Breaking The Meta

SUPPORT THE FILM GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-perfect-date-film Gratitud3 Productions: https://gratitud3.com Instagram: @gratitud3productions AI in Hollywood came for microdrama actors first. Lawson Greyson's face was replaced without her consent - so she co-founded a studio that won't use it. Lawson Greyson has been in more than 40 vertical microdramas. She has married billion...

Emily Fisher is running for Idaho House District 23, a grassroots candidate in one of Idaho's reddest seats. Water, tariffs, farm labor, and trust. She's a business coach and an artist, not a politician, and her family has farmed and ranched in Idaho for over a century. District 23 stretches from southern Nampa to the Oregon border to the Nevada border out to Mountain Home — enormous, rural, agric...

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,...

Iran war analysis with former CIA case officer Adam Dunigan, running in Virginia's 8th district: Pentagon casualty numbers, the War Powers loophole, and what happens next. Adam Dunigan spent years as a Marine and then as a CIA case officer working against the IRGC. He holds a master's certificate from Harvard in nuclear strategy and deterrence theory. He is also primarying a sitting Democrat in on...

Georgia House District 11 candidate Ryan Fountain on AI grocery pricing, affordability, rural hospitals, and school vouchers — no PAC money. Ryan Fountain is an ATM technician from Ball Ground running for Georgia's State House District 11 (Pickens, parts of Cherokee & Forsyth) — a district that, by his own account, has never sent a Democrat to office. He's not a career politician. He doesn't t...

Cherokee Sampson is running for U.S. Senate in Virginia as an independent — no PAC money, no party machine. We talk data centers, electricity bills, congressional stock trading, and why she walked away from a city council seat rather than override her own constituents. Cherokee is an Appalachian mother of three from Galax, Virginia, a published poet, a small business owner, and a former Port Riche...

Amanda Bell spent 25 years as a USGS water-quality scientist and rose to deputy director, then DOGE cuts and forced firings pushed her out, and she's now running for Congress in Wisconsin's 6th District. In this Breaking the Meta interview, she breaks down what she saw inside the federal government, why she refused to falsify employee records, and how a grassroots, no-PAC-money campaign plans to f...

The Graham Platner scandal forced a hard reckoning on the left. Two candidates — Alani Bankhead (MT-Sen) & Victoria Broderick (TN-04) — unpack it. For nearly a year, Graham Platner looked like the future of the Democratic Party in Maine: a plain-spoken oyster farmer and combat veteran built to finally unseat Susan Collins. Then it fell apart — an SS Nazi tattoo, multiple allegations from multi...

Amanda Nelson (@Amandasmildtakes) built Y'all Vote to flip Southern statehouses after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act. Here's the plan. Amanda has nearly 2 million followers — but the real power of Y'all Vote is the creator with 500. In this episode of Breaking the Meta, we dig into how a coalition of Southern content creators is funding 100 competitive state house, state senate, governor, and...

Kaylee Peterson won Idaho's Democratic primary with nearly 90% — now she's trying to flip one of the reddest districts in America against Rep. Russ Fulcher. She's back on Breaking the Meta for the first time since our very first interview. In a district the size of four states — 12 hours end to end, 1.2 million people, 63% federally owned — Kaylee lays out why she believes there's a real path to v...

Yen Bailey is running for US Congress in Florida's 2nd District, a 16-county, largely rural stretch where she says no candidate had campaigned in years before her 2024 run. A former ethics lawyer and Guardian ad Litem advocate, Bailey talks with Breaking the Meta about the affordability crisis hitting nearly half her district, the collapse of ACA subsidies and its life-or-death stakes for rural ho...

Aisha Farooqi is running for Michigan's 11th District on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and getting corporate money out of politics. The only woman in a crowded MI-11 race, Aisha sits down with Breaking the Meta for an honest, unscripted conversation about who she is and what she'll actually fight for. A child of immigrants who came to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1993, she grew up in Detroit Publ...

Jason Pearce is the Democrat running for Texas District 4 against Pat Fallon in 2026 — and he spent just $1,500 to nearly pull it off. 🔗 Support Jason: pearcefortexas.com Jason Pearce sat down with Breaking the Meta to talk about his run for Texas's 4th Congressional District: why he left his job last October to campaign full time, the affordability and education fights voters keep raising, his p...

Across Georgia, dozens of races have no Democrat on the ballot at all. Bob Herndon is out to change that—one unwinnable district at a time. In 2022, 51 Republicans in the Georgia state house ran completely unopposed. This cycle, Fighting 50 cut that number to 22. Executive Director Bob Herndon sits down with Mike to explain how a group that started with five people on a Zoom call now backs 70 cand...

Fail at your job, you get a performance plan. Shavonne Hedgepeth says Congress should too. A grassroots run in Maryland's 4th District (MD-04). Shavonne Hedgepeth works in capital planning at Metro by day and is running for Congress in Maryland's 4th by night — a "pragmatic progressive" who refuses to promise things a freshman can't deliver. In this episode she breaks down the real pain points in...

Georgia House District 120 candidate Suzanna Karatassos on healthcare, Medicaid expansion, childcare, and Georgia's $5.15 minimum wage. In this episode of Breaking the Meta, Leila sits down with Suzanna Karatassos, a Democrat running for Georgia House District 120 in the Athens area — a heavily gerrymandered seat spanning Clark, Barrow, Jackson, and Oconee counties. A SCAD graduate and political c...

Denise Slipy is a first responder running for Minnesota Senate District 6 — and she's winning over Republicans. Rural healthcare, ICE, and common sense. Denise Slipy never planned to be a politician. A reserve police officer and first responder from the Brainerd Lakes area, she stepped up after the seat opened unexpectedly — won her community's endorsement, took the special election in April, and...

What does a Justice of the Peace actually do — and why is it one of the most important votes on your 2026 ballot? Marine veteran Will Robertson ("Sergeant Rob") sits down with Mike Winson to break down the court most people ignore, and why it matters now more than ever in rapidly-growing Denton County, Texas. From an infantry machine gunner at Camp Pendleton to Marine security guard postings in em...

Yes, his last name is Epstein. No, he's not related. Rob Epstein is running for Georgia State House District 23 — and his story is more interesting than the name. A 30-year tech leader turned political first-timer, Rob lost his wife to cancer in May 2024, retired, prayed on what came next, and felt called to run in one of the reddest pockets of Cherokee County. In this conversation we get into: →...

Lauren Pinkston is running for Tennessee Governor as a true independent. She's never registered with either party — and she has a plan. In this episode of Breaking the Meta, Mike Winson sits down with Lauren Pinkston — counter-trafficking researcher, PhD in community development, mother of four, and lifelong Tennessean — to talk about why a state that votes deep red is actually one of the lowest-t...

he grew up in a birther household. Now Heidi Sinsley is running for NC House District 69 against Dean Arp → https://sinsleyfornc.com Heidi Sinsley is the Democratic candidate for North Carolina House District 69, a Union County seat held since 2013 by Republican Dean Arp — one of the legislators responsible for North Carolina still operating on a 2023 state budget. She's a young attorney, a new mo...

Rob Cooper is the Democratic candidate for Florida's 6th Congressional District (FL-6), a Marine veteran challenging Republican Randy Fine in the 2026 primary. From 7 months in a county jail cell to running for Congress, Rob's path is the kind America keeps saying it wants but rarely elects — a US Marine Corps veteran, addiction recovery advocate, and nonprofit founder who's spent the last 8 years...

Ashley Painter is running for SC House District 117 in Berkeley County — challenging incumbent Jordan Pace and the SC Freedom Caucus he chairs. Donate or learn more: https://www.ashleypainter.com A former foster youth who aged out at 18, Ashley spent her career in human services — family-based therapy, foster care and adoptions, and substance use counseling. She's now a small business owner and mo...

Andy Biggs is leaving AZ-05. Nurse Elizabeth Lee is running to replace him in Arizona's 5th district — no corporate PAC, no AIPAC, 2026 Congress. Andy Biggs vacated Arizona's 5th congressional district to run for governor, leaving AZ-05 wide open for the 2026 midterms. Elizabeth Lee — a board-certified reproductive health and infertility nurse with over a decade fixing broken healthcare systems, i...

Georgia House District 127 candidate Channing Von T. Taylor sits down with Breaking the Meta to talk about running for office in Augusta after surviving homelessness, military discrimination, and a system he says failed him at every turn. An Army veteran who deployed to Iraq, Channing was a commissioned officer at Fort Gordon/Fort Eisenhower when his music career took off — and he was retaliated a...