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Commentary: Congress may soon have its first Gen Z member. He gives young people like me hope

Maxwell Frost survived a shooting once. It was 2016 and Frost, then 19, was attending an outdoor Halloween event in downtown Orlando when two men beside him began shooting at each other, sending hundreds scrambling. He escaped unharmed, but the incident became one of many moments that motivated Frost’s activism against gun violence — and now a run for public office. Frost is the first member ...
Maxwell Frost, national organizing director for March for Our Lives, speaks during a March for Our Lives Florida drive-in rally and aid event at Tinker Field in Orlando on Friday, March 26, 2021.

Maxwell Frost survived a shooting once.

It was 2016 and Frost, then 19, was attending an outdoor Halloween event in downtown Orlando when two men beside him began shooting at each other, sending hundreds scrambling. He escaped unharmed, but the incident became one of many moments that motivated Frost’s activism against gun violence — and now a run for public office. Frost is the first member of Generation Z to win a primary election for Congress in the U.S., giving young people across America fresh optimism

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