How The Fight Over CRT And Covid Is Electrifying Parent Activists

Federalist Radio Hour

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🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down how parents over the last two years became empowered to fight critical race theory and radical Covid-19 policy in schools nationwide.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.6	I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.2	As always, you can email the show at radioatthepederalist.com, follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.
0:28.5	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.
0:31.9	Today we're coming to you from the Hillsdale College Kirby Center here in Washington, DC.
0:36.5	I'm joined today by Jessica Anderson, who is Executive Director of Heritage Action.
0:40.9	Jessica, welcome to Federalist Radio Hour.
0:42.8	Thank you. Great to be here.
0:44.1	I think it's your first time on the show, right?
0:46.3	It is.
0:47.0	Okay, fine and honor.
0:48.0	Yes.
0:49.0	So tell us your background.
0:50.8	Tell us a little bit about how you ended up as Executive Director of Heritage Action.
0:55.2	Well, I've spent the last decade working on the policy side of issues, working for President
0:59.9	Trump as a political appointee and then working in the grassroots.
1:03.6	I actually got my start coming out of the Obama years in the fight to repeal Obamacare,
1:08.3	cut tax and spending, try to appeal back cap and trade if anyone remembers that from 2010,
1:14.8	long time ago.
1:16.4	And so I grew up in the grassroots.
1:17.6	I've known kind of the heartbeat of America beats at the most local level and that the
1:23.6	best way that we can impact any sort of change here in Washington or in state capitals is
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