All right, hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwark, here with my pal, Lauren Egan, who is the author of the opposition newsletter. This is a Bullwork Takes podcast. We're going to start saying that so people know what they're listening to, I guess. Lauren, we're going to talk about your newsletter, but first, how are you doing? It's been a while. I'm doing well. How are you doing? It was great seeing you in the office.

Lauren, in North again, came with the DC.

I know. first. How are you doing? It's been a while. I'm doing well. How are you doing? It was a great seeing you in the office. Lauren,

in the rest of the game came into D.C. I know. I know. We got to do that more often. I know. I feel like removed. You're down in Nashville and I'm up here. I feel like we, you know, you should have thought about it more. Okay. You can come down here anytime. time.

I could come to

there.

You didn't see

so enthused

about getting

together more

often.

Lauren's writing

about,

uh, You can come down here anytime. I could come to there. You didn't see something so enthused about getting together more often.

Lauren's writing about, how would we describe this?

A little bit of Texas Senate primary, a little bit of like how to make kind of moderate people

go viral online and the trickiness around that.

Let's start with that.

So your newsletter is kind of about this interesting phenomenon where there's a bunch of

operatives who really want these centrist-minded, non-political people who don't really, you know,

do the bells and whistles to figure out how to do the online conversation.

And the results have been what?

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