Here's the truth:

Too many people in my district struggle to make ends meet. They struggled before the pandemic and they’re still struggling today.

This is true for millions around the country, including those who are too ashamed to admit they’re only 1 or 2 paychecks away from poverty.

OH-11 has one of the nation’s highest poverty rates, but even the working poor and barely middle class are finding it impossible to build a life of economic dignity.

We are often led to believe that our financial struggles are the result of our own shortcomings, but the truth is we have a system set up deliberately to crush people who aren't already wealthy and well-connected. This isn't about individual failings — we all are going to make mistakes. Heck, even corporations make mistakes.

The difference is that individual people are shamed and ridiculed and held responsible for their mistakes. But you can be a mega corporation and go bankrupt 10, 20, 30 times and be rewarded for that. You can bamboozle people and be rewarded for that. We’re talking about greed on the backs and the necks of everyday people of this nation, and it’s disgusting.

Today it’s popular to say that trickle down economics was a scam, but years of legalized corruption in DC is the result of both parties having been complicit in the erosion of the middle class.

Our economy is the victim of years of deregulation, attacks on worker rights, trade deals written by corporations, financialization and extreme concentrations of wealth for CEOs and the top 1%.

As the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth, we all should be embarrassed and ashamed that there is such a thing as the working poor.

Yes, it seems like the tide is finally turning in favor of working people, and that politicians are more open to addressing their direct needs over that of corporations — but we can’t forget that this is only a drop in the bucket when compared to the decades of influence that the wealthy have had in designing our current system.

The reality is that the American Rescue Plan and the proposed infrastructure spending is only the tip of the iceberg in centering regular people in our political and economic systems.

We must have the courage to ask for more — at every step of the way and at every opportunity we get (because we may not have too many).

That’s why I’m running for Congress: because something new must be done so that the poor, the working poor, and the barely middle class don’t have to continue to struggle.

It's time we finally make this government work for ALL of us.

With these hands,

Nina Turner

Nina Turner is running for Congress to fight for ALL of us. But she’s up against Super PACs, corporate interests, and Republican billionaire donors who are willing to do and spend whatever it takes to stop our grassroots movement and maintain the status quo.

If you can afford it, please make a contribution to our campaign today. Together, we can send Nina to Congress, where she’ll fight for policies that put PEOPLE over profits. Every donation makes a big difference, because the ONLY way Nina is going to be able to win is if people like you get involved.

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