This week, I’m joined on The Forecast by Nick Rathod, one of the brightest strategists on the left. Nick worked with three presidents, two vice presidents, ran Everytown’s state campaigns, built the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Elizabeth Warren, and managed Beto’s run for Texas governor.
For our Thanksgiving-themed episode, we cover a lot of ground:
✅ How Virginia made history in 2025—and what the surprise redistricting effort could mean for control of the House
✅ What Democrats still get wrong (and occasionally right) about message discipline
✅ Whether we’re watching the early stages of a MAGA civil war—and how Marjorie Taylor Greene fits into it
✅ Why political operatives keep losing friendships over primaries, and whether we can fix that
✅ And yes… Epstein.
I’m thankful for the conversation with Nick, and hopeful that folks across the ecosystem—funders, operatives, strategists—will consider some of the ideas we explore. (Especially my favorite one: a line of bipartisan restaurants to bridge the divide over politics with food.)