Episode 116 with Guest Laura Moser

An American author and politician, the founder of the anti-Trump resistance movement Daily Action. She is a candidate for the United States Congress in Texas's 7th congressional district for the Democratic Party. Moser published her first book, an "efficient, compact" biography of the actress Bette Davis, in 2005.[5] With her friend Lauren Mechling, she co-authored a series of young adult novels about the experiences of a girl who moves from Houston to Brooklyn.[6] She contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and The Jewish Daily Forward. She worked as the education columnist at Slate.com, where she explored many areas of policy. Following the United States presidential election, 2016, Moser founded an organization called Daily Action.[8] In 2017, she moved back to Texas's 7th congressional district to run for Congress in 2018.[9] In March 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) attracted widespread condemnation for funding opposition research against her, a move that was widely perceived as helping Moser make the runoff against the establishment favorite, attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher. In that primary on March 6, 2018 she earned 24.3% of the vote after Fletcher's 29.3%, in the seven-candidate field. The run-off is May 22. [10][11] Tom Perez, who became the chair of the Democratic National Committee after the downfall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2016, had broken ranks and criticized the DCCC's opposition to Moser.[12]