The Candidate Who Cares So Much She Stopped Caring
Victoria Broderick is running for Congress in Tennessee's 4th District, a working-class mom taking on establishment money days before her primary.
She's done it once already. In 2024 she ran for five months with no name recognition, no establishment connections, and almost no money — and pulled 28% of the vote in one of the reddest districts in Tennessee. This time she has four primary opponents, two and a half years of on-the-ground work, and a theory of how a grassroots campaign beats corporate PAC money.
We get into all of it: what running for office actually costs you (including your…
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