On the campaign trail in 2024, Pramila Jayapal got the feeling that the country was about to experience a second term of President Trump. “I can’t tell you that it feels at all better to have known,” she says. In her fifth term as the congressperson representing Seattle, Jayapal has emerged as a progressive leader who uses her activist background to craft Resistance Lab classes on effective opposition. She’s not only the first South Asian American woman elected to the House but is also an immigrant. As she argues against deportations and revocations of student visas, she says her own memories of arriving from India as a 16-year-old to study
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