Hey everyone, it's Jen Saki. I'm excited to tell you about season two of my podcast, The Blueprint with Jen Saki. We all spend a lot of time talking about the Trump presidency and the GOP. We also need to have a conversation about the future of the party that is out of power and how they're planning to win it back. So every Wednesday I'm going to be interviewing somebody reshaping the Democratic Party, whether that's the co-host of a hit podcast straight out of Oklahoma

or the governor of Kentucky. And to start every episode this season, I'll debate how the news of today

might impact the elections of tomorrow with my longtime friend and completely unfiltered Democratic

strategist Liz Smith. The first two episodes of The Blueprint with Jen Saki are available now, and new episodes drop Wednesdays.

Plus, stay right here to listen to a special preview of the first episode, my conversation with Texas Congressman Greg Khazar, who chairs the Progressive Caucus.

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Sometimes when people hear someone is the chair of the Progressive Caucus, which you are, they may think, if they don't consider themselves a member of the progressive

wing of the party, I'm not going to have anything in common with this person.

This guy is probably somebody who is drinking a macho latte and hugging a tree in Brooklyn.

And you are definitely not, right?

Not that there's anything wrong with any of those things, but there's this perception that I just

don't think is right.

And the third reason is the one I

already touched on, which is that as the fastest man in Congress, you obviously are not 85. You are

a rising start because you're young. You're very good at what you do, but also because you're

somebody who I think is going to be around for a while. So I'm delighted to have you here,

and I just wanted to introduce to people listening kind of why I wanted to talk to you so much. So let me start with

this. This is a question that has not just been on my mind, but you see it in poll after poll.

It's something that comes up in focus groups and even beyond that, just average people out there

who are trying to figure out where

their politics are. Who is the Democratic Party? And what does the Democratic Party stand for?

So what do you tell people an answer to that question? I tell people that the Democratic Party

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