Dan Caplinger
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4 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 4d ago
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But when I was working in D.C.
as a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement and fighting for the Green New Deal and then the Build Back Better agenda, I heard what the corporate lobbyists said about districts like mine, the frontline swing districts.
They said, basically, you know, we can't extend the child tax credit because people in Michigan's 7th district won't go for that.
We can't have Medicare for all.
We can't block the bombs to Israel because...
People in Michigan's 7th District and other frontline districts will not go for that.
That is a lie.
It's a self-serving lie.
But that is one of the ways that the corporate establishment on both sides of the aisle allows the status quo to be maintained, is by telling these myths about places like the place where I live.
I know that that's crap.
We need to prove that it's crap by winning with a populist, progressive platform in a district like this so that we can redefine what is possible in the United States Congress.
And, you know, one of the issues that, you know, so, of course, it's the affordability.
It's the cost of living.
It's housing.
It's health care.
It's protecting Social Security.
These are things I hear a lot about and I've been talking a lot about.
But when I got into the race, saying no to war and really reevaluating our foreign policy was one of my core convictions from the very beginning.
Because again, when I was at Sunrise Movement fighting for the Green New Deal and Build Back Better, I saw how the Biden administration, specifically under the leadership of Jake Sullivan, took up the whole idea of good green American jobs and green industrial policy, which I stand by and still support.
But then they added another piece to it.
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