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The Dig

Primary Strategy w/ Geoff Simpson

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Geoff Simpson on Justice Democrats’ massive 2026 slate of insurgent House candidates taking on AIPAC/Big Tech money. Also: the history of post-Bernie 2016 primary challenges, the Israel lobby’s legitimacy crisis, radicalizing liberals, and the role of electoral politics in the larger left project.

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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com

0:05.0

and by University of California Press.

0:08.6

Publishers of the book, Leave if you can, Migration and Violence and Bordered Worlds, by

0:14.7

Amelia Frank Vitale, with a foreword by National Book Award winner, Jason de Leon.

0:21.3

Sympathetic and immersive,

0:23.1

this book takes you into the Honduran Exodus

0:25.4

and its revelations about the broader consequences

0:29.2

of changing U.S. border enforcement policies

0:32.1

as Amelia Frank Vitale accompanies migrant caravans

0:36.4

over the course of many years.

0:39.6

Learn more about Leave if you can at UCpress.edu.

0:49.6

Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

0:58.0

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:04.0

Voters are turning hard against Donald Trump and the entire MAGA Republican Party.

1:10.0

You can say a lot of things about the American

1:12.7

people, but a majority of people in this country, thank God, are not literal Nazis. And it's not

1:22.6

just a reaction against the far right. Many liberal voters, furious at Trump, are in revolt against a Democratic

1:29.8

party establishment that's failed to protect them from the fascist authoritarian threat. And they're

1:35.4

looking leftward toward the likes of Bernie, AOC, and Zoran for leadership. This year's elections,

1:42.3

both the primaries and the general, will be profoundly

1:47.0

consequential, and they provide the left with huge opportunities. No organization is more

1:54.2

aggressively seeking to exploit those opportunities than Justice Democrats, which is backing

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