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BONUS: Heidi Sloan on running a left campaign in Texas

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nathan speaks to Heidi Sloan, a former teacher, a farmer, and now a left candidate running in Texas' 25th congressional district. (This episode would usually be available only to our premium subscribers, but we're making it public to try and get out the word before the primary on March 3rd!) Transcript: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/02/interview-heidi-sloan-on-running-a-left-campaign-in-texas Heidi for Congress: https://heidisloan.com/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening, Current Affairs listeners. I am here with Heidi Sloan, who is a Democratic socialist candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress for the 25th District of Texas.

0:15.9

It is a seat currently occupied by a Republican, but it is a seat that Heidi Sloan has dared to try to seek out

0:25.9

and dared to believe that a leftist can win. And I'm so excited to talk to you about what I

0:32.9

think is an incredible campaign. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to talk to you as well. We are having way more fun than we deserve to have on this campaign. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to talk to you as well. We are having

0:38.6

way more fun than we deserve to have on this campaign, and I can't wait to fill you in on

0:43.3

what happened since we last spoke. Yes, I was fortunate enough recently to get to go out to

0:48.9

Austin and to get to give a sort of rousing speech introducing you, and you had a packed fundraiser.

0:55.2

Lots of lots of people came out.

0:57.1

It was the kind of thing where you look at it and you think, this wouldn't have happened a few years ago.

1:01.7

Yeah, I think that's probably right.

1:03.5

And credit where credit is due, you know, it's not a campaign that was put together by

1:09.2

kingmakers or political elite. It is certainly the most

1:13.7

grassroots I can imagine coming from people who have been organizing for the fights that affect

1:19.5

their lives for a lot of years and coming together and saying, if we can do that, we can do this too.

1:24.5

Well, and your background is not especially political. You were a

1:29.4

teacher for a long time of special needs children, as I understand. And then also you have a

1:35.3

background in farming. It's true. Both of those are true. Yeah, I taught in a classroom for

1:41.7

children with disabilities, as well as children without disabilities.

1:45.3

It's a PPCD classroom.

1:46.8

It's a preschool space.

1:48.4

And I loved that work, the creativity and the integration that happens and then the outcomes

1:54.0

that are so much better across the board, just the sense of community that it always

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