Amanda Nelson

I want to bring in two other folks hoping to capture or keep that Southern political power for Republicans or Democrats.

Amanda Nelson is co-founder of the organization Y'all Vote, which is working to flip state houses in the South from Republican to Democrat.

She's also the political content creator behind the account Amanda's Mild Takes.

She joins us from, uh, Richmond, Virginia.

Appreciated your input.

That's Charles Bullock.

Also, thanks to Amanda Nelson and Matt Mackowiak.

Thank you all for this important conversation about the New South.

Thank you for joining us.

Today's reader, Amanda Nelson, has a background in books.

She spent a decade as the executive editor of Book Riot, but you may know her from a different part of the Internet.

Amanda is the creator of Amanda's Mild Takes, which you can find on TikTok, Substack, Instagram, and YouTube.

Appropriately, Amanda's reading one of Ursula's political posts, Against Eisenhower.

She recorded this reading in February of twenty twenty-six.

My name is Amanda Nelson, and I'm reading Post twenty-six, Against Eisenhower, from June thirteenth, two thousand and eleven.

From Ghosts of Guatemala's Past by Stephen Schlesinger in the New York Times, June third, two thousand and eleven.