Graham Platner
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2,222 appearances
59 recordings
20 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Graham Platner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026
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live comes from wages, comes from working, and you are not just sitting on an immense amount of hoarded wealth which generates income for you, then you work for a living.
And if you sit on a bunch of hoarded wealth that generates revenue for you, you don't because you literally don't.
So for me, it's fairly simple.
And in an age of immense wealth inequality, that's the definition that we need.
Because they're going to try to pit us all against each other.
They're going to try to pit poor people against the people who are sitting on immense amounts of hoarded wealth that generates revenue for them.
Billionaires, CEOs of corporations, hedge fund managers, private equity.
That's who, because they don't want us recognizing that if we band together and build political power, we have it within our power to pull all that stolen money back.
We have it in our power to have a tax code that doesn't, for right now, as we have right now, we tax wages at a higher rate than we tax wealth.
That's a math equation you can run to the end and see who wins out.
None of this is actually all that complicated.
Those people and the establishment politicians that they have paid off for decades to represent their interests, they don't want us recognizing that down here in the real world, we all have everything in common.
When hospitals close, that impacts Republican or Democrat alike.
If young people are fleeing your community because there is no housing to buy and there's no future and no work, it doesn't matter if you identify as a progressive or a conservative.
Your community is dying.
And it's dying because people have made policy decisions to create this outcome.
It's important for people to know the world that we live in right now, it isn't natural.
None of this is organic.
We live in the outcome of policy, policies that have been implemented really for the last 40 years by establishment politicians at the behest of those who donated the most money to them.
And the fascinating thing is everybody knows.
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