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  • The Fifth Column

    Picking apart the news cycle, interrogating their guests, and always imbibing responsibly. With Michael Moynihan (Vice), Matt Welch (Reason), and Kmele Foster (Freethink)

  • Matt Welch

    Co-conspirator, The Fifth Column. Proprietor, The View Level. Editor at Large, Reason.

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    Co-host of The Fifth Column Podcast

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    https://www.natesilver.net/ Really just a poker player at heart, but I sometimes make election forecasts and write about things.

  • Yemisi Egbewole

    Former Chief of Staff to the Biden White House Press Office; Senior Fellow at Third Way also, establishment democrat hack beholden to corporate interests! <3

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