SPECIAL EPISODE: Why Down-Ballot Races Matter

Featuring attorneys, activists, and elected officials, this episode is unlike any episode we have done before. We focus on the importance of down-ballot races and how candidates running for local and state local offices can impact the issues you care most about — whether it be voting rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or Immigrants’ rights. Watch or listen BELOW:

We begin with a discussion with MSNBC’s Sisters-in-Law, Joyce Vance, Barbara McQuade, Kimberly Atkins, and Jill Wine-Banks. We then hear from a group of all-star panelists: Mimi Rocah (likely District Attorney of Westchester, New York), Daniel Biss (former Illinois State Senator and candidate for Mayor of Evanston), David Litt (former Obama Speechwriter and author of Democracy in a Book or Less), Shannon Watts (Founder of Moms Demand Action), Oren Jacobson (Co-executive Director of Men4Choice), Karen Freeman-Wilson (former Attorney General of Indiana and Mayor of Gary, Indiana and President of Chicago Urban League), Molly Pinta (14-year-old LGBTQ+ activist), Frank Figliuzzi (former FBI Assistant Director of Counterintelligence and author of “The FBI’s way), Lee Gelernt (Deputy Director of ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project), and Amanda Litman (Co-founder of Run for Something).