Today, Joe Trippi is joined by Adam Brandon, and together they work towards how to get independent voters to look left. Where can you reach the millennial generation of voters? How do younger voters use their “BS Meter”? How can both the Left and Right challenge the system and cause real change?

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Trump's midterm convention has come and gone - but is it going to backfire? Plus, why none of us should start thinking about how to use Trump's $5k bribe yet. And is Joe buying or selling what's going on in Maine and Iowa? Plus, a crazy comeback win in Maine for the ages - and when did Joe know he'd be in for a career in politics? 

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Joe and Alex dig into three numbers that matter most for the midterms - more than any head-to-head poll. Joe explains why it's going to be hard for Republicans to find a way back - which leaves them with very few options. Watch out for the next few months, folks. And a new game! Which polls are Joe buying - or selling? And why? This one wasn't a disaster!

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Joe weighs in on the recent primary results - can Angie Nixon and David Jolly both win in Florida? Can anything stop this change wave? What is the media missing about it? Why Trump's beef problem is really bad. And how can we all read polls better? (Hint: Stop freaking out about the toplines!) 

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Friend of the show Reed Galen fills in for Trippi this week with his take on the rapidly finishing primary season. What should we learn from Florida? What does money buy a campaign - and what doesn't it? How did a candidate get outspent 16:1 and win? What about Alaska - can Mary Peltola flip a Senate seat there? And what under-the-radar downballot races do Reed think might surprise folks this cycle?

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Thanksgiving lives on in Wisconsin! Joe Crowley went from dropping out of the race to Democratic nominee for Governor. How? Why did polling miss this one (again?) Joe and Alex check in on the rest of this week's primaries and have one big question: Why hasn't the media made a bigger deal about how unenthused Republicans are this cycle? Will it be *the* thing that swings the midterms?

Plus, Joe has a theory: What brand is even more "toxic" than Democrats? And does seniority matter at all anymore? (Nope!)

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Trippi explains why the Michigan election results aren't doom and gloom for Democrats - actually why Abdul El-Sayed is a big problem for Mike Rogers, not Democrats. Moderates aren't sitting on their hands in November. Why does this matter not just for 2026 but for 2028? How does the 2028 map affect the ability of a progressive to gain momentum and win the Presidential nomination? What's with the massive polling misses in Michigan? Were they really misses? And why does Trippi think "the many vs the money" overcame $30m+ in outside spending? Should Democrats go all in in Texas? And if you're listening to this podcast, one fact might surprise you...

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A hundred years ago, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin imagined a third great leap for the Earth: after the geosphere and the biosphere, a noosphere — a layer of human connection that would link every mind on the planet and push us toward shared knowledge and compassion. Joe Trippi argues that we've now built it. But it didn't arrive in temples or parliaments; it came through platforms, code, and the satellites encircling the planet — and what was meant to bring us together is instead being used to digitize, monetize, and weaponize us. Teilhard, Trippi notes, saw the dark possibility coming. He just never accounted for algorithms, deepfakes, or billionaires with rocket fleets.
Trippi likens current social media to B.F. Skinner's box: the likes, notifications, and endless scroll that keep us pressing the lever for the next dopamine hit — an experiment now being run on billions of minds at once, with AI as the next iteration. Trippi's claim is that this isn't a side effect; it's the design. And it explains, he says, why the ambitions of tech moguls and aspiring autocrats have started to converge — why he calls this "the hour of the predator," with the rest of us cast as the rats.
So who is the experiment really for, and how much have we already surrendered? Trippi's answer is a call to climb out of the box — to stop feeding the machine that divides us and reclaim the noosphere as a space for freedom and dignity rather than control. Whether that's still possible is the question he hands the audience.
"Rise up. Stand together. Revolt. Be human." Heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who “reinvented campaigning,” Joe Trippi pioneered bringing politics into the digital age and brings an added digital component to the Lincoln Project arsenal.
For decades he and the Lincoln Project co-founders worked against each other in partisan fights. Trippi has worked for Democrats at every level over 4 decades – from Ted Kennedy, Walter Mondale and managing Howard Dean’s groundbreaking presidential campaign in 2004. Trippi has been a media and campaign strategist for dozens of Senate and Gubernatorial campaigns including Jerry Brown’s 2010 comeback campaign for Governor of California and Doug Jones’ historic Senate victory in Alabama, where Jones became the first Democratic US Senator in Alabama in 25 years.
Trippi has served as an on-air political analyst for MSNBC/NBC, CBS Evening News, FOX News and CNN. His weekly podcast is “That Trippi Show”.
He joined the Lincoln Project because “we have to stop seeing this as Democrat vs. Republican. Right vs left. This has to be all of us coming together in a pro-democracy coalition to defeat an authoritarian movement that is using every means to seize power.”
He is also co-founder of Sez.Us, a social networking platform that seeks to improve society by promoting civic and democratic values. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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New data suggests it's never been a worse time to be an incumbent - but if you're riding the change wave, it's gonna be a good year! How much does voter enthusiasm translate into actual votes? We look back at a couple other "change years" for the answer. And should we be worried about a hidden wedge issue that's a ticking time bomb for Democrats? Plus - Joe and Alex get into a few of your AI questions.

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Joe Trippi is joined by Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, to break down campaign finance reform and its impact on voters. What is the Supreme Court missing? How will billionaire spending impact our upcoming elections? How can candidates gain voters' trust and change the system?
Find out more information about End Citizens United: https://www.endcitizensunited.org

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