838 VICE News Todd Zwillich on Democracy Watch
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Todd Zwillich is the Deputy DC Bureau Chief at VICE News where he works on the Breaking the Vote series which tracks the growing assault on voting rights, and efforts to undermine the democratic process in America.
Todd was the host of The Takeaway on WNYC and the program's longtime Washington correspondent. He has been reporting from Washington, D.C. for close to 20 years. Todd's first byline was as a science and medicine reporter in the trade press, but it didn't take long for him to find his way to Capitol Hill. Todd worked for several years for Reuters, wrote about new research for Science and covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the British Lancet. He found his way to radio in 2006, becoming a public radio reporter on Capitol Hill. He covered the 2008 Republican and Democratic National Conventions for WAMU in Washington, and several other public radio stations. Todd first appeared on the The Takeaway when it was in pilot and joined the show as Washington Correspondent in 2009.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up. |
| 0:04.4 | My guest today is the Washington D.C. |
| 0:07.2 | Vice News Deputy Bureau Chief Todd Zwillek, who is a brilliant political analyst who covered |
| 0:13.6 | Congress for over 20 years. |
| 0:15.3 | I think you'll love our conversation. |
| 0:17.8 | He is now on the Democracy Beat over at Vice News doing a great job. |
| 0:22.9 | We had an awesome talk and we had an awesome talk last night at the Hangout. |
| 0:27.0 | Oh man, it was filled with surprises. |
| 0:30.7 | First we kicked off with Eric Siegel, who joined us, had a lot of really nice things to |
| 0:34.5 | say about the community and what the show is meant to him and it was really special |
| 0:39.3 | moment to kick us off. |
| 0:40.7 | And then we had surprise guests, our friends Megan and Cassie, stop by my house and join |
| 0:47.0 | me in person for the Hangout. |
| 0:49.2 | They're usually there with us virtually. |
| 0:51.4 | And then the specialist guest of all our superstar Ava Dominik, my daughter, 18-year-old |
| 0:56.8 | Ava joined us to thank everybody who succeeded in contributing, donating, raising money for |
| 1:03.8 | her because she was scammed out of her entire savings of $5,000. |
| 1:08.9 | If you didn't hear about that, go listen to yesterday's show and she was there to talk |
| 1:13.1 | about that. |
| 1:14.1 | Took a whole bunch of questions, so many amazing people telling her great things and we |
| 1:18.3 | will continue to be talking about what happened to Ava and doing the best we can to create awareness |
| 1:24.4 | and make sure everybody knows their rights and can protect themselves and their family |
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