The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 3679 - How Colorado Spooked the Establishment; Next DSA Upset? w/ David Sirota, Oliver Larkin

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

It's Thursday and you are listening to The Majority Report On today's program: Donald Trump's financial disclosure shows that he has raked in more than $2B in his first year in office. The report reveals that Trump made thousands of stock trades last year. Elizabeth Vargas from News Nation tries to get Rep. Mike Lawler to admit that it is not acceptable for Trump to use his office to earn billions while most Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Lawler does his best to avoid the line of questioning. Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) mocks the affordability crisis in America by saying he is spending the fourth eating lobster tails and ribeye's. Nehls went further saying that people who are poor just don't work as hard as he does. Denver based journalist David Sirota, founder and editor of The Lever, joins the program to reflect on this week's Colorado primary. Oliver Larkin, DSA-backed candidate running against incumbent Rep. Jared Moskowitz in Florida's 25 congressional district, joins the program to discuss his platform and campaign. If you are able to donate to Larkin's campaign you can do so here. In the Fun Half: Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder join the show. Donald Trump has a conversation with an AI Teddy Roosevelt and the president definitely thought he was talking to the ghost of Teddy. Later at the same Teddy Roosevelt event in North Dakota, Trump says he wants to have a threesome with his two beautiful sons. Abdul El-Sayed is interviewed by Dave Weigel for Semafor where El-Sayed has strong words for his bought-and-sold opponents in the primary as well as his potential GOP opponent in the general election. Mallory McMorrow fails at generating tears as she tries to convey sadness about the "actions in the Middle East" tearing us apart at home. Former NYC mayor Bill De Blasio stands by Darializa Avila Chevalier while appearing on Hannity, sending Sean Hannity into hissy fit. All that and more. To connect and organize with your local ICE rapid response team visit ICERRT.com The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AM Quickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: SUNSET LAKE CBD: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com.  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.  

It is Thursday. July 2nd, 2026. My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, David Soroda of the Lever

will be with us to discuss the Colorado primary results. And later in the show, Oliver Larkin, DSA candidate challenging incumbent Jarrett Moskowitz in Florida's 25th District, will be with us. Is this the next DSA upset? We shall see. Also on the program, AOC endorses Abdul Al-Sayed for Senate in Michigan. A little over a month before the primary, her first Senate endorsement, the cycle. ICE arrest surge detaining 10,000 people in five days, now under Mark Wayne Mullins' jack-booted leadership. Several more people have been sentenced on terrorism charges for protesting in front of the Prairieland Ice Facility in Texas, including one sentence of 50 years.

Colorado Governor Polis fires members of the clemency board who revealed that the board unanimously opposed freeing election denier Tina Peters. U.S. job creation numbers slumped in June. A federal judge has blocked Trump's directive to the Postal Service to change its delivery of mail-in ballots. Trump's 4th of July, pyro-technics are expected to cause hazardous levels of pollution.

Around the National Mall. Worth it. Mitch McConnell was found unconscious in his home. No. Sorry. That wasn't a joke. Just a statement of the fact. Why are you laughing?

Can't turn a turtle on his back. He's young for a turtle. He is, right. Most tortoises without live this guy. He was found unconscious in his home, belly laugh from Brian before his hospitalization. a little suit, Senator. Yes.

Thank you, Patriot. You're back on your feet and back in doing the business of the country. Biden's DOJ, Trump's DOJ, rather, is suing Virginia and California for regulating automatic weapon sales. The FBI is also directing an insane amount of resources to investigate, you guessed it, Georgia's 2020 election results. Overnight, Russia killed at least 20 people in Kiev. Nearly 50,000 people are unaccounted for as Venezuela's earthquake death toll tops 2,000, and our sanctions regime is just worsening the suffering. And lastly, today marks 1,000 days since the genocide in Gaza began. All this and more on today's majority report.

Welcome to the show, everybody. It's an emmajority report Thursday. Hello Brian. Hello, Matt. It's going to be mostly me for the month of July because Sam is off doing Hollywood things, you know? He's recovering for the Jalen Brown trade. Oh, well, we could talk about that at length. Maybe I'm seeing some I ams, people noticing how my voice sounds weird.

I'm sorry. I was celebrating the Jalen Brown trade last night. I like this running bit, but I can't stop drinking, apparently. No, I've, I think. I think it's just that July hit and I turn into a pumpkin. And... The bill came due. Yeah.

And I have a head cold, probably because I've been socializing and going out in celebration with all this DSA stuff in the entire month of June plus the Nix and everything. So I'm slowing down. I'm sorry if I have this vocal fry, but yeah, I've got a bit of a head cold. So this week, Trump was forced to file his personal financial disclosure forms. the figures that have come out about his corruption are staggering. Trump added around $2.2 billion to his net worth as president in 2025. Probably the first time he's actually been a billionaire.

Exactly. Exactly. This was the griff this time. You guys vote for me and make me a billionaire and keep me out of jail and I'll tell you whatever you want to hear. And once again, Don the con, he worked on people. He is one of the greatest con artists in the history of the world. Like, he's been able to just totally lie to the faces of millions and millions of people and just by the force of his personality and weirdness, gotten them on board.

And we should not forget all the prosperity gospel stuff involved. It seems to only work on this country, though. Well, yeah. However he deals with the international stage, he can't con anybody. I mean, he's really cashed with like the Qatar. and stuff like that to you. That's not conning them. That's like...

Right. Right. That's bribery. Like in terms of populations, like this country is uniquely, susceptible to a very wealthy person who is a stand-in for basically like Jesus or God

who you pledge absolute fealty to and he takes the form of a deity in wealth. And this is like, honestly, what evangelical preachers televangelists have been conditioning his base to believe in for years and years, is that wealth equals goodness, and you should submit yourself to a dear leader, and even give away your hard-earned money if you can't afford gas money, give it to the pastor and hand it over because that will bring you closer to God. That's like how Trump, that's the skeleton of the Trump con and with his base.

So here's a Just a staggering chart from the financial times Is this the one I sent in the chat? No, it's okay The graph in the chat is pretty good actually So You can see here The Financial Times put this together

It was pretty helpful Oh, this is the same thing It's just different caller scheme, got it So Trump made more than 22,000 stock transactions in 2025 And you can see how like the- That's about 60 a day. And can you trade every day?

I don't know these things. I mean, and then in, in 2026, it looks like he's continuing to make more. And you just compare it even to the first Trump term, which already was corrupt as hell. And it doesn't look as bad. And Biden, I guess in 2022, only made 13 trades. And that was the year he decided to cash in. Just sham track trades. Right.

Let's make some money, Jack. trades are coming back man huge sweet I mean I'm the guy I would honestly not care about that kind of corruption like oh you're going to invest in rail infrastructure yeah take a little bite Joe right exactly

so it's and when you compare it even like to the open and brazen corruption of the Bush administration like Halliburton remember that remember Dick Cheney's involvement with defense contractors this is pennies compared to what we're talking talking about here. In 2024, his disclosure revealed that he made at least $622 million. And that was, you know, when he was just like running for president and was out of office. And then now that he's in office the first year, $2.2 billion added to his net worth. Now, $1.4 billion of that $2.2 billion was made from cryptocurrency. Here's an article from Bloomberg that

kind of summarizes this. Donald Trump, who reverse his early skepticism of crypto to become one of the industry's biggest boosters, reported more crypto-related income last year than any publicly traded U.S. digital asset company earned. The 927-page financial disclosure released Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed Trump generated at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, including about, excuse me, $594 million from World Liberty Financial,

which he and his sons co-founded, roughly $636 million tied to his meme coin business and nearly $197 million from an equity sale related to stable coin holdco. Crypto was by far the largest source of income disclosed in the filing, which also detailed revenue from hotels, golf resorts, and other businesses. crypto being a money laundering technology. That's how we made all of his money.

Yeah, basically. I mean, these are all pump and dumps. I mean, there's nothing actually of value being created here. It's just money laundering. And Bloomberg hints at this year. Nearly all of Trump's crypto income came from one-time token and equity sales rather than recurring operating earnings, which is exactly right. They got in early.

They sold it for a profit, and they got out. By contrast, coin-based global income. incorporated the most profitable, profitable U.S. listed crypto platform reported $1.26 billion in net income last year under public company accounting standards. Trump's disclosure is self-reported and follows different reporting rules. But you can see there, like, even Coinbase,

that's all ridiculous as well. And there's no value being added. But they're not just an open corruption scheme. They, you know, have to report income. And they have to, uh, like make money in theory. This was all about the Trump family getting in early and then cashing out. World Liberty Financial for people that may not remember the nearly $600 million that he made from that. That is the crypto venture run by his sons as well as the Lutniks

sons. And World Liberty Financial was sold a 49% stake. So almost half the company was sold to a firm controlled by the ruler of the United Arab Emirates. Hmm. You would be shocked to know that the UAE is the country that's most eager to normalize relations with Israel and is the one that's considered to be closest to the United States. And it's really just a place for wealthy capitalist, global capitalists to park their money. And then there's the meme coins where he made $636 million from that. The stable coin, $197 million from that.

That's the holding company associated with the World Liberty Financial Stablecoin. He also made money from his real estate holdings. Tens of millions of dollars from those corrupt legal settlements, $80 million is the estimate. And it could be more than that. So this is a problem, I would hope, for the Republicans, because if Democrats are going to make the case that they're the ones that they're going to make your life more affordable, they have a very useful villain in the White House who is literally stealing from everybody. So here's Elizabeth Vargas of News Nation.

She had Mike Lawler on, Representative Mike Lawler of New York, who's a Republican. And she gets kind of like visibly frustrated as Lawler tries to skirt around answering her question about Trump making $2 billion in his first year in office. As you know, affordability is the number one issue, Congressman for America. Americans right now, a majority of them say they continue to struggle to make ends meet. More than half of Americans say they can't afford to go out for a nice dinner. And in the middle of this affordability Congress, affordability.

President Trump revealed in mandatory financial disclosure forms that he and his family reaped in $2 billion in his first year in office. The president denies he's cashing in on the presidency, but that number is stunning more than all the presidents in U.S. history combined. Is that going to make it harder for Republicans like you to argue that he has their affordability first in mind and not his own? Look, I've been very clear from my vantage point. Being in elected office is a great honor. It is a service.

I am one of the few members of Congress that does not trade stocks. I probably have among the lowest net worth of any member. And I'm fine with that. because I'm not interested in making money off of my constituents or this job. I'm interested in doing the job and serving my constituents. The fact is when you look at these issues and housing is just the latest example, where I led on this bill with Chairman Hill and Chairman Flood, six of my housing bills are in this package.

That will become law, whether the president signs it or not. and I am deeply focused on the issues that mattered to my constituents and how to make it more affordable for them. You know, living in New York, I can tell you, one-party democratic rule in New York has not resulted in affordability. Right, but she didn't answer my question. Yeah, you didn't answer my question. You don't see a problem with the president of the United States making $2 billion in his first year in office. As I said, I don't think people should be profiting in office. So he shouldn't be profiting.

Nobody should. Nancy Pelosi shouldn't. She's made, you know, millions upon millions of dollars. I said nobody should. He wanted to say billions so bad for Pelosi. I know, but you can't, buddy. You can't. We're talking about another level here. It's an order of magnitude. Sorry, Mike. That's because I'm smart. So he shouldn't be profiting. Nobody should. Nancy Pelosi shouldn't. She's made, you know, millions upon millions of dollars. I said nobody should. Okay. But you haven't said his name. You said a lot of Democratic.

Whether it's the president or, you know, former Speaker Pelosi, nobody should be making millions upon millions of dollars or billions of dollars. Obviously, the president has, you know, existing businesses that his sons are operating and they continue to. But the fact is that from my vantage point, I am focused on my constituents and the work that we are doing to deliver for them. Congress. Yeah. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. He still never said, you never said Trump.

You don't say Trump and that's fine by me. Keep the Trump name out of your mouth, Mike. And so he just said the president, coward, quivering in his little boots. As a contrast, this is another Republican, Representative Nels, who's a bit more honest, I think, about where the Republicans are on this issue of affordability. this is the reality of what Republicans, how they actually feel about public service, what they feel like they, where they feel they are in the hierarchy of American life. And they're essentially just kind of spitting in voters' faces at this point. And I would just say Nells was previously a cop. So it's not like he made like a whole bunch of money in private industry either before this.

Oh, of course. Right. I think he's a vet too. Well, that's why they go to, I mean, truly, that's why they go to Congress to get rich. Thank you, real quick. How do House Republicans make the case that you're fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts? Affordability, what are you talking about? Well, affordability is the big... I'm going to go to tomorrow. I'm going to, well, over the fourth.

I'm going to give me a couple big lobster tails. I'm going to get me some nice rib-eyes. I'm going to sit in my backyard with my family, my neighbors. And we're going to be enjoying the fourth, celebrating 250 years, the birthday. We're going to be celebrating the greatest president, my life. I'm Donald J. Trump. Maybe watch some fireworks. Won't be up here. It's going to be too hot, right?

And I'm in bed at 11 o'clock. I heard the fireworks ain't going off to 11 o'clock Eastern on the 4th of July. I probably have to sleep through that. Riffing. But listen, everybody understands. You're going to see a little increase in energy prices because of Iran. I mean, come on. People aren't stupid.

You realize that when you have a conflict that ran. But I think in the end, the short-term increase in some of the costs of energy, you know, gasoline and stuff, is time. temporary, but President Trump has made it very clear to these companies. Don't be gouging. Don't price. All right, all right. Everything is a, oh, wait, did he say that? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, I forgot about this part. Keep going. Price gouging. I mean, energy, what? Oil was at $69 the other day. $79. The price is going to come down. Once for the misdress. So we've got to do that. We have to do that. And I think that, that the overall,

own bone objective is to make sure Iran never has a nuclear weapon. So I'm okay with the, with the increase in fuel because you know it was going to happen with, obviously, with oil and the straight and everything, but it's a temporary, it's a temporary issue. You think the 60% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobst or tails and ribbys and all of that? Maybe not. Maybe the, maybe the 60% of America don't work as hard as I do either. I mean, I don't know. Oh, yeah, I guess. It's a meritocracy up there in Congress. That's why the Trump boys are so rich. Another act for

Tala Rico. They work so hard at finding the right connect for Coke. The only thing this guy works hard at is glazing Trump, as the kids say. He's the type of guy who, like, all he does

is go to Congress and say, oh, we should change the name from Delis Airport to Trump Airport, which, I mean, it shouldn't be called Delos Airport. Those guys are bad. Nellis is like, I mean, they don't call the job for nothing. Yeah, and he's like, previous he's like, oh, yeah, whatever Trump says about the test, I'm good.

He doesn't think, himself. This is not like someone to look up to. This is like a creton. I've got to say, members of Congress work fewer days out of, like less than half of the days out of the year. I mean, if you're somebody a member, I'm not trying to, I think that like, those are work days in D.C. And I, if, if this guy is just going back to his district and the rest of those days, he's doing constituent services, I mean, I'll eat my hat. But like, there are members like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has a great constituent services office, Ilhan Omar who are doing that, who are going back to their district and are doing work in that area.

But he's not doing that. He's not doing that. I mean, this is how they view public service so cynically. And I think that's part of what's been so refreshing about Mamdani as a man of the people and people seeing that in action. How governing doesn't just need to be a way for people to enrich themselves or to get prestige or to move up, there can actually be public service that's involved here. And that is the contrast, I think. But the Democrats, many of them issued that opportunity by refusing to endorse and embrace Mom Dani. But this is where we could be if the party was much more oriented towards that kind of politics. Does Christian Gillibrand have a leg to stand on when it comes to talking about cryptocurrency? Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, or corruption. Her son just graduated

college and out the gate. What, he got a $30 million investment from one of the companies that she's supposed to be in charge of regulating. That's merit. So leave our party. Get the hell out. You are creating a condition where fascism is on the rise with your hypocrisy and with your inability to confront the very corrupting influences that are also influencing you. I would also point out on the other side of the aisle.

It's nice to see Glenn Greenwald focus on the corruption of Trump. I think he can do good rhetorical attacks on it. It would be nice to emphasize the crypto part of that a little bit. bit more. Yeah. But, you know, I'll take what we can get. That's funny. In a moment, we're going to be talking to David Sorota, and that moment is coming up soon because we have no ads today. I guess I'm that much of a loose canon. The ad people heard how I'm speaking today and how awful it sounds, and they were like, Jesus, we don't want that that associated with our... You're going to make Zock Dock. Yeah, right? Our product. So we'll be

talking to David Serota in just a moment. be right back. We're back and we are joined now by the great David Seroda, friend of the show, phenomenal journalist, founder and editor of The Lever, based in Denver. David, thanks so much for coming on the show today. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course. Good to see you and good to talk to you when we have a lot of good news to unpack out of Colorado with these results.

But before we get there, I wanted to talk to you about some news that we got this morning about Jared Polis, who is the governor of Colorado, obviously, a favorite of the abundance crowd. He just fired two Democratic members of Colorado's clemency advisory board. These were, they were previously public defenders, their lawyers in Colorado, and they were a part of this board that determines whether or not people should be granted clemency. And they wrote an op-ed, basically, I think it was in the Denver Post, revealing that the board, had unanimously opposed freeing this election denier Tina Peters, and Polis did it anyway. Take us through that news and what you're hearing in Colorado this morning.

Right. So Jared Polis made this controversial to say the least decision to pardon-free Tina Peters overturning essentially an entire judicial process. And doing so under intensifying rhetorical threats from the Trump administration. And these folks, essentially, whose job it is is to make recommendations about clemency, these folks had criticized this decision. And Polis apparently didn't appreciate the criticism and is trying to shut down the discourse by firing them. Now, it's his prerogative to fire them. That's his power, just like it's his power to issue the clemency to Tina Peters. But I think it's like it's kind of like the icing on the cake here you make a decision to the bully makes a demand

for you to make a mockery out of your judicial process uh you do that you get criticized for it people on the inside of your administration whose whole job is expertise on this particular set of issues say hey this this wasn't a great decision and now you're sort of shutting down debate dare I say that this is quite Trumpish, right? This is very, very Trumpy. Well, it's on Trump's behalf, so you might as well steal his moves, right? Exactly, exactly. And the thing is, is like, look, I'm not even going to, I mean, I guess it's worth reminding us that Colorado is a very blue state. So doing this in a blue state kind of adds insult to injury. But even if you separate out the politics of Colorado, I think it really sets a, genuinely dangerous precedent that if a president starts threatening governors with retribution

on behalf of their political allies, threatening in a way that demands a state invalidate its judicial process, right? The idea that doing that will mollify the bully is ridiculous. What we know about bullies is you cannot negotiate with them. You shouldn't try to negotiate with them. And in fact, giving them what they want, I would argue, has a good chance of emboldening them. You have said, hey, the next time you want something, just do the same thing. You can see how you can be like collaborative behind the scenes, like how Zoron, Mom Dani was able to appeal to Trump by, you know, talking about New York City zoning, maybe find that pet issue. but in terms of like core issues of justice and clemency and governance you know zoron never gave an

inch to trump on that front and um it's it's such a stark contrast with polis who didn't just bend over backwards to appease trump he retaliated against people for speaking out about the honest dealings or their honest perception on that board of how he capitulated to to him um he's also trying to cover it up and he's not even going to be in office that much longer. Yeah, well, it seems to me this is a little bit about legacy, or really a lot about legacy, where it's like maybe if the presumption is the public's memory is five minutes long, right? Like we forget our whole world every five or ten minutes, that the more there's criticism, the more it potentially means that the Tina Peters situation becomes Jared Polis's legacy.

I think the political problem for Jared Polis, if he's worried about his legacy is, firing the people on your clemency board for criticizing you actually makes it a bigger story, right? It takes what was what was a one-day op-ed and now makes it not only to Jared Polis capitulate to Trump with the pardon, with the clemency. Now he's like shutting down criticism of it. Like it is not a great way to go out. I would agree with you. I would agree with you. All right, well, let's turn to the positive news here. So Melot Kiros defeated Diana to get the final numbers are in, and it's what, like 12, 13 points. It was not close at all. Melot was a phenomenal candidate the cycle I interviewed her quite a bit because I just really believed in her candidacy.

She hits on some like, she's a former lawyer so she can argue in that way, but she's also DSA and was fired from her law firm. and then became a barista after that because she wrote a post criticizing the suppression of speech of students who were protesting the genocide. So she has just so many different, like, I think, skills and talents as a politician. And she was on Chris Hayes' show last night. And Hayes asked her about why she decided to run against Diana DeGette. Now, there were a lot of Democrats, establishment Democrats, waiting in the wings for Diana to get to just retire. Malak Kiro said, I'm not waiting.

I'm going to primary her. And Hayes is asking why she chose to do so. And this is what Kiroz said last night on MS now. You talked about the money that had flowed into the incumbent Diana to get. You know, one thing that I noted, and I've covered her for a long time, she's been in Congress. She voted against the Iraq war. She was a member of the Progressive Caucus. She's not really a conservative Democrat.

She's been a pretty progressive Democrat. Look at her voting record. What was it about her record that I think some people, and I think she herself probably looked at and said, hey, I'm a pretty progressive member of Congress that you found so intolerable you wanted to unseater? You know, it's not the Congresswoman herself. It's the campaign finance system that has incentivized,

members of Congress like Diana to get to take millions of dollars from big pharma, big energy and oil, defense contractors. At the end of the day, the reason why we are not seeing legislation like Medicare for all and universal childcare and in arms embargo on Israel past, despite a super majority of supports from the voters of this party is because when corporations and special interests donate to campaigns, it's not that they're going to get an immediate return with legislation that is favored for them. Sometimes the return that they

is stalling on legislation that would actually make a meaningful difference for families. And so at the end of the day, the only way we can trust that the Congress members are actually fighting for that kind of legislation is to not be taking money from the very corporations and special interests that do not want to see that kind of legislation from passing. In fact, the National Nurses United Policy Director said as much about the Congresswoman's co-sponsorship of Medicare for all while also taking money from the very health insurance companies that would be legislated out of existence. And we can't trust that that kind of donations coming in for Congress members isn't going to result in some kind of return.

And sometimes that return is that we're not actually going to get anything done. That was a perfect answer. And the way she framed it about it's absolutely accurate. There are so many co-sponsors of Medicare for All. I mean, in the Senate, Kamala Harris was a co-sponsor of Medicare for All, but she doesn't support Medicare for All. It's a way to have like kind of a cheap win on your resume or even your voting record. It's also about the absence of what your, of a lack of fight on a variety of different issues that she mentions there.

I found Chris's use of the word intolerable to be a little odd because anybody has the right to run if they choose to. And the voters in Denver decided that, yeah, she was a lot more tolerable than Diana DeGette, who, frankly, from my understanding, David, yeah, she has, she's in the member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She voted against the Iraq War. but the issue has more largely been about her kind of relying on seniority and not being a very active member of Congress at all. Yeah, I mean, look, to understand Diana to get's political formula, it was very simple, very straightforward, and it worked for 30 years.

And her formula was to not be all that present in the community, to rely on the power of incumbency to get reelected. and more specifically to vote a relatively progressive line. And with the assurance that it would be difficult for any candidate, any prospective challenger, to get to her proverbial left, to grab onto an issue and say, you voted the wrong way on this. I'm running my whole campaign against this. We have seen campaigns like that where a candidate,

I mean, I worked for Ned Lamont when he ran against Joe Lieberman, The centerpiece of that campaign was Joe Lieberman's explicit votes for the Iraq war. And Ned Lamont won his primary. Joe Lieberman ended up running as an independent. The point being that we've gotten used to campaigns where a candidate casts a set of bad votes and the campaigns become about those votes. To get, I think, for a long time, deftly avoided that trap by having a decent voting record. But I think what Malat said is also true.

that the lack of presence in the community, the lack of a perception that the votes are followed by an actual effort, actual fighting for the stated ideals, that perception, I think, is real. It became powerful in Denver, in our community here. And, but I also think, like, we can get one level simpler here. There is a generational change element to this. It's not a very sexy topic. It's not a very hard to understand topic. It's hard to kind of pontificate about it because it's so simple. But like Diana to get had been there for 30 years, which is essentially, it's pretty ridiculous.

And at a time of generational demands for change and younger generations feeling completely underrepresented, all of these things came together to deliver the result. that Denver delivered. And remember when David Hogg was kicked out of the DNC because he wanted to address this very core question about gerontocracy and seniority? It was mostly about that it was less ideological. I mean, I'm sure it was about corporate money too.

They wish they were having that fight right now. They wish that they were having the fight with what on David Hogg's terms. It's now on DSA's terms, bitch. That's right. That's right. And look, I think that, again, the generational wave here is really important. And I should mention, Diana to get, I think, when she finally woke up to the fact that this was going to be a race, she made exactly the most out-of-touch, wrong, last-minute decision, which her final pitch to voters here was,

I've been in Congress so long, I'm going to be the chairperson of the relevant committee that did. deals with Medicare for all. And so don't vote me out, which underneath that argument is I've been here for so long and I haven't done the thing that I promise I now will do, which is underscoring the idea that she'd been there too long. Right. Exactly right. Let's turn then to Gonzalez versus Hickenlooper. She gave him a bit of a scare. Now, Gonzalez was, a former DSA member. She left DSA prior to challenging Hickenlooper. And, you know, that meant that she kind of had to build her name recognition up from the ground up without a more organizing infrastructure behind her. She made the calculation that having the DSA back her statewide would be more of a

negative for her because it's not just in Denver, a really core blue, deep blue area like Maylot, where Maylot was running, it's going to maybe be a little bit touchy outside of urban centers. But she got really close without that. And you have to wonder if she had some infrastructure behind her, if that would have been able to put her over the top. What's your assessment about that race and how Hickenlooper got a bit of a scare here? So my assessment is actually a little different. My view is that John Hickenlooper was the weakest Democratic Senate nominee in the United States, the most easy to defeat. And I think a lot of people spent a lot of time looking and trying to encourage people to get

into that race. Colorado has an extremely, extraordinarily, really, top-down, wait-your-turn, rule-following, norms-following, Democratic Party culture. and voters have for a very long time up until perhaps now have rewarded that and so a candidate was not did not emerge and julie gonzalez got in in my view i'm glad she ran she's a great legislator she's a great person but i think she got in a little too late uh she was in in getting in so late she wasn't able to raise enough resources quickly enough to allow the campaign to to simmer and reach the boiling point. If there had been another few weeks, another month, this might have been a

completely different race. Maylots been running for over a year, for example, right? Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And so John Hickenlooper was the most vulnerable member of the Senate, having voted more for Trump nominees than any other Democrat based on their state's voting electorate, how Democratic our state is. And John Hickenlooper is now the most lucky Democratic nominee in the United States. I want to be very clear. It is a complete and total embarrassment for the state of Colorado and for the Democratic electorate to have renominated this person who has basically nothing to offer, campaigns on basically nothing,

has voted more for Trump nominees than any Democrat in a similar state. It is an embarrassment to the political class of this state. it is a huge missed opportunity, and it is the kind of missed opportunity that everyone in progressive and democratic politics in this state should feel somewhat ashamed of. There's going to be another opportunity in 2028, though, right, when Bennett's term ends. So I guess that's also a way to tie in Michael Bennett's historic loss to wiser in the primary for governor. How do you, this pair of, this pair of senators in Colorado just, you know, got a pretty resounding rebuke, even though Hickenlooper is going to be the nominee. He had a real scare.

And Bennett was just rejected in a primary. He still has two, like, a year and a half left in his term, but rejected in the primary for governor. Yeah. So that was, to my mind, the other marquee race in this state, Phil Weiser versus Mylese. Michael Bennett. And Phil Weiser ran a genuinely anti-establishment campaign. I want to be clear, Phil Weiser is a, is progressive. Phil Weiser is, I wouldn't call him a Bernie-style progressive populist, but he is a progressive, and he certainly was cast and in the progressive anti-establishment lane in that race against Michael Bennett. I also want to be clear that I think Michael Bennett,

him from John Hickenlooper is a, is, is, at least talks about, uh, issues like health care, economic inequality as distinct from John Hickenlooper. They're, they're not exactly the same. Uh, I, but I do think Michael, the, the rejection of Michael Bennett is a big, big deal, especially in Colorado where these kinds of things almost never happened. Michael Bennett has, was an appointed senator, was promising to appoint his, his, uh, successors. Uh, it was a, of a campaign essentially run out of a big money super pack with out-of-state billionaires. So he ran an incredibly establishment-aligned campaign. And Phil Weiser, I think, maximized his candidacy as the anti-establishment choice.

And I think a lot of voters, I said this on social media. This was, I think, less or as much a rejection, or maybe even less a rejection of one particular senator than an entire way of doing politics. than a rejection of the entire elite system of how politics works in this state. And I think Phil Weiser on election night, claiming the mandate, this is very important, claiming an election mandate of saying explicitly, the future of Colorado will not be decided by out-of-state billionaires. What's great about that is for the gubernatorial nominee to frame the election as a rejection of oligarchy. And I think that's what it was.

And what happens to Michael Bennett in the future if he runs for Senate again? I very much expect a primary challenge to him if he runs again. I think the race has essentially upended. That race, Phil Weiser winning, has upended the entire state of politics at the statewide level in Colorado. And that begs the question, how much of this is not just a rejection that we're seeing nationally of the Democratic establishment. How much of it is a rejection of yes? that, but also Jared Polis. Oh, I think that was absolutely a part of this.

And to be clear, both Michael Bennett and Phil Weiser seriously criticized the governor for that decision. I mean, at one point, Michael Bennett was saying because Michael Bennett was saying he's going to appoint the senator if he won the gubernatorial race, if I remember correctly, Michael Bennett was like, there's one person who I'm not appointing. It's Jared Polis, right? So Jared Polis is essentially, politically, persona non-grata here. out of step completely with the state.

And I want to go back to this point, which is that I think I have lived in Colorado for 20 years, 19 plus, technically 20 very soon. I have never seen the state, the electorate of this state, so resoundingly reject the top-down, wait-your-turn, establishment politics of this state's Democratic Party.

I just can't overstate how much of a contrast this is. And clearly it's part of a national wave. But the thing is that what I'm getting at is, if it's happening in a place like Colorado where voters have so consistently voted to fortify the Democratic Party establishment and have taken orders from the Democratic Party establishment, If it's happening here, it is a sign that it can happen absolutely anywhere.

That would be a great segue to our next guest because we're going to have Oliver Larkin on from Florida, but I did have one more question for you. Because when you talk about the wait-your-turn politics, you know, part of why Melot Kiros was able to win this primary was because of, as you say, you know, her accurately framing Diana DeGette as not being very present in the district, as well as with all of this outside money coming in, including APEC shell money or pro-Israel money, including pro-Big Tech money that was spending on her behalf. How much of DeGette's lack of presence, and perhaps you could extend this to both Hickenlooper and Bennett here, maybe that's not fair.

Maybe we'll just keep it on DeGette. How much of DeGette's lack of presence in the community, do you think also informs her inability to keep up with like the wave of we don't want this blood money from the genocide anymore. And also data centers are unanimously like unpopular across partisan. People are pissed off. How much of that was her not being in her district and just not knowing what her own voters wanted? Yeah, and I would extend that to John Hickenlooper as well. So you're right.

Yeah. You can't. The money, the estate. power and the lack of presence all go together. Essentially, people like them, they get comfortable assuming that they can simply buy their way out of whatever political problems are happening at home, not worrying that if they get out of step on this or that issue, that they won't simply be able to just overwhelm an election with money. And honestly, in the past, that hasn't been an illogical bet. Like it's an immoral bet, but it's not like illogical, right? I think now what we're seeing

is that is that the anger, and I want, let's be specific here and precise. We have never, in my lifetime at least, if you look at polls, we have never lived through a period in which the Democratic electorate, the average liberal voter, is this explicitly angry, not just at the Republicans, but at their own parties leaders. So this is a totally new reality that we're in where the old formulas do not work. So yes, if you're relying on the old formula, hey, I'll just be able to get my donors to give me a ton of money and buy the election for me if I ever get in trouble back at home. Okay.

If that no longer works, then suddenly being out of step with your district on this or that issue, you can't just cure that with money because people are tuned in. and they are pissed off and they are motivated. Truly, last question. This is from a viewer, rural left. He said, would you ask David if Bennett's former job as a public school superintendent of Denver affected his primary loss for governor or Bennett just didn't have the same name recognition as a state official? Yeah, look, Phil Weiser on the campaign trail, I think, was much more aligned, I think,

with the teachers union, the education community because of some of the things that Michael Bennett did in the Denver school. district. I mean, those memories die hard. Those are long memories that I think people in Denver remember. I mean, remember, look at the results specifically in Denver where Michael Bennett was the school superintendent in a very tumultuous tenure. Phil Weiser, the margins that he racked up in Denver are extremely big. And I do think it's connected in part to that issue. Well, David Serota, the lever is one of the essential publications right now calling out corruption. in our government as well as just like great political journalism across the board. We will put a link to that wherever people are listening to this or watching this and at majority.com.

David Serota, my friend, great to see you. Thanks so much for coming on. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me, Emma. Appreciate it. Of course. All right, guys, quick break. And when we come back, we are going to be joined by Oliver Larkin, who is running in Florida's 25th Congressional District. Could this be the next DSA upset? We shall see.

We are back and we are joined now by Oliver Larkin, activist, union organizer, and Democratic Socialist, who is challenging incumbent Jared Moskowitz in Florida's 25th Congressional District. Oliver, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me on, Emma. Of course. It's been a long time coming and you're gaining some momentum right now as people start realizing that democratic socialism isn't that scary. Tell us about what you're hearing from. people in this district in Florida's 25th.

Maybe you can tell us a little bit about the district as well and how young people are starting to get engaged in this race in particular. Yeah, this is a coastal South Florida district. After redistricting, we now include Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties from the coastline from Miami Beach all the way up to Delray Beach. And people are really excited. I think ever since I started campaigning, I announced a year ago yesterday,

would go to these indivisible protests. It was right on the heels of Zoran Mamdani, winning the New York City, a Democratic mayoral primary. And people were so excited by that and really seeing some hope and optimism. And I remember going to these protests and rallies last year.

And I was oftentimes the youngest person there and people would ask me, where are the young people? Where are the young people? And as a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America, I've been a Broward DSA member for years and joined the organization in 2020.

I would tell these indivisible rally goers, like young people are organizing, too, we're just doing it outside of the confines of the institutions of the Democratic Party that have really let us down, especially in states like Florida. And so I was out of Miami Beach, Dems, town hall last week and was asked about running as a Democratic socialist in South Florida. And I said, look, we're in a closed primary state. Young people are overwhelmingly registering as independence. They're rejecting the two-party system, but we're giving them a reason to do is positively

engage in the Democratic Party process, not dissimilar to what we've seen with Mayor Mom Doni, with Dari Elisa and Claire in New York City, with Chris Rab in Philadelphia, with Maylock Heroes in Colorado. And it's really essential if we're going to make the Democratic Party one that can endure and sustain itself and get back to competitiveness statewide in places like Florida. I love how you're appealing to their desire to get more registered Democrats. I mean, this is how you actually build power, is that you have to set up like a situation where people go like, what's in it for me?

The Democratic establishment in the area. What's in it for me? What, I mean, we've railed against the Florida Democratic Party for quite a while on this show, how they've abdicated their responsibility to this state. What's your assessment of why the Florida Democratic Party has collapsed and been really such a total failure for the entire 20th?

21st century. Yeah, I mean, I think it's collapsed and failed because it feels like it has to be Republican light. I mean, we went from nominating a Bernie Sanders endorsed Medicare for all supporting nominee for governor in 2018 and Andrew Gillum, who came within a percentage point of beating Ron DeSantis. And then four years later, we're nominating a former Republican in Charlie Christ, who gets blown out by 20 points. I'm running to represent Broward, Palm Beach in Miami-Dade County, the highest Democratic voter Registration counties in the state of Florida, and I'm running against someone in the person of Jared Moskowitz, who's positively identifying himself as a two-time Ronda-Santis Democrat, two-time appointee, the first Democrat in Congress to join Doge, the only Florida Democrat to vote for the Lake and Riley Act.

And I really lay the responsibility at representatives like Jared Moskowitz's feet for being so involved in depressing Democratic-based turnout by pretending to be a Republican. And I think that preconception that the Florida Democratic Party needs to cater to the right has just depressed turnout. And voters are going to choose the real thing. I mean, they can sniff it out. When we passed a $15 minimum wage amendment in 2020 with over 60% of the vote, the Florida Democratic Party couldn't even fully embrace and associate itself with that fight. So I think they've just failed to have the courage to really provide a strong contrast. And they feel like they need to be the exact same. Also as a union organizer, I mean, the FDP is, busted its staff union. They've really gone after workers and, you know, made it an inhospitable

climate in which to organize. And Florida's already, you know, tough terrain and the Democratic Party and the state hasn't made it any easier. So we're providing a real alternative to that. Let's, now that you mentioned Jared Moskowitz and his horrific record of capitulating to the Republicans, I mean, he was the first Democrat to join the Doge caucus before even the new term had started. at the end of 2024 he saw Trump one he said please sir let me be a part of this Mr. Elon Musk I want to destroy the federal

government as well your YouTube channel put together this compilation of this guy we should also mention one of the most supportive members of Congress in terms of Israel's genocide and there'll be apparent in this video I'm sure it will be here is

Jared Moskowitz and some of his low lights an offensive action the United States pledges to defrault makes an offensive action. The United States pledges... No, I don't support cuts to the agency, and I don't support defunding. If Israel makes an offensive action, the United States pledges to defend Israel. And so if that's what the Trump doctrine is on that, I think that would be satisfactory,

that if Israel decides to go make a strike, that the United States will pledge to defend Israel term any Iranian response. So the Iran Revolutionary Guard should be deemed a terrorist organization. That's all that they do, quite frankly. There's no reason why that hasn't been named. This has come up previously before. Do you be happy with Elon Musk or Rupert Murdoch owning TikTok? Well, it's better than China.

It's unacceptable for Iran to get a nuclear weapon. We all say that it's unacceptable. What are we willing to do about that? I think maybe more joint military exercises in the Middle East, I think showing maybe the Iranian regime, the military capabilities we have in the Middle East by doing maybe some weapons tests out there. They need to understand what we're willing to do, and then we do the diplomacy.

When I went to go work for Ronda Santis for two and a half years, I led the entire COVID response for the state of Florida when I think we got COVID right more than the other 49 states. Listen, it is as bad as it can be, but it is not a concentration camera. What I would like to see. Oh, my God. Okay, okay. I think we get some of the just truly, if you had taken the indicator that he was a Democrat out. and I didn't know anything about Jared Moskowitz. I would think that was a compilation of like a

standard Republican. Like Mike Lawler. Yeah. Well, someone who Jared Moskowitz loves to appear alongside in media, I mean, the number of times that he's appeared with Mike Lawler, I would be very interested. In fact, if he's willing to endorse the Democratic nominee

that's running to flip that seat in New York 17, I've been in communication with F. F.P. Phillips Staley, who I know, has been on the program and really ran a strong campaign speaking out for Palestinian self-determination and against this U.S. military aid that we provide unconditionally to Israel. No, Jared Moskowitz, I think he's had a D-nex to his name because he's run in Broward County. And he just got picked when he was 25 years old to run for political office. His late father was an enormously influential lobbyist and Democratic Party power player.

So this is someone who's had a glide path for 20 years. office and feels like he has license to really do whatever he wants and not be accountable to any Democratic voters because he's never really had a competitive primary until now. Matt's pulling this up here. Here they are working together. This is January of this year, a press release

from Mike Lauer. Loller Moskowitz introduced Bill to Halt U.S. funding for UN agencies that he legally expel Israel. Yeah. Jared Moskowitz is a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus. We made fun of them. very recently because these are just a bunch of centrists like Josh Gottheimer.

And mostly when you look at this caucus, we saw there were 22 Democrats that joined in voting against Rashida Taleb's resolution to attempt to curb Israel's actions in Lebanon of ethnic cleansing and Moskowitz and the rest of that crew, the problem solvers centrist. Of course, curiously, they all are the ones that signed the. the letter about how we love capitalism and we hate socialists, like they all were the ones that were supporting Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign in Lebanon. Moskowitz was one of them. Yeah, and I think it's directly tied.

You know, this has come up a few times. We talk about Elon Musk. He's taken the $10,000 corporate pack check from SpaceX. We talk about Josh Gottheimer. He's gotten the corporate or the leadership pack check from Josh Gottheimer. And as he is supported and him and Gottheimer came out, opposed to the roeastern. Kana Thomas Massey War Powers resolution. Jared Moskowitz called it the Iatola Protection Act. I don't think it was a coincidence that he purchased Lockheed Martin stock four times as a sitting

member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And then Trump launches these illegal strikes with Jared Moskowitz's permission slip and Lockheed Martin hits an all-time high on the stock market the Monday after the strikes. And he's continued to purchase defense stock. So someone who's literally, you know, he's talking about what we're capable of. I guess we're capable of murdering school children in Iran in a girl's school in Minab. And Jared Moskowitz is personally profiting from it. not dissimilar to the way that it is profiting from the apartheid, what I would call Jim Crow in Palestine. I mean, when this vote came up in the U.S. Senate in 40 out of 47,

Senate Democrats opposed the sale of caterpillar equipment. When Donald Trump was having his trade war with China and had Liberation Day, quote-unquote, on April 7, 2025, Jared Moskowitz purchased Caterpillar stock, which has returned to 175% in the time since he purchased it. So, you know, just a real real deal. disgusting like not only the ideological kind of antagonism towards any kind of like human rights based framework that the United States and our members of Congress should be supporting,

but also someone who's literally making money off of this. It's just so foul and contemptible. And I think it's why, you know, voters are going to be ready to reject it on August 18th. Caterpillar manufactures the militarized bulldozers that have been paving over Palestinian bodies to hide evidence in Gaza and also are critically. used to bulldoze homes in the West Bank for Israel's ethnic cleansing in that part of the world. Now, yesterday I read this article in the Miami Herald about you that you were able to convince Florida's AFL-CIO the largest federation of labor unions in the state to not endorse one sitting Democratic member of Congress. They endorsed every other incumbent Democrat except Jared Moskowitz.

What did you say to these labor leaders to convince them that they haven't, they're just not endorsing in this race so far is what it seems like, but at the very least, not endorse Jared Moskowitz as the only incumbent Democrat who they couldn't get behind? Yeah, the day started at 5 o'clock in the morning. My campaign manager and I drove up to Orlando to the AFL, CIO Committee on Political Education Convention where they discuss their endorsements. And we had a fact sheet. We had actually a multi-page fact sheet because there's a lot that Jared Moskowitz has done opposed to the labor movement. Any time that a delegate would step out of the room where they were deliberating and hearing from candidates, Jared Moskowitz didn't bother to show up there, by the way, of course he didn't.

But we were on our feet for about 10 hours and just any time that a delegate had two or three minutes, they were stepping out for a water break or smoke break. You know, I would tell them, did you know that Jared Moskowitz endorsed a Moms for Liberty School Board candidate who was a Bronnesant, appointee. to the Broward County School Board, someone in the person of Tori Alston, who's now president of Broward College, which is at an impasse in contract negotiations

with United Faculty of Florida. I mean, the UFF and Florida Education Association staff, you know, they're really on the front lines of, you know, Desances' attack on freedom of speech, on, you know, the book bans, on gender identity and sexual orientation, you know, being expressed in schools. Also with these 287G agreements that,

you know, in Florida, it looks very differently than, you know, Illinois or California, where you've got ICE agents or Minneapolis, you know, descending down into the state. We just have these deputized local municipal police forces and even campus police that are doing ICE's mass detention and deportation for them. You know, Jared Moskowitz personally recommended, wrote the letter of recommendation for Adam Hazner, a former Florida House Republican Majority Leader and executive vice president of the Geo Group, private prison corporation, which has headquartered in our district in both. Kurtone. Jared Moskowitz recommended this person to become president of Florida Atlantic University, the largest public university in our district. How are we having a Democratic member of Congress recommending a private prison executive Toledo University? I mean, it makes me so mad. And I know as well, the students and faculty feel the same way. So we just had a number of delegates, you know, whether it was my brothers and sisters in CWA, I organized my workplace with the News Guild,

communication workers of America back in 2018. You know, we had members talking about the power of possibly electing one of their own, you know, of the labor movement to Congress. The AFGE workers, the Social Security workers that have had, you know, a reduction in force order of 8,000 Social Security workers at a time when we have a rapidly aging population and more and more people are relying on these benefits. I mean, the Doge effort has just been so detrimental, but it's, you know, but one piece of a much larger, you know, how are you going to take the corporate pack checks from management and then say you're on the side of the workers? The Association of Builders and contractors, which is, you know, part of the housing on affordability in Florida. Jared Moskowitz

not only, you know, privately consulted and made millions of dollars from Lenar Homes, which if you go on their open secrets, their top three beneficiaries are Jared Moskowitz, Jared Moskowitz's pack, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. I mean, this guy is just, he's a Republican. He's a Republican and Democrats' clothing, and I find it very ironic that, you know, the Josh Gottheimer's and Jared Moskowitz of the world that want to define what the Democratic Party is supposed to be. They really wanted to be just another Republican Party, you know, that's dressed up maybe in more acceptable language. But it's ultimately, you know, this is why people are so disengaged because they see no

difference. And I think the real power of these union members that stood up the rank and file and defeated this resolution really speaks to a desire among the working class, among the trade union movement. in Florida, which is so under the thumb. I mean, we had horrible anti-union legislation once again passed in the recent Florida legislative session to raise the recertification standards. And, you know, we need a fighting labor movement. We need allies in Congress that are going to go beyond the pro act and talk about, you know, restoring public sector workers' right to strike, you know, secondary solidarity strikes, boycotts, you know, these are all attacks on our freedom

of speech when we don't have this when the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of assembly freedom of protest and that's what we're standing up for um Oliver so all of this I mean look as someone wrote in Eli from Jersey when he said Jim Crow in Palestine I could hear the kill bill siren coming from from Emma because I mean you're saying a lot of stuff that I completely agree with but you know you mentioned Boca Raton is in your district I'm a little familiar with this area of Florida really wealthy people a lot of Zionists a lot of big money, a lot of real estate development money.

You know, you're down in polling, but it's also like anything's possible right now given the fact that I'm not sure polling is picking up on the depressed turnout for centrist Democrats, as well

as like an influx of voters that aren't traditionally engaged in the electorate. Like that's the case for your candidacy, but why do you feel you can overcome some of the large or polling gaps that we're seeing in terms of like a DSA candidate versus a establishment Democrat? Yeah, I think Maylock Keros is a great example because I believe she was at 7% in the polls about two and a half months ago. We are seven weeks out from our election right now, so just under two

months. And we've tripled our support in the polling in the past month. I was at 7% last month. Jared Moskowitz's campaign put out a poll just the other day that had me at 19%. I've taken seven out of every nine new voters that have made up their mind since they ran the same poll last month. And he's got a very hard ceiling right around 50%. So 30% of voters are undecided. He's got 50. I've got 20. And this is a race that's completely up for grabs. We've made these gains without spending really a dollar yet on our paid media advertising, which we had a fantastic virtual rally on Monday, headlined by Hassan Piker and AFACWA President Sarah Nelson. And we had assembly member Claire Valdez on the stream. And we raised about $60,000 a little over $60,000 in one day.

And we saw over $10,000 coming in the final hour of the quarter after the race in Colorado was called. So, you know, things are moving very quickly. And people are so disengaged, you know, from politics by and large, not everyone is a junkie like us. But in our district, you know, specifically on what APEC would say is a third rail that we just can't touch. We've done polling in the general election as well as the primary election. And in this new district, 86% of Democratic primary voters want to condition or cease military aid to Israel. It's an even half, 50% want to condition it to international law and 36% want to cease aid. And 68% of general election voters want the same thing more than two thirds. This is Republicans,

independents, and Democrats. So, you know, supporting the APAC line is it's a losing proposition. And we talk about this being a 90-10 issue all across the country. South Florida is, you know, maybe a little bit different, but it's not that different. People still have the same concerns about the rising cost of living. Florida Atlantic University did a poll last fall that found that more than half of Floridians are considering leaving the state due to the cost of living crisis. We're now seeing, you know, population decline in Miami-Dade County because no one can afford housing.

So there are more proximate concerns than, you know, what people feel about Israel and Palestine, you know, for even Zionist voters. Like, they still don't like that Jared Moskowitz was appointed twice by, Governor DeSantis and that he's proudly touting that. So, you know, I think there's maybe a little bit that's been overblown to make South Florida, you know, South Florida's long been a punching bag for the rest of the country. But we have working class people here too. We have people struggling with the economy and cost of living here too. And, you know, we all deserve this kind of representation that we're seeing so inspire people all across the country. And that's exactly what I think our campaign

is poised to deliver and make a lot of gains in these final 48 days. Well, you're walking the walk by wearing a full suit in South Florida in July, bro. Do you go outside like that? Yeah, I do. I actually got a lot of comments about this at the last No Kings rally, which we've got it somewhere on our, on our feed where I was saying in the full suit and people tell me, uh, dress down, but I said, you got to distinguish yourself to let people know you're, you're taking it seriously. You take it seriously. Yeah. And I said South Florida is ready to elect a Democratic socialist like Zoran Mamdani. And it was like like cheers, like people are so ready for this. And the attacks of democratic socialism just do not land.

People are more concerned about ice going door to door and kidnapping their neighbors or, you know, being priced out of living in South Florida. That's scarier than what I keep finding is people, you know, really look to Senator Sanders and Representative Ocasio-Cortez and now Mayor Maldani is the standard bears for the kind of Democratic Party they want to see. And, you know, the path that we see to being. competitive in all 50 states, which, you know, that 50 state strategy is one that Democrats abandoned in 2024. They campaigned in seven different states and, you know, lost all of them. We need to,

we need to broaden our horizons. And I think that's, that's part of why it's so important to support campaigns like ours in South Florida. Absolutely. Alex writes in, I donated to $25 to Oliver recently, which is a good way for me to ask, where can people support your campaign, how can people support your campaign. When does early voting start, by the way, because I know primary day is August 18th. Yes. Yeah. So people can visit our website, www. Oliver for Congress.com. We're also going to have a special act blue link for the majority report audience that you'll be able to find. So yeah, we can we can let you know how much the audience raises. Early voting. So we've got ballots being mailed out on July 9th. They're going to begin hitting mailboxes from July 11th to July 13th.

So that's going to be the vote by mail. Our voter registration deadline to become a registered Democrat because Florida is a closed primary state, you must be a registered member at the Democratic Party. Again, this is DSA broadening the tent and bringing people into the fold. That is July 20th, 29 days before our election. And then we're going to have a period of early voting in person from August 8th to August 16th, right before that August 18th primary. Okay, well, we will put a link to all of that and the special link for the majority report audience,

which, by the way, like, more campaigns should do this because I think it gets, you know, the audience or the community excited and then they can see how much they've raised. So let's beat Hassan Piker. That's not going to happen. If you beat Hassan Piker, then we are going on the air tomorrow. So that's a name. That is a David and Goliath situation here. that's not going to happen, but maybe our audience can surprise me.

We shall see Oliver Larkin. We'll put a link to all of that down below wherever people are listening to or watching this, and we already have a California resistance says Emma donating again today to Oliver. So there you go. So just folks, just hold on. Don't go donate in the generic place.

We got this special little... The competition's what's most important here. That's really what we care about. I mean, Oliver's great and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who cares? Yeah. So the link is Secure. atackblue.com slash donate slash oFC underscore majority report but we'll have the link obviously so people can check it out um oliver thanks so much for your time today i really appreciate it thanks so much

for having me on all right with that folks we are going to wrap up the free part of this program and head into the not free but the fun part that's what we call it the fun half we're going to head in there we'll be joined by brandon and bender but matt what is happening on Left Reckoning and with the Jacovin show. Yeah, Left Reckoning, we had a guest talking about Columbia, but we also went deep into... Actually, I forget. It's too hot in here.

I know. I was just thinking, gosh, I'm sorry to sweat through the shirt. It's a great time to have a cold. But, yeah, we got a Jacobin show actually tomorrow with Harvey Kay talking about, you know, American mythology and patriotism and the 4th of July and all that whole stuff. And I also, we also talk a little bit about that before. I share a Herman Melville quote. That's kind of long about America.

Melville, long? Yeah, it's a little bit of a longer passage, but I decided to say that. So that'll be tomorrow on the Jackman show, 3 o'clock Eastern time. And, yeah, there'll be a Sunday show for Left Reckoning Patrons on Sunday. All right. And we have Brandon. Hello, Brandon.

Hello, Emma. Hello. What's happening on the discourse? Oh, we're just chugging along on our way to 25,000 subscribers over on YouTube. Oh,000. I know. The biggest channel to have ever done it is what they call it. And 10,000 over on Twitch.

And so I would definitely recommend heading over to the discourse with Brandon over on either platform, where we will be, I think, this week, finishing up our, retrospective on Jesse Lee Peterson's early 90s, or early to mid-90s talk show, where he was debating, I guess you could call it, black Hebrew Israelites. Nice. About the nature of the white man, about the nature of America, all the hits. I'm so glad you continue to be on the Jesse Lee Peterson beat. One of our favorites, I would say, from back in the day, but he's still kicking, I guess.

He's been doing it for a long time. You have to admire that. Like, I hope I'm still on my bullshit 30, 40 years in the future. I know, I know, exactly right. Hello, Matt Bender. Oh, you're muted. muted, Matt. Not now, not yet.

Uh-oh. I'll send you a prompt there. Shadow Banned. Can you see that in the top right, Bender? Not yet. Check out left. How about check out Leftist Mafia tonight? Still not working.

Yeah, it's still seeing the mute. in the top right. I'm not sure. We'll... Okay, well, check out Leftus Mafia tonight and, of course, all of Matt Bender's other great work. We're going to troubleshoot this, but we'll head into the fun

half now. It's still not working, buddy. We'll head into the fun half. If you join the Majority Report.com, you want to support this show? Keep us resilient, not as reliant on ads. That would be great. And you can IAM the show. See you in the fun half.

Okay, Emma, please. Well, I just, I feel that my voice is sorely lacking on the majority report. Wait, what? Look, Sam is unpopular. I do deserve a vacation at Disney World. So, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome Emma to the show. It is Thursday. I think you need to take over for Sam.

That's good. Sir, I'm gonna, I'm gonna pause you right there. Wait, what? You can't encourage Emma to live like this. And I'll tell you why. So it's offered a twerk, sushi, and poker with the boys. That's what we call. I just think that what you did to Tim Poole was mean.

Free speech. That's not what we're about here. Look at how sad he's become now. You shouldn't even talk about it because I think you're responsible. I probably am in a certain way, but let's get to the meltdown here. Sushi. I'm sorry, I'm losing my fucking mind. Someone's offered a twerk.

Sushi and poker with the boys. Logic. Dwerp. Sushi and a little kid, a little kid, a little kid, people just don't understand. So I'm not trying to be a dick right now, but like, I absolutely think the U.S. should be providing me with a life and kids. That's not what we're talking about here. It's not a fun job.

That's a real thing. That's a real fit. That's a real fat. So much easier. When the majority report was just you, you were happy. Let's change the subject. Now, shut up. Don't want people saying reckless things on your program. That's one of the most difficult parts about this show.

This is a pro-killing podcast. I'm thinking maybe it's time to bury the hatchet. Left is best. Violet twerk. It's a incredible theme song. I Bumbler. Emma Viglin, absolutely one of my favorite people. Actually, not just in the game, like, period.