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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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May 15, 2026
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

All Roads Lead to the South

The effects of Callais, and more on “Meeting the Moment” with Anat Shenker-Osorio

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May 12, 2026
RTVI US

Can Republicans Erase Trump’s Impeachments? Political Strategist Explains

House Republicans are pushing a controversial effort to erase Donald Trump’s two impeachments from the official congressional record — reigniting debate over accountability, January 6, and the future of American politics.

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April 23, 2026
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Yes, Virginia, There Is an Appetite to Fight Fascism

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio

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April 15, 2026
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Tax Day and May Day

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Saqib Bhatti

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April 8, 2026
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Call Trump’s Concentration Camps What They Are

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Andrea Pitzer

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April 6, 2026
Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Live with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Anat Shenker-Osorio

A recording from Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s live video

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April 2, 2026
Weekend Reading with Michael Podhorzer

Being American Is a Birthright

Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio

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March 26, 2026
Next Comes What

The Science of Partying Against Fascism

This week’s “Next Comes What” focuses on the work and ideas of Anat Shenker-Osorio. A cognitive linguist, Shenker-Osorio has made a career of seeing what kinds of messaging help persuade the public to support progressive issues and candidates. Host Andrea Pitzer talks to her about the tactics activists used to win abortion rights in Argentina, and how a series of campaigns in Australia helped free people seeking asylum who were held offshore in concentration camps for years. They discuss why embracing hateful views in the name of convincing “moderates” is a dead-end strategy, because moderates—at least in the way they’re trotted out for these debates—don’t really exist.

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March 20, 2026
Computer Says Maybe

Fantasy Factory: AI Supervillains w/ Anat Shenker-Osorio

This week in our second episode leading to the AI Doc, we are joined by Anat Shenker-Osorio, a progressive campaign strategist who hosts the Words To Win By podcast. Anat tries to focus on the positives: if you don’t think people should join the AI party, throw a better party. She gives us some quick lessons on messaging: how to paint tech CEOs as actual villains, how to flip the script and convince AI men that actually, it’s okay to die — and how to avoid what Anat refers to as ‘Mar-a-lago face’.

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March 19, 2026
The Raid with John Carlos Frey

Speaking Truth to Power

Anat shares with John Carlos Frey how to communicate an effective strategy for immigrant rights against what she calls is an authoritarian regime and also shares about a new growing coalition of immigrant rights advocates called Brave of US.

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