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Today we're gonna talk about Florida and representation, and how Florida has very little of it, in even the loosest definition of the word.

We're gonna do that by introducing you to my new friend, May Thach. May is a candidate for state representative in Florida, and boy, is she an awesome human being.

Look, you folks across the country, across the world, told us you wanted more very specific, preferably living examples of fight and progress you can see and touch and feel and vote for.

And in the second batch of conversations with our best friends at Run For Something, we are giving you more and more of that, and that's really exactly who May is.

This is a great conversation. I'm really just such a fan. May, like everybody else in the series, is sourced from the Run For Something pipeline and graduating classes. She and all these other folks are the next generation of leaders, if we will have them, if we will support them, and recruit them and vote for them, and then hold their feet to the fire.

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There are a lot of folks in rural America that can say, "No candidate's ever come and knocked on my door."

So today, I'm going to introduce you to the one who knocks, my new best friend, Brittany Newton. You folks around the world have said very clearly that you would like more examples of fight and progress you can actually see, touch, and feel, and talk to, and feel like someone is listening to you.

And so in these conversations, in partnership with our best friends at Run For Something, we're giving you the people you asked for. Because that's exactly who Brittany is. She's a vet, she's a mom, a future representative who will actually, and this might shock you, represent her constituents, her neighbors in North Carolina.

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A huge catalyst for our 2025 pivot towards courting a much wider audience was AOC’s post-mortem of the 2024 election: “We can’t just be right. We have to be effective.”

But at the same time, we have to also agree on the fundamentals — human rights — and that we won’t compromise on those.

From the very beginning, the founders left the door open for our fundamentals to be — at best! — up for discussion, at worst, blissfully ignored while their very own slave-children tended to their expansive gardens.

So while we’re definitely trying to reach way, way more people where they are in their everyday lives, we’re simultaneously making it as clear as humanly possible that these eight basics — the Actually Pro Life Principles — are absolutely non-negotiable.

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Today we're gonna talk about Texas.

For a decade, maybe 100 years, we've heard over and over, this is the year we flip Texas. Sometimes we get closer, sometimes we get much further away. But as much as I'm excited about a candidate like James Talarico, I am always more interested in the people standing up to run in their communities at the state and local level.

So today, I'm going to introduce you to Junior Ezeonu. You all ave asked for more examples of people fighting for progress you can actually see and touch and feel. And in this batch of conversations, another one in partnership with our best friends at Run For Something, we're giving you exactly what you asked for.

And my friends, that's exactly who Junior is. I can't wait for you to hear more about him.

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Today, we're gonna talk about data centers.

Now, I know these things are a hot topic amid everything else: the heat, water, prices, lack of homes, lack of childcare, you name it. But we do need to speak out about them.

So, who is the most qualified here to speak about them, and when necessary, against these just enormous data centers that are affecting the heat, the water, the prices, the lack of homes, and more?

In this second batch of conversations, in partnership with our best friends at Run For Something, we're gonna give you exactly what you asked for.

Today, we're gonna talk to an awesome candidate who is running for their town council, who is hellbent on attacking and helping people understand a huge issue in their own hometown.

You and I are gonna find out together what they're working on and where they've made progress, where they have struggled in their candidacy, and how their exact tactics and strategies might be transferable to other schools or towns or cities like yours around this fine country.

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Something new from the team behind The Most Important Question!

It's Called Reality is a podcast about reality TV, and the systems hiding inside it. Every episode, hosts Willow Beck and Briana Brown take a show you're already watching and pull the thread on what it's actually revealing about power, media, and the world we live in.

If you listen to The Most Important Question, you already think about who controls the narrative, how misinformation spreads, and what it means that the media environment is shifting faster than our ability to read it critically. Reality TV is one of the most watched and least analyzed corners of that environment.

Donald Trump is the president in large part because he was a reality TV star first. The Traitors is a closed information system w here the people with access to the truth run a disinformation campaign against everyone else, and the parallels to how misinformation spreads are not subtle. Survivor 50 showed us exactly what happens when a powerful institution performs "giving people control" without actually ceding any.

It's Called Reality takes all of that seriously, with the same rigor you'd expect from Important, Not Important, and a lot more yapping about who deserved to win The Traitors.

New episodes Fridays. Find It's Called Reality wherever you listen to podcasts.

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You may feel like you're giving it all you have, but obviously things are tough out there. We're working on all of it, but in particular, you, our listeners have asked for over and over more examples of a fight and actual progress that you can see and touch and feel.

And in these, the new second batch of conversations, in partnership with our best friends at Run for Something, we're gonna give you more of exactly what you're asking for.

Going forward, not every conversation will be the same. So some, like today, might feature a single guest, a candidate or an alum or an incumbent, I guess, and others might feature two guests. But all of them are sourced from the Run for Something pipeline, so they could be candidates or they could be among the graduating classes. But these are no doubt the next generation leaders of this country

For example, today I'm gonna introduce you to an incredible candidate who's running for a local office in their home state that is specifically working on something they were born into and care about deeply, that they represent.

We're gonna talk about what they're working on and why, where they've made progress, where they've struggled, and tactics and strategies that might be transferable to other school districts or towns or cities or whatever.

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We've spent the last two essays building the case for *Actually* Pro Life: wht it means, where it comes from, and why the logo was designed to be worn, carried, and declared in public.

Now we're asking you to do exactly that.

We just launched our first ever APL Member Drive. The first 50 people who upgrade to become an Important Member get a free *Actually* Pro Life t-shirt. And one member who joins before June 12th wins a full APL swag bag.

A paid membership is what keeps this work honest. No advertisers telling us what to do. Just the work, funded by the people who give a shit about it.

If that's you, the link is below.

https://www.importantnotimportant.com/upgrade

If the name Actually Pro Life is deliberate, then so is the logo.

Because like I said in our intro post, we’re reclaiming "pro-life" from the same people who blame kindergartners for getting shot at school, and we’re grounding it in evidence.

Evidence like, “Does this action make it measurably less likely or more likely that kindergartners will get shot at school?”

Any action can only go one way, and we only go one way, and you can go our way, or 🎵 you can go your own way 🎶, in which case — go fuck yourself. 🫡

Let’s talk pixels and protests.

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250 years after a group of slaveowners wrote that "all men are created equal", we're done letting hypocrites own the language of life.

Introducing Actually Pro Life: a reframe, a research platform, and a direct challenge to anyone willing to be held accountable to what they claim to believe.
This is the foundation that unites everyone you actually gives a sh*t: No life is worth more than another.

That foundation comes with eight non-negotiable Principles, six Guardrails, and 160+ measurable Positions because opinions are cheap and receipts matter.

Together or nothing.

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