Absurd! Not True! Feat. Anat Shenker-Osorio

Charting the Way Forward

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

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A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…

about a year ago 1:10:04

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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.

20 episodes

Absurd! Not True! Feat. Anat Shenker-Osorio

Charting the Way Forward

published about a year ago

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20 episodes

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

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

6 days ago45:50

45:50

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

13 days ago57:01

57:01

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

20 days ago45:26

45:26

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

27 days ago1:06:33

1:06:33

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

5 weeks ago53:12

53:12

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

6 weeks ago46:30

46:30

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

7 weeks ago1:10:04

1:10:04

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

8 weeks ago51:21

51:21

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

9 weeks ago40:48

40:48

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

10 weeks ago49:33

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

11 weeks ago53:45

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

12 weeks ago47:21

47:21

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

13 weeks ago52:22

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

14 weeks ago49:51

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

15 weeks ago41:03

41:03

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

Charting the Way Forward

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

21 weeks ago42:31

42:31

Journey further into the heart of 2024 election darkness, and the longer term and economic roots of the challenges that Democrats need to either face or continue being dragged down by. A discussion of Way to Win's recent round of polling President Tory Gavito, Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and host Kerry Eleveld.…

Charting the Way Forward

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Joe Rogan, Barstool and Tradwives vs 100 Duck Sized AMPLIFY Horses 50:03

24 weeks ago50:03

50:03

Charting the Way Forward Episode 4: Join host Kerry Eleveld, rising social media guru Maddie Medved, and extremely senior media strategist Dan Ancona for a discussion of the core challenges the Harris campaign failed to address, how and why those awful trans ads actually worked (it's not what you think!), and the incredible but under the radar creators and influencers campaign that Way to Win ran in 2024.…

Charting the Way Forward

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WTAF Just Happened?? 48:44

25 weeks ago48:44

48:44

A conversation about the 2024 election results with host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win Head of Strategy Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and Latino vote expert Kristian Ramos.

Charting the Way Forward

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We Are Absolutely Using This Moment 35:37

27 weeks ago35:37

35:37

Join Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona with host Kerry Eleveld for a discussion on a few key moments over this election cycle that led us to this one. If this episode doesn't motivate you to take action, nothing is going to.

Charting the Way Forward

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The 2024 Closing Argument 36:27

29 weeks ago36:27