On this edition of the Politics Politics Podcast, we talk about an incredible series of articles written by the San Francisco Chronicle about the drug dealing pipeline that has totally reshaped that city. The money man, Dave Leventhal, is back.

We talk about all the

quarks of this cycles fundraising session debates and the big winners and losers from our

Q2 reports it's all coming up

this is made possible by Dustin Campbell, Oh Them Bones, Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach,

and Craig. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics

politics program for Wednesday July 12th 2023 year old old pal Justin Robert Young joining you back in Austin, Texas out of our

little summer swoon.

And back at it again. We're gearing up, man. You can feel everything turning. We got Q2 fundraising results coming up a little bit later this week.

We'll take a sneak peek at it with Dave Leventhal, a little later.

We've got debate qualifying.

We've got new entrance into gigantic 2024 races and Senate Republicans saying

not so fast my friends we're not going to let a crop of Dr. Oz's and Herschel

Walker's ruin what could be their last best chance to cement a majority in that chamber for the next few cycles.

But before we get to all of that, I want to do a little bit of a detour.

This is not something that we talk about a lot on this show, especially when we have actual

election news.

But I do want to bring it to your attention.

Many of you will remember that we had a man on this show

that went by the name on Twitter, Better Soma.

He's a neighborhood activist in San Francisco

and his social media account has been

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