


Former Reps. Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman, previously members of the progressive congressional “Squad,” announced they’re starting a YouTube show about how what’s happening in Congress isn’t working better for “you.”
“We’re here to talk about the big picture, to show you what’s going on in America,” Bush said Thursday in a video she and Bowman posted on social media. Bush represented Missouri as a Democrat from 2021 until this past January.
“We’ll be breaking down what’s really happening in Washington, D.C.,” said Bowman, who served as a Democratic congressman in New York until this past January. Bush said they will review “the corruption, the lobbying, the big money and how it could all be working better for you but isn’t.”
The show will be titled “Bowman and Bush” and will be released monthly, Bush said in an X post.
The former lawmakers will explore what they called the “powerful influence of big money,” according to Bush, who said some organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), spent millions to unseat and silence her.
AIPAC, which expressed opposition to the congresswoman’s disapproval of Israel amid the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, spent more than $8 million as Bush and her opponent, Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., campaigned, according to The New York Times.
The organization also reportedly spent $15 million helping Bowman’s opponent in the Democratic primary election, Rep. George Latimer, D-N.Y. Bowman said “special interests” came after him.
“My belief in standing with working people and fighting for what’s right meant that for some people, I was saying the wrong thing at the wrong time,” he said.
Latimer, the executive of Westchester County in New York, said after his victory in the primary that he believes in the “inclusion of everybody,” no matter the demographic. Bell, the former St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, said after his win “running a positive message is the right thing to do.”
Bush said in the Thursday announcement she was fighting for people and standing “on the side of justice.”
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