David Hogg is the Co-Founder of March for Our Lives and a Harvard Student. He met Maxwell Frost, Congressman representing Florida's Temicingressional District in 2011. "I wouldn't say that I'm always hopeful by any means considering that what happens every day in this country at this issue," he says.
Five years after March for Our Lives, one of the historic protest’s organizers and his historic friend explain why it’s easy to forget how much progress has been made. Plus, Rep. Frost breaks some news about his first proper piece of legislation.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram and Noel King.
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