 Hello, everyone. I am here with Rebecca Parsons. She is running in Washington State's 6th Congressional District as a Democratic Socialist And she is here to talk about her progressive political campaign Rebecca. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I Like thanks for having me. I'm excited. I'm very excited to have you on. There's so many great candidates running I can't keep track of even half of them, but it's nice to talk to as many as I possibly can So you're challenging Derek Kilmer in this district. He's been a representative here since 2013 He is a very establishment pretty Conservative Democrat and you are running as a non corrupt grassroots funded Democratic Socialist You're a member of the LGBTQ community. Your platform is absolutely fantastic and your history is absolutely robust so just let us know why you decided to run and Why you think you are better than Derek Kilmer? Yeah, so we have had this representation since 2013 and before we had represented Derek Kilmer We had a Norm Dix who was very similar to Derek Kilmer and he actually handpicked Derek Kilmer to run when he decided to retire So we've had about 30 40 unbroken years of exactly the same type of corporate Democratic representation and I first started thinking about running after Trump won because I thought well if Trump can get elected Maybe if he can get elected president, maybe I can get elected to something and I think it would be a good way to serve and It served served my community. I got more and more interested. I was thinking about it I actually co-led indivisible Tacoma for about a year and a half and I love the indivisible guide I think it's super smart the way it takes the Tea Party tactics and then applies it To what we want on the liberal or progressive agenda But what I found is that it's pretty difficult when we have Democratic representatives or at least the ones that we do in this area They just don't budge and they'll just give platitudes like you know, well, let's get more Dems voted You know vote blue no matter who let's you know get more good Dems elected in other parts and you know My hands are tied. There's only so much I can do and you know I would call and call and write and write and go to offices and just get like form letter responses And you know, it's almost like contacting Comcast like your value customer form letter Like nothing changes. It's like pulling teeth Yeah, it is and so I started to think about that actually running against Derek Hilmer for the seat and all around the district You know, it's a large district includes the entire living Peninsula, which is the Northwestern most part of Washington state Includes Tacoma where I am as well. So it's a very big area. It includes a national park and forest and But all over the district and the rural and urban areas are progressives who are really tired of this representation and of him not listening to us and not supporting the policies we want and Not only is he does he take a lot of money from corporate interests including Wall Street defense healthcare Pharmaceuticals real estate lots of these industries which are devastating our district because you know, we're struggling with Addiction homelessness rising rents people being pushed out of their housing and in the urban and rural areas we have the same problems that we're facing these these really big issues and You know, not only is he a corporate Democrat But he's chair of the new Democrats, which is the third-way centrist caucus of conservative Democrats in Congress And it's just you know, nothing We're not going to get the chair of the third of the third way, you know new Democrats in Congress To co-sponsor Medicare for all or the Green New Deal just not And I actually heard from some activists who met with his staff recently in district They asked him, you know, they're asking about the Green New Deal They asked the staffer and the staffer said no, he's not gonna co-sponsor it So we got an answer on that Medicare for all. We've just been getting a lot of Prevarication and kind of putting us off and stuff and you know, we just really really need these policies here You know in the Olympic Peninsula, we had the timber industry for years and years and the company It's just kind of it's you know, deforested a lot of land extracted the profit and then left and it left behind this gaping hole And one of my friends there on the Olympic Peninsula the way she puts it is if a community could have PTSD this is what it would look like and You know addiction homelessness suicide unemployment, you know There aren't many jobs the jobs that are there don't pay. Well, you can't work 40 hours a week and live and There are for example Aberdeen, which is where Kurt Cobain was from that's in my district and the town has 16,000 people a thousand of them are homeless. So one in 16 people are homeless. It's just a gigantic problem and the same in Tacoma, you know There's we have an addiction problem here as well. There's one detox facility in the entire city that takes Medicaid It's almost always full, you know I think the two number one things we can do to address, you know Successfully address the addiction epidemic here and maybe not in other parts of the country as well But like definitely here where I've been talking to voters and residents is a number one Medicare for all So that people can get drug treatment detox and ongoing mental health services. They can get clean and stover and stay clean and sober So I'll say actually three things and the second one is housing as a human right So I support national rent control as well as a massive investment in public housing Which I think will go a long way towards eradicating homelessness And then the third thing is a federal jobs guarantee Which I think is extremely important economically that everybody should be able to work 40 hours a week and afford to live and it should be a You know $15 plus living wage union job But the other thing that's great about the federal jobs guarantee is that it addresses the pervasive despair That's all over the district like well, what's the point like I'm just gonna grind out the rest of my life Working two or three part-time jobs because no employer will hire me full-time because they want to avoid giving me benefits You know, so grinding it out at these jobs barely making it like despair really sets in hard with that You know, we know that you have that to look forward to for your whole life And if people have a federal jobs guarantee where it's like if you want a job You can get one that's gonna pay well, you know Where you don't have to spend more than 30% of your income on housing and you can have you know Vacation every year and raise your kids and pay for the things that you want and need like I think it'll just go Such a long way to giving people lives that they don't feel the need to check out of So those are some of my policies and and why I'm running and it's really nice to hear you talk about all of these solutions Like you have answers for all of these problems that are originating in your community due to you know Largely corporatization and what's interesting, you know One thing that really stood out to me on your website because I can kind of relate is that you kind of stress You know Washington State is one of the bluest States in the country if not the bluest but yet the representation coming out of there It's just it's corporate Democrat It's mealy mouth is centrism and so it's really nice to see a ton of different progressives really rise up I mean Joshua Collins is running in Denny Hex district We have Sarah Smith and there are a plethora of others and you know as someone who is in a neighboring state I kind of feel the same way whereas now we have a challenger to Earl Blumenauer So it's just a matter of you know It's time that we get the representation that actually lines up with the priorities of the people in that district So it's nice to hear you just list all of you know these things just right away that will solve so many problems Because I just I just feel like people in Congress they get comfortable They really as you stated he was hand-selected by his predecessor and We need people who are going to represent their actual constituents and be attentive to the details You know in the community the problems in that community and for you you have such a robust history Like I kind of just want to go over some of the things I can't possibly list all of it, but you have such a unique record here just in terms of an activist So you were a human rights observer in the Zapatista village in Mexico. That is incredibly fascinating to me You worked with genocide scholars and you really see that you know care for human rights reflected in your platform You You were a teacher and then one thing that really struck me was you said that you know You saw firsthand how zip codes really reflect the quality and type of education that you receive so talk a little bit about your background and what you think kind of Propelled you to this position that you're in now where you identify as a democratic socialist like what do you think in your life was the most Meaningful that really kind of led you to this current path Yeah, there's a bunch of things and the genocide studies started in college I took a course on genocide studies and it just happened that at my small-state school We had a an expert, you know the founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars So he offered this course in at the undergrad level and it was extremely interesting. It was where I first I think started to learn and understand how the US military Works overseas what really goes on there? and cases where we choose to intervene and those where we don't intervene and why and I then I interned with that organization and I got a scholarship to present a paper at their 2007 conference in Sarajevo and that was I believe the 12th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre which was the largest massacre on European soil since World War two and and I Over a thousand or I think thousands of men mostly men and boys But also children and girls were massacred there and every year at least I'm not sure at this point anymore if they still are but at that point they were still Uncovering the mass graves and so I went I presented the conference and then we actually went to the Burial, you know every year they have a funeral for the people that they have dug up and identified and We you know, I stood at the edge of a mass grave and could look in and see People bones and clothes and that there was a young man there who was about my age And he was translating for us and as he was translating like a single tear was going down his face Because he was from that area and he knew people who had been massacred. I saw that I was like this is what happened when we have Dehumanizing language, you know my professor Dr. Gregory Stanton created a framework called the 10 stages of genocide and it shows you the predictable but not inexorable Path that genocide goes along and one of the earliest is dehumanizing and using dehumanizing language calling people vermin Pests stuff like that, you know in Guatemala. They referred to No, if we can't fill the if we can't kill the fish. We'll just drain the water And that was referring to like the villages, you know draining their support outside the villages but when you refer to people as vermin animals past this kind of thing like That's an early stage of what I saw at the very end And so I'm not saying like that's where we're headed here but I'm saying because I can't predict the future I'm saying it's extremely concerning and That was one big thing that has always stuck with me and then through that class I got interested in Guatemala because Guatemala had a 30-plus year civil war and it was kicked off by our intervention and Our intervention is starting a coup in Guatemala toppling the democratically elected leader And then during that genocide during that civil war There was a genocide of the Mayan population in Guatemala and I was interested in learning more about it So that's where I went for a few months to study Spanish Then I had heard about the Zapatistas from some friends of mining college and how they had this kind of self-governing society Of indigenous people who had taken power for themselves and it was just fascinating to me So I went they had a language school So I went there for a week to a language school And then I did two 10-day trips as a human rights observer in a Zapatista village in the jungle Because it was good. We weren't using this term back then but the idea was like white privilege Especially white foreigner white American privilege like with the Mexican funded Mexican government funded paramilitaries They're much less likely to they were constantly threatening builders But they're much less likely to actually do something with white Americans and Europeans that are recording So that was I did that and that was just incredible like the Zapatistas have drastically lowered maternal mortality rates They've increased the status of women women have much more Stronger rights than they do in the surrounding communities and in Mexico as a whole I think They have schools hospitals clinics They control millions of dollars worth of like farming and millions of acres of land and it's all self-determined in true democratic fashion like true Democracy where they get to choose how they live and it's not just political democracy. It's economic democracy And it's just I got to see Naomi Klein speak there with sub commandante marcos and just incredible her book the shock doctrine Was one thing that also like really opened my eyes You know, we invade Iraq and then set up mcdonald's I mean her book is much more complicated than that, but if you want to just put it in that shelf And then um in albuquerque. Yeah, I lived there. I was a substitute teacher and I saw I taught in private schools catholic schools and public schools and I saw how different it is even Within the public school system, you know kids just one or two miles apart have totally different experiences You know one school all the kids are getting free breakfast and lunch and another one They're coming with their nice, you know lunch packed by their parents and stuff and why is that and you know the poverty and systemic racism And then I think in terms of like moving to identifying as a democratic socialist it was seeing Bernie sanders talk about it and then aoc talk about it And her election was just extremely inspiring like I have been on the email list of justice democrats and brand new congress Since they started and I remembered getting their first emails Back in I guess it would have been early 2017 and being like literally thrilled because like this is where the vision is this is where it's happening This is not the corporate bullshit. Like this is really a left Progressive vision that's really going to help people and I got the first email From I don't remember which one of the two it was but like hey, he's here's our newest Slate of candidates. We've just announced and aoc being one of them and when she started to rise I was following her and then she won I looked back through my email inbox I was like there was that first email where she was just there Like, you know local local organizer bartender Alexander Ocasio-Bartas And then she went on to win and I watched the whole thing happen and it was just incredibly inspiring And isn't it amazing how there's only um, like a handful of justice democrats in office And they are the ones who get all the attention. They're the loudest They've become the face of the democratic party. Um, according to a lot of people Which is arguable of course, but just in a matter of A year and not even a year, right and it's so amazing So the way that I kind of keep myself from getting too cynical, you know When I just look at things from like a number perspective in terms of corporate democrats versus progressive democrats It's the think of the impact that people have and if we add like just 10 more justice democrats What a momentous impact that would be like we're getting such a powerful little block in congress That we really can like the tea party in a way kind of dictate policy drive the discussion drive political discourse And it really is so exciting to see and what I love is that as I learn about each of these candidates and talk to them And look at their backgrounds Like you can kind of see in their policy platform all of their life experiences reflected there Like I really see, you know a heavy emphasis on human rights in your platform And it's just so fascinating one thing that really stood out to me because I don't see, you know, too many candidates talking about this Um, we have, you know the standard medicare for all free college and whatnot But you emphasize something that's extremely important to me So it's ending rank choice or excuse me ending gerrymandering and instituting nationwide rank choice voting Talk a little bit about this because this is so important. This really could be A game changer because if we have electoral reform That would really pave the way potentially for multiple parties like people talk about a third party But I always argue we don't need a third party. We need like Multiple parties. We need five or ten parties. We need robust like Political ideologies represented in congress. So why is this something that's really important and a key plank to you? Yeah, I think that's a really good point, you know, and I've heard people say I think it's right that in other countries The progressives and centrists would not be in the same party and We we don't really vlog in the same party like we have this to You know, I'm a democratic pco. I support, you know, it's because of democrats that you know, I was able to get married Like absolutely they are different from republicans in ways that have materially impacted my life But we are also like, you know, moderates or centrists compared to me very different on some things And so if we, um, you know had rank choice voting, I think it would really get rid of this kind of A lesser of two evils approach to voting It would let people vote for who they're really excited about It would be much more fair, you know, ending gerrymandering is extremely important to me because we just have these absurd districts, you know, they go like that and then around and that kind of thing so that they Have the voters they want and also enact voter suppression, particularly Of um people of color and black voters. So it's extremely important Yeah, that's one thing that's really been on my radar and um, there there was a bill And I'm I'm blanking on the number currently that I believe rocona sponsored that actually did just that like it It actually moved to multi-member districts and I can't remember the number there The district magnitude was like two or three, which is still great And did rank choice voting and did gerrymandering and it didn't get a lot of support And I think it's because people don't really know about the specifics like a lot of people Have this idea that if we just organize a third party, that's how we can get it into power But there are real institutional barriers that make that so difficult and passing something like rank choice voting That's really the first step. It's not a guarantee because nobody really knows how those institutions will you know affect Party politics and whatnot, but it's just it's one of the necessities needed So we can actually have some choices in this country because it like I said, we should not have to share a party with senators You know, it's economically speaking, you know Centrist democrats are very much aligned with republicans not of course the same but very close But in terms of social politics and issues related to social justice and whatnot They are aligned more with progressives So we're forced to form this alliance and that makes us a little bit less I think effective because we're always butting heads whereas with republicans, you know, they're all Lined up on everything pretty much for the most part and it's allowed them I think to be a lot more effective not just in terms of Shifting the narrative in the overton window, but elect electorally speaking, you know So let's talk about your platform a little bit more You have a really robust platform But it's going to be difficult to fight for all the things that we need to fix our country So first year, I always like to ask the candidates What do you think would be your top two or top three priorities in terms of what you think you can realistically Accomplish in the event we're assuming we have a bernie sanders president and you know a democratic senate and house Best case scenario, you know, what do you think you would push for in that first year? Yeah, and that's what my dream is to happen is we have bernie sanders in the white house We have a democratic senate and house and then I think it could really be the start of a new era You know like people who just talks about let's bring in a new era. Like that's not you're not You're not that new era That is not a new era a new era is is a democratic socialist president And then like a democratic socialist group of people or caucus or whatever you want to say in congress And then actually, you know sweeping it in like the era of raganism and clintonism and all that is over This is the new new deal And I think it could be so exciting and we could look back on it in history It's like this is when a new tide swept in of like Progressivism to really get stuff done and it completely changed the country And I think it's just so exciting that there are all these candidates around the country running to make that happen And my top three would be The green new deal because that's one of the reasons i'm running, you know people ask Why didn't you choose something more attainable or you know? What makes you think you can do this start small or if they're you know friends of mine who are just concerned They'll say, you know, like you're a great candidate. That's why I want you to run for something You can actually win and uh, so the reason I think I can win it you know, I'm in it to win it and I think there's a definite path to victory and um one of But one of the reasons that I didn't wait is that doing the traditional political path To make myself, you know deemed viable by the establishment You know going through all the steps all the things I need to do that would take much I would get to that point by way past 20 30 and we do not have the time for that And representative Derek Kilmer is not going to support the green new deal And we need action right now like we need a congress in 2020 that Elected in 2020 that it's going to make it happen Because that's an existential threat and I think as well I really like that the green new deal includes all these different elements of addressing what's some of the fundamental issues of their country Like making sure that it's racially just and that is just from a class perspective as well that it has the federal jobs guarantee So what's great about it for one of many things that is great about the green new deal is it addresses this existential threat And then it also addresses other extremely serious problems that we need to tackle The next thing Not next but you know these three Um priority things would be a medicare for all and true single payer medicare for all not kind of a lightweight plan I'm not going to cosponsor it and then say oh, I don't know anymore I went to talk in the hamptons, and I'm not sure anymore if I like it like no I am I am on the board of whole washington, which is a washington state organization fighting to get single payer health care In washington state, and we're doing it by initiative We did an initiative to the people and this time we're doing initiative to the legislature And like, you know, we have a very good shot of making it happen. I think we are going to make it happen and um, I think that um, it's great to have this be going on like Dual tracks at the same time nationally and statewide But you know I'm on that because I don't believe in these kind of halfway solutions You know, that's another reason that it's so urgent is that people are literally dying because they don't have access to health care And that's the thing like you get into congress You get your nice health care, and then you deny us what you have You know you have nice cushy health care, and you won't give it to us You won't let us have it because you take hundreds of thousands of dollars From the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry and derrick kilmer You know, he's taken money from a big pharma pack The members of that pack are currently being sued for manufacturing the opioid epidemic, which is decimating our district There's one county in my district clown county where they found that over a six There was a report in a paper recently over a six year period That people were prescribed on average 60 to 70 addictive prescription pills per person And now they have one of the highest opioid death rates in the state You know, there's no coincidence. It's cause and effect And so, you know, we absolutely need Medicare for all that includes vision dental And drug treatment and therapy and mental health And then the third thing would be housing policy I think that we need national rent control and accompanying by a massive investment in public housing So that the rent is stabilized, but there's also enough units for people Currently there's a shortage. I think of about 12 million units And national rent control is super exciting to me because so far the fight has been local and state And I've been involved in it locally with the Tacoma attendance organizing committee Which formed after a mass eviction and we just have these mass evictions happen in Tacoma with regularity You know developer comes in they buy unit evict everybody in it Usually there were low income on disability in recovery evict them There many of them become homeless this particular apartment building Two people have died since being evicted and that's one thing that I think our establishment corporate democrats don't understand Is that housing is a matter of life and death If you're in recovery and you go you're out on the streets that threatens your recovery if you are disabled You know, there is a woman in Aberdeen who I met Who moved to Aberdeen from somewhere else in washington state to be closer to family And she got to the apartment. She had found it was the only thing she could afford She got there and found it didn't have a ramp for her wheelchair the landlord refused to put one in and he just said never mind I'm just going to use it as an office because he didn't want to put the ramp in And she didn't have anywhere else to live that was the only place she found that she could afford, you know So she went to the bus station Where she was able to plug in her wheelchair and just sat there in her wheelchair for three nights Just sitting there in her chair Until somebody from the station called somebody at the homeless camp We have a homeless encampment in Aberdeen and there's a guy there who's kind of like the Coordinator he lives there and he coordinates and they had his number they called him and they came and got her But it's like this woman is a senior citizen in a wheelchair In a greyhound station For three nights straight day and night like that's the result of our broken housing system and housing Is for housing it's for people to live in that's its primary purpose. It is not for people to make money off of It's not for speculation. It's not for flipping housing is for people and that's what my policy is about and We've had some amazing wins around the country with local rent control and statewide I think that with national rent control we could really fill in some of those gaps like You know centrists make the argument that well in san francisco when they implemented rent control Then the rent just outside san francisco went up That's been disputed whether that study is true or not. I think it might just be you know a centrist a third way talking point But even if it were true, okay So you're saying that the way one person put it to me was like, okay We have a leaky bucket that doesn't prove we shouldn't have buckets. It just proves we should fix the holes And what we need is national universal rent control that applies to everywhere in the country And then accompanied with an investment in public housing. So those would be my top three Green New Deal medicare for all and housing. I like that and When you I first of all, I love the leaky bucket analogy But it sounds like that person is making the case for a national, you know housing and rent control type system No, but one thing that really stood out to me on your website because now I think that you and I We're realizing that there are people who know that they have to say they support medicare for all because It's going to be difficult to get elected when the overwhelming majority of the democratic party base wants it But you have to really differentiate between Who's real and who isn't like tim ryan was on the debate stage, you know talking about how horrible medicare for all is But he co-sponsored from a gyri Paul's bill So I love how on your website you put very clearly medicare for all real medicare for all single pair No incrementalism like I just kind of like a little applause right there when I saw that because it's it's so important Um, so I I absolutely love everything that you're talking about You've hit your opponent for supporting the tpp Um supporting anti-free speech condemnations of bds So anyone who's in that district, they're going to know that you are the real deal I think to me the real Objective is just making sure that people know who you are and know that you exist because when you present them with this Option between an establishment entrenched democrat who's a centrist and someone who actually cares who's hungry to get in there and fight They're going to choose you over him. It's just a matter of getting your name out there So let me allow you to make your pitch I think that anyone who's watching will be one over the audience already is going to love you I can tell but tell people why it's so important to go that extra step and share, you know information about you Um donate to you and sign up to support you even if you don't live in the sixth congressional district of washington You can still phone bank for rebecca. So just basically make your pitch and tell us what we can do to support your campaign Yeah, and thank you. I appreciate the opportunity So it's really important to share information about you know, go to twitter. Uh follow me Share my tweets engage. I'm really active on there and I engage with people and it's important because um representative kilmer Is not that well known nationally But he has a very critical role as chair of the new democrats And this is a role that I believe joe crowley had about 10 years ago And so it's something that you kind of take on your path to building your career Up into leadership of the house, you know, and I would not be surprised if he's kind of piecing together a career So eventually he can be speaker of the house And you know as chair of the new democrats he has power of the purse over like where You know the new democrats coalition spends a lot of money on campaigns. They funnel it to other centrists He also belongs to the new to no labels pack, which um, there's a washington post headline saying What was it? Um, no, it's not no labels is the pack I think and then the problem solvers is the caucus in congress And the washington post headline was something like critics alleged that the problem solvers have solved few problems It's like, yeah, they Really haven't they've actually caused more problems You know, except molten as part of them The problem solvers were were behind the push to not have nancy polosi be speaker, which you know I'm not a huge fan of polosi, but she was I think the best choice we had Well, they wanted someone to the right of her which is unfathomable like she yeah, she's already conservative So it's like what do you what do you expect a republican? Sorry, that's what they want. That's what they want. You know, they're like it prides themselves on being a bipartisan republican and democrat They're funded by republican billionaires and dark money. It's not like no labels. It's just it's the one percent Versus the rest of us. That's just the epitome of it. And so I think it's really important because Taking down the chair of you know, me winning And you know defeating the chair of the new democrats would really send a message that the third way stuff is not working And that it's on its way to extinction and that what's really going to work in this country is progressive democratic socialist ideas and In my district as well, you know, Derek Kilmer has name recognition and that's something I need to Really build up and I'm going to do that with a massive canvassing campaign I have lots of volunteers who are reaching out who are already involved in helping me and are like just tell us where to go We're ready. We're going to go do it. We're going to knock every single door in this county like they're so Ready and they've been waiting and wanting this to happen And so I'm going to be doing a lot of voter contact going to a lot of events and meeting people Which I've already been doing it just been so incredibly exciting like I'm going off on a tangent a little bit But I was canvassing with a green new deal group which is out Canvassing in rural Washington to make sure that the green new deal Is good for rural Washington as well as for the cities and we went door to door And after we would explain what the green new deal is we would ask them Show them a list of policies and say if the green new deal happened Which one of these policies or which of these policies would be most important to you and it was stuff like Universal child care federal jobs guarantee just a laundry list of progressive policies And they would look at it and even the people who said they voted for trump Which we didn't ask them. They would just volunteer it even those people would say well I don't know it's hard to say because I really like all of these like yes You know, I'm not I'm not targeting my message to try to win over Conservatives I'm targeting my message based on what is best for the people and working class People look at this and say this is what I want And so helping get my message out getting more attention to me Will really help the working class people of this district, which is a very working class district and so You can help me by getting on my email list That's one of the top two things that a candidate needs to do when they're at an early stage like mine you know fundraising and Getting people on their email list so they can stay in touch And you can go to rebecca for wa.com slash humanist and I have a page set up there for Viewers of the show where you can sign up for my email list I that would be the number one thing I would ask you to do and it would be Really really helpful so that I can stay in touch and build my audience and also have back and forth You know like when you get an email from me, you can just respond and that's a thing With a lot of email lists you just get it especially from the d triple c It's like the sky's falling donate money now And you know if you if you write back It's like you're just gonna whatever consultant is writing these bs emails is not going to write back But you know if you write back to me like you could very well get a response and you're like I will definitely read it So get onto the list that would be great rebecca for wa.com slash humanist And then I'm on social media, uh, facebook instagram and twitter at rebecca for wa On social media and my site. It's R e b e c c a f o r w a Well, thank you so much for coming on the program. Again, that's rebecca for wa.com Phenomenal candidate. This is a national movement and we will all be watching this race closely and of course rooting for you because I mean it just like Let me just say this whenever I talk to someone like I can tell within the first five minutes Just how enthusiastic they are and you never see that like from these centrist corporate democrats like these new candidates They're ready to get in and fight and it's just so refreshing to see it And whenever I talk to you guys I get amped up myself I just get excited because it's like finally, you know, something is happening all together We are coalescing around this movement and this message and and it's great to see so if you can please support rebecca This is a national movement what she does in the sixth congressional district isn't just going to affect that district This is a national movement. It will help you as well. So please support her and get involved Thank you so much rebecca. It's been a blast. Thank you mike