What Happened, What Comes Next
Updated January 26, 2025 - In the days after the 2024 election I started a new video series to discuss what happened and what comes next. It features in-depth conversations with a broad spectrum of people in pro-democracy and Democratic politics. To round out these offerings I’m also including a few interviews from Closing Strong, my fall video discussion series with COURIER Newsroom and Tara McGowan, and some of my recent talks about the 2024 election and other Hopium videos of interest.
Enjoy, share and note that you find transcripts of these interviews at the beginning of each post.
Leading Elected Officials
On Winning The Info Wars In The New Trump Era - With Rep. Eric Swalwell
On Winning Arizona And Getting Latinos Back - With Senator-Elect Ruben Gallego
On Winning Virginia In 2025 - With Rep. Abigail Spanberger, The Democratic Nominee for Virginia Governor
Democratic Party Leaders
On The Future Of The DNC And The Democratic Party - With Governor Martin O’Malley, a leading candidate for DNC Chair
On Winning Minnesota The Future Of The DNC and The Democratic Party - With Ken Martin, Minnesota Democratic Party Chair and a leading candidate for DNC Chair
On Winning Wisconsin and the Future of the DNC and Democratic Party - With Ben Wikler, Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair a leading candidate for DNC Chair
On Winning The Blue Dot And The Urgent Need To Invest in Democratic Party, Partisan Infrastructure - With Jane Kleeb, Nebraska Democratic Party Chair
Thoughts On How The Democratic Party Can Raise It’s Game - With David Hogg, Candidate for DNC Vice Chair
On North Carolina’s Impressive Downballot Wins - With Anderson Clayton, Chair Of The North Carolina Democratic Party
On Networks, Immigration, Losing Young Men and More
On The Power of Networks - With Joe Trippi, Legendary Democratic Strategist and Campaign Manager, Founder Sez Us and Resolute Square
On Trump’s Big Gains With Young People, Particularly Young Men - With John Della Volpe Of Harvard’s Institute For Politics
On Reinventing Government And The Perils of DOGE - With Dr. Elaine Kamarck Of Harvard and The Brookings Institution
From Closing Strong
On The Need For More Pro-Democracy Media - With Tara McGowan and Dan Pfeiffer
Beyond MAGA Creators - Russia’s Influence On The Republican Party Runs Deep With Stuart Stevens and Jiore Craig
From Hopium
Raising Our Game, Building The Next Thing, Going 24/7/365 (video and written analysis, includes my current working 7 top recommendations on the path forward)
For Dems It’s A Time For Re-imagination, Re-invention and Innovation (video and written analysis)
“Getting Louder” - A conversation about building pro-democracy media with Ben Meiselas (MeidasTouch), Tara McGowan (COURIER Newsroom), Joe Trippi (Resolute Square) and David Rothkopf (DSR Network)
