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Featuring: Christina Hines, Democratic | Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, 10th Congressional District

The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines

Published November 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 11:46

And you don't have to. Right? That is preventable. Yeah. A biometric locks, that's what you need. And they're free. And like, well, biometric ones aren't always free, but like A gun lock, at least get a gun lock. And those are free from almost any police department that I know of in the community. Yes. Mock your guns. Lock your guns. Lock your guns. Don't make this thing after you. So every case of child abuse tells two stories. (11:46–11:53)

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“Trump was going to dismantle the Department of Education via executive order.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 05:24-05:29
“80% of these [child sexual abuse] cases go unreported in the first place.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 16:37-16:40
“We had over 10,000 of them [untested sexual assault kits] right in Detroit alone. Although I think it was over 14,000 in Detroit alone.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 19:54-20:00
“Sex torture has increased over 300% in the last couple of years.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 23:28-23:33
“I grew up in Warren, Michigan. I am a Macomb county girly.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 01:23-01:28
“I went through the Woodland Public schools.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 01:28-01:31
“I took classes at Macomb Community College.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 01:30-01:34
“I got to go to the University of Michigan.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 01:35-01:38
“He [Don James] still doesn't live there. He doesn't do any town halls.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 01:45-44:37
“I was recruited over to Washtenaw county to be the chief of [the] Next Special Edition.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 03:25-03:30
“We started the restorative justice program there that's unique in [the] state because it's both juvenile and adult offenders.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 03:38-03:46
“Last year, you know, over in Macomb county, we've got Pete Lucito as our prosecutor who has sexual harassment allegations and was…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 03:50-04:03
“I was like the top Democratic vote getter in [Macomb] county and overperformed our presidential nominee and our congressional nominee.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 04:32-04:41
“Being a child abuse prosecutor really made me realize that my biggest blessing in life was just growing up with two parents that left and…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 07:31-07:40
“The number of people that don't have [a stable family environment] really does start to explain a lot of the stuff that's going wrong in our…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 07:43-07:52
“Secure firearms. I've handled over a dozen of those cases. And I mean, completely preventable.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 10:44-10:52
“There's only a couple types of cases that are 100% completely preventable and [unsecured firearms] is one of them.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 10:52-10:59
“If we could do more on affordable housing, we are going to prevent child abuse.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 13:11-13:18
“If we could do more on free or at least affordable child care, we would do an accredit loan on preventing child abuse.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 13:17-13:29
“We have childcare deserts across our community.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 13:46-13:49
“There was just a study that came out from SU a couple weeks ago that showed for every mile a daycare is away from a woman who has a baby…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 13:49-14:01
“We're not doing anything to support working families in this country.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 14:21-14:25
“We don't have affordable child care. That is a safety issue.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 15:07-15:11
“When it came to child sexual abuse, it was often men who were family members or men who were new boyfriends.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 15:49-15:59
“The fact that we have these sexual assault kit initiatives across the state right now, the only reason we have them is because at some point…”
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“Systemically we have not been believing women, particularly women of color.”
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“Social media platforms are allowing human trafficking to happen on their platforms.”
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“We could double the number of officers in the Michigan State Police in the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, it still would not…”
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“NCMEC is the national center for Missing and Exploited Children and their website has just a plethora of information for people.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 24:56-25:08
“Officers got trauma-informed training.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 28:57-29:04
“I really think that [trauma-informed training] should be mandatory.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 29:05-29:07
“Department of Health and Human Services always has a shortage of actual CIS workers or adult protective service workers.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 31:14-31:26
“Most of the social workers in our state are living, you know, somewhere in the 30 to $50,000 range.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 32:04-32:11
“Kids are not telling the truth just as much as adults are basically not telling the truth. I think it's somewhere between the 2 and 7%…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 34:48-34:58
“We have innocent people in prison.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 35:19-35:21
“It is so critical that we have trained professionals in the social work, law enforcement, prosecutors offices, judges to pursue the truth.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 35:30-35:45
“We are not doing what we should be doing for kids because of this [systemic issues].”
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“Until we start lifting up wages, right. Until we make sure that, you know, people can take care of their families, and until we start really…”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 40:11-40:30
“We just had a person who was literally living in our emergency room with mental health issues.”
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“Until we focus in on housing, wages, healthcare, and I do think those are big issues that are really playing into this as well.”
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“Minimum wage, seven hospital, like a big Mac meal with the prize, with the true cost, like seven bucks. Right now it's the same, but…”
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“We've had Don James at our prosecutor for the last couple of years and he's been a total absence member of our community.”
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“Our educational systems are, you know, falling behind.”
The Silent Majority Podcast Ep. 4 Featuring Christina Hines | Uploaded November 20, 2025 | 45:20-45:25
“Social Security is a huge one for me.”
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“It's probably going to double because of the Republican budget bill.”
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“The effects that are going to happen as a result of these Medicaid costs are really going to devastate our communities.”
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“The reality of cutting people off from Medicaid just by making them do more paperwork.”
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“When people do not have doctors to go through to go to the primary care physician, they only end up in hospital emergency rooms.”
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“I really am passionate about fighting back against these big tech companies that think that they can just, you know, intentionally addict…”
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