federal demand forward. Identify what you will do.

[00:23:09–00:23:24] CORTES. FOSSE. LARSEN.
Format: AI presenter. Source: 2026 constituent notice index / federal and state roles.
[00:23:09] Constituent records also document repeated requests copied to Julio Cortes and Mary
[00:23:14] Fosse. State legislators cannot enact federal law alone. They can press federal
[00:23:19] colleagues and explain their position. Larsen can identify the federal legislation he
[00:23:24] supports.

[00:23:24–00:23:39] THE FOSSE DISPUTE
Format: source graphic. Source: Darren’s preserved account • underlying court record incomplete.
[00:23:24] Fonzseau says a civil protection-order process involving Mary Fosse restricted his political
[00:23:30] advocacy, and that he could not afford a defense. The complete petition,
[00:23:35] hearing record, findings, and order were not available in this review.
[00:23:39] His experience belongs in the story as his account. It does not

[00:23:39–00:23:54] PRODUCE THE COMPLETE RECORD
Format: source graphic. Source: Darren’s account • no adjudicated retaliation finding.
[00:23:44] establish a criminal prosecution or proven political retaliation. Fonzseau asks for independent
[00:23:50] review of the full record, and an answer to the worker-rights demand.

[00:23:54–00:24:09] SHOW THE REPLIES TOO
Format: source graphic. Source: Riffer / Enright Gmail replies • Sept. 2026.
[00:23:54] There were institutional replies. The Human Rights Commission clerk confirmed public-comment uploads.
[00:24:00] Labor and Industries explained its complaint scope and referred federal policy questions
[00:24:04] elsewhere. Those responses show processing and referrals; they do not resolve every
[00:24:09] allegation.

[00:24:09–00:24:25] THE LOW-PRIORITY EMAIL
Format: source graphic. Source: Christoph Mair email • Sept. 30, 2026.
[00:24:10] A legislative assistant directed Fonzseau to Everett's district offices and said emails
[00:24:14] to the entire Legislature are often low priority. That described mass correspondence,
[00:24:20] not every injured worker. The question remains: what substantive action follows?
[00:24:25] Fonzseau's appeals connect workplace injury with his mixed-status family's uncertain future. Broad

[00:24:25–00:24:37] OUR FATHERS’ FIGHTS
Format: title card. Source: Darren Fonzseau.
[On-screen title / music; no additional intelligible dialogue transcribed.]

[00:24:37–00:24:52] FAMILY UNITY IS AT THIS TABLE
Format: AI presenter. Source: Darren’s account + dated constituent appeals.
[00:24:42] legalization and amnesty are his demands. He asks lawmakers to specify whom
[00:24:47] legislation covers, what barriers remain, and how they will secure lasting protection.

[00:24:52–00:25:07] THE LATEST FILM
Format: AI presenter. Source: dxzT-wHImrA • Oct. 2, 2026 • illustrated advocacy.
[00:24:52] His October second film carries the same challenge: America needs people's labor,
[00:24:57] but who protects their families? It uses fictional composite characters. This excerpt
[00:25:02] is advocacy artwork, not documentary footage of the family's experiences.

[00:25:07–00:25:55] America Needs Our Labor. Who Protects Our Families?
Format: illustrated advocacy. Source: We-Call-Foul-Publication.mp4 455.700–504.200.
[00:25:07] Now the cartoon's campaign poster comes alive. The workers and immigrant families step out of the frame.
[00:25:14] A campaign worker calls, we need you back in the picture. A family answers: We need our rights in the law.
[00:25:20] This is bigger than me. You tell our stories. You ask for our votes. You stand beside us for a photograph.
[00:25:26] What enforceable rights have you delivered? To my own democratic side,
[00:25:30] please look weak on immigration to the television panel if that is what standing beside families costs.
[00:25:36] I would rather you defend families than abandon them to look tough.
[00:25:40] Stand up for broad legalization. Put federal minimum protections for injured workers on the table.
[00:25:47] Health care. Legalization. Injured worker protections. Make room for all three. No overturned car and no attack on the Capitol delivers those rights.
[00:25:55] [closing word unclear]
Illustrated advocacy narration; fictional composite scene. Speech-recognition wording was checked against the production context; the video controls where words are unclear.

[00:25:55–00:26:10] THE AUGUST EDITORIAL
Format: source graphic. Source: m2hUF1T6Etg • Aug. 21, 2026 • Darren’s editorial.
[00:25:55] His August editorial compared federal equality with the missing worker-rights demand. Equality
[00:26:00] for LGBTQ people deserves support. Fonzseau asks that injured workers and mixed-status
[00:26:06] families receive the same insistence on dignity and enforceable protection.

[00:26:10–00:26:16] August 2026 editorial
Format: Darren editorial picture. Source: m2hUF1T6Etg-excerpt.mp4 0.000–6.000.
[00:26:16] The requested commitments are specific: broad legalization and family unity; a national

[00:26:16–00:26:31] PUT THE COMMITMENTS IN WRITING
Format: source graphic. Source: Darren Fonzseau • public policy demands.
[00:26:22] workers' compensation commission; federal injured-worker standards; and universal health care with
[00:26:26] employer accountability. Bring the sponsors, the hearing, and the next step.

[00:26:31–00:26:46] THE QUESTION FOR THE MOVEMENT
Format: AI presenter. Source: Named people and organizations invited to respond.
[00:26:31] Reich, Sanders, Murray, Sawant, Jayapal, Stewart, Liias, Ortiz-Self, Cortes, Fosse, Larsen, Hartmann,
[00:26:38] labor leaders, and advocacy groups: answer the documented demands. Corrections and contrary
[00:26:43] records belong here too. Name the action you will take.

[00:26:46–00:27:02] WE CALL FOUL
Format: AI presenter. Source: Darren Fonzseau • Workers Won’t Be Silent.
[00:26:47] We call foul when promises keep replacing commitments. This is Darren Fonzseau's
[00:26:52] peaceful advocacy, presented by AI hosts. The dated records, original voices, and
[00:26:57] public policy questions remain open to examination. Workers will keep asking.

[00:27:02–00:27:11] THE RECORD IS OPEN TO EXAMINATION.
Format: title card. Source: Darren Fonzseau.
[On-screen title / music; no additional intelligible dialogue transcribed.]

[00:27:11–00:31:19] Full song — My Father’s Voice
Format: music video. Source: Darren’s Suno upload; OpenArt picture and scene; CyberLink stock selections.
[00:27:27] He kept his papers in a drawer,
[00:27:29] His working hands could do no more.
[00:27:40] I heard the words he used to say,
[00:27:44] But I was young and looked away.
[00:27:53] Now every letter, every call,
[00:27:56] Brings back his shadow on the wall.
[00:28:06] I know the weight he carried then;
[00:28:14] I’m at that waiting door again.
[00:28:17] My father’s voice, my father’s fight,
[00:28:21] The words I understand tonight.
[00:28:24] I’ll turn that anger into song,
[00:28:28] And name the rights we’ve waited on.
[00:28:31] No raised fist, no broken door,
[00:28:34] Just one more witness on the floor.
[00:28:37] For every child who hears me now,
[00:28:42] We’ll leave more than another vow.
[00:29:14] Another father crossed the line,
[00:29:18] And gave his strength, his years, his time.
[00:29:27] The work was done; the hurt remained.
[00:29:31] Our family learned to speak through pain.
[00:29:40] We need our wages, care and home,
[00:29:45] A right to stay, a life our own.
[00:29:53] Put every promise into law,
[00:29:57] Remember who the promise is for.
[00:30:05] I carry words, I carry names,
[00:30:09] But I won’t pass along the flames.
[00:30:12] Let children inherit something new:
[00:30:15] A country keeping what it swore to do.
[00:30:19] My father’s voice, my father’s fight,
[00:30:23] The words I understand tonight.
[00:30:26] I’ll turn that anger into song,
[00:30:30] And name the rights we’ve waited on.
[00:30:33] For every family left outside,
[00:30:36] Make room for dignity and life.
[00:30:40] We’ll keep the record, tell it plain,
[00:30:43] So they won’t fight this fight again.

END OF FILM
The instrumental outro has no added or invented lyrics.
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