Lauren Egan

Yeah, there's now talk about Mississippi.

I had this conversation with Lauren Egan, God, like two months ago now of the bulwark.

She did this really interesting piece about the Senate race in Mississippi, excuse me, and whether Democrats have a real chance.

Cindy Hyde-Smith, whether she was good enough and whether Scott Colombe, who.

Outside shot, but what the heck.

That was Lauren Egan's choice last night at the live show in Charlotte, by the way.

Oh, I didn't even know.

I haven't seen it

I do, too.

And so, so does Lauren Egan.

Yes.

I think she still has the shrapnel from that one.

Hey, guys.

It's Lauren Egan here at The Bulwark.

I'm here in Kansas, as you can see from the sign.

Now, this isn't typically a state I would travel to just a couple weeks before the midterms, but there is a surprisingly competitive Senate race right now going on here between Adam Hamilton, who's a Democrat, and the incumbent, Roger Marshall.

That's more likely to see a hockey stick at some point, whereas, like, the newsletter has just been consistently growing from zero.

I guess I get bumps if I'm linked to in the top of Axios' 2028 newsletter or Lauren Egan's Bulwark newsletter or whatever.

Like, that will drive subscribers, but that's more, like, just steady growth and less, like, boom and bust, you know?

I mean, you seem, for the newsletter, have a real connection to what you're doing there and a reason to do it with or without commercial success.

Welcome back to The Bulwark Takes feed.

I'm here with my colleague, Lauren Egan, author of The Opposition newsletter.

If the Democrats win in November, are we gonna have to rename your newsletter?

I was thinking about that.

We'll-

Okay [laughs]

... we'll take ideas in the comments on Lauren Egan's newsletter covering Democrats and Democratic gossip, and what the Democrats should be doing, and what they're doing well, and what they're doing just okay.

Um, before we get to this topic, which, like, i- is blowing up my text and Slack feed, and eventually I'm just like, "We should actually talk to the people about this," um, I do wanna say, we're gonna be discussing Georgia, what's happening with Jon Ossoff, uh, what's happening in the governor's race, and we're gonna be there in Georgia, uh, coming up here in what? Three weeks.