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August 11, 2024
The Wilderness

Kamala Harris’s Winning Message (Ep. 7)

Jon is joined Democratic message guru Anat Shenker-Osorio and longtime political strategist Michael Podhorzer to talk about how swing voters are reacting to a Harris-Walz ticket and what message the campaign will need to win them over in November. They break down why Tim Walz has been a uniquely effective messenger, how Kamala Harris is reclaiming freedom from Republicans, and how Minnesota’s 2018 “Greater than Fear” campaign set the stage for this moment.

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March 8, 2024
Amanpour / CNN International

Communications Expert: Biden making election a contest between two potential futures

Analyst Anat Shenker-Osorio says voters may be turned off by another Trump vs. Biden race, but are focused on where their futures are headed.

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May 18, 2023
Crooked Media

Pod Save America: Democrats Go Off In An Off Year

Democrats worry about the debt ceiling deal Joe Biden might make with Kevin McCarthy. The party gets good news in Tuesday’s elections. Ron DeSantis will announce his presidential run next week because he’s tired of the Republican culture of losing. And the most definitive report on the 2022 midterms give us clues about the 2024 electorate. Then Democratic messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio stops by to talk about how Dems should be talking about the budget negotiations. And Jon and Dan play another round of Take Take Don’t Tell Me.

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November 21, 2022
Crooked Media

Political Experts React to the 2022 Midterm Results, MAGA Republican Ads + Lessons for Democrats

Former Barack Obama Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer is joined by Ad maker and messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio analyze Political Ads about MAGA Extremism, Election Denialism, and what messages worked and didn’t work for Democrats in the 2022 Midterms.

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August 3, 2022
MSNBC with Ali Velshi

High stakes abortion vote, key primaries drive huge voter turnout

Ali Velshi and a panel of experts talk about the significance of the defeat in Kansas of an anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution and how the presence of fringey Donald Trump-endorsed candidates is also drawing greater voter turnout.

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July 30, 2022
MSNBC with Ayman Mohyeldin

Democrats Finally Get Their Messaging Act Together

Democrats have long struggled to play on an equal playing field with Republicans when it comes to messaging campaigns. Between the power of Fox News and the brazenness of GOP fear-mongering, Democrat talking points rarely get through to voters. However, some new progressive figures are developing new ways to connect with the American people. As MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin explains, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman and California Governor Gavin Newsom have, in recent weeks, displayed uncanny messaging savvy. Their strategies are bold, clever, and – most importantly – they seem to be working.

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October 10, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

The Problems With ‘Pollingism’

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio

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October 9, 2025
The.Ink

WATCH: What frog guy can teach Democrats — and you

Anat Shenker-Osorio on Portland, Chicago, No Kings, and how you can start changing minds right now.

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October 9, 2025
The New Republic

Dems Must Embrace Magnetism and Drop Polling-ism | With Anat Shenker-Osorio

Right Now With Perry Bacon ➔ TNR Live Chats on Substack

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October 8, 2025
The Left Hook

Democrats Must Abandon the Moderate Messaging of The White Dude Data Complex

Democrats have their lowest favorability rating since 1994, and they still believe they can be “Republican-lite” and win elections by ignoring a progressive, anti-oligarchy message. They’re wrong.

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September 24, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Collective Action

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio

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September 10, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

A New World Struggles to Be Born

Michael Podhorzer and Anat Shenker-Osorio

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September 4, 2025
The.Ink

WATCH: Fascism: Who cares?

Trump is gutting American democracy, and most people seem either not to know or not to care. What can move them? We asked political strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio.

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September 4, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

A Consumer’s Guide to “Resistance” Discourse

Michael Podhorzer and Anat Shenker-Osorio

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August 28, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Labor Day Resistance and Refusal

Michael Podhorzer and Anat Shenker-Osorio

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August 21, 2025
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Redistricting: We Draw the Line

Michael Podhorzer and Anat Shenker-Osorio

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