Sacramento City Council

Let's start off by talking about your background.

MyVang is a community organizer, educator, Sacramento City Council member, and progressive insurgent running for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 7th congressional district, Sactown, right? Sactown.

Is that appropriate to say? Yeah, that works.

Sactown.

The eldest of 16 children born to Hmong refugees who fled the CIA secret wars in Laos.

Van grew up in South Sacramento relying on food stamps and Medi-Cal to survive after earning graduate degrees in public health and Asian American studies from UCLA.

She returned home to organize her neighborhood, teach ethnic studies at Sacramento State as a union member with the California Faculty Association and make history as the first Asian American woman and the first Hmong American elected to Sacramento City Council.

And you're now endorsed by the Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, Sacramento DSA, and SEIU California.

Vang is, Vang is, uh, challenging longtime Democratic representative Doris Matsui, who's incredibly old, by the way, in California's seventh congressional district.

She hopes to join a growing number of progressive candidates in the US House of Representatives next year, a group that just endorsed the Sacramento City Council member.

In a bid to keep pace with the deep-pocketed incumbent, Vang will appear...

Vang will...

I'm the Democratic nominee for Colorado's 1st district.

I just unseated a 30-year incumbent, and a race like that is unfolding right now in California with Mai Vang, who's going up against an incumbent who's been in office for over two decades.

Mai has been a fighter for the working class for her entire life as a community organizer on Sacramento City Council, and now she's running for Congress to win Medicare for All.

Medicare for All.

On the program today, Guillaume Long, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on the Brazilian runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and Lula three weeks away.

Then Mai Vang, Sacramento City Council member running to represent California's 7th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives.

Also on the program today, Republicans in triage mode as polls shift even more toward Democrats.

Trump regime refuses international election observers for the first time in over two decades in this country.

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Uh, in a moment we're gonna be talking to, [laughs] we're gonna be talking, uh, to Jom Alang, uh, former foreign, uh, foreign minister of affairs of Ecuador, and senior research fellow at the Center for Economic, uh, and Policy Research on, uh, this Brazilian election that just happened and is going to, uh, has gone to a runoff.

Then, uh, Mai Vang, Sacramento City Council member running to represent c- uh, California's 7th Congressional District against an, an 80-year-old, uh, 81-year-old incumbent out in California.

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