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How does your life experience shape your political priorities this election year?

I feel like, particularly as Jen Zee Earth, we've grown up in an age where it's been political gridlock.

It's been hard to find by harnessing consensus to do anything

or get things passed through Congress. Interesting gun balance is number one

for me at a national level. I survived shooting myself so So for me, that's important.

I'm a woman of color on top of that.

So there's like multiple layers to that situation

because like women of color are disproportionately affected

I reproductive health care laws. We sort of joke about whether or not we'll

ever be able to own a house, which is a sad thing. We should be able to build on and have a better life. Oh, It's notes from America. I'm Kyi Wright. Welcome to the show.

We are coming to you this week live from the stage of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey.

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All right. This is a special edition of our show dedicated to a conversation about the

politics of Gen Z. So really the politics of our future. And listen, we have talked about this a bit on our show previously.

It can be very easy to overgeneralize or slide into cliches

when talking about young people and politics.

You know, they're going to fix everything and they're so very different from anyone who's

come before.

That gets tiresome to young people themselves.

And anyway, we've all been through the wild ride of adolescents,

the anxiety and excitement of starting out adult life

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