There are legacies that we have to draw on in this country, legacies like the labor movement,

legacies like the civil rights movement.

These are legacies that show that when people are organized, when people have strategy,

when people are willing to fight for important things, build power and use that power to get what they need, we can get good things.

And we need to get back to drawing from those legacies. And I think that that's really the way forward.

Hello and welcome to why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Well, it's getting towards fall of 2025, which means the official start of the 2026 midterm elections.

We've started to see candidates with their initial bio videos announcing that they're considering or they're running for office.

There's a bunch that have come through.

And one candidate in particular really kind of lit the internet by storm with a few

introductory kind of bio ads.

He is in Maine where he's going to be trying to win the Democratic nomination to take on incumbent Republican Susan Collins.

I want to just play you a little bit of one of these ads that really grabbed people's attention.

Take a listen.

When I tell people around here that I'm running for Senate,

sometimes the initial reaction is what the f***?

But when I tell them why I'm doing it,

because I truly do believe that we can build a system

that is going to represent working people,

the number one response has been,

well, thank God somebody's going to do it.

You're supposed to fight for the things you love.

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