Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show.

I want to start off by saying thanks for the patience with the reduced show schedule the past month.

It's work travel season and W2 employee at Niskanen.

Responsibility holding 30-something Marshall with a one-year-old just isn't as prolific as vibes-driven post-COVID New York

City, 2021 to 22, Marshall, who was able to somehow pump out two to three episodes a week

while also hosting two other podcasts and going on breaking points was. I've got a great

backlog of episodes, though, so I should drop another on Sunday and be back to

the normal schedule next week. I'm pumped to get back in the stream of things with this episode,

though. My guests are the Open Market Institute's Austin Alman and Ben Windsor. We spoke about a lot

and went way longer than normal. We covered an interesting piece that put out

on the Open Market Institute's Liberty and Power

Substack titled Seven Hard Lessons,

Democrats Must Learn in 2026 that caught my eye.

Conversation also coincided with the major speech

delivered by Senator Elizabeth Warren

that noted her agreement with many principles

of abundance, but challenged supporters to reject any trappings of billionaire astroturfing.

If you're on X slash Twitter, policy discourse spaces, you'll note that Austin is particularly

known as an aggressive critic of abundance, so I was excited to talk with him in a more pro-social medium.

The whole thing you'll be hearing from me this year is that I hate factionalism and all of the snarky snapping between different personalities.

For me, the future isn't factional.

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