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August 25, 2026

Una vida creyendo en Tijuana: José Galicot y el legado de Tijuana Innovadora

Llegó a Tijuana a los nueve años y encontró un pueblo de 20,000 habitantes con calles de tierra. Casi ocho décadas después, José Galicot es el hombre que convenció al mundo, y a los propios tijuanenses, de que esta ciudad merecía otra narrativa. En este episodio comparte la historia detrás de Tijuana Innovadora, sus fracasos, sus reinvenciones y la razón por la que, después de todo, se define como educador.

August 24, 2026

From Bartender to Bush’s War Room & 50 Years in GOP Politics (Anne Dunsmore)

Anne Dunsmore has been in the room for nearly 50 years of American politics, and it all started because she lost a bet in a D.C. bar.

August 20, 2026

Border Patrol STOPPED Her: Becoming a US Citizen LEGALLY is Harder Than Ever

IVP's own producer just became a U.S. citizen, and she's sitting down with Chad and Cara to talk about what it actually took, and what it felt like the moment she finally got to register to vote.

August 18, 2026

Why Rick Bennett Left the GOP to Run for Governor of Maine (NOT What You Think)

ck Bennett climbed to the top of Maine's Republican Party - President of the Senate - and now he's running for governor without a party at all. His reasoning is blunt: the parties themselves are a major reason government stopped working.

August 13, 2026

Elon Musk's $1.5 Million Attack on Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska

lon Musk just quietly put $1.5 million behind a network aimed at killing Alaska's top-four open primary. The kicker: the same measure would repeal the transparency law that let anyone find out he paid for it.

August 6, 2026

Missouri Voters Crushed a Partisan Power Grab - the State Blocked Them Anyway

Missouri voters showed up and shut down the legislature's attempt to gut citizen initiatives - and then, hours before polls closed, the Secretary of State went in front of a camera and declared their 300,000-signature people's veto unconstitutional anyway.

July 30, 2026

27 Years in Uniform, Now Running Against BOTH Parties in Oregon (Jason Faler)

A 27-year Army officer with three deployments looked at Congress and decided the problem wasn't which party was winning - it was that both of them were. So Jason Faler is running in Oregon's 6th with no letter behind his name.

July 23, 2026

The First REAL Working-Class Senator? Troy Jackson Explained

Everyone's calling Troy Jackson the establishment's safe replacement for Graham Platner. Here's the thing: Jackson has defied Democratic Party leadership more than Platner ever did - and he's got two decades of receipts. 

July 21, 2026

Can Ozempic Replace Weight Loss Surgery? Dr. Ariel Ortiz on Cross-Border Care and Bariatric Medicine

What if the most advanced weight loss care in the world was a 20-minute drive across the border? In this episode, Dr. Ariel Ortiz Lagardere, one of Tijuana's most recognized bariatric surgeons, breaks down the real story behind obesity, metabolic disease, and why thousands of Americans are choosing surgery in Mexico over injections at home.

July 16, 2026

They're ERASING 71% of the Vote: How Maine Democrats Replace Graham Platner

Graham Platner won Maine's Democratic Senate primary with 71% of the vote and record turnout - and none of it matters anymore. Cara, Shawn, and Ethan break down how an obscure section of Maine election law lets 600 party delegates in Bangor erase the biggest primary win in state history.After a barely-there vetting process collapsed under press scrutiny, Platner withdrew - and now the Maine Democratic Party has until July 27 to hand-pick his replacement, with no ranked choice voting and no input from the independents who helped elect him...