The Democratic primary race to replace Seth Moulton has just gotten more crowded.

In a fiery announcement video (embedded below), the candidate, Dr. Mariah Lancaster, said, “We’re all getting screwed as billionaire oligarchs divide us and distract us.”

“They’re profiting off the pain of working Americans,” the candidate said.

A veterinary surgeon and former civil servant, Lancaster is 36 and identifies as non-binary, according to Politico.

Lancaster “served as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department, combating environmental crime and corruption around the globe, and then as a staffer in Congress, helping Democratic Congresswomen shape policy on issues from agriculture to national security,” according to their website.

Lancaster said families cannot afford groceries or medicine, and that politicians in Washington show little interest in the plight of working people. “This is the fight we’re in,” they said.

“We need leaders not politicians that send strongly worded letters, deliver canned remarks and just go home,” they said.

Among Lancaster’s progressive goals are the prohibition of stock trading by members of Congress and a ban on Citizens United.

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