Building the Bench
Matt StaabNews and interviews with rising leaders in Democratic politics.
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"I Want to Rubber Stamp Michigan": Rep. Haley Stevens on Manufacturing, Running For Senate, and Democrats Chasing Virality
Haley Stevens keeps coming back to one phrase: the lawmaking table. It is where she believes the real work happens, where Michigan either gets heard or gets left out, and she has organized her entire career around making sure it is the form...
"Burn It Down or Fix It From the Inside"? A Conversation with Congresswoman Emily Randall (D-WA).
Burn It Down or Fix It From the Inside?
Emily Randall has been sitting with that question since 2019. She was newly elected to the Washington state Senate, in her first interim session, and kept saying it out loud at events like she was tr...
“All Hat, No Cattle”: Congresswoman Julie Johnson on GOP Cowardice and the Problem With Ideological Purity Tests
There are two ways Democrats talk about “fighting.”
One is more performance: it plays well online, makes people feel righteous, but doesn’t always go beyond internet echo chambers. The other is about results: recruiting serious candidates,...
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández Takes Us Inside the Fight to Release the Epstein Files
As millions of pages from the Epstein files begin to surface (with millions more being held from release) the obvious question isn’t just what’s in them. It’s why forcing transparency was such a grind in the first place.
I sat down with Te...
NAACP President Derrick Johnson Says the Most Important Political Battles Are Taking Shape Long Before We Vote
In a wide ranging conversation, I sit down with Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, to talk about how political power is being reshaped ahead of the next election cycle and why many of the most consequential battles are unfoldi...
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Host of Building the Bench podcast: Candid conversations with the next generation of Democratic leaders about the moments that shaped them, the lessons that grounded them, and the ideas they’re eager to test. Dem Wins Media Contributor.
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