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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today, we sit with Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10). At the top, we discuss the five-year aftermath of the horrific shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida (2:29), his first two months in Congress (4:10), and the legislature he’s fighting for to reduce gun violence (9:14). Then, we walk through the Congressman’s response to the Sandy Hook shooting at fifteen (11:40), how it solidified his early commitment to politics (18:17), and how, as a child of adoption, he began to embrace his Afro-Cuban identity (22:15).

On the back half, the Congressman reflects on his campaign for Congress (25:58), how it inspired him to connect with his biological mother (29:00), the blend of grassroots organizing and policy-making he strives for today (37:22), and the progress he hopes to see in the next three years (49:30).

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0:00.0

Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San by Congressman Maxwell Frost. In what was a landslide election this past November,

0:49.0

Frost was chosen to represent Florida's 10th Congressional District, a seat previously occupied by

0:56.0

Val Demings.

0:57.5

The win made Frost at age 26, the first Gen Z member of Congress, a Congress that has an average age of 58 years old.

1:08.7

But what Congressman Frost may lack in years, he actually makes up for an experience.

1:14.6

Growing up in Orlando, Frost began organizing on behalf of gun reform

1:19.5

in the aftermath of Sandy Hook Elementary, where 20 children and six teachers were killed.

1:26.7

Although he was only a sophomore in high school, he quickly joined forces with the New Town

1:32.3

Action Alliance. a grassroots program dedicated

1:36.1

to reversing the gun violence epidemic in America.

1:39.8

As the epidemic escalated in the years to follow.

1:42.6

Frost worked for the ACLU,

1:44.7

was the National Organizing Director of March for Our Lives,

1:48.3

and then finally, a member of Bernie Sanders Advanced

1:51.4

team in his 2020 presidential bid.

1:54.0

Frost brings all of these experiences to the 118th Congress, but he also brings the experience of his generation.

2:03.7

Occupy Trayvon Martin, Parkland, Pulse, a global pandemic,

2:08.8

Brianna Taylor, George Floyd,

2:10.8

we come from a trauma-filled generation, Frost says, and despite that, we want

2:16.6

to be part of the solution.

2:19.2

But how he actually intends to do that and an increasingly fractured Congress, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy,

2:27.2

is something we get into in our conversation.

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