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this week dives into a discussion around the democratic party's recent multi-million dollar investment into studying how to better connect with young men, gavin newsom's response to the ICE raids in LA, the hochul vs. delgado primary, and why posts on bluesky and threads make me weary of a left wing echo-chamber platform or media source.

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Today's episode features my first non-Pennsylvania guest.  Join me as I speak to Marcus Simon, Represenative of Virginia's 13th District, and hear his take on the damage of DOGE, the future of Marriage Equality, Voting Rights, and Reproductive Freedom in Virginia, the state of the American media and why what happens in Virginia this fall has national implications.

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lots has happened this week - this week's discussion centers around the primary elections that happened in erie pa, bernie sanders' continued grievance airing with andrew schultz, and just how much damage the republicans' "one big beautiful bill" will do the country.

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This week's discussion covers a range of topics from Indiana's newest iteration of the poll tax, this time manifested as a Voter ID requirement, to why the last six months of North Carolina Supreme Court battle has implications far beyond this one race, to how Andrew Cuomo messed up last week, to why what's happened to Katy Perry oddly mirrors what happens in our politics, to TikTok brain rot influencing masses of people's opinions on everyone from Logan Rozos to Osama bin Laden. 

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my brother and i talk on the phone about the state of the country, our elections, and the democratic party multiple times a week - figured we were long overdue to bring him on. 

the conversation continues this week with our discussion around the electoral landscape in the coming years, what needs to happen for democrats to expand the map, and why dem bashing is the wrong move.

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my brother and i talk on the phone about the state of the country, our elections, and the democratic party multiple times a week - figured we were long overdue to bring him on.  enjoy (or don't) the first of two episodes in which we discuss a range of issues ranging from trump's first 100 days in office, to pete buttigieg and his new beard, to why the 2024 election was more like 2004's than 1980's.

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a conversation with Rock Copeland, erie county councilman representing the 3rd district. tune in to hear a discussion on connecting local politics to national ones, who has left who and why in the ever-raging debate over working class people and the democratic party, and how masculinity has become weaponized in american politics.

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it’s been a very depressing few months for those of us who are any combination of smart or empathetic.  it’s bad news all the time from every angle. it feels like the bad people are winning (and they are, right now, because the country let them) and there is no way back.  it doesn’t help to see what feels like everyone gleefully taking a blowtorch to the only political party in the country that forewarned of all of this and took enormous steps to prevent it from happening.

it’s too early to tell for sure - but to me in this moment, 2024 is 2004, not 1980. john kerry ran against george w. bush and lost the popular vote, and the deciding state (ohio…) by the tiniest margin.  the party was demoralized, and everyone wrote our obituary and tore us apart.  ...but does anyone remember what happened in 2006? then in 2008?

apart from the historic election of President Barack Obama - 2008 saw the election of a meaningfully blue congressional and senate majority.  among them was Kathy Dahlkemper, who was the first democrat to win the pa-3 (now pa-16) congressional district in 32 years.  

because of that election, democrats saved the economy after a major republican-led crash, passed the affordable care act, the most meaningful healthcare reform in history, and a slew of other era-defining legislation.

I got to sit down with the former congresswoman and Erie county executive and go through just some of the ‘greatest hits.’ of her career, the larger causes to which her presence in those positions contributed to, and the political courage it took to accomplish all of the above.  

apart from being so refreshing to hear about the details of policy - it is quite the pick-me-up to be able to look into the face of a person who contributed so much to america’s comeback after such a disastrous era, and through it - believe that we will again.

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this week is all about the courts - a breakdown on wisconsin's supreme court election, why judge susan crawford's commanding win inspires mixed feelings, the horrific republican assault on democracy in north carolina, and an interview with jeremy lightner - candidate for judge on the PA court of common pleas (the interview begins at the 23 minute mark)

tune in to hear lightner’s views on the role of the court in the lives of the citizens of the commonwealth, why temperament matters, and why his background as a prosecutor makes him the most qualified candidate for the job.

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two days after flipping a deep red pennsylvania senate district to blue after donald trump carried it by 15 points last november, state senator-elect james malone agreed to an interview with left, wrong + center.

tune in to hear about malone’s plans to be transparent with the people who put him in office, his reaction to elon musk’s disappointment over his win, and the key issues facing all pennsylvanians that transcend party lines, including many trump supporters' frustration with the president's chaotic approach to his agenda.

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