“We told our representative what we needed, we spent hours preparing. Afterwards, he didn’t name anything he had heard—he couldn’t remember a single thing we had talked about.”

“The strongest political voices out here have a total lack of awareness of people’s day-to-day experience. They inherited wealth and they don’t have any idea they were born on a platform.”

“When you’re young, people think you don’t care about politics and they think you don’t vote. But this place is my home, and I know we have to care for it proactively”

“Immigrants have always been conveniently used as a wedge to get people to one side of a political issue or the other. We are tired of the biggest voices in NCW using fears, threats, and misinformation to divide us and get what they want.”