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On this week’s show, we are joined by Austin Wagner, our numbers guru who broke down the data on the sixth district race, and Reed Powell, a Republican activist. The four of us look back at the #GA06 race and check in on Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

This week Austin joins Luke to discuss the latest in the Georgia Sixth runoff including death threats, security breaches, and turnout.

We’re back for a second show this week to review the debate Tuesday night between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel on WSB TV in Atlanta. We’re joined by friend-of-the-pod Austin Wagner to break down the debate and get his thoughts on where this race is heading.  Stay tuned for more coverage of the 6th District race between now and election day on June 20th.

On this week’s show, we discuss the latest in the race for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff. We also talk about the budget that the Trump administration released and what the impact of its severe cuts to safety net programs means for Georgia.

Welcome to episode number 50 for PeachPod! On this week’s show, Luke joins Kyle in studio to record in person in Washington DC. We discuss the latest on the investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russian operatives in an attempt to impact the 2016 election. We also discuss the emerging campaign on the Democratic side between Stacey Abrams and Stacey Evans for Georgia’s Governorship.

Helena joins Luke to talk about their favorite political TV shows, including the West Wing, Veep, and House of Cards

Kyle is joined by Jason O’Rouke, Senior Director Public Policy & Federal Affairs at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce to discuss health policy. We provide an overview of the Republican Obamacare replacement, the AHCA, how it would impact Georgia, and what other issues are on the minds of Georgia businesses.

Last Saturday, Luke got together with Democratic State Senate Candidate Christine Triebsch. Triebesch is running in the special election for Senate District 32 that was vacated whenJudson Hill ran for the 6th Congressional District seat.

Kyle sits down with State Representative Buzz Brockway to discuss his campaign for Secretary of State and his thoughts on education policy. Recorded Thursday, May 4th, 2017

Luke and I jumped on the mics to give our reactions to the news that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday evening.

On this week's show we discuss 100 days of Trump and check in on the GA-06 race

This is part two of our two-part episode where Luke and I catch up after a little break from PeachPoding. On this episode, we recap what happened to close the legislative session, the special election in #GA6 (VOTE APRIL 18TH!), and the upcoming governor’s race. Like Part 1, on this episode we riffed off of what we’d seen in the news lately, so we apologize for any facts we may have misremembered. Links below have the background for everything that we discussed.

Luke and I were slow to get together for the recap of the legislative session and all of the crazy news happening nationally. So we recorded a two-part episode to catch up on what happened while we are gone. We also did an experiment for this episode: we just riffed on what we’d seen in the news lately. So, we apologize for any errors on the facts that we might have misremembered. The links below provide background on all the topics that we discuss throughout. This episode is part one, and we cover all of the latest news on the national level.

On this week’s episode, we discuss the failure of the American Health Care Act. We also take a look at 2017’s culture war issues in the Georgia General Assembly fought over guns on campus, sexual assault, and same-sex couple adoption. Lastly, we take a way-too-early look at the 2018 governor’s race as dominoes start to fall at the end of this session.

On this week's episode, we muse on what the Republicans could be thinking with their American Health Care Act. We also discuss the opportunity that Prize-Linked Savings Accounts have to help lower-income people save. And we discuss Republican efforts to re-district mid-session to protect their own representatives in close races.

Join me and Tori Slatton to talk about Gorsuch's nomination to the court and what Democrats in the Senate should do about it.

Wesley Tharpe from GBPI joins us to talk some tax policy, and John Dickerson tells us why we need to save the town hall meeting.

Hey everybody. You miss us yet? Well we miss you! We've got a couple special off-season treats for you before the gang gets back together for the 2017 legislative session.

On this week's episode, we cover the development of the Georgia Film Tax Credit and how it turned Georgia into Hollywood East. We also talk about the proliferation of polling models and how they shape the way we understand presidential campaigns. Lastly, we take out weekly look at the Trump Train, including some new faces that may or may not be brought on to help Trump win the race.

On this week's episode we discuss the details from all three days of the Democratic convention, including the big speeches from the convention and the possibility that we are seeing a political realignment unfold before our eyes.