Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan

Kyllä. Minä en oteta korporatiivisen pakkojen rahaa, koska mielestäni korporatioiden on paljon voimaa Washingtonissa. Se on meitä, jotka sitä tarvitsemme. Se on kaikkien puolustajien puolella, ja mielestäni se on se, mikä vaikuttaa.

our elections and the results that we're getting. I also do not take APAC money, nor do I think that they would give it to me. But I made the decision to speak out and say that I would have supported the Sanders resolution this summer, that both of my senators, Senator Klobuchar and Tina Smith,

to say that we're not going to have offensive weapons going to Israel when children are starving. And that's a position that I stand by. I'm a mom, I'm a child advocate, and we have to use our voices to speak up when we see

I can call out Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the same way that I can call out the Trump administration as well. I think we need to use our voices. That's what I did. Now they've decided to go after me and they're supporting my opponent in a big way.

Right, and that's of course, we've known that for a long time, but really running for Senate is the thing that has just, for me, opened my eyes in a major way. People want us to do the right thing. People want us to be courageous and simply nibbling around the edges isn't getting us anywhere. When I travel across the state of Minnesota, folks aren't saying like, gosh,

Pidä huolta. He sanovat, että olkaa vahva ja tehdä niitä asioita, joita meidän on tehtävä tehtävä. Ihmiset eivät voi tarjota elämäänsä juuri nyt. Meidän täytyy varmistaa, että menemme suureksi, jotta ihmiset tietävät, että he voivat uskomaan meitä. Ja että me voimme haittaa heitä, mutta ei vain vuonna 2026. Se on se, mitä rakennamme.

For 2028 and 2030 and 2032, we need a democratic party that is no longer fighting from a defensive crouch, but is telling people what it is that we're for, that we're going to fight for the things that they need and that they deserve.

I was pissed, frankly. And so incredibly disappointed. I think people were with us, and we literally saw that in the election results on Tuesday. It was up and down the ballot all across the country. Folks were like, Democrats are fighting for us. And we somehow

These eight Democrats were able to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. And I think it makes everyone's job, who's running right now, so much harder. We were starting to rebuild that trust. We were starting to rebuild that enthusiasm. And so now I think we just have to really call it out for what it is. It's capitulation to Donald Trump and to the congressional Republicans, and it's bullshit. And I think it's just so clear

That's what I'm hearing from folks in Minnesota, and people are sick of it. That is why we are in this very position that we find ourselves in, is that folks just aren't willing to stand up and to fight. So I think it is the opportunity for people now, as we are going into the 2026 cycle, to decide, who do you want? Who do you want fighting for you? Do you want people who are just going to go along with the status quo and somehow think

that in three years, when this guy is out of the White House, that things are going to be okay? Or do you want people who are going to fight, who are going to organize, who are going to bring new people into the party because they see themselves reflected in these fights? I know what my choice is and I'm ready to be one of those new voices and frankly a voice that's never been.

the U.S. Senate before. I think democracy works best when it accurately reflects the community it seeks to represent, and it is bedtime. And believe it or not, I will be one of the youngest people elected to the U.S. Senate as a 46-year-old. And so

You know, and there's only four women, four moms with kids under the age of 18 who are serving in the U.S. Senate. Boy, you know, can you tell? So it's time. Exactly. How do you address, how do we look at the economy as it is right now and say,

It's unbelievable. So how do you in your campaign and moving forward if you are elected, how do you intend to address the minimum wage issue? Absolutely. So I am the former executive director of Children's Defense Fund Minnesota. And so when I was at Children's Defense Fund, I co-chaired the campaign to raise the minimum wage in Minnesota. And the big fight for us was to make sure that we were also indexing it to inflation.

Koska kustannukset olisivat aina menneet ylös. Meidän oli tarvetta, että perheet pysyvät ylös ja sitten pysyvät ylös. Nyt joka januuri viime viikon aikana olemme nähneet vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään vähintään

child outcomes and a seven dollar and 25 cent minimum wage that hasn't been increased in 16 years is completely unacceptable so i believe that we need to fight for at least a 17 dollar minimum wage um to just be very clear that what we are seeing now 42 million americans who are on snap

Many of those folks are working. Many of those folks, for example, at Walmart or Amazon. We are subsidizing these companies because they do not pay their folks a wage that is high enough for them to not qualify for public programs. It's outrageous. They're spending their SNAP dollars at their employer. It's double dipping. Let's just pay people a living wage so they can just live the lives that they want to live.

Joten jos oikeasti käyttäisit esim. Amazonia, niin sinun täytyy palata osan käyttöä, jotta pääset taas infrastruktuurin budjettiin. Miten se kuulostaa? Se kuulostaa melko hyvältä, koska nyt ihmiset, jotka työskentelevät Amazonissa, ovat maksaneet isomman lopputuloksen, kuin eri yritykset itse asiassa. Se ei ole oikeastaan oikea.

situation that we are facing right now. It is folks at the very, very top. It is greedy corporations who are getting sort of everything they want and need with a just free ticket from the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that we have to say, like, who are we actually for? The folks at the very, very top or people who literally are the ones who make this economy and this country work? It is overdue.

I think people are smart enough to start to understand that. These are the conversations that I have all the time about how unjust this is and people are ready. They want fighters and they don't want folks who are just simply going along to get along or worse, taking campaign