Dylan Blaha, an Illinois National Guard member, is waging a campaign focused at bringing an affordability agenda to Washington D.C., while sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s politicization of the United States military.

In May, Blaha announced that he was challenging Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s 13th Congressional District, which stretches up from East Saint Louis in the south of the state north through Springfield, Decatur and Champaign.

In an interview with Salon, Blaha said that he was fighting to represent the district with a different sort of politics, one that rejected the influence and money of special interests and put issues of affordability for working-class families first.

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