The Lincoln Project

Host Reed Galen answers questions asked by the members of the Lincoln Project community about the latest with Steve Bannon, Kevin McCarthy’s eight-and-a-half hour speech, the pace of the House Select Committee on January 6th, and so much more. Plus, Beto O’Rourke vs. Greg Abbott in the Texas race for governor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was originally released on July 22, 2021. In this encore presentation, host Reed Galen is joined by Beto O’Rourke, former United States Congressman, Founder of Powered By People, and as of this past Monday…Texas gubernatorial candidate. They discuss the political landscape that is Texas, the Texas Legislature's voter-suppression bill and the 50+ Texas Democrats who traveled to Washington, and Speaker Pelosi’s decision to reject the additions of Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the January 6th House Select Committee. Plus, Beto O’Rourke spotlights the work of his PAC, Powered By People.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by Dave Pell, the self described “Managing Editor of the internet”, Writer and Publisher of the NextDraft newsletter, and author of the new book, Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End. They discuss social media and how it seems to be anything but social, the snowballing failures of messaging that have gotten our nation to where it is at this moment in time, and what it takes to set seemingly everything aside for the sake of the pro-democracy coalition. You can subscribe to Dave’s newsletter at NextDraft.com and find his new book, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, at PleaseScream.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson to discuss the aftermath of the 2021 elections (in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere), all things infrastructure, and the Republican in-fighting that has erupted after the passage of the bipartisan bill. Plus, Rick Wilson makes a surprising (and strategic) endorsement! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by Jeff Timmer (Lincoln Project Senior Advisor) and David Daley (Author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind The Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy and Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy) to discuss all things redistricting, gerrymandering, and the political extremism that comes with it. Plus, what strategies and solutions can be used in fighting the battle ahead as 2022 approaches? Be sure to pick up Ratf**ked and Unrigged at your favorite book retailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by David Pepper, the former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party and author of the new book, Laboratories of Autocracy: A Wake-Up Call from Behind the Lines. They discuss how the greatest threat to American democracy isn’t the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, or Jim Jordan…and it’s not even Donald Trump’s “Big Lie”…it’s the anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country (and the levers of power which they abuse) that pose the greatest dangers to our democracy. Be sure to pick up Laboratories of Autocracy at your favorite book retailer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisors Stuart Stevens and Joe Trippi to discuss the answer to a rather “small” question. How do we get our friends and allies of democracy (the Democrats, the media, and corporate America) to understand the fight we’re facing regarding the threat to democracy that faces our nation? The fight we face between now and a year from today is unlike anything this country has seen for at least the past 100 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to discuss the upcoming testimony she’ll be presenting at the Sidney Powell disciplinary hearing before the Texas Bar Association, the uncomfortably large number of GOP attorneys general who signed off on bogus claims regarding the 2020 election, and the letter written to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton earlier this month questioning the legitimacy of legalized same-sex marriage in the United States.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen is joined by Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to discuss the importance of preserving democracy at all levels of government, the issue of voting rights and the barrage of threats against those rights in the state of Michigan and the country as a whole, and what to expect in the political landscape as we approach the 2022 and 2024 elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Reed Galen answers questions asked by the members of the Lincoln Project community about the upcoming election in Virginia, the Democratic party, AT&T’s continuing tailspin, Steve Bannon’s “shock troops”, and so much more. Plus, is the Republican party of old actually salvageable? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices