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Welcome back to the homefront. I'm your host, Reed Galen.

Today, I'm joined by Maria Comstock. Maria is a creator strategist uniquely positioned at the intersection of digital culture, progressive politics, and storytelling. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree

in political science and now lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she merges two

careers, a social media creator with 2.4 million followers and a digital strategist for political

campaigns and progressive causes. Maria, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on, Reed.

Yeah, so I actually, oh, sorry, I'm all wound up here. So I actually reached out to you a few

months ago because I was working on a, I was working on a project and you said in one of your

video something that has stuck with me because I thought

it was both hilarious and true, which was I'm fiscally conservative and socially moderate,

which means I worry about things, but I don't care enough to do anything about it. I'm

but it was hilarious because it was so true because I come from the land of the fiscally conservative, socially moderate set.

And the reason why I wanted to have you on is our friends over at the bulwark were doing a story on digital creators.

And your name came up specifically in the context, not only do you have millions of followers, but also that you had been offered money by both a

conservative cause and a liberal cause, or, you know, Democratic, whatever we're going to call.

Where the conservative cause had offered you a boatload of money to do something.

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