Welcome listeners to Episode 10 of Capitol Courage! We’re thrilled to be celebrating double digits with you all. We’ve got some exciting conversations teed up for the coming weeks, and we’d love to hear from you on what big fights you think we should focus on next, or guests you’d like us to interview.

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Virginia Delegate Holly Seibold to the pod, as she shares an all-too-rare perspective on what it means to stand up for your constituents, aka the regular people without a paid lobbyist. Whether it’s fighting a proposed casino in Tysons Corner or taking on big tech companies like Amazon to fight for consumer protection, she’s showing courage where it matters.

And we also highlight a few of the less-publicized parts of the recent Ugly Republican Budget that is now law. Spoiler alert, they all make life more expensive for you and give special handouts to corporate special interests. Whether it’s making it harder for Medicare to lower prescription drug costs, restricting college student loan options, or forcing you to keep paying some private company to file your taxes, Republicans are hell-bent on raising the cost of living for regular people higher and higher.

Lastly, join us for Part 1 of a sure-to-be-evolving conversation around how states are approaching redistricting, with some cowardly moves coming from Republican-led states. Will Democratic-led states have the courage to respond? We shall see..