Charting The Way Forward podcast

#Politics #News #Hosted by Kerry Eleveld #Jenifer Fernandez Ancona #Produced by the Way to Win team

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Taxes, Voting, Recycling—oh my! After navigating this jungle of grown-up responsibilities together, we're taking a quick summer breather to recharge our adulting batteries. But before we temporarily hang up our responsible pants, join us for this special episode packed with our favorite kernels of wisdom from the season so far AND get an exclusive preview of the fresh adulting adventures awaiting you when Grown-Up Stuff returns in late summer! Think of this episode as your adulting victory lap—complete with confetti and zero paperwork required! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…

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Research-informed strategy and intelligence from across the winning Democratic coalition, with Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and guest appearances from the broader center-left cinematic universe. Hosted by Kerry Eleveld.

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34 episodes

#Politics #News #Hosted by Kerry Eleveld #Jenifer Fernandez Ancona #Produced by the Way to Win team

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Signs of Cracks (feat. Caitlin Jury) 51:48

il y a environ 2 jours51:48

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Rising star ace researcher Caitlin Jury from Equis joins host Kerry Eleveld, President Tory Gavito and head of political Joe Hamill from Way to Win to discuss a fresh hot new Equis poll. Lots of rich data in this episode, including what may be early signs of significant shifts in Latinx support for Trump and MAGA.…

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Between Doom and Nirvana (feat. Philip Bump) 57:18

il y a environ 9 jours57:18

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Data impresario Philip Bump joins host Kerry Eleveld, chief strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and media strategist Dan Ancona for a discussion that starts with his latest piece, a strong and insightful read on how the dismal state of Democratic party favorability does not mean imminent electoral doom.…

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It's Not Cool! 49:22

il y a environ 16 jours49:22

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Texas Republicans are rigging the midterms to escape accountability for the wildly unpopular agenda that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are enacting. It’s decidedly ‘not cool,’ as 7th generation Texan and Way to Win President Tory Gavito and Latino expert Kristian Ramos tell host Kerry Eleveld. Join us for a fully fleshed out discussion of Texas politics as it relates to federal elections and Republicans' decades-long effort to rob voters of color of their electoral power.…

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How Things Fell Apart (feat. Celinda Lake) 48:22

il y a 4 weeks48:22

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NEW POLL: genius pollster Celinda Lake joins host Kerry Eleveld and the Way to Win brass, President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, to go through the findings from a comprehensively thorough study of the group of voters that showed up for Biden but sat out 2024.

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Moving Toward the Sound of the Guns 1:04:14

il y a 5 weeks1:04:14

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Host Kerry Eleveld returns for a strategy discussion about the disastrous immigration secret police funding in the Big Ugly MAGA Bill, with Way to Win chief Tory Gavito and media consultant Dan Ancona, who goes Full Kornacki on some of Way's immigration data. If you're curious what Way to Win strategy zoom calls are like, this episode is a peek inside our process.…

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Awful, Awful, Awful (Update From the Hill) 30:24

il y a 6 weeks30:24

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As of recording time on Wednesday July 2nd, the fate of the Big Ugly Ass Murder Budget Bill was hanging in the balance. Kristian Ramos and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona join pinch host Dan Ancona to discuss the meaning and ramifications of this comprehensively disastrous legislation.

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The Pain and the Promise (feat. Terrance Woodbury) 53:30

il y a 7 weeks53:30

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Zohranmania! Join First Official Friend of the Pod Terrance Woodbury for a show we recorded the day of the NYC Mayoral Primary. Terrance is joined by the Way to Win brain trust of host Kerry Eleveld, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and Tory Gavito, who dig into how Black voters are thinking about the primary and everything else. Particularly given the results, you will not want to miss this one!…

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Urgency and Agency (feat. Glennis Meagher) 43:48

il y a 8 weeks43:48

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Maddie Medved takes the reins while Kerry is out, for a discussion of all things internet with social media guru Glennis Meagher and Way to Win Chief Strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona.

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Say Nothing and You Confirm Their Version of Events (feat. Molly Murphy) 34:07

il y a 9 weeks34:07

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MAJOR POLL DROP! We worked with Impact Research on a poll that should put a stake through the heart of the conventional wisdom that immigration is a "bad issue for Dems" that they need to avoid "raising the salience of." Impact President Molly Murphy joins host Kerry Eleveld and Tory Gavito, Joe Hamill, and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona from the Way to Win team to discuss the clear strategic imperative for Dems of all stripes to go on the attack.…

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Vikings, Tequila Shots and the DNC (feat. Chuck Rocha) 56:47

il y a 10 weeks56:47

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Democratic überconsultant Chuck Rocha has won a ton of elections and he has ANSWERS. He joins the all-star roundtable of host Kerry Eleveld, strategist Kristian Ramos and Way to Win head Tory Gavito for a discussion of how Dems can reach not just Latinos, but voters of all stripes and beliefs.

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Maybe We're Not Cooked?! (feat. Michael Frias) 47:53

il y a 11 weeks47:53

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Fresh off the release of the kaleidoscopic and deep Catalist voter-file based analysis of the 2024, Catalist chief Michael Frias joins host Kerry Eleveld and strategists Joe Hamill and Kristian Ramos for a discussion that goes far beyond just the contents of the report.

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Checks and Imbalances (feat. Brian Derrick) 57:47

il y a 12 weeks57:47

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Think your $25 donation doesn’t move the needle? Think again. In this episode, host Kerry Eleveld and the big strategy panel of Tory Gavito, Jenifer Ancona and Maddie Medved sit down with Brian Derrick, founder of Oath, to unpack how small-dollar giving is quietly transforming political power when it’s done right, and what the potential is for the future.…

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Charting a New Way Forward. No, really. (feat. Kyle Tharp) 58:06

il y a 13 weeks58:06

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Host Kerry Eleveld and media analyst and strategist Dan Ancona talk to Kyle "Chaotic Era" Tharp about the release of TV Congress 2024, Way to Win's interactive tracking database of political TV ads.

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We're a Bigger Tent (feat. Cornell Belcher) 57:07

il y a 14 weeks57:07

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Veteran Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher joins us for a riveting discussion of how to reconstitute a winning Democratic coalition from the ground up, starting with men of color who voted for Biden in 2020 but then skipped 2024. It's a must listen, drawing from Belcher's deep expertise on how Democrats have won in the past and can do so again.…

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Behold, The Mother of All Persuasion Windows Openeth 45:50

il y a 15 weeks45:50

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Join Kerry and Tory, Maddie and Dan from the Way to Win team for a roundtable discussion on this remarkable moment in history, the opportunity it presents, and what some of the barriers in the thinking of the DC establishment are to seizing it. The show nearly goes off the rails at the news about Little House on the Prairie being a right wing media op, but the crew bravely holds it together and soldiers through.…

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All Trees, No Forest (feat. Dan Pfeiffer) 57:01

il y a 16 weeks57:01

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Dan "The Message Box" Pfeiffer joins Kerry and Jenifer for Part 2 of our Understanding the Missing Biden Voters series, including sound from our focus groups, their thoughts on the Harris and Trump campaigns, and the prospects for 2026 and beyond.

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Understanding the Missing Biden Voters 45:26

il y a 17 weeks45:26

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We have focus group sound! We worked with Lake Research to talk to four groups of battleground voters that voted for Biden in 2020 and then didn't vote in 2024. Join Kerry and Jenifer as they walk through our conversations with these voters, their background views on 2024, and their thoughts on the parties and Trump oligarchy and deportations. Coming next week: more from these voters, including how they felt about the 2024 campaigns and the prospects for engaging them in 2026 and beyond.…

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The Four Fs: Fight, Fascism, Freedom and F*ck 1:06:33

il y a 18 weeks1:06:33

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Another episode, another genius: this week we have on long time DC operative Joe Sudbay with insights from both DC and the incredible, accelerating momentum happening in the states. Host Kerry Eleveld, and Tory Gavito and Kristian Ramos round out the roundtable.

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The Hunger for Strong and Meaningful Opposition (feat. Rep Greg Casar) 53:12

il y a 19 weeks53:12

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Something, finally, seems to be shifting. Join the Charting gang - Kerry, Kristian, and Maddie - as they catch up with Rep Greg Casar of Texas to talk about his experience at the Bernie and AOC Fight Oligarchy Tour, and the recent raft of vastly improved and more emotionally resonant arguments coming from Dems.…

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Zero Sum Politics ⚠️ And the Future Of The Dem Coalition (featuring Terrance Woodbury from HIT Strategies) 46:30

il y a 20 weeks46:30

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Continuing our series of having incredibly smart people on the show, join host Kerry Eleveld with a panel discussion featuring Terrance Woodbury of HIT Strategies, Tory Gavito, and Kristian Ramos for a deep discussion of Black voters and broader Democratic coalition dynamics post-2024.

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Absurd! Not True! Feat. Anat Shenker-Osorio 1:10:04

il y a 21 weeks1:10:04

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Join host Kerry Eleveld and messaging and strategy guru Anat Shenker-Osorio for a rich and not very doomy conversation on the strategically critical and awesomely fun direct action scene, some hot sizzling fresh focus group results, and how the 2024 results are shaping tactical decisions of activists across the US trying to persuade DC Dems to save our democracy.…

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To Moderate Or Not To Moderate, That Is The Question 51:21

il y a 22 weeks51:21

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With Democratic enterprises of great pith and moment currents beginning to turn awry and lose the name of action, Kerry hosts, as Dan and Jenifer join for a reunion tour of their brief foray into streaming, The What's Possible Show. Conscience makes cowards of us all as they discuss recent research around the biggest single strategic question facing Democrats: is more moderation really what it's going to take to move the (roughly) 19M Biden voters that stayed home in 2024?…

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Making it Stick, feat. Creator/Strategist Annie Wu Henry 40:48

il y a 23 weeks40:48

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We gave Kristian and Kerry the unenviable task of trying make some kind of sense out of Trump's weird, awful joint address. After they pilot the ship relatively painlessly through those waves and reefs, Kerry interviews Annie with a hopeful and substantive look at how Dems are starting the utterly crucial work of finding their voices.…

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Republicans Take The First Bite of a Toxic 💩 Sandwich 49:33

il y a 24 weeks49:33

49:33

Join host Kerry Eleveld with updates on polling, Maddie Medved with reports from the social wildlands, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona's thoughts on media and strategy, and Kristian Ramos with reports from the Hill as Republicans prepare to pass a budget gutting critical programs for the sole purpose of handing somehow even larger piles of money over to guys like Elon Musk.…

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The Media Gap and the Mechanics of Vibes (feat. Will Stancil) 53:45

il y a 25 weeks53:45

53:45

This episode features something daring, groundbreaking and unheard of in American political podcasting: a discussion between two white guys. While the usual team is out on a strategy retreat, Dan Ancona pinch-hosts for Kerry in a discussion about the right wing media gap and what Dems need to better understand about how vibes are generated and transmitted, with sayer of obvious truths that somehow get misinterpreted as controversial, BlueSky and emerging TikTok star Will Stancil.…

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Evolving A Stronger Resistance in 2025 (feat. Leah Greenberg of Indivisible) 47:21

il y a 26 weeks47:21

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If you have a sense whatever the resistance did during Trump's first term didn't quite work out, you're not alone. Big changes and wild growth are happening already in this new reality, and Leah Greenberg from Indivisible is at the center of one of the organizations harnessing a massive influx of new energy. Join her and host Kerry Eleveld for a crucial and surprisingly hopeful big picture discussion of the efforts to preserve the republic.…

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Will Caving to Trump Fix Democrats Massive Trust Issues? 52:22

il y a 27 weeks52:22

52:22

Join host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win ED Tory Gavito, Latino Guru Kristian Ramos, and Research/Media/Strategy Dude Dan Ancona for a roundtable discussion on pathways out of the Democratic Party's massive trust deficit and catastrophically high unfavorables, starting with separating out what the right wing is saying about Dems vs. what is actually happening.…

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The New Generational Fight Against Oligarchy 49:51

il y a 28 weeks49:51

49:51

Join Kristian Ramos, Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona for a discussion tying this week's news to big picture trends and context. Don't miss moments include Kristian's updates from his conversations on Capitol Hill, Jenifer's concise explanation of the challenge and urgency in front of us, and Tory's thoughts on how the tensions between immigration and moderate whites that have been a state issue in Texas long before they became a national challenge for Democrats.…

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The Missing 19 Million Biden Voters and The Pilgrimage Out of Flatland (feat. Mike Podhorzer) 41:03

il y a 29 weeks41:03

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Kerry and Jenifer join a special guest, renowned Democratic strategist Mike Podhorzer, to discuss the controversy over his take on the 2024 election outcome.

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We Love the Smell of Fresh Polling Data Early in the Morning 42:31

il y a 35 weeks42:31