Amanda Litman
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first heard Jul 2026
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No, lie down and never get up.
It'll be 10 years in January.
So right after Trump won, we started seeing thousands of people raise their hands to run for office.
18 months later, it's over 100,000 people who signed up to run for office since then.
More than we had since 2024.
More than we had in the entirety of Trump's first term, as I said earlier.
Last year, we had, I think, a 60% win rate on Election Day.
We had a night where we elected both a DSA-affiliated candidate to the Atlanta City Council and a former Republican who left the party after January 6th.
to a rural county commission in Pennsylvania.
We have built the tent that is tight on values and flexible on policy and has now elected more than just about 1,700 young people across 49 states plus D.C., including many that are now running for higher office, like James Tallarico, like Mallory McBorrow, but also like Francesca Hong in Wisconsin, like Sarah McBride in Delaware, and so many others who are, I think, the future of the Democratic Party.
And that's not ideologically like pure or however you want to define it.
It is people who love their communities, who want to solve problems, who want to speak to their neighbors, and who are willing to do so in a way that is authentic and genuine and connected and fun.
And it makes me so hopeful and excited at a moment where like most of the Democratic Party does not.
But I really do believe we are on the brink of a tipping point where the party is going to be more run for something alum than not.
It is going to be more leaders who look like our folks than not.
And that's a good thing, I think.
Caitlin Dre is running for Iowa State Senate.
She won a special election in 2025.
She broke the Iowa Republican supermajority.
She flipped a seat Trump had carried by 10 points.
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