Words matter. These are the best Saikat Chakrabarti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We need new leaders, period.
Similar to how ‘Abolish ICE’ rang the bell on this huge crisis on immigration, unifying around not taking corporate-PAC money gets everybody to pay attention to big money in politics.
I don’t think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.
I co-managed AOC’s campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.
People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message.
When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have.
Progressives think the way to win is mobilizing and convince people to vote for something.
The reality is, our problem isn’t that more people are voting Republican than Democrat – our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren’t voting.
Not taking corporate money is a core part of the progressive message.
There’s a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it’s people who go through a kind of ideological training that’s incorrect, I’d say, and so there’s a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits.
It’s not at all a secret that I was one of the co-founders of Brand New Congress, and we’ve never tried to hide our goals.
The power of Bernie Sanders was not only in his email list. The centers of power were local groups that formed on Facebook and Reddit.
For background, Brand New Congress was created in the summer of 2016 with the goal of recruiting 400 candidates to run for Congress with a national campaign and a clear set of policies they would advocate for. It was an attempt to create, as per the name, a brand new Congress.
I don’t know if it’s a uniquely American thing, but I associate it that way. People get excited by this idea of, ‘Let’s come together and defeat this huge enemy through innovation, by solving this crisis.’ I think that’s motivating and inspiring.
The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all.
What the Bernie campaign showed us was that you could out-raise a well-funded opponent with grassroots donations, and you could out-voter-contact them, too.
Bernie is great, but we’ve got to keep this political revolution going.
The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that.
My personal belief in doing Brand New Congress is that the movement needs something to focus on that’s constructive.
It’s fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff.
I’m not a fan of people making up lies, and I do feel I owe it to people to know what the truth is.
Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there’s also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing… things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that?
