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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 teaching and learning.  

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 needed to become a writer. Writing is how she seeks justice and equality in a world that is far from that. She is currently designing a workshop on gender-based violence for journalists in El Salvador via the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. She has a Ph.D.(2011) and MA (2008) in Hispanic Studies from the University of Kentucky, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Middlebury College Language Schools.

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 American Political Science Association’s Hu Morken Award for best book on religion and politics. Columbia University Press will publish her latest book, The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy this September. Prior to joining PRRI, Deckman served as the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs and Chair of the Political Science Department at Washington College, where she taught courses on American politics and research methods. Dedicated to promoting leadership opportunities for young women, she was the co-founder of Training Ms. President, a Maryland-based, non-partisan program that

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 stations in Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska.

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 Washington Post, and Politico and hosts the Science of Politics podcast. He is the author of Red State Blues (2019), Asymmetric Politics (with David A. Hopkins, 2016), Artists of the Possible (2014), and The Not-So-Special Interests (2012).

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 did forecast successfully that Al Gore would win the popular vote that year. He ran for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland in 2006, finishing in sixth place in the Democratic primary. In 2017, Lichtman published The Case for Impeachment, laying out multiple arguments for the impeachment of Donald Trump.

Dr. Anthony Chergosky will joinn us to discuss Wisconsin politics