00:00Over the Epstein class, our vision for this party is to deliver America's next new deal.
00:07What does that mean?
00:08It means Medicare for all.
00:09No more excuses, no more half measures, free universal health care for every American now.
00:18Well, thank you, Ken, for your leadership.
00:22Let's give Ken Martin a round of applause for the extraordinary job that he's been doing.
00:28And thank you to Lloyd Doggett, a towering intellect in our Congress.
00:34Let's give Lloyd a round of applause.
00:39I'm a proud Democrat, but I did not come here today just to celebrate the Democratic Party.
00:48I came here to speak from my heart about what it means to live up to our values.
00:53Our strongest tradition is the fight for economic democracy.
01:00It runs from Thomas Jefferson's distrust of concentrated financial power through William Jennings Bryan's defense of producers against eastern capital
01:11to FDR's New Deal.
01:13It lives in Johnson's Medicare and Medicaid, and it lives in Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
01:22This is the tradition that says our party fights for an economy that works for people who work, not just
01:31for the capital class.
01:32In the 1960s, this tradition still had force, A. Philip Randolph, Baird Rustin, and Dr. King built on FDR's four
01:42freedoms with the Freedom Budget, a plan for full employment, decent wages, health care, and for housing.
01:52That was Dr. King.
01:54But here's the reality.
01:56The Freedom Budget was never enacted.
02:00Civil rights advanced.
02:02Economic rights were postponed.
02:06Our party began losing its way in the 1970s, right around the time I was born.
02:12Stagflation fueled an anti-government fervor, and too many of us decided that the only way to survive politically was
02:20to accommodate it, to accept the ideological overcorrection that government itself was the problem.
02:28And accommodate we did.
02:30We supported financial deregulation and backed free trade deals that led to deindustrialization.
02:38We urged people to leave their hometowns for financial and technology sectors.
02:44We stopped being the party of Main Street and became the party of Wall Street.
02:51We kept the language of justice while abandoning the project of economic democracy that Randolph and King
02:59had put on the table.
03:02A lot of people now say that our party needs to be bold again.
03:07I agree.
03:09But calling for boldness without an agenda is just branding.
03:17I'm tired of the platitudes.
03:20I'm tired of consultant crafted focus group language saying we need to be about affordability.
03:27Or renewing the American dream delivered without the specific policies to make them real that FDR or King fought for.
03:38I did not come to Washington to do messaging.
03:41I came to fight for a real agenda.
03:45Medicare for all.
03:48Tax the billionaires.
03:49No foreign wars.
03:52When we fight instead of platitudes, Trump's coalition can crack.
03:57We saw it with the Epstein Files Act.
03:59I stood with survivors and worked with Thomas Passy to pass the most consequential legislation
04:05a Democrat has in Trump's second term.
04:08It is the moment when Trump's presidency began to unravel.
04:12That is the kind of substantive politics I believe in.
04:16I come from the economic patriotism wing of the Democratic Party, the New Deal wing of the Democratic Party.
04:23We believe a national economic project is our path back from the wilderness.
04:30We see that America is at a breaking point.
04:33And that if we do not offer a new economic bargain, well, we will break.
04:39We understand, and I mean this with no offense, we understand that those who have lost two
04:45elections to Trump are no experts on electability and have no standing to tell a new generation
04:51of Democrats that their ideas for justice are too radical.
04:56We are for the working class over the Epstein class.
05:01Our vision for this party is to deliver America's next New Deal.
05:05What does that mean?
05:07It means Medicare for all.
05:08No more excuses.
05:09No more half measures.
05:11Free universal health care for every American now.
05:16It means free child care for America.
05:19For 80 billion that we spent in Iran, we could do that today.
05:24A decent life requires good jobs in communities that people actually live in.
05:29That is why we need a national industrial development bank that rebuilds places hollowed out, whether
05:35it's in North Country, New Hampshire, Johnstown, Milwaukee, Bessemer, towns across this country.
05:41If China can invest $1.5 trillion in a national industrial bank, why can't we?
05:47It means a thousand new trade schools across America, a thousand new trade schools and tech
05:54centers to have next generation of jobs.
05:57Here's another simple idea.
05:59Hardworking Americans should be able to buy a home.
06:02How about we do this?
06:03A home by 35.
06:05If you work seven years and you earn the right to buy a home with zero down payment and low
06:12interest loans, it's the same deal we give our veterans.
06:14Put young people in homes again.
06:18Now here's what the Republicans will say, by the way, they called FDR a communist too.
06:23They called him a communist in disguise and they called that Dr. King that too, two of the
06:27greatest leaders of the 20th century.
06:28But here they'll say, how are you going to pay for it?
06:31How are you going to pay for it?
06:32Now take it from the guy from Silicon Valley.
06:34I've got a clear idea, tax the billionaires, all 989 of them.
06:42That's not the 1%.
06:45That's not the 0.1%.
06:47It's not the 0.01%.
06:49It's the 0.001% and you tax them at 5%, you raise $4 trillion.
06:58Some say, Roe, you're calling for taxing the billionaires, it's class warfare.
07:05I've got news for them.
07:07The billionaires have already been waging a class war.
07:11They are decimating unions.
07:14They are outsourcing jobs.
07:16They are putting costs of homes out of reach.
07:20America has been in a five decades class war since the 1970s.
07:25It's time to get off the sidelines and show whose side we are on.
07:30Nearly 100 billionaires live in my district.
07:33They didn't like me because I was for the 5% California tax because I believe we should
07:37pay for poor kids' health care instead of them.
07:40Well, they ran a million-dollar candidate against me because I supported the tax.
07:45I won 63 to 6.
07:48So here's my question.
07:50If the guy representing a third of the nation's wealth in Silicon Valley can be taxing the
07:55billionaires, how is this a hard vote for 434 other members of Congress?
08:01The same class fight is now playing out with AI.
08:05This is not complicated.
08:07We must be on the side of the workers.
08:09A party against oligarchy must stand with Teamsters over Tesla, truck drivers over big trucks.
08:16Just like planes have pilots, trucks should have drivers.
08:21Tax agentic AI and robots more than human workers.
08:25Stop data centers in residential communities.
08:28Protect workers from being fired with collective bargaining rights so that they have union rights.
08:35Democrats.
08:36Democrats must put workers first in an AI age.
08:40And when I say we stand with workers, that includes our friends and neighbors who prepare
08:45our food, build our homes, and care for our children.
08:49That is why we must abolish ICE.
08:52It is a cruel rogue agency.
09:00It is an agency, and you know this, that murdered Lorenzo Salgado, replaced ICE with an immigration
09:09agency like we had from the New Deal until George W. Bush that works under justice.
09:14Here's what I want to say about this.
09:16When they shot Lorenzo, and I don't know if you saw his kids, well-educated, polite kids.
09:22When they shot Lorenzo, a construction worker, a 52-year-old father with three polite, well-raised
09:28children, they shot the American Dream.
09:32That's what they shot, those ICE officers.
09:35I'm almost done.
09:36I've got my 10 minutes.
09:37I'm just not giving Ken a heart attack here.
09:39The skeptics will say we cannot blast this agenda because of money in politics.
09:44They have a point.
09:46Our party must lead the fight to get money out of politics.
09:49That's why I support Ken Martin.
09:51No super PAC spending in Democratic parties, primaries, none, not now, not in 2028.
09:58There is no reconciliation in America without accountability.
10:02The bankers who caused the great financial crash in 2008, they belong in jail.
10:07The officials who lied us into the Iraq war, they need investigation.
10:13The Justice Department should never have delayed the January 6th cases that led Trump back into
10:18power.
10:21And so here's what I can say.
10:23When we take back the House, when we take back the Senate, we subpoena, we investigate,
10:29and we prosecute.
10:31We hold accountable.
10:34We hold accountable the powerful who stole from this nation, who doged this nation, and
10:40who kill innocent people on the streets in this nation.
10:44Accountability doesn't just stop at our borders.
10:48October 7th was a horrific terrorist attack, and it must be condemned unequivocally.
10:58But Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza, and we should have the courage to say so.
11:04I saw the apartheid system in the West Bank when I was detained there.
11:11Zero aid to Israel.
11:13No military sales of weapons used to kill civilians.
11:17And let me be clear, if our party cannot stand for these principles, it will never convince
11:22a generation that watched the horrors of Gaza on their iPhones that we mean what we say
11:28about justice.
11:31Fortunately, America has a remarkable capacity for self-correction.
11:37Look, like all of you, I believe in this country.
11:41My grandfather fought for justice, and he went to jail twice as part of Gandhi's independence
11:48movement.
11:50Today his grandson serves in the Congress, representing arguably the most economically consequential
11:56district in the world.
11:58I never thought I would get there.
12:00I was born in Philadelphia, our bicentennial year.
12:04Teachers and Little League coaches believed in me.
12:07My mother believed in me so much, and believed in America, that she would stay up late into
12:12the night with note cards of big English words, sure that if I learned every English word, maybe
12:19I would just have a shot in this country.
12:22My father would rise before dawn to go to work and still be present at every Little League
12:28game, even though I couldn't hit the ball for anything.
12:33All they asked of me was hard work and that I show up.
12:39This country gave me and my family a chance to succeed.
12:43I want a country where every American has the same chances that I had growing up.
12:50That's all.
12:52That requires a Democratic Party ready to reclaim its moral purpose and to stand for economic
12:58democracy against oligarchy.
13:00A party ready to lead the future with America's next New Deal.
13:05Let us be the party that calls on America to be bigger.
13:09Let us build an agenda that heals the divides between those who own capital and those who
13:17work with their labor, between the coasts and the factory towns, between the America that
13:24feels forgotten and the America that feels seen.
13:28Democrats, this is our generation's time to answer history's call.
13:33Well, you and I have our moment to write this next chapter.
13:37So one day they will say about us that we saved this country and did our part to build
13:43a more perfect union.
13:44Thank you for having me.
13:45Thank you for being in the fight.
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