Flipping the 7th: How Aftyn Behn's Campaign is Raising Hell in Tennessee's Red Heartland

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Y'all, the Republican machine wants you to think Tennessee's 7th Congressional District is theirs for the taking. They're dead wrong.

In this episode, we sit down with Kate Briefs, the Boston-bred, immigrant-raised campaign manager who's helping Aftyn Behn turn what everyone called a "safe red seat" into a battlefield. This ain't your typical campaign —this is grassroots organizing with teeth, stretching from Clarksville to the Alabama border across 14 counties.

Kate pulls back the curtain on how they're building something real in just six weeks—not with political mercenaries and consultants, but with organizers working out of homes, volunteers skipping Thanksgiving to knock doors, and folks from across the planet making calls in the middle of the night because they believe Tennessee deserves better.

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Aftyn BehnDistrict 7Progressive SouthDemocrat