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The 22 Very Online Upstarts Changing the Face of Politics
Introducing WIRED’s 2025 Political Power Users—the creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era.
The rest of her social media is just as earnest and direct, featuring front-facing videos that ground her progressive policies in her life experience: Foxx was raised by a single mom, experienced homelessness, and relied on federally funded programs like Section 8 and Title X. She’s part of the West Wing’s new, young, and vocally right-wing press corps, and her outfits alone generated entire news cycles early in the second Trump administration—mostly thanks to the Daily Mail compiling social media scoldings over her more casual attire. It used to be a predictable arc for those who wanted to climb the Democratic Party ranks: Spend a few terms on the back benches of Congress or in a state legislature, gain some seniority, get a leadership role on a good committee, and then, maybe, you could say you had arrived.
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