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2,000+ bipartisan Gen Z + millennial lawmakers transcending polarization and building a better future.
06/11/2026
If you’ve ever picked up Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Empire of Pain” for your summer bookclub (you know, just a little light reading), you know that America’s opioid crisis is a public health **emergency.**
Reps. Dr. Megan Srinivas, D-Iowa, Dr. Jennifer Mandelbaum, D-N.H., and Daniel Pae, R-Okla., understand the emergency all too well and are each proposing innovative approaches to harm reduction. Woven through all their stories is the amount of dedication, listening, and cross-partisan negotiation it takes to address such a complex and widespread crisis — a threat that doesn’t care who you voted for.
When you have a background in medicine or public health research, like Srinivas and Mandelbaum, and you have the data to back your stance, like Pae, trust comes much more easily, and with that trust come policies that save lives.
The latest story in our Young Lawmakers’ Storybank highlights the work these three lawmakers are doing to shape harm reduction in their states. Link to the story in our comments!
📣 NEW Lawmakers on Lawmakers just dropped!
Nobody really talks about the whiplash of becoming a lawmaker. One day you’re living your normal life, working your job, seeing your friends, remembering to eat three meals a day… and then suddenly your calendar owns you, your phone never stops buzzing, and “free time” becomes a myth your former self once believed in.
When Rep. Vanessa Grossl, R-Ky., and Asm. Duy Nguyen, D-Nev., sat down together at Future Summit, they compared notes on the transition to public service. Across conversations about tech startups, small business ownership, family life, and the pressures of serving in a part-time legislature, Grossl and Nguyen found common ground in something new lawmakers often learn the hard way: this job changes your life.
For Grossl, serving meant stepping away from a career in tech she genuinely loved because there just wasn’t enough of her to go around anymore. For Nguyen, Nevada term limits and short biannual sessions mean constant turnover, negotiating complex policy on tight deadlines, and a STEEP learning curve.
That’s what makes Lawmakers on Lawmakers special. It’s not politicians spouting talking points at each other. It’s young leaders from across the country and political spectrum comparing candid, personal notes on how it actually feels to serve in office.
Watch the full conversation now on YouTube. Link in bio.
05/12/2026
A new chapter of leadership is beginning in Delaware! We’re excited to welcome Senator Darius Brown, D-Wilmington, as the newest co-chair of the Delaware Future Caucus, where he’ll join Rep. Michael Smith, R-Pike Creek Valley, in leading a new generation of cross-partisan leadership in the First State.
Since being elected in 2018, Brown has built a reputation as one of Delaware’s leading voices on criminal justice reform and economic opportunity, helping advance landmark bipartisan legislation like the Clean Slate Act and Adult Expungement Reform Act. As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a Future Caucus Criminal Justice Innovation Fellow, he’s shown what bold, solutions-oriented leadership can look like in practice.
We’re excited for what’s ahead in Delaware. Join us in welcoming Sen. Brown to Future Caucus leadership! 👏
05/11/2026
Gen Zers and millennials across the country are proving that when elected, they get sh*t done. (Y’all mind if we cuss a little?) 🤭
A new feature from The Renovator on Substack tells the story of two lawmakers in our network who are getting sh*t DONE! Rep. Aaron Pilkington, R-Knoxville, and Rep. Ashley Hudson, D-Little Rock, both co-chairs of the Arkansas Future Caucus, came together across party lines to confront their state’s maternal mortality crisis.
Through Future Caucus’ Prenatal-to-Three Innovation Fellowship, Pilkington and Hudson spent months researching the issue, consulting with healthcare providers, Medicaid administrators, policy experts, advocates, and families to better understand the gaps in care and what meaningful solutions could look like.
What emerged became the bipartisan Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act, a sweeping maternal health package signed into law last year by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
But this story is about more than one bill.
The article highlights how at Future Caucus we’re helping a rising generation of leaders to tackle the issues shaping everyday life for young Americans: maternal health, childcare, housing affordability, AI, workforce development, and more.
This story is worth your time. Head to the link in our bio to read it.
In 2024, just months into his freshman term, Rep. Justis Gibbs, D-Miss., came to Washington, D.C. to begin his Future Caucus Innovation Fellowship experience. On day one, he sat down with Rep. Dawson Holle, R-N.D., to film this Lawmakers on Lawmakers conversation, where he told Holle about a bill he hoped to introduce back home in Mississippi.
The idea for the bill came after hearing the story of Susie Balfour, a formerly incarcerated woman with breast cancer she believed was linked to years of handling harsh cleaning chemicals in prison every day, for hours on end, without protective equipment such as respirators. When Gibbs learned Mississippi had no written policies to protect inmates doing janitorial work, he knew something had to change.
So he got to work.
In 2025, he introduced legislation to address the problem. It fell short of the votes needed to pass in the Senate. But he didn’t walk away. He spent the next year refining the bill, building relationships, and doing the hard work of finding common cause across political lines.
On April 6, 2026, Gov. Tate Reeves signed H.B. 1444 into law.
Gibbs’ story is a reminder that meaningful change rarely happens in one dramatic moment. It happens when leaders are willing to listen deeply, stay in the fight after setbacks, and demonstrate vulnerability to build the trust required to move good ideas forward.
That is the work Future Caucus was created to champion: equipping a rising generation of lawmakers to bridge divides, lead with courage through uncertainty, and prove that politics can still be a force for dignity, problem-solving, and results.
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