Jail Saved His Life. Now He's Running for Congress | Rob Cooper

This Idaho Candidate Is REWRITING THE RULES | Kaylee Peterson

Kaylee Peterson won Idaho's Democratic primary with nearly 90% — now she's trying to flip one of the reddest districts in America against Rep. Russ Fulcher. She's back on Breaking the Meta for the first time since our very first interview. In a district the size of four states — 12 hours end to end, 1.2 million people, 63% federally owned — Kaylee lays out why she believes there's a real path to victory for the first time ever, why she says she doesn't need a single Republican vote to win, and how she reaches rural, working-class voters without compromising a single progressive policy. We get into the working-class movement waking up across rural Idaho, the tariffs that cost 15,000 farms and 360,000 jobs, the war in Iran and rural gas prices, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, whether the Constitution should be rewritten, and the day ICE zip-tied children at a community fair in Wilder, Idaho. If you believe change is worth the work — watch, share, and subscribe. 🔗 Learn more & support Kaylee: KayleeforCongress.com [http://KayleeforCongress.com] ▶️ Watch our first interview with Kaylee: https://youtu.be/79eLlPv39nw [https://youtu.be/79eLlPv39nw] 🎙️ Breaking the Meta covers the grassroots candidates the mainstream ignores. Subscribe!

Florida's insurance crisis is locking families out of homes

Yen Bailey is running for US Congress in Florida's 2nd District, a 16-county, largely rural stretch where she says no candidate had campaigned in years before her 2024 run. A former ethics lawyer and Guardian ad Litem advocate, Bailey talks with Breaking the Meta about the affordability crisis hitting nearly half her district, the collapse of ACA subsidies and its life-or-death stakes for rural hospitals, Florida's property insurance meltdown, and why lifelong Republicans are now writing to their senators. She lays out her accountability platform (term limits, banning congressional stock trading, overturning Citizens United) and her plan for day one in office. Learn more or get involved: yenbaileyforcongress.com [http://yenbaileyforcongress.com]

The Detroit Kid Whose School Had No Textbooks Is Running for Congress

Aisha Farooqi is running for Michigan's 11th District on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and getting corporate money out of politics. The only woman in a crowded MI-11 race, Aisha sits down with Breaking the Meta for an honest, unscripted conversation about who she is and what she'll actually fight for. A child of immigrants who came to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1993, she grew up in Detroit Public Schools — including a semester with no textbooks, where a teacher paid out of his own pocket — before becoming an attorney, legal aid lawyer, and juvenile prosecutor. We get into the issues mainstream coverage skips: the affordability crisis and the friend who "eats organic" because she can't afford cancer care, the war with Iran she calls illegal, the erosion of due process, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and why she refuses money from AIPAC, corporate PACs, and utility PACs. She makes the case for being called a public servant — not a politician — and lays out her day-one priorities: Medicare for All, lowering the cost of living, universal childcare, ending the tariffs, strengthening the Department of Education, expanding the Supreme Court, and abolishing ICE. Breaking the Meta platforms the grassroots and independent candidates the legacy press overlooks. Hard conversations, evidence over narrative, dignity for everyone. — CHAPTERS — (auto-fill from the Chapters section below) — FIND AISHA — Website: AishaforCongress.com [http://AishaforCongress.com] Instagram: @aisha_for_congress

5 Things We'll Never Agree On. 5,000 We Can.

Jason Pearce is the Democrat running for Texas District 4 against Pat Fallon in 2026 — and he spent just $1,500 to nearly pull it off. 🔗 Support Jason: pearcefortexas.com [http://pearcefortexas.com] Jason Pearce sat down with Breaking the Meta to talk about his run for Texas's 4th Congressional District: why he left his job last October to campaign full time, the affordability and education fights voters keep raising, his plan to ban stock and crypto trading for elected officials, and why he believes this is the most important midterm in U.S. history. We get into his backstory, bankrupt at 13, dropping out of college over debt, working 90-hour weeks, and how a kid raised in a far-right household became the most progressive candidate on the Texas ballot. Plus: the $1,500 campaign that nearly beat a fully funded opponent, and what he'd do in his first days in Congress. Breaking the Meta platforms the grassroots and independent candidates mainstream media ignores. Hard conversations when necessary, fighting the status quo, and the belief that everyone, regardless of race, religion, gender or identity, deserves rights, respect, dignity and safety. #TexasPolitics #Election2026 #BreakingTheMeta #JasonPearce #TexasDistrict4 #GrassrootsCampaign

How a Red State Quietly Starts Turning Blue

Across Georgia, dozens of races have no Democrat on the ballot at all. Bob Herndon is out to change that—one unwinnable district at a time. In 2022, 51 Republicans in the Georgia state house ran completely unopposed. This cycle, Fighting 50 cut that number to 22. Executive Director Bob Herndon sits down with Mike to explain how a group that started with five people on a Zoom call now backs 70 candidates—and just notched its first win when Eric Gissler flipped a red seat by 289 votes. We get into the detention center with no water, the candidates using "states' rights" against the people who coined it, the special election in Marjorie Taylor Greene's backyard, and why a guy who got arrested by his own party might be the best thing to happen to Georgia Democrats. If you've ever been told your vote doesn't matter, this one's for you. Support Fighting 50: https://fighting50.org [https://fighting50.org] Adopt a candidate through Circles of Support at the link above. — SUBSCRIBE for more conversations with the grassroots candidates mainstream media ignores. We're here to break the two-party stranglehold on American politics. #BreakingTheMeta #Fighting50 #GeorgiaPolitics #GrassrootsDemocracy #FlipGeorgia