On Episode 236 of The Qasim Rashid Show:
Sara Wiles and Amanda Informed held down the mic for me and put together an all-Florida lineup. With Florida's primary election tomorrow, August 18, they sat down with four Floridians running for federal office—Oliver Larkin, Bernard Taylor, Elijah Manley, and State Representative Angie Nixon—to talk about why they're running, what they love about a state that keeps getting written off, and what the rest of the country still misunderstands about the people who actually live in Florida. Tune into the full episode above.
First up Oliver Larkin, running for Congress in Florida’s 25th District, returns once again to the show. After a decade in the progressive movement as an organizer and strategist, he’s challenging Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s record—rated Florida’s least effective member of Congress and the first Democrat to join DOGE—with a vision for South Florida free of corporate PAC money and congressional stock trading.
Then, Amanda and Sara interview Bernard Taylor, a fourth-generation Floridian, longtime EMT and paramedic, now running for Congress in Florida’s 21st District. He explains how years of reacting to preventable crises—seniors discharged after Medicaid and Medicare cuts, families rationing medication—convinced him it’s time to legislate instead of just responding to the fallout.
You can watch those two interviews on our YouTube channel:
On the Qasim Rashid Show podcast, Sara and Amanda also sit down with Elijah Manley, an educator and organizer running for Congress in Florida’s 20th District, builds his platform on his own childhood experience with poverty, homelessness, and Medicaid. He argues that lived experience—knowing exactly what a Medicaid or SNAP cut means for a family like his—is what separates his advocacy from every other candidate in the race.
And last up, State Representative Angie Nixon is running for U.S. Senate to unseat Ashley Moody. Drawing on her own years as a single mom relying on government assistance, Rep. Angie Nixon is calling for bold, unapologetic leadership in Washington that answers to working people instead of billionaires.
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