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Labor Economist Ron Hetrick will join us to share the research behind his recent report, The Demographic Drought: How the Approaching Sansdemic Will Transform the Labor Market for the Rest of Our Lives. He will cover details such as what was happening in the labor market prior to COVID and what the current state of the market is. Ron will also answer important questions including Where are we heading? and What can we do about it?

Communications Director of the effort to prevent the Rivian assembly plant from being built in Eastern Georgia will be our guest.

Dr. Bitecofer will join us to discuss the 2022 elections and more.

We will discuss the upcoming 2022 elections in Wisconsin as well as the cultural and political geography of the Badger State as discussed in the book the Politics of Resentment.

Taegan will join us to discuss the fundmentals of the 2022 midterms, key statewide races in 2022, and what/if anything the GOP establishment can do to stand up to Trump.

Evan will join us to discuss the situation in Ottawa, the chances of Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson running and becoming President in 2024 and more!

Lakshya Jain will join us to discuss US Elections.

John Della Volpe is the Director of Polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, where he has led polling initiatives on understanding American youth since 2000. The Washington Post referred to John as one of the world’s leading authorities on global sentiment, opinion and influence. John appears regularly on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and has been featured in many national media outlets including the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He is the founder and CEO of SocialSphere, Inc., a public opinion research company headquartered in Massachusetts.

In Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Passion and Fear to Save America, Della Volpe draws on his vast experience to show the largest forces shaping zoomers' lives, the issues they care most about, and how they are--despite older Americans' efforts to label Gen Z as overly sensitive, lazy, and entitled--rising to the unprecedented challenges of their time to take control of their country and our future.

Ryan will join us to discuss Ohio politics and more

Kyle Kondik is managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ authoritative, nonpartisan newsletter on American campaigns and elections. He is a frequently cited expert on American politics. 

The Long Red Thread examines each House election cycle from 1964 to 2020, surveying academic and journalistic literature to identify key trends and takeaways from more than a half-century of US House election results in order to predict what Americans can expect to see in the future.