As the midterm elections approach, Independent Voter Podcast hosts predict tight Senate races in Texas, Michigan, Maine, and Alaska while comparing their forecasts to betting market odds.
Open Primaries founder John Opdycke joins hosts Chad Peace and Cara McCormick to discuss why 48% of Americans identify as independent but have no real voice in elections, and what it will take to break the two-party system's control over primaries.
Independent voters could decide California's close elections, and new polling data shows a ballot measure's wording on voter ID shifted support by 15 to 20 points, raising concerns about potential manipulation.
Trump's controversial LA bombing comment goes viral, but context and selective editing reveal deeper questions about how political clips are weaponized to divide voters.
A combat veteran and 9/11 first responder sues New York over its closed primary system that bars independents from voting, arguing it amounts to disenfranchisement on public property with public funds.
Trump and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani meet cordially at Gracie Mansion while publicly using scorched-earth rhetoric. The Independent Voter Podcast explores how closed primary systems manufacture ideological extremes and announces a federal lawsuit challenging New York's closed primaries.
California's top-two primary brings DSA-backed Democrats face-to-face with the party's moderate wing before the entire electorate. Steve Peace, who authored the law, discusses whether his system is working as designed.
A whistleblower leak reveals Trump's USPS mail-in ballot rule could invalidate entire batches of ballots over a single envelope error, threatening midterm elections already underway in multiple states.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa discusses his defiance of California Democratic Party pressure to drop out of the governor's race and his critique of party strategy and fiscal policy.
President Trump's new USPS ballot rule has Republicans and Democrats divided. On this episode, hosts break down what the rule actually does, why a Supreme Court ruling this week is more limited than headlines suggest, and California's fight over open primaries.
GOP operative Anne Dunsmore traces her 50-year political career from a lost bet in a D.C. bar to George H.W. Bush's inner circle. She discusses her rise through fundraising and independent thinking in American politics.
IVP's producer shares her journey from green card to US citizen, revealing how naturalization has become harder under the Trump administration, including processing delays and tense border encounters.
