Hello and welcome with the Bullerick podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

A few notes.

Yesterday's ad-free pod got cut off at the end.

So if you missed one of my favorite wines,

Fred Panic ditties about, you know,

being around people and how that helps with your sadness.

You can catch up with the playlist and the show notes every Friday, the Bullwark podcast,

outro song playlist. It's right here. We put it in the show notes for you for people that ask.

Also, this is a good chance to inform newbies that if you want to go ad free, you might not,

you've even known you could do that. You can go to the bulwark.com slash subscribe,

join Bullwork Plus. You'll also get access to the secret pod and some other goodies and you don't

have to, you know, listen to me, talk about all of our great sponsors, so we love and appreciate.

And one more thing in the show notes today, we're going to, if you are looking for some ways to

support the firefighters and the victims in California. We're to put some vetted links in the notes.

So with that, my guest today, a writer and editor at Protect Democracy.

She's co-authoritative of the authoritarian playbook for 2025, Preciant,

how an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it.

It's my former colleague, Amanda Carpenter.

How you doing, Amanda?

Hey, Tim.

Happy Friday.

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