It’s the last Friday before the midterms and Democrats have every reason to finally stop panicking and start….merely fretting. This episode originally aired as a Slate Live on YouTube, produced in collaboration with Slate’s politics newsletter The Surge.There’s going to be another one of these just for Slate Plus listeners next Wednesday (11/4) at 12P ET! To register, click <a href="https://slate.com/briefing/2026/10/midterms-making-sense-what-next-surge.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.Guests:<a href="https://slate.com/author/jim-newell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Newell</a>, Slate’s senior politics writer.<a href="https://slate.com/author/patrick-reis" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patrick Reis</a>, Slate’s politics editor<a href="https://slate.com/author/lizzie-oleary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lizzie O’Leary</a>, What Next: TBD hostThis episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by subscribing to Slate Plus. By joining, not only will you unlock exclusive episodes of What Next —you’ll also access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-next-daily-news-and-analysis/id1438906889" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/7IT5Yn1zGDH1cYXh38dned" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spotify</a>. Or, visit <a href="https://slate.com/podcast-plus?utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=plus_pod&utm_content=What_Next&utm_source=episode_summary" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">slate.com/whatnextplus</a> to get access wherever you listen.Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort.Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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