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Returning 24sight Pod guest Pablo Manriquez (Capitol Hill reporter and co-founder of Capitol Press ) discovers sensitive campaign donor documents in a Senate snack shop and the internet goes wild with conspiracy theories. 24sight News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

Charlie Sykes, author of " To the Contrary " on Substack, takes a brief respite from his typical doom-casting and end-of-days punditry to discuss:  * Recent events in accountability karma : Alex Jones' asset liquidation, Steve Bannon's pending prison sentence, Salem Media dropping Dinesh D'Souza and much more! * Were politicians always this bad? Probably, but there is a world where they don’t need...

Celinda Lake and Christine Matthews have their fingers on the pulse of America’s swing voters. The bipartisan pair — Lake works for Democrats, including President Joe Biden, and Matthews has long worked for Republicans, most recently Larry Hogan of Maryland — have been testing the mood of swing voters across the country for years. The pair specialize in that most vaunted of demographics, which Bid...

* BREAKING: Journalism is a business? * In good company — getting laid off happens to A LOT of people in media * Are there enough subscribers out there to support regular news and analysis reporting? OR does everything have to be click-bait? * ‘I didn’t leave journalism, journalism left me’ - who said it? * People with power usually don’t announce it * Life is hard — having a community is good * T...

Republicans Voters Against Trump , one of the top NeverTrump campaigns, helped President Joe Biden win the White House four years ago. And this cycle they’re pushing to again keep former president Donald Trump from returning to office. The group, led by veteran operative Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark fame, has been conducting focus groups of swing voters — people in critical battleground states in...

The coveted Latino vote. The political class has been awash in speculation and analysis about how Latinos will vote this cycle, with the potential to decide whether incumbent President Joe Biden or former president Donald Trump win a second term. Veteran politics reporter Adrian Carrasquillo has built a career covering Latino attitudes and concerns over the past decade. He joined 24sight’s Warren...

“Russia without Ukraine is a country, Russia with Ukraine is an empire,” Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and author of The Home Front said on the latest episode of the 24sight Pod , paraphrasing the late American diplomat Zbigniew Brzezienski . “It's got the Black Sea, it's got the wheat fields, it's got high-performing individuals. And so you know, Putin wants it back. He's an unrec...

The thing about Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez is he’s always got something to say.  Whether he’s penning provocative political profiles for Vanity Fair , delving into policy fights for his “underdog” newsletter Capitol Press or immortalizing the pageantry of the State of the Union by live painting the event in Statuary Hall , this fearless reporter stays close to the action – particularly...

Few people in media have had as powerful or as consistent an impact in shaping the national discussion around politics as Matt Drudge, the longtime editor of the Drudge Report and famous recluse. A quarter century ago, he stormed the national scene breaking the news of then-president Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, he became the country’s “assignment editor” driving the news with his l...

Hi friends, in light of former president Donald Trump again attacking the daughter of Judge Merchan, who is presiding over the “hush money” case set to go to trial on April 15, we’re re-upping this excellent discussion with Just Security journalism fellow Adam Klasfeld — paywall removed! Klasfeld detailed at length the strategy from Trump and his legal team of delaying proceedings, and turning att...

Pat Dennis has made a career out of unearthing stunning comments that the most powerful pols in the country would rather be kept private, and helped shape White House contests routinely with the lead Democratic opposition research group American Bridge. Dennis came up in the trenches, now he’s leading American Bridge’s efforts to keep President Joe Biden in the White House, and former president Do...

Hello, friends, welcome to Episode 3 of the 24sight Pod . Tom LoBianco had a great, illuminating chat with two of the most clear-eyed observers of this moment in American politics: Bill Scher , politics editor at Washington Monthly , and Matt Lewis , Daily Beast columnist, longtime observer of the American right and author of “Filthy Rich Politicians” . The first part of our latest 24sight podcast...

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Hello, friends, and welcome to the first episode of the 24sight podcast! We’re very excited for this and have a very revealing episode for our launch, peering behind the curtain of CPAC, which for decades was the biggest and most important conservative political conference in the country but has lost ground as former President Donald Trump took over the Republican Party and swamped the conservativ...