Tim Sawinski

I'm Tim Sawinski.

I'm one of the candidates running in Congressional District 1 in Virginia.

I've been working in politics in some form or another for the last 15 years.

My first way into this was I was an intern for the Obama for America campaign in 2008, and I thought government work, that's the key to solutions.

Worked in the US Senate, worked on campaigns, and then I didn't like what I saw, so I became a community organizer in education, economic fairness, I do environmental justice now,

And you really can't do what I do and think that this system works for everyday people.

It doesn't.

What do you mean?

I mean that people get left out in the cold.

Unless you can write the biggest check, or you have the most money, you don't feel like you have a fair shot in this system.

Look, the gerrymandering is a major problem, but it's not like Democrats drew first blood with this one.

Donald Trump doesn't think he should be held accountable by anybody, so he's trying to change the rules because he doesn't like the game.

The Democrats tried to respond in Virginia, and they're trying to respond in California.

But, you know, unfortunately,

It was too little, too late in Virginia.

The alternative is to say, all right, we gave up.

We're not going to fight back.

Like this was an imperfect way to fight back to preserve our democracy and have some semblance of accountability for this administration, which is actively trying to attack our democracy.

They're showing us that they want to undermine our democratic process right now.

And we spent months pushing for that redistricting vote.