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Annabelle Mendoza
Chicago immigrant-rights organizer, Communications Director at United We Dream, former 2026 Democratic candidate for Congress in Illinois' 7th District, and founder of Democracy Unbought.
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Oct 9, 2026
AIPAC Spent $5M in Her Race. Here's What She Built
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6:02Mike WinsonHOST
falls off the map and unless something specific happens we don't really hear about what's going on anymore so what what have things been like in chicago in your area since since the last time we talked
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6:19Annabelle MendozaGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of the sentiment has been that people want to see what this next individual who won the primary state rep, LaShawn Ford, who is the Democratic nominee, what happens.
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6:36Annabelle MendozaGUEST
I think people are open to seeing how he will follow through on a lot of the promises.
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6:41Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And one thing I'm proud of during the campaign was the ways in which I pushed forward a lot of the progressive priorities that I hold.
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6:57Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And I think that we obviously have, Um, need to see what his record looks like once he is in office.
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Driving It Home with Patti Vasquez | October 8, 2026
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41:46Annabelle MendozaGUEST
I mean, again, as I mentioned before, there is a host of criteria and characteristics that really tie together dark money, dark money.
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41:55Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And the way that I define dark money is that it operates to protect wealth inequality in this country.
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42:04Annabelle MendozaGUEST
And it is to push forward an agenda that is making the already rich, very rich people, And even richer, right? While making sure that the rest of us and an agenda for working people that would address some of the major issues that we're talking about here, like housing, like our gas prices being almost $6, right? Those pieces that actually would make our life more affordable.
