Troy Jackson has a hell of a story. He’s a fifth-generation Maine logger who got into politics because he was angry about the way working people were being treated in America. And, he once opposed abortion rights. So what changed? He listened. To women, doctors, and people in his own community. “I just started to understand that I was wrong on this issue,” he tells Mini. And then? He did something about it. As president of the Maine Senate, he helped pass some of the strongest reproductive freedom protections in the country. Now he’s running for the U.S. Senate against SusanCollins–the Senator who took the deciding vote for Brett Kavanaugh. And we are so here for it.
Troy Jackson has a hell of a story.
He’s a fifth-generation Maine logger who got into politics because he was angry about the way working people were being treated in America.
And, he once opposed abortion rights.
So what changed? He listened. To women, doctors, and people in his own community. “I just started to understand that I was wrong on this issue,” he tells Mini.
And then? He did something about it.
As president of the Maine Senate, he helped pass some of the strongest reproductive freedom protections in the country.
Now he’s running for the U.S. Senate against SusanCollins–the Senator who took the deciding vote for Brett Kavanaugh. And we are so here for it.
In this episode of My Body. My Pod., host Mini Timmaraju sits down with Troy in Portland, Maine, to talk about what changed for him, why abortion is health care, and why reproductive freedom is part of the affordability conversation – whether politicians want to admit it or not.
They also talk about power: who has it, who doesn’t, and what happens when regular people decide they’ve had enough.
And, yes, they talk about what it takes to send Susan Collins packing.
Collins has repeatedly stood by her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, who overturned Roe. Troy helped make Maine a national leader on reproductive freedom. And that contrast? It is at the heart of one of the most important Senate races in the country.
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