With the primaries over, one might assume that the Democratic Party won’t be seeing any more blue-on-blue House races until the 2020 cycle. But Washington’s non-partisan jungle primary, there exists one last chance for the left to unseat a Democratic House incumbent with a more progressive challenger, just as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley did in NY-14 and MA-07 respectively. That chance comes in the form of 30-year-old democratic socialist Sarah Smith.

Running in Washington’s 9th, a district Cook Political Report rates D+21, Sarah Smith is challenging two-decade incumbent Democrat Adam Smith. The two Democratic Smiths – no relation – beat out Republican Doug Basler in the primary, creating a rare general election with high intra-party ideological stakes.

Though Adam Smith only votes with Donald Trump 12.6% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight, Sarah Smith believes that her district deserves better. Sarah Smith cites her incumbent’s foreign policy as particularly concerning – Adam Smith voted for the Iraq War, voted against a ban on cluster bomb sales to Saudi Arabia, and to this day votes to increase military spending, even with the knowledge that Donald Trump is sitting in the Oval Office with a blank check for war.

Additionally, Sarah Smith is critical of the fact that Adam Smith takes corporate money. In the 2018 cycle alone, Adam Smith has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from defense contractors, which might explain why he votes in favor of military budgets that finance the very same defense contractors that support his re-election campaigns. Sarah Smith, on the other hand, eschews corporate money and proudly identifies herself with the working-class rather than the top 1% that rule Washington.

Sarah Smith joined us on the podcast to discuss ICE abolition, criminal justice reform, legalizing sex work, anti-imperialist foreign policy, and more. Listen on iTunes or in your browser below:

Full disclosure: Millennial Politics Podcast Host Jordan Valerie Allen currently serves as Chief Policy Director of Brand New Congress, the organization that kicked off Sarah Smith’s campaign.