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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Jon Ossoff says he has no interest in running for president in 2028. But between fundraising prowess and narrative shaping and attention driving, he’s doing a better job of it than just about anyone else in the Democratic Party. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The Natalie Harp ploy, and how Ossoff yoked…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have conceded to the excesses of what we must all now call Woke One. But the concession, and that characterization of it, raise some obvious questions. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * What was Woke One; * Which aspects of it do progressive leaders now concede were…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Democratic leaders have been delivered a thrashing from the left this primary season. So naturally, the lesson they took from it is that they should…fund Trump’s crooked government before the election he’s trying to steal? In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The deal Democrats struck with Susan Collins to avoid a…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm The Iran war’s back on, oil prices are back up, the Republican election outlook is back down. But…it’s not playing out as an existential political crisis for Donald Trump. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Why Trump was unable to make surrender stick; * The peculiar case of the missing oil crisis; * Whether…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm What if the Democratic establishment could take the wind out of the sails of the left wing insurgency by…giving in to progressives on their most morally resonant and popular issue? In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * The moral and political advantages of Medicare for All as an abstract concept, and how health care…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm While Brian was away, Graham Platner’s campaign imploded, rumors circulated that Republicans were playing Weekend At Bernie’s with Mitch McConnell’s corpse. And then Lindsey Graham went and actually died. In this episode: * Matt gives an on-the-ground rundown of how the Maine Democratic Party is going about choosing…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Brian’s vacation continues for a second week, so Matt is joined by Caitlin Legacki, a Democratic strategist and Third Way fellow, to talk about some of the less-covered but more-successful 2026 senate recruits starting with former North Carolina governor Roy Cooper. In this episode Matt and Caitlin discuss: * Why…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm With Brian out on vacation, Matt is joined by Alex Seitz-Wald of the Midcoast Village to discuss Graham Platner and the shifting political tides of Vacationland more broadly. In this episode, Matt and Alex discuss: * Troy Jackson, the man who really is the thing Platner sort of pretends to be. * Paul Le Page, the “Trump…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump, in his haste and corruption, has wrecked the historic reflecting pool that spans the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * How this lazy and corrupt endeavor went to shit so quickly; * Why it serves as a useful metaphor for Trump’s Iran war, and just about every…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.politix.fm Donald Trump will either surrender to Iran on Friday in Switzerland, or scuttle the deal—sorry, “memorandum of understanding”—in the face of overwhelming opprobrium and humiliation. Who can say! In this episode, Matt and Brian discuss: * Why the terms of the peace deal, such as we understand them, are so unacceptable to…
