Ghost Runner Pod

Calder McHugh is a reporter for POLITICO, covering the intersection between tech and politics.

Eli Northrup is a public defender and policy advocate who is running for the New York State Assembly in District 69 (UWS and Morningside Heights).

Maeve Andersen is a political data consultant based in Kips Bay and writes the politics Substack The Hudson Line.

Nina Schwalbe is a public health practitioner and advocate who is running for Congress in New York’s Twelfth District.

Liam Elkind is a 26-year-old Rhodes Scholar and nonprofit CEO. In July of 2025, he became the first person to officially declare their candidacy for the 2026 primary of NY-12.

Cameron Kasky is an activist and podcaster who co-founded gun-control advocacy group March For Our Lives when he was in high school. He was a co-host of the Bulwark podcast FYPod, with Tim Miller, and was the youngest candidate in the NY-12 congressional race until he dropped out in January.

Sam Deutsch writes the Substack Better Cities, focused on urbanist policy reforms in NYC, and he’s an active volunteer with the YIMBY group Open New York.

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Grady Yuthok Short is a 1L at Yale Law School and a former research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice, where he worked on campaign finance reform.

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Chris Sosa is a NYC-based political strategist. He runs his own shop, Sosa Strategies, which provides campaign consulting to political candidates.

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Jaime Berman is an active member of the Four Freedoms Democratic Club, the main club of the 76th Assembly District, and is currently a State Committee Member for that district.

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