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Steve Singiser will join to discuss what happened in the 2024 election and where the Democrats go from here with a special emphasis on Steve's home state of California.

Jeff Sinnger will join us to discuss the election results from the 2024 Campaign

Tom Jensen will join us on our last season before Electtion Day 2024 and share with us what the latest polling is telling us about Tuesday's election.

Political strategist Mike Mikus will join us to discuss Pennsylvania politics

Milan Singh of BluePrint & Welcome PAC will join us to discuss the results of the Yale Youth Poll and the 2024 election

Lakshya Jain and Armin Thomas will join us to discuss Michigan politics and more!

Drew Savicki will join us to discuss North Carolina politics and more.

Mark Rieke will join us to discuss his election forecasting model.

Dr. Anthony Chergosky will join us to discuss Wisconsin politics and more. Dr. Chergosky teaches courses on American government and research methods. He a political analyst and has been quoted in local, statewide, national, and international news media outlets. His research focuses on American political institutions (especially Congress), elections, political communication, and the scholarship of...

David Nir will join us to discuss the rebranding of Daily Kos Elections to The Down Ballot: https://www.the-downballot.com/

Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Driver was born in rural Arkansas in a house built by her potter father and her weaver mother. She attended Berea College in rural Kentucky, founded in 1855 to educate freed slaves and students with limited economic resources. Berea College charges no tuition, and thanks to its mission, she was able to take the years of financial risk...

Bill Schneider is a former political analyst for CNN, Los Angeles Times, National Journal, The Hill and The Messenger; professor emeritus at George Mason University; taught at Brandeis University, Boston College and UCLA.

Melissa Deckman is the CEO of PRRI and a political scientist who studies the impact of gender, religion, and age on public opinion and political behavior. Deckman is the author of Tea Party Women (NYU Press: 2016), which examined the role of women in conservative politics. Her first book, School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics (Georgetown University Press: 2004) won the Americ...

Rachel Bitecofer will join us to discuss Project 2025 and the 2024 election

Barnini Chakraborty of the Washington Examiner will jojn us to discuss the 2024 Election

Logan Phillips from Race to the White House will jojn us to discuss the 2024 Election. Also, newly elected DNC member and 5th Congressional Chair Maria Banjo will be filling in for Tim Shiflett.

Sarah McCammon is an American journalist and a National Correspondent for National Public Radio, covering the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. Her reporting focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion and reproductive rights, the intersections of politics and religion, as well as breaking news. She previously reported for NPR Member s...

Evan will join us to discuss the recently called UK elections and more!

Milan will join us to discuss BluePrint's recent research regarding what What young voters actually care about?

Dr. Grossman will join us to discuss his upcoming book: Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics Matt Grossmann is Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University and Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. A regular contributor to FiveThirtyEight, he has published analysis in The New York Times, The W...

Alex Diaz will be join us to discuss Nevada politics. Alex will also give us an update on the presidential race in Mexico.

Lichtman created the Keys to the White House model with Soviet seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981. The model uses 13 true/false criteria to predict whether the presidential candidate of the incumbent party will win or lose the next election. Using this model, Lichtman has accurately predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1984, with the exception of 2000, although he...

Dr. Anthony Chergosky will joinn us to discuss Wisconsin politics

Lakshya does modeling and data pieces for Split Ticket and handles their presidential ratings. He is a machine learning engineer who analyzes political data in his free time. He went to UC Berkeley (class of 2019 – BA, 2020 – MS), majoring in computer science, and now work in the tech industry. His writing has also appeared in Sabato’s Crystal Ball and The Bulwark.

The Executive Director of the Maricopa County Democratic Party Jon Ryder will join us to discuss Arizona Politics