On this episode of Left Out Loud, Ally and Seth talk with Suzanna Karatassos, a candidate running in Georgia's State House District 120. The discussion covers flipping a district that has usually been held by the Republican Party, Medicaid expansion, voting rights, data centers, reproductive freedom, corporate influence, Democratic voter turnout, and why state-level elections can play a crucial role in checking federal policy.

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• (00:00) - — Intro
• (00:48) - — Georgia politics
• (01:37) - — Flipping District 120
• (03:05) - — Federal cuts
• (04:00) - — Medicaid expansion
• (05:30) - — Voting rights
• (06:20) - — Election concerns
• (07:55) - — Conservative voters
• (08:20) - — Data centers
• (09:45) - — Women’s rights
• (11:30) - — Abortion laws
• (12:25) - — 30,000 doors
• (13:00) - — IVF
• (14:10) - — Church and state
• (15:00) - — Debate challenge
• (16:00) - — Farm tariffs
• (17:00) - — Political connections
• (17:30) - — Corporate money
• (19:50) - — First policy priority
• (20:00) - — Medicaid first
• (21:00) - — Progressive scale
• (22:30) - — Campaign support
• (24:15) - — Post-interview
• (25:00) - — Georgia turnout
• (26:00) - — Democratic socialism
• (27:00) - — Why local races matter
• (29:00) - — Find more candidates
• (30:00) - — Midterm push
• (31:00) - — Closing

In this episode of Left Out Loud, Ally and Seth speak with Zachary Foust, a Delaware realtor and host of The Zach Foust Show. The conversation digs into America’s housing affordability crisis, investor-owned homes, rising costs, the K-shaped economy, political corruption, congressional insider trading, and how economic policy is reshaping the American middle class.

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• (00:00) - — Intro
• (02:00) - — Housing then vs. now
• (03:20) - — The American Dream
• (05:10) - — Locked out
• (06:15) - — Housing today
• (07:00) - — Regional markets
• (08:00) - — Florida and Texas
• (09:05) - — Will housing crash?
• (10:05) - — Supply problem
• (10:45) - — Rate lock-in
• (11:35) - — Investor buyers
• (13:00) - — Housing demand
• (16:00) - — Building more homes
• (19:00) - — Wall Street housing
• (22:00) - — Economic divide
• (25:00) - — K-shaped economy
• (28:00) - — Middle class squeeze
• (31:00) - — Wealth inequality
• (34:00) - — Economic history
• (38:00) - — Political corruption
• (42:00) - — Money and power
• (46:00) - — Congressional trading
• (50:00) - — Changing the rules
• (54:00) - — Political incentives
• (58:10) - — American Hero bill
• (59:25) - — Exposing corruption
• (01:00:30) - — Ethics and law
• (01:01:05) - — The Zach Foust Show
• (01:03:10) - — Post-interview
• (01:05:40) - — Where to find Zach
• (01:06:45) - — Closing

In this episode of Left Out Loud, Ally and Seth speak with Jerrad Christian, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Ohio’s 12th District. A Navy veteran and software engineer raised in Appalachian Ohio, Jerrad discusses growing up in poverty, the difficult transition from military to civilian life, abandoned gas wells, climate change, cuts to NOAA, government spending, and his campaign to unseat a longtime Republican incumbent.

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• (00:00) - — Intro
• (01:07) - — Meet Jerrad
• (01:49) - — Appalachian roots
• (03:49) - — Life after the Navy
• (06:02) - — Software engineering
• (08:00) - — Why Congress
• (10:00) - — Ohio’s 12th
• (11:00) - — Abandoned gas wells
• (13:18) - — Climate policy
• (14:45) - — NOAA cuts
• (16:53) - — Government competence
• (18:01) - — Pentagon spending
• (20:00) - — Budget priorities
• (22:00) - — Serving the public
• (24:02) - — Corporate power
• (27:00) - — Political violence
• (30:00) - — Heated rhetoric
• (33:01) - — Supporting Jerrad
• (35:00) - — Post-interview
• (36:01) - — Candidate experience
• (39:01) - — Closing