Matt Kopydlowski is a Democratic organizer with roughly a decade of campaign experience across Idaho and Montana — paid field staff, a national delegate for Barack Obama, a state delegate for Bernie Sanders, and an organizer with Reclaim Idaho during its grassroots fight to expand Medicaid. He was pursuing a Master of Public Administration at Boise State when, nearly eight years ago, a traumatic brain injury sustained while canvassing ended his career and his studies. He's now in active, self-directed recovery and fighting to rebuild. Eight years of slower processing, broken sleep, constant ringing in his ears, and the isolation of an injury no one can see — he looks fine while he's fighting his own mind to do ordinary things. But he hasn't stopped fighting, and it's working: hyperbaric oxygen therapy has already reversed a screen sensitivity so severe he'd been forced onto a special display just to use a computer. That's proof this is winnable.
The next step is Cerebrolysin — a brain-repair therapy used across Europe and Asia but unavailable here — which means traveling to access it. That's what he's raising toward: a real shot at getting his brain, and his life, back. Show up, and help him get there. The movie we're showing on Thursday, On the Basis of Sex, is made possible by the Twin Falls Democratic Party and is open to the public free of charge. Donations, however, are welcome and will benefit Matt directly. The movie will start at 7pm, Thursday, June 25th. It's the story of the story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Matt chose this movie for his fund raiser.