Hey, it's Zach. I'm in Washington DC this week at EconCon. I just heard a panel talking

about the economy, the election, what happened, and why. It was really incredible. The team

at Pitchfork Economics thought our listeners would really benefit from hearing the conversation.

So we're sharing that with you today. Enjoy.

Please welcome Helen Brosman.

I'm the Executive Director of Fight Corporate Monopolis. We are the sister organization of American Economic Liberties Project.

And we are a progressive advocacy and electoral organization dedicated to breaking up political and economic

concentrations of power. This is a really exciting moment for us.

For the last year we've been standing up programs to build evidence that a progressive, populist, economic framework

rooted in sharp local contrasts with powerful corporate entities could bolster democratic candidates' electoral performance.

Last week, we saw our theory come to life in many ways. A diverse set of candidates who were able to expand beyond partisan divides

to villainize the giant corporations that price gouge, ship jobs overseas, abuse workers and small businesses,

and corrupt our politicians and democracy, both made inroads with persuitable, independent voters,

and excited and existing democratic base of voters who are fed up with the status quo.

We conducted a large research project that ultimately showed there's widespread popular support for economic,

socialist perspectives across race, geographic and education lines, including bold policy ideas we don't often hear in the mainstream.

And so many candidates really came through and responded to that demand in this cycle.

We disseminated messaging, research, policy interventions, and conducted several independent expenditure efforts,

and saw that taking on corporate power finally is a winning case.

Congressman-elect Pat Ryan in Upstate New York pledging to take on the utility monopolies in his county.

To Congresswoman-elect Summer Lee offering a vision of multi-racial working-class solidarity in the face of massive corporate influence in our politics,

to send in our John Federman, embodying economic populism at every turn.

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