“Congress has always held the power of the purse to be able to fight for resources and transformational investments to come back into the South and West Side,“

“That is why we need a fighter in Congress, someone who isn’t going to take ‘No’ for an answer, someone who is going to fight just as hard as this government often fights to fund a genocide abroad and bring that funding here.”

“We have operated it in this country, thinking top-down economics works,”

“From what I’ve seen, it just keeps the rich richer. Real investment is standing shoulder to shoulder with your community and lifting from the bottom up.”

“What our generation is bringing to the table in this particular political moment is a level of moral courage that has long been hollow in our political system,”

“We have seen how politics has neglected us. We have seen the stagnation. We have seen people with our own Democratic Party who have stood in the way of progress.”

“I genuinely see being the youngest as my greatest strength in this because I know I have the most energy and fresh perspective and new ideas, but also the mentality that is not trying to replicate the status quo.”

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