Wolves - Dec. 5, 2023

CHRISTIANSEN: When I was a little girl, a wolf hunted our family farm. It wasn't content to pick off a chicken or the family dog, it wanted the whole farm. My father found work but the wolves found him. My parents always thought they'd catch a break, but they never did.

The wolves came for Mom-and-Pop stores, they came for cheap prescription medicine, they came for affordable homes, they came for college loans. Forget inflation, wages never kept up with corporate greed.

So I went to school and scholarship. I became an agricultural engineer, fell in love, found a great job, started a family, had three kids, and invented two patents for cargo, and made them a killing.

When the wolves came to reorganize the company, they found me too. Their first solution every time: cut jobs. Because to them, we're the problem. It's not their risky behaviors, it's not their bad investments, it's our livelihoods, our health care, our mortgages, our working-class dreams.

I'm Katrina Christiansen. I'm running for U.S. Senate because Congress hasn't passed meaningful antitrust, pro-family legislation in almost 100 years. They abandon family farms, they abandon American manufacturing, they turned health care into a trillion-dollar industry, and they let Amazon and Walmart hunt family businesses to extinction. Wolves. And Congress hasn't culled the pack since Teddy Roosevelt was president.

I'm an engineer, and I can tell you: problems like we're facing don't fix themselves. We got to be tougher, and smarter, and more stubborn than the forces that are bankrupting the American middle class. My kids have no concept of the poverty I grew up with. The insecurity and shame. And as long as they're under my roof, they won't.

And our senator should feel that way about us. Should be protective of each of our children, our rights, our health, our land and water, our safety, our national security. Our senators shouldn't be afraid to face the wolves.