Thirty seconds after a man on the subway looks Lindsey in the eye instead of looking away, she's asking a bigger question: who's actually keeping track of what matters?
This episode sits down with Caitlin Kawaguchi, who's spent six years inside a Brooklyn political club trying to unseat the same Democratic Party faction that's held power there for decades. Most of her candidates lost. She kept a list of what happened to them anyway — and it turned out to be the only accurate read on where things were actually headed, months before the official numbers caught up.
In this episode:
Why a volunteer club calling itself New Kings Democrats spent two election cycles losing on purpose
The unpaid, unglamorous job of district leader — and why the people already holding those seats want you to never hear about it
What Caitlin started keeping track of that nobody asked her to
The two economies every one of us is running at the same time, and why only one of them gets recorded
What happened in a Brooklyn auditorium eight hours into a meeting that was never supposed to take that long
A practice to take with you: the off-plan practice — three steps for finding out what actually became of something you shut down and decided was a loss.
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