In 2016 there were 26 televised debates. Not one hour—not one debate—was dedicated to systemic poverty. And not one hour was dedicated to systemic racist voter suppression, ecological devastation, militarism or the war economy.

We can’t let another election cycle simply engage the usual politics of Left versus Right. As we’ve seen during these past three days of the Poor People’s Moral Action Congress, we are building the kind of power that can change the political conversation to be about what’s right and what’s wrong.