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R-Amy Sinclair, Majority Whip for the Iowa Senate, knows hardship, struggle, and tragedy. She grew up in an apolitical family in rural Iowa...
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R-Amy Sinclair, Majority Whip for the Iowa Senate, knows hardship, struggle, and tragedy. She grew up in an apolitical family in rural Iowa...

At the age of 17 in 2014, Saira Blair ran for a West Virginia delegate seat and beat an incumbent Republican in a primary to eventually beco...

Josh Zakim was elected to Boston City Council in 2013 when he was 29 years old. He is currently running for Secretary of State in Massachuse...

Senator Alison Ikley-Freeman is Oklahoma's youngest state senator. She won a special election in 2018 as a Democrat in a conservative distri...

At the age of 26, R-Julie Emerson beat a Democratic incumbent in 2015 to become the youngest legislator in Louisiana. The star of a viral vi...

Ed Rendell is a Philadelphia legend. Ed began his career as an elected official when his campaigning in bars and subways paid off, and he wa...

Paulette Jordan recently resigned from being the only Native American legislator in Idaho to focus on her run for Governor. If elected, she...

Melanie Stambaugh beat a 5-term incumbent at the age of 23 to become Washington's youngest legislator, and is the youngest female elected to...

Chloe Eudaly didn't finish high school, but she still managed to beat a Harvard Law School graduate to become one of 8 woman ever elected to...

Senator Paul Bailey represents an area of rural Tennessee where Donald Trump received a whopping 75% of the vote. In this episode, we talk a...

Jordan Hines is the youngest candidate for state senate in Delaware for the 2018 election cycle. He is in the midst of a 3-way primary for t...

On January 31, 2018, I sat down with Tom Byrne of Delaware Public Media . Tom was kind enough to let me rebroadcast this as an EOA episode....

Eddie Melton won a 4-way Democratic primary in 2016 to join a lonely group of legislators: only 9 out of 50 state senators in Indiana are De...

Does the campaign trail have you down and out? Tired of being told to drop out of the race, that you can't win, all the while missing every...

Congressman R-Tom MacArthur (NJ) was elected to an open seat in the 3rd Congressional District in 2014, after fending off his Democratic cha...

Jewell Jones was first elected to Inkster City Council at the age of 20, and became the youngest representative in Michigan history at the a...

"Life is about how you respond to challenges." - Elizabeth Lockman Delaware State Senate District 3 has a primary on its hands: long-time in...

State Senator D-Bryan Townsend was a political newcomer when he pulled off a gigantic upset in 2012 and beat Senate President Pro Tem Tony D...

Victor Pichardo was first elected in a special election in 2013 to the New York General Assembly to represent the Bronx. Bronx politics is a...

Mike Purzycki survived a crowded Democratic primary and ousted the incumbent in September 2016. Hear his thoughts on Wilmington 11 months af...
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