New York congressional candidate  Lauren Ashcraft  on running a 100% people powered & 100% grassroots campaign, disbanding and defunding ICE, addressing New York's housing crisis, tackling corporate money in politics, the future of women's rights and ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, why politicians and businesses have opposed attempts to give increased rights to workers and why she is proposing a federal jobs guarantee.

You can find out more about her on Twitter @VoteAshcraft or at LaurenAschraft.com.

The Hardy Report is a political news and current affairs podcast, bringing you interviews with a range of activists, campaigners and politicians from across the political spectrum in the United States and the United Kingdom.