Leo Murrieta - "Ordinary People"
Host Erika Washington sits down with Leo Murrieta — former Executive Director of Make the Road Nevada and proud "recovering executive director" — to talk about what real organizing looks like, the price of citizenship, and why staying moderate is a losing game.
Leo shares his journey from arriving in the U.S. as a week-old baby to navigating notario fraud, discovering he'd been a citizen for a decade without knowing it, and leading one of Nevada's largest Latino power-building organizations for nearly nine years. He also opens up about the night of the Route 91 massacre — and what it taught him about who gets left behind.
From grassroots base-building to the 2028 presidential primary, Leo and Erika get into what's broken in progressive politics, who the real leaders are (hint: they're not in the title), and what the American dream means for a queer immigrant who's spent his career fighting for others.
- (00:00) - SNC S3 Leo Murrieta - "Ordinary People"
- (00:41) - Introduction
- (02:39) - Who Is Leo Murrieta?
- (03:59) - How Leo Got Into Politics
- (07:27) - The Citizenship Journey & Notario Fraud
- (16:30) - Route 91 & Make the Road Nevada
- (25:55) - Lessons from Nine Years as Executive Director
- (27:44) - Leadership, Power & the Political Landscape
- (40:08) - Grassroots Organizing vs. Voter Mobilization
- (51:22) - Nevada as Second in the Nation & 2028
- (59:49) - Rejecting Moderate Politics
- (01:08:16) - What Is Democracy?
- (01:13:59) - The American Dream
- (01:19:11) - Closing Reflections
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