Well, good morning. Happy Monday. At least I'm hoping that's when you're listening to this. I'm

taping on a Sunday evening here. I've got give you a quick rundown of everything I've got.

I'll have a little open here for you about the end of Elon Musk and Washington. I'll get to that

in a minute. My guest today, Amanda Lipman,

she runs an organization called Run for Something. It's geared more towards Democrats or people

on the left side of the aisle, although they will work with people that are thinking about

running as independence. It's basically an organization that, number one, is trying to encourage younger people to run for office, but also trying to be a resource for people that don't.

Because if you're younger, you usually don't have as much of a network.

You may not have as many rich friends.

You get the picture here.

And you'll hear me make these comparisons during the interview back in the 80s and 90s,

you had GoPack on the right.

That was a similar organization that was trying to get conservatives who were not connected,

essentially with the tools to figure out how to run for local office.

And this is, you know, maybe Emily's list has, you'll hear a little bit of

that. But it's about trying, and clearly the Republicans have done a much better job over the last

20 or 30 years, encouraging folks to run for local office. Democrats have been a bit too focused on the

presidential big, big offices and don't think about the smaller stuff

than they were, you know, arguably it's why they're getting crushed on the issue of schools

and funding of schools and the privatization of the public school system.

You've had a lot more activist parents on the right get involved in school board politics, and you've had activist parents on the right, get involved in school board politics, and you've

had activist parents on the left, pure and simple.

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