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Charting the Way Forward
Research-informed strategy and intelligence from across the winning Democratic coalition, with Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and guest appearances from the broader center-left cinematic universe. Hosted by Kerry Eleveld.
Episodes
68 episodes
On the Attack: New Battleground Polling from the South & Southwest
This week’s show is a swan dive into tough terrain for Dems with fresh, innovative battleground polling. Way to Win worked with Impact Research and Lake Research to zero in on messages that move gettable voters in conservative South and Southwe...
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Kicking Off the Affordability Listening Tour (feat. Rep. Yassamin Ansari)
Democratic rising star Rep. Yassamin Ansari joins host Kerry Eleveld to discuss the Las Vegas launch of the Affordability Listening Tour, sponsored by the Way to Win and members of Congressional Progressive Caucus. Next up: Houston and Phoenix!...
Not Red, but Rigged (feat. Todd Zimmer)
Todd Zimmer of Down Home North Carolina joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona for an update from the front lines of one of the spiciest battleground states this cycle.
Expand Your Imagination, Part 2
Way to Win President Tory Gavito and Political Director Joe Hamill join host Kerry Eleveld to cover this week's wild swings in American democracy, including a LOT of electoral good news.
Darkest Moments to Brightest Stars (feat. LaTosha Brown)
Strategist, superstar organizer and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito to continue a guaranteed-inspirational discussion that Tory and LaTosha started at the Edmund Pettus ...
The First Step in Fixing Media is Admitting We Have a Problem (feat. Mark Histed)
Way to Win star consultant Dan Ancona hosts a conversation with NIH neuroscientist and superactivist Mark Histed (speaking in his personal capacity, not as a representative of the agency) about the attacks on science under this administration, ...
Who's Got the Juice? (Moral Rot Edition)
Host Kerry Eleveld, Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and Star Consultant Dan Ancona get together to talk who was cooking this week (James Talarico, Jon Ossoff, Kat Abughazaleh and whichever ad firm that made Cornyn's ...
The Hunger for Action (feat. Terrance Woodbury)
Terrance Woodbury from HIT Strategies presents Black Opps, their deep research project on understanding why Black voters have been super motivated but less willing to publicly protest the Trump administration. He joins host Kerry Eleveld, Presi...
There's No Money In Uncertainty (feat. G. Elliott Morris)
G. Elliott Morris has been putting up banger after banger of polls, studies and analyses at Strength in Numbers. Host Kerry Eleveld and Strategist Dan Ancona invited him to come by the show and discuss a couple recent standouts: how Democrats b...
Short Take: Texas Primarypalooza
Host Kerry Eleveld has on Way to Win Texas experts President Tory Gavito and Political Director Joe Hamill for a short discussion of the seismic shifts happening in Texas, as viewed through the lens of yesterday's high energy and very hig...
Introducing: Who's Got the Juice?🧃
A little tweak to our format this week: Host Kerry Eleveld is joined by President Tory Gavito and Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Fernandez Ancona to go over some clips of the public figures who did great and... less great this week. They dig in...
Expanding Our Imaginations (feat. Amanda Litman)
"There is no one in charge anymore. That is both incredibly scary and part of why the last year has felt so discombobulating for so many people, but it is also so freeing. We have this incredible opportunity to reshape where we want the party t...
Tough on Crime? What is this, the '90s? (feat. Insha Rahman)
In our long odyssey encouraging Democrats to update their thinking, we have been lucky to find allies doing fantastic and deep work in specific issue areas. Insha Rahman, the Vera Institute's VP of Advocacy and Partnerships, is one such wonderf...
Hats, Cattle, and Unicorns in Texas
The results of last Saturday's special election in Texas Senate District SD-09 are still sending shockwaves out through the state and nationally. Host Kerry Eleveld and two of the biggest Texas experts we know, Way to Win President Tory Gavito ...
Making Repression Backfire (feat. Leah Greenberg)
Indivisible head Leah Greenberg joins host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito for an urgent conversation on moving Democrats to maximal opposition, our current best chance at stopping ICE.
Not Whether to Abolish ICE. How.
In the past few weeks, abolishing ICE has become an unambiguous and urgent moral imperative. Democrats aren't used to winning arguments like this but stopping the ongoing harassment and terror of our own communities by agents of the government ...
Towards Strength: Way to Win's 2024-25 Research
Happy 2026 everyone! We're back with an episode on Way to Win's conventional wisdom shattering research summary that went out last December. By focusing on the time honored tradition of talking to voters we came to some conclusions that are ver...
Pizza, Sports, and Ballots (feat. NV Sec. of State Cisco Aguilar)
Secretaries of State are on the front lines of protecting our democracy, and next year their jobs are going to be particularly difficult and crucial. This interview with Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar will give you a sense of the hones...
We Can Rebuild All of This 💩 (feat. Terrance Woodbury)
IT’S OUR 50TH EPISODE! And who better to celebrate it with than OG Friend of the Pod Terrance Woodbury of HIT Strategies. Join us for a look back at where we started the year, how Democrats are positioned as we approach 2026, and the transforma...
The Antidote to Crying in the Pasta Aisle 😢🍝
In this episode of Charting the Way Forward, guest host Maddie Medved sits down with political content creator Sylvia Salazar, founder of the bilingual platform Tono Latino. They unpack how she cuts through the noise to reach Latino audiences, ...
400K GEORGIA BLOWOUT!!! (feat. Melody Oliphant)
Continuing our series on understanding the November 2025 elections and how things became a tiny bit less doomy, host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win Chief Strategy Officer Jenifer Ancona are joined by Melody Oliphant of the GA Youth Justice ...
Decidedly Less Doomy
Host Kerry Eleveld brings together the in-house team for insights into last week's history-upending election results, with Way to Win President Tory Gavito, Political Director Joe Hamill and media and research consultant Dan Ancona.
"Hopefully I'll Get Another Jackpot" (feat. Diana Valles and NV Voters)
More focus group sound this week, this time from Democratic defector voters in Nevada, and two fantastic guests: Diana Valles, President of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Way to Win Director of State Partnerships Kendra Alvarez. Diana...
¡El Macho💪🏽Populismo💰Es Muerte☠️! (feat. Casey Clowes and AZ Voters)
New focus group sound this week! We talked to Democratic defectors in AZ and NV, and had Casey Clowes from Progress AZ on to help host Kerry Eleveld and Way to Win President Tory Gavito sort through it all. Trust us: you are going to want to he...
This NYT Editorial Didn't Age Well and It's Only Been Three Days
Earlier this week the NYT Editorial Board sort-of-maybe attacked us with a very strange editorial claiming that because moderates have won in a few races, moderation is the true and only path to Democratic electoral salvation. Host Kerry Elevel...