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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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...

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The same young Latino voters who swung to Donald Trump in 2024 just handed New York to Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani - and no, they haven't changed their minds about anything. Strategist Mike Madrid explains why the fastest-growing bloc in American politics is walking out on both parties at once. 

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This episode highlights how seemingly casual interactions with law enforcement can carry serious legal risks. Through a conversation between attorney Rory Pendergast and defense lawyer Anna Yum, it explains your key constitutional protections—especially under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments—and how they apply in real-life situations like traffic stops or searches. The core message: don’t let a “friendly” conversation lower your guard. You have the right to remain silent and request a lawyer, and exercising those rights can protect you from unintentionally harming your case. It also breaks down common misconceptions, like when Miranda warnings apply, and clarifies important legal concepts such as probable cause versus proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

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We sit down with Jeremy, Senior VP of Open Primaries, to dig into a new IVP/Open Primaries poll of registered NYC Democrats - and what it reveals is wild. Jeremy lays out "the big lie" about open vs. closed primaries, why ~40% of NYC Democrats (and two out of three Latino Democrats) don't identify with the party they're registered in, and how a 10% turnout primary ends up deciding who actually runs the city. Then Jeremy lays out why almost everyone - the media, secretaries of state, even civil rights groups - has the importance of primaries exactly backwards.

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