A renewed round of leadership elections at the Democratic National Committee is underway after the elections of Vice Chairs David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta were vacated, and Oklahoma’s DNC representative Kalyn Free is the reason why.
Oklahoma rarely gets a spot on the national Democratic stage — given its bright red electorate and all-Republican congressional delegation. But Free wants to change that.
“There’s rural America in every state in the country, and until we start listening to the voters in rural America, we are never going to earn back their trust and their votes,” she told NOTUS in an interview. “The voice that I bring to the DNC is a voice that is not currently being heard, and that is a voice from rural America and a voice from Indian Country.”