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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton is one of the most infectiously inspiring leaders from across the entire left and Democratic family. She joins Way to Win President Tory Gavito and host Kerry Eleveld to discuss everything that's moving forward in her home state. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Democratic rising star Rep. Yassamin Ansari joins host Kerry Eleveld to discuss the Las Vegas launch of the Affordability Listening Tour, sponsored by the Way to Win and members of Congressional Progressive Caucus. Next up: Houston and Phoenix! ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Todd Zimmer of Down Home North Carolina joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona for an update from the front lines of one of the spiciest battleground states this cycle. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <title>Darkest Moments to Brightest Stars (feat. LaTosha Brown)</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Strategist, superstar organizer and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito to continue a guaranteed-inspirational discussion that Tory and LaTosha started at the Edmund Pettus Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee in early March of this year. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Way to Win star consultant Dan Ancona hosts a conversation with NIH neuroscientist and superactivist Mark Histed (speaking in his personal capacity, not as a representative of the agency) about the attacks on science under this administration, the changes and degradation in media that got him involved and got all of us to this point, and what may possibly be our nerdiest three media things ever. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and Star Consultant Dan Ancona get together to talk who was cooking this week (James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Kat Abughazaleh and whichever ad firm that made Cornyn's most recent ad) and who was cooked (Ken Paxton, Trump, and everyone else dragging us into this idiotic, racist war). ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Terrance Woodbury from HIT Strategies presents Black Opps, their deep research project on understanding why Black voters have been super motivated but less willing to publicly protest the Trump administration. He joins host Kerry Eleveld, President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona to unpack and discuss what they found. Please read more and follow Terrance's work here: https://hitstrat.com/blackopps/ ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:title>There&#39;s No Money In Uncertainty (feat. G. Elliott Morris)</itunes:title>
    <title>There&#39;s No Money In Uncertainty (feat. G. Elliott Morris)</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[G. Elliott Morris has been putting up banger after banger of polls, studies and analyses at Strength in Numbers. Host Kerry Eleveld and Strategist Dan Ancona invited him to come by the show and discuss a couple recent standouts: how Democrats biggest problem is being seen as too weak, not too liberal, philosophies of writing good survey questions, and a little on Texas. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:title>Short Take: Texas Primarypalooza</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Host Kerry Eleveld has on Way to Win Texas experts President Tory Gavito and  Political Director Joe Hamill for a short discussion of the seismic shifts happening in Texas, as viewed through the lens of yesterday's high energy and very high vibe primary election. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A little tweak to our format this week: Host Kerry Eleveld is joined by President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona to go over some clips of the public figures who did great and... less great this week. They dig into some of the best bits of Spanberger's out-of-nowhere surprise fantastic State of the Union Response, some of the strong stuff Jon Ossoff has been slinging down in Georgia, and Gavin Newsom stepping into a bucket of right wing hogwash. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA["There is no one in charge anymore. That is both incredibly scary and part of why the last year has felt so discombobulating for so many people, but it is also so freeing. We have this incredible opportunity to reshape where we want the party to go, to reimagine the future." - Run for Something's Amanda Litman, who joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito for this absolute must-listen episode about the potential of this moment. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In our long odyssey encouraging Democrats to update their thinking, we have been lucky to find allies doing fantastic and deep work in specific issue areas. Insha Rahman, the Vera Institute's VP of Advocacy and Partnerships, is one such wonderful expert. She joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Ancona for a critical conversation about how Dems can sharpen their argument on public safety, win back the public's trust, and go on offense on it to win elections. ]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>In our long odyssey encouraging Democrats to update their thinking, we have been lucky to find allies doing fantastic and deep work in specific issue areas. Insha Rahman, the Vera Institute&apos;s VP of Advocacy and Partnerships, is one such wonderful expert. She joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Ancona for a critical conversation about how Dems can sharpen their argument on public safety, win back the public&apos;s trust, and go on offense on it to win elections.</p>]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The results of last Saturday's special election in Texas Senate District SD-09 are still sending shockwaves out through the state and nationally. Host Kerry Eleveld and two of the biggest Texas experts we know, Way to Win President Tory Gavito and Political Director Joe Hamill, break down the huge swings away from right wing MAGA extremism. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:title>Making Repression Backfire (feat. Leah Greenberg)</itunes:title>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Indivisible head Leah Greenberg joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito for an urgent conversation on moving Democrats to maximal opposition, our current best chance at stopping ICE. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:title>Not Whether to Abolish ICE. How.</itunes:title>
    <title>Not Whether to Abolish ICE. How.</title>
    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, abolishing ICE has become an unambiguous and urgent moral imperative. Democrats aren't used to winning arguments like this but stopping the ongoing harassment and terror of our own communities by agents of the government we pay for has become such an urgent priority that for many voters, the legitimacy of our political system is at stake. Join host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and consultant Dan Anco...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[More focus group sound this week, this time from Democratic defector voters in Nevada, and two fantastic guests: Diana Valles, President of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Way to Win Director of State Partnerships Kendra Alvarez. Diana and Kendra join host Kerry Eleveld to explore how the right wing social experiment is hurting people and how we can work together to fix it. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Earlier this week the NYT Editorial Board sort-of-maybe attacked us with a very strange editorial claiming that because moderates have won in a few races, moderation is the true and only path to Democratic electoral salvation. Host Kerry Eleveld has on President Tory Gavito, CSO Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and Dan Ancona to dismantle their argument and talk about other campaign work in process. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[NEW POLL: genius pollster Celinda Lake joins host Kerry Eleveld and the Way to Win brass, President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, to go through the findings from a comprehensively thorough study of the group of voters that showed up for Biden but sat out 2024. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[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. ]]></itunes:summary>
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