Graham Platner

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2,222 appearances 59 recordings 20 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · Politics for ME (and You) with Graham Platner · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

I also came to the realization that when the system itself is quite broken, or not even broken, when the system itself is built to be a raid against the average person, when you're working at the ground level, you're pretty much just putting band-aids on things.

And, but I did think that that was exactly where my life was going to stay.

I mean, I really, I moved back here to Sullivan, Maine, where I currently live.

I live on the road I grew up on.

Yeah, I live like, I live a couple houses down from the house I grew up in.

Oh, fantastic.

Which is nice.

You know, it's very, and like, and I come from, I mean, my town has a thousand people in it and it's where I grew up.

So like, I know everybody, everybody's known me since I was a kid.

It's a very nice, I don't know, it's a nice feeling.

Last summer, end of July, some people came to my house.

They had been in Maine for a few months working with the AFL-CIO and a bunch of labor unions looking for someone to run for US Senate against Susan Collins.

And they were looking specifically for a working class person on working class economic policies.

And they had found me because I did a video a few years ago fighting against the Norwegian salmon farm that was trying to come into our bay.

A bunch of us mobilized against it, and I did a video with the group.

Yep.

And then they looked me up and they saw I donated to Bernie Sanders.

And they were like, oh, well, maybe they were like, we should go check it out.

So they literally came to my house and said, we think you should run for United States Senate.

And my wife and I, quite honestly, told them to fuck off because that was the...

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