Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

👤 Person
254 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

Exercise the other parts of your brain that analyze problems, like drawing and using your fingers. I think it's a necessary part of rebuilding parts of your brain that are not just the rote correct answer, but how to create a caricature out of your idea and then enlarge certain parts, reduce it. It's a really useful, tangible tool.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

Exercise the other parts of your brain that analyze problems, like drawing and using your fingers. I think it's a necessary part of rebuilding parts of your brain that are not just the rote correct answer, but how to create a caricature out of your idea and then enlarge certain parts, reduce it. It's a really useful, tangible tool.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

And then the other thing, you know, I've got a three and a half year old son at home and he's like, we cloned his father. He's like a really smart guy. gifted little mechanic and fun, but he also really loves poetry. So any of the children's poetry anthologies from Jack Preletsky, just that reading and language is fun. It's not academic. It is not for getting a good grade.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

And then the other thing, you know, I've got a three and a half year old son at home and he's like, we cloned his father. He's like a really smart guy. gifted little mechanic and fun, but he also really loves poetry. So any of the children's poetry anthologies from Jack Preletsky, just that reading and language is fun. It's not academic. It is not for getting a good grade.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It is joy and like the rhythm and the cadence and like moving it from a strictly like absolute, like, wrote ABCs to, like, the pleasure of rhyming things and just, like, having fun. And it is so fun to have a toddler, you running around your house, like, making up silly rhymes. I can't recommend it enough.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

It is joy and like the rhythm and the cadence and like moving it from a strictly like absolute, like, wrote ABCs to, like, the pleasure of rhyming things and just, like, having fun. And it is so fun to have a toddler, you running around your house, like, making up silly rhymes. I can't recommend it enough.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

This was fun. Thank you, Ezra.

The Ezra Klein Show
How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump

This was fun. Thank you, Ezra.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Democrats work in the trades. We live in rural communities. We are not... The devil. We are your neighbors. Before being elected, I ran an auto repair and a machine shop with my husband. And we live in unincorporated Skamania County, and our son is three years old now.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Democrats work in the trades. We live in rural communities. We are not... The devil. We are your neighbors. Before being elected, I ran an auto repair and a machine shop with my husband. And we live in unincorporated Skamania County, and our son is three years old now.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Democrats work in the trades. We live in rural communities. We are not... The devil. We are your neighbors. Before being elected, I ran an auto repair and a machine shop with my husband. And we live in unincorporated Skamania County, and our son is three years old now.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

We get our internet from a radio tower. We get our water from a well.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

We get our internet from a radio tower. We get our water from a well.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

We get our internet from a radio tower. We get our water from a well.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Well, I think what we want in Southwest Washington is to see our priorities and our culture reflected in Washington, D.C. We don't want a national agenda or a culture from somewhere else imported and replacing our community, our values, our priorities. And so just a real focus on what my community needs, what our values are, who we are. The district went for Trump by seven points in 16.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Well, I think what we want in Southwest Washington is to see our priorities and our culture reflected in Washington, D.C. We don't want a national agenda or a culture from somewhere else imported and replacing our community, our values, our priorities. And so just a real focus on what my community needs, what our values are, who we are. The district went for Trump by seven points in 16.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

Well, I think what we want in Southwest Washington is to see our priorities and our culture reflected in Washington, D.C. We don't want a national agenda or a culture from somewhere else imported and replacing our community, our values, our priorities. And so just a real focus on what my community needs, what our values are, who we are. The district went for Trump by seven points in 16.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

And this time we were able to point to my record and say like, I'm not here to play partisan football. I'm here because I see and value what we have and I know it's worth fighting for. Beyond the student loan forgiveness, I looked at the data. My district only holds 3% of the federally issued debt. This was a regressive tax policy.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

And this time we were able to point to my record and say like, I'm not here to play partisan football. I'm here because I see and value what we have and I know it's worth fighting for. Beyond the student loan forgiveness, I looked at the data. My district only holds 3% of the federally issued debt. This was a regressive tax policy.

Today, Explained
The Democrat who won in Trump country

And this time we were able to point to my record and say like, I'm not here to play partisan football. I'm here because I see and value what we have and I know it's worth fighting for. Beyond the student loan forgiveness, I looked at the data. My district only holds 3% of the federally issued debt. This was a regressive tax policy.