Rep. Frost and David Hogg on what Gen Z wants

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Five years after March for Our Lives, one of the historic protest’s organizers and his historic friend explain why it’s easy to forget how much progress has been made. Plus, Rep. Frost breaks some news about his first proper piece of legislation. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's today explained I'm Sean Ramos for him and I'm Newell King yesterday a
0:04.8	congressman from Florida and a senator from Connecticut introduced a gun
0:08.7	violence prevention bill. That congressman has a long history on gun control
0:13.4	issues before he moved to DC he was marched for our lives first ever national
0:18.4	organizing director. In a little over six minutes 17 of our friends were taken
0:23.1	from us 15 were injured and everyone absolutely everyone in the Douglas
0:28.6	community was forever altered. Now five years ago tomorrow March for our lives
0:33.0	took over Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. On the show today Democratic
0:37.6	representative Maxwell Frost and his friend David Hogg co-founder of March for
0:42.4	our Lives tell us what their movement has accomplished in five years they say
0:46.3	it's a long list. And they're gonna tell us what's on Gen Z's agenda in
0:50.5	Washington. Two Gen Z's will tell two old millennials what's up. Oh no are we
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