Missouri House District 63: The Auto Worker Fighting Back in 2026

Her State's Minimum Wage Is Still $5.15/Hour - Suzanna Karatossos

Georgia House District 120 candidate Suzanna Karatassos on healthcare, Medicaid expansion, childcare, and Georgia's $5.15 minimum wage. In this episode of Breaking the Meta, Leila sits down with Suzanna Karatassos, a Democrat running for Georgia House District 120 in the Athens area — a heavily gerrymandered seat spanning Clark, Barrow, Jackson, and Oconee counties. A SCAD graduate and political content creator, Suzanna left a 17-year career in the apparel industry to run for office after the 2024 election. She lays out why healthcare is the number-one issue at every door she knocks, why Georgia still hasn't expanded Medicaid, and how the state sits on a $15 billion surplus while families work three jobs and still can't pay the bills. We get into: — Why Georgia's minimum wage is still $5.15 an hour — The $700-per-person corporate subsidy vs. $30-per-person SNAP gap — Universal childcare and the declining birth rate — A real plan to help veterans navigate the VA — How a deep-red seat next door flipped blue in just six weeks Support Suzanna's campaign: https://suzannaforstatehouse.com [https://suzannaforstatehouse.com] — Volunteer (open to out-of-state supporters) — Donate — Find her socials linked at the bottom of her page ——— Breaking the Meta is an independent political podcast platforming the grassroots and independent candidates mainstream media overlooks. We're here to break the two-party stranglehold on American politics — skeptical of concentrated power, pro-dignity, and independent of both corporate media and party machines. 👉 Subscribe and hit the bell so you never miss an interview: @breakingthemeta-podcast #GeorgiaPolitics #Election2026 #Athens #Medicaid #GrassrootsPolitics #BreakingTheMeta

"I'm Being Taxed Without Being Represented" — A First Responder's Run for MN Senate | Denise Slipy

Denise Slipy is a first responder running for Minnesota Senate District 6 — and she's winning over Republicans. Rural healthcare, ICE, and common sense. Denise Slipy never planned to be a politician. A reserve police officer and first responder from the Brainerd Lakes area, she stepped up after the seat opened unexpectedly — won her community's endorsement, took the special election in April, and hasn't stopped since. In this conversation she lays out what rural north-central Minnesota is actually facing: hospitals on the brink of closing, a constituent whose insurance jumped 40%, soybean farmers watching their crop rot in the silo, and the real economic fallout of ICE raids on small towns and family dairy farms. She also makes the case for why "common sense" still belongs in St. Paul — and why she believes accountability means you only have to put up with her for four years if she gets it wrong. 🔗 Learn more about Denise: https://Slipy4Senate.com [https://Slipy4Senate.com] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Breaking the Meta is about breaking the status quo — having the hard conversations and fighting for the idea that all people, no matter their race, religion, gender, or identity, deserve rights, respect, dignity, and safety. We platform grassroots and independent candidates the mainstream won't. These candidates don't take PAC money. They want to be held accountable. What they need is visibility — so if this resonated, the best thing you can do is share it. 👍 Like, subscribe, and hit the bell so you don't miss the next interview. #BreakingTheMeta #DeniseSlipy #Minnesota #SenateDistrict6 #DFL #RuralAmerica #2026Election #GrassrootsPolitics

Justice of the Peace: The Race Nobody's Watching — Will Robertson

What does a Justice of the Peace actually do — and why is it one of the most important votes on your 2026 ballot? Marine veteran Will Robertson ("Sergeant Rob") sits down with Mike Winson to break down the court most people ignore, and why it matters now more than ever in rapidly-growing Denton County, Texas. From an infantry machine gunner at Camp Pendleton to Marine security guard postings in embassies across Bangladesh, Tokyo, Paris and three missions in Africa, Will shares how seeing the world firsthand reshaped the conservative worldview he grew up with — and why he traded a Congressional run for a local seat where he believes he can make a real difference. We get into: -What a Justice of the Peace really handles — evictions, truancy, small claims, the "people's court" -Why Denton County's explosive growth is driving an eviction and truancy crisis -How school vouchers are draining district funding -The case for nonpartisan local justice — no R or D required -Will's own brush with a JP as a teenager, and how compassion changed his life -America's standing in the world, USAID, and the cost of broken trust abroad Breaking the Meta sits down with grassroots, independent candidates who don't take PAC money and don't have millions behind them — the people fighting the status quo who just need visibility. If you're in Denton County or know someone who is, share this one. Learn more about Will: 🌐 Robertson4ForTX.com [http://Robertson4ForTX.com] 📷 Instagram: @RobertsonForJustice4 🎬 TikTok: @SergeantRob

Imagine Running for Office With THIS Last Name in 2026

Yes, his last name is Epstein. No, he's not related. Rob Epstein is running for Georgia State House District 23 — and his story is more interesting than the name. A 30-year tech leader turned political first-timer, Rob lost his wife to cancer in May 2024, retired, prayed on what came next, and felt called to run in one of the reddest pockets of Cherokee County. In this conversation we get into: → Why a self-described non-political guy felt called to run → Separating Christ-followers from Christian nationalism → Georgia's 55%-investor-owned neighborhoods and the housing crisis → Why his Day One bill would ban corporate money in Georgia politics → Ranked-choice voting and ending Georgia's expensive runoffs → Medicaid expansion and the $17B surplus Georgia is sitting on → How the Latino vote is shifting after ICE due-process failures → What accountability really looks like (hint: it's showing up) Rob's website: https://robepstein.org [https://robepstein.org] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT BREAKING THE META ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Breaking the Meta is an independent political podcast hosted by Mike Winson, focused on the grassroots and independent candidates the mainstream media won't cover. Hard conversations. No corporate gatekeepers. The belief that every person — regardless of race, religion, gender or identity — deserves rights, respect, dignity and safety. 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@breakingthemeta-podcast [https://www.youtube.com/@breakingthemeta-podcast] 💬 Share this video with one voter in Georgia. That's the ask. #RobEpstein #GeorgiaHD23 #BreakingTheMeta #Georgia2026 #CherokeeCountyGA #DownBallot #ChristianNotNationalist

The Reason Tennessee Stopped Voting | Lauren Pinkston for Governor

Lauren Pinkston is running for Tennessee Governor as a true independent. She's never registered with either party — and she has a plan. In this episode of Breaking the Meta, Mike Winson sits down with Lauren Pinkston — counter-trafficking researcher, PhD in community development, mother of four, and lifelong Tennessean — to talk about why a state that votes deep red is actually one of the lowest-turnout states in the country, and what it would take to bring people back to the ballot box. We cover: • Why Tennessee was dead last in voter turnout in the last midterm • What happened when Lauren's own state representative hung up on her • A day-one open-source accountability tool for all 33 senators and 99 reps • 0% job growth in Tennessee over the last two years and who's actually paying for it • Tennessee is losing 10 acres of farmland every minute — and her underground data center proposal • Why one Tennessean is considering getting pregnant just to qualify for healthcare • The "trafficking of health data" Lauren says no one is talking about • Being a Christian who is "staunchly in defense of separation of church and state" • Conscious Conversations: the in-home gatherings replacing rallies • Why bringing a Republican and a Democrat to dinner is on her day-one agenda Lauren's pitch isn't progressive or conservative. It's a posture argument: that the two-party fight has replaced problem-solving, and that Tennessee is full of principled people who hate both of their options. Whether you agree with every policy or not, this is a conversation worth your 30 minutes. 🔗 Learn more about Lauren's campaign: pinkstonfortn.com [http://pinkstonfortn.com] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT BREAKING THE META Breaking the Meta is an independent political podcast platforming the grassroots and independent candidates mainstream media overlooks. Every district deserves a choice. No PAC funding. Hard conversations when necessary. 🎙 Subscribe: youtube.com/@breakingthemeta-podcast [http://youtube.com/@breakingthemeta-podcast] 📬 Want your candidate featured? Reach out via the channel. #TennesseeGovernor #IndependentCandidate #BreakingTheMeta