Charting the Way Forward

This week on Charting The Way Forward, we discuss the mood on the Hill heading into the August recess, why Republicans are clinging to immigration like a life raft amid a wreckage, and why it might not provide the salvation they're looking for. Joining host Kerry Eleveld is friend of the pod Kristian Ramos, media and public relations consultant at Autonomy Strategies.

For this midsummer midterm election pulse check, Way to Win Political Director Joe Hamill and media and research consultant Dan Ancona join host Kerry Eleveld to cover Dem chances in the electoral landscape, and where Way to Win organizations are getting work done.

Rather than pitching the recent surge of candidates from the left as a story about how voters of all kinds are uniting for the kinds of change most Americans want, most of the Democratic establishment has instead decided to brand this movement as a threat. Way to Win President Tory Gavito and media and research consultant Dan Ancona join host Kerry Eleveld to weigh perspectives (two in particular, from Simon Rosenberg and G. Elliott Morris) on this shift.

For decades and with very few exceptions, challenges to the Democratic establishment have been generally doomed to failure. That changed this week when three Mamdani-endorsed candidates prevailed in NYC congressional primaries. Justice Democrats Executive Director Alex Rojas joins Way to Win President Tory Gavito and CSO Jenifer Fernandez Ancona to both dig into and savor these results.

North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton is one of the most infectiously inspiring leaders from across the entire left and Democratic family. She joins Way to Win President Tory Gavito and host Kerry Eleveld to discuss everything that's moving forward in her home state.

Worthy Strategy head researcher Gretchen Barton joins Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Ancona and Superhost Kerry Eleveld to dive into a rich new ethnographic study of Latinos in South and Southwest. This collaboration between Valiente, Way to Win and Worthy goes far, far beyond the "Latinos aren't a monolith" cliche and digs into how identity shapes these voters and what they genuinely want.

Way to Win President Tory Gavito and Consultant of Destiny Dan Ancona join host Kerry Eleveld to talk kitchen table, big tent, WelcomeFest, and big research questions, all through the lens of some really interesting results from Iowa in this week's primaries. And don't miss another banger of a Jon Ossoff clip.

First up, we cover the very sad news (for Republicans) that shockingly corrupt MAGA loser Ken Paxton prevailed in the Texas Senate primary, and will now be going up against James Talarico and his uncanny ability to bring up incredibly weird manly insecurities in Republican operatives. Then the team — Way to Win President Tory Gavito, Head of Political Joe Hamill, Consultant of Destiny Dan Ancona, and Superhost Kerry Eleveld — premieres four new ads, including background on why and how we made them, and super advanced testing data on why they're strong and what groups of voters they do best with.

SURJ Executive Director Erin Heaney joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win head of political Joe Hamill to go through the surprising and hopeful results of some extremely sophisticated deep canvassing work SURJ is doing, very deep in opposition in territory.

AOC on integrity and ambition, Trump on his total disregard for Americans' financial situations and his unbelievable swimming pool guy, and a big shift from Rep Hakeem Jeffries in response to Republican gutting of the civil rights agenda. Way to Win President Tory Gavito, Chief Strategy Office Jenifer Ancona and host Kerry Eleveld break down the week.