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Michael Podhorzer

Washington, D.C.
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Former political director of the AFL-CIO. Senior fellow at CAP. On Bluesky at @mikepod.bsky.social
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The Nation That Never Was

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By Michael Podhorzer, Kermit Roosevelt
| Weekend Reading
I’ve often said that the Constitution was designed to prevent America from realizing its founding ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. But that’s an incomplete story, as made clear in University of Pennsylvania constitutional law professor Kermit Roosevelt’s underappreciated book, The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story.
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From the A-Word to the I-Word

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By Michael Podhorzer, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Paigelynne Taylor
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Anat opened this week’s show with a recap of her essential new piece, “Don’t Make the Argument.” (Big thanks to Anat for stepping in solo when I had to arrive late, and for navigating technical issues with the chat with her usual grace and good humor.) Her piece argues that every time Democrats have been advised to go quiet on something, it has backfired — and that only saying the thing, out loud, over years, can actually move the ground towards the change we need.
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Maine and the Machine

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By Michael Podhorzer, Anat Shenker-Osorio, Jiggy Geronimo
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This week’s “Meeting the Moment” featured our dear friend and former Research Collaborative colleague, Jiggy Geronimo, whose work on narrative strategy and the surveillance state is as amazing as her name. We discussed her important new piece on Substack about how to get our comms to break through in the modern information environment — which pro-democracy progressives spend a lot more time talking about than actually doing.
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