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Charting the Way ForwardHow Things Fell Apart (feat. Celinda Lake)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 2024.2025-07-1748 min

Charting the Way ForwardMoving Toward the Sound of the GunsHost Kerry Eleveld returns for a strategy discussion about the disastrous immigration secret police funding in the Big Ugly MAGA Bill, with Way to Win chief Tory Gavito and media consultant Dan Ancona, who goes Full Kornacki on some of Way's immigration data. If you're curious what Way to Win strategy zoom calls are like, this episode is a peek inside our process.2025-07-101h 04

Charting the Way ForwardAwful, Awful, Awful (Update From the Hill)As of recording time on Wednesday July 2nd, the fate of the Big Ugly Ass Murder Budget Bill was hanging in the balance. Kristian Ramos and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona join pinch host Dan Ancona to discuss the meaning and ramifications of this comprehensively disastrous legislation.2025-07-0330 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe Pain and the Promise (feat. Terrance Woodbury)Zohranmania! Join First Official Friend of the Pod Terrance Woodbury for a show we recorded the day of the NYC Mayoral Primary. Terrance is joined by the Way to Win brain trust of host Kerry Eleveld, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and Tory Gavito, who dig into how Black voters are thinking about the primary and everything else. Particularly given the results, you will not want to miss this one!2025-06-2653 min

Charting the Way ForwardUrgency and Agency (feat. Glennis Meagher)Maddie Medved takes the reins while Kerry is out, for a discussion of all things internet with social media guru Glennis Meagher and Way to Win Chief Strategist Jenifer Fernandez Ancona.2025-06-1943 min

Charting the Way ForwardSay Nothing and You Confirm Their Version of Events (feat. Molly Murphy)MAJOR POLL DROP! We worked with Impact Research on a poll that should put a stake through the heart of the conventional wisdom that immigration is a "bad issue for Dems" that they need to avoid "raising the salience of." Impact President Molly Murphy joins host Kerry Eleveld and Tory Gavito, Joe Hamill, and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona from the Way to Win team to discuss the clear strategic imperative for Dems of all stripes to go on the attack.2025-06-1234 min

Charting the Way ForwardVikings, Tequila Shots and the DNC (feat. Chuck Rocha)Democratic überconsultant Chuck Rocha has won a ton of elections and he has ANSWERS. He joins the all-star roundtable of host Kerry Eleveld, strategist Kristian Ramos and Way to Win head Tory Gavito for a discussion of how Dems can reach not just Latinos, but voters of all stripes and beliefs.2025-06-0556 min

Charting the Way ForwardMaybe We're Not Cooked?! (feat. Michael Frias)Fresh off the release of the kaleidoscopic and deep Catalist voter-file based analysis of the 2024, Catalist chief Michael Frias joins host Kerry Eleveld and strategists Joe Hamill and Kristian Ramos for a discussion that goes far beyond just the contents of the report.2025-05-2947 min

Charting the Way ForwardChecks and Imbalances (feat. Brian Derrick)Think your $25 donation doesn’t move the needle? Think again. In this episode, host Kerry Eleveld and the big strategy panel of Tory Gavito, Jenifer Ancona and Maddie Medved sit down with Brian Derrick, founder of Oath, to unpack how small-dollar giving is quietly transforming political power when it’s done right, and what the potential is for the future.2025-05-2257 min

Charting the Way ForwardCharting a New Way Forward. No, really. (feat. Kyle Tharp)Host Kerry Eleveld and media analyst and strategist Dan Ancona talk to Kyle "Chaotic Era" Tharp about the release of TV Congress 2024, Way to Win's interactive tracking database of political TV ads.2025-05-1558 min

Charting the Way ForwardWe're a Bigger Tent (feat. Cornell Belcher)Veteran Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher joins us for a riveting discussion of how to reconstitute a winning Democratic coalition from the ground up, starting with men of color who voted for Biden in 2020 but then skipped 2024. It's a must listen, drawing from Belcher's deep expertise on how Democrats have won in the past and can do so again.2025-05-0857 min

Charting the Way ForwardBehold, The Mother of All Persuasion Windows OpenethJoin Kerry and Tory, Maddie and Dan from the Way to Win team for a roundtable discussion on this remarkable moment in history, the opportunity it presents, and what some of the barriers in the thinking of the DC establishment are to seizing it. The show nearly goes off the rails at the news about Little House on the Prairie being a right wing media op, but the crew bravely holds it together and soldiers through.2025-05-0145 min

Charting the Way ForwardAll Trees, No Forest (feat. Dan Pfeiffer)Dan "The Message Box" Pfeiffer joins Kerry and Jenifer for Part 2 of our Understanding the Missing Biden Voters series, including sound from our focus groups, their thoughts on the Harris and Trump campaigns, and the prospects for 2026 and beyond.2025-04-2457 min

Charting the Way ForwardUnderstanding the Missing Biden VotersWe have focus group sound! We worked with Lake Research to talk to four groups of battleground voters that voted for Biden in 2020 and then didn't vote in 2024. Join Kerry and Jenifer as they walk through our conversations with these voters, their background views on 2024, and their thoughts on the parties and Trump oligarchy and deportations. Coming next week: more from these voters, including how they felt about the 2024 campaigns and the prospects for engaging them in 2026 and beyond.2025-04-1745 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe Four Fs: Fight, Fascism, Freedom and F*ckAnother 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.2025-04-101h 06

The Brown Girls Guide to PoliticsBonus Episode: A Night At Persist With Way To WinIn March of 2025, A’shanti Gholar co-hosted the inaugural event of the Persist network – a network dedicated to uplifting women and their voices. It was hosted at Diane Von Furstenberg’s studio in NYC, and was a convening of women who are putting in the work day in and day out to fight back against the current administration.In this bonus episode, presented by Way to Win, A’shanti and Tory Gavito, President and Co-Founder of Way to Win, talk about what they are both doing to persist in the face of it all. They talk about wh...2025-04-0837 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe Hunger for Strong and Meaningful Opposition (feat. Rep Greg Casar)Something, finally, seems to be shifting. Join the Charting gang - Kerry, Kristian, and Maddie - as they catch up with Rep Greg Casar of Texas to talk about his experience at the Bernie and AOC Fight Oligarchy Tour, and the recent raft of vastly improved and more emotionally resonant arguments coming from Dems.2025-04-0353 min

Charting the Way ForwardZero Sum Politics ⚠️ And the Future Of The Dem Coalition (featuring Terrance Woodbury from HIT Strategies)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-2024.2025-03-2746 min

Charting the Way ForwardAbsurd! Not True! Feat. Anat Shenker-OsorioJoin host Kerry Eleveld and messaging and strategy guru Anat Shenker-Osorio for a rich and not very doomy conversation on the strategically critical and awesomely fun direct action scene, some hot sizzling fresh focus group results, and how the 2024 results are shaping tactical decisions of activists across the US trying to persuade DC Dems to save our democracy.2025-03-201h 10

Charting the Way ForwardTo Moderate Or Not To Moderate, That Is The QuestionWith Democratic enterprises of great pith and moment currents beginning to turn awry and lose the name of action, Kerry hosts, as Dan and Jenifer join for a reunion tour of their brief foray into streaming, The What's Possible Show. Conscience makes cowards of us all as they discuss recent research around the biggest single strategic question facing Democrats: is more moderation really what it's going to take to move the (roughly) 19M Biden voters that stayed home in 2024?2025-03-1351 min

Charting the Way ForwardMaking it Stick, feat. Creator/Strategist Annie Wu HenryWe gave Kristian and Kerry the unenviable task of trying make some kind of sense out of Trump's weird, awful joint address. After they pilot the ship relatively painlessly through those waves and reefs, Kerry interviews Annie with a hopeful and substantive look at how Dems are starting the utterly crucial work of finding their voices. 2025-03-0640 min

Charting the Way ForwardRepublicans Take The First Bite of a Toxic 💩 SandwichJoin host Kerry Eleveld with updates on polling, Maddie Medved with reports from the social wildlands, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona's thoughts on media and strategy, and Kristian Ramos with reports from the Hill as Republicans prepare to pass a budget gutting critical programs for the sole purpose of handing somehow even larger piles of money over to guys like Elon Musk.2025-02-2749 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe Media Gap and the Mechanics of Vibes (feat. Will Stancil)This episode features something daring, groundbreaking and unheard of in American political podcasting: a discussion between two white guys. While the usual team is out on a strategy retreat, Dan Ancona pinch-hosts for Kerry in a discussion about the right wing media gap and what Dems need to better understand about how vibes are generated and transmitted, with sayer of obvious truths that somehow get misinterpreted as controversial, BlueSky and emerging TikTok star Will Stancil.2025-02-2053 min

Charting the Way ForwardEvolving A Stronger Resistance in 2025 (feat. Leah Greenberg of Indivisible)If you have a sense whatever the resistance did during Trump's first term didn't quite work out, you're not alone. Big changes and wild growth are happening already in this new reality, and Leah Greenberg from Indivisible is at the center of one of the organizations harnessing a massive influx of new energy. Join her and host Kerry Eleveld for a crucial and surprisingly hopeful big picture discussion of the efforts to preserve the republic.2025-02-1347 min

Charting the Way ForwardWill Caving to Trump Fix Democrats Massive Trust Issues?Join host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win ED Tory Gavito, Latino Guru Kristian Ramos, and Research/Media/Strategy Dude Dan Ancona for a roundtable discussion on pathways out of the Democratic Party's massive trust deficit and catastrophically high unfavorables, starting with separating out what the right wing is saying about Dems vs. what is actually happening.2025-02-0652 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe New Generational Fight Against OligarchyJoin Kristian Ramos, Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona for a discussion tying this week's news to big picture trends and context. Don't miss moments include Kristian's updates from his conversations on Capitol Hill, Jenifer's concise explanation of the challenge and urgency in front of us, and Tory's thoughts on how the tensions between immigration and moderate whites that have been a state issue in Texas long before they became a national challenge for Democrats.2025-01-3049 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe Missing 19 Million Biden Voters and The Pilgrimage Out of Flatland (feat. Mike Podhorzer)Kerry and Jenifer join a special guest, renowned Democratic strategist Mike Podhorzer, to discuss the controversy over his take on the 2024 election outcome.2025-01-2341 min

Charting the Way ForwardWe Love the Smell of Fresh Polling Data Early in the MorningJourney further into the heart of 2024 election darkness, and the longer term and economic roots of the challenges that Democrats need to either face or continue being dragged down by. A discussion of Way to Win's recent round of polling President Tory Gavito, Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and host Kerry Eleveld.2024-12-1342 min

Charting the Way ForwardJoe Rogan, Barstool and Tradwives vs 100 Duck Sized AMPLIFY HorsesCharting the Way Forward Episode 4: Join host Kerry Eleveld, rising social media guru Maddie Medved, and extremely senior media strategist Dan Ancona for a discussion of the core challenges the Harris campaign failed to address, how and why those awful trans ads actually worked (it's not what you think!), and the incredible but under the radar creators and influencers campaign that Way to Win ran in 2024.2024-11-2150 min

Charting the Way ForwardWTAF Just Happened??A conversation about the 2024 election results with host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win Head of Strategy Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and Latino vote expert Kristian Ramos.2024-11-1548 min

The AmendmentCombating Election Misinformation with Joy-Ann ReidWith only a few days left in this election, MSNBC’s host of “The ReidOut” Joy-Ann Reid joins Errin to discuss combating misinformation, expectations for election night, and the future of American democracy beyond 2024.Follow Joy-Ann Reid on InstagramFollow The 19th on Instagram, Facebook, X and via our newsletters. Follow Errin Haines on Instagram @emarvelous and X @errinhaines.Follow Wonder Media Network on Instagram @wmn.media, X @wmnmedia, and Facebook. Today's episode is sponsored by Way To Win and features Way To Win President and Co-Founder Tory Gav...2024-10-3149 min

Charting the Way ForwardWe Are Absolutely Using This MomentJoin Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona with host Kerry Eleveld for a discussion on a few key moments over this election cycle that led us to this one. If this episode doesn't motivate you to take action, nothing is going to.2024-10-2935 min

Charting the Way ForwardThe 2024 Closing ArgumentJoin Way to Win cofounder Jenifer Fernandez Ancona and host Kerry Eleveld for the inaugural episode of Charting The Way Forward, as they discuss the arguments that MVP Harris and Democrats down the ballot should be making in the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign.2024-10-1836 min

Pro Politics with Zac McCraryJenifer Fernandez Ancona, co-founder of Way to Win, on Effective Progressive MessagingSend us a textJenifer Fernandez Ancona is a co-founder of Way to Win, a progressive donor hub that has helped direct nearly $300M since 2018. Jenifer talks her early experiences in journalism, what pulled her into political activism in the early 2000s, why Way to Win was needed, and the work and research and guidance Way to Win is providing to help Democrats message, organize, and advocate more effectively.IN THIS EPISODEJenifer's path from journalism to political advocacy after 9/11...Both the national...2023-10-1748 min

The Practivist PodProtecting Our Freedoms with Tory GavitoThe most important election of our lives is here! We don’t agonize, we organize! And it’s up to us in these final days. It’s GOTV time folks! One last push to do everything we can to protect our freedoms and fight back the rise of fascism! So to help pump us up and send us off to talk to voters with the messages that win, is co-founder and President of Way To Win, Tory Gavito! www.BlueIn22.org Follow us on Twitter: @HowWeWinPod @BluesBoySteve @jenancona www.howwewinpod.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPriv...2022-11-0247 min

Radically HumanIs There Any Hope for the Democratic Party?Is There Any Hope for the Democratic Party? with Lila Nordstrom and Brent ThornburgThe hosts of Brain Trust Live join The Radical Secular team for a spirited panel discussion about recent Democratic losses.(00:00) Intro and T-shirts.(09:21) How do we keep losing to these clowns??? Are we doomed to lose the House in 2022, and to the GOP installing Trump or a Trump clone in 2024, regardless of how the American people vote? The role of the culture war.(26:37) Media post-mortems. Almost everyone got it wrong. What's the real culprit for the Virginia...2021-11-081h 28

Two Broads Talking PoliticsTory Gavito (Livestream)9,718,648 Texans have already voted this year, more than voted in total in 2016. What's driving this turnout? What does it mean? And how do we sustain it in the future? We're discussing with Tory Gavito, Co-Founder & President of Way To Win.2020-11-0338 min