Tennessee’s Justin Pearson takes on America’s most contentious issues
The progressive candidate won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on voting rights, datacenters and the US war machineJustin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seatJustin Pearson made national headlines as one of the “Tennessee Three” – the state lawmakers expelled from the capitol protesting for gun control after a deadly school shooting. Three years later, the state representative won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on some of America’s most contentious fault lines: voting rights, datacenters and the American war machine.“Republicans are responding to elected officials who stand up to billion-dollar datacenters, and the billionaires who own them.
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The progressive candidate won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on voting rights, datacenters and the US war machineJustin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seatJustin Pearson made national headlines as one of the “Tennessee Three” – the state lawmakers expelled from the capitol protesting for gun control after a deadly school shooting. Three years later, the state representative won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on some of America’s most contentious fault lines: voting rights, datacenters and the American war machine.“Republicans are responding to elected officials who stand up to billion-dollar datacenters, and the billionaires who own them. Democrats are responding to a vision of Medicare for All, ending genocide,” said Pearson. “The confluence that is happening between those issues, is [that] who profits off of war are the same people who are profiting off of polluting our communities and stealing our drinking water for their datacenters that replace our jobs.” Continue reading...
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- The progressive candidate won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on voting rights, datacenters and the US war machineJustin Pearson and Brent Taylor win primaries for key Tennessee House seatJustin Pearson made national headlines as one of the “Tennessee Three” – the state lawmakers expelled from the capitol protesting for gun control after a deadly school shooting. Three years later, the state representative won a Democratic congressional primary after boldly staking positions on some of America’s most contentious fault lines: voting rights, datacenters and the American war machine.“Republicans are responding to elected officials who stand up to billion-dollar datacenters, and the billionaires who own them.
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