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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lots of lots of people came out.

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

Yeah, I think that's probably right.

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

kingmakers or political elite. It is certainly the most

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

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

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

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

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

children with disabilities, as well as children without disabilities.

It's a PPCD classroom.

It's a preschool space.

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

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

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