The Most Important Question

41:31

Run To Build The Future You Want

The Most Important Question ·

2026/07/27

Today we're gonna talk about Florida and representation, and how Florida has very little of it, in even the loosest definition of the word. We're gonna do that by introducing you to my new friend, May Thach. May is a candidate for state representative ...

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28:02

Run To Unite Your Community

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2026/07/20

There are a lot of folks in rural America that can say, "No candidate's ever come and knocked on my door." So today, I'm going to introduce you to the one who knocks, my new best friend, Brittany Newton. You folks around the world have said very clearl...

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14:06

*Actually* Pro Life: Our Principles

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2026/07/13

A huge catalyst for our 2025 pivot towards courting a much wider audience was AOC’s post-mortem of the 2024 election: “We can’t just be right. We have to be effective.”But at the same time, we have to also agree on the fundamentals — human rights — and...

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33:05

Run To Flip Your State

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2026/06/22

Today we're gonna talk about Texas. For a decade, maybe 100 years, we've heard over and over, this is the year we flip Texas. Sometimes we get closer, sometimes we get much further away. But as much as I'm excited about a candidate like James Talarico,...

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43:14

Run for Working People (And Not For Data Centers)

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2026/06/15

Today, we're gonna talk about data centers. Now, I know these things are a hot topic amid everything else: the heat, water, prices, lack of homes, lack of childcare, you name it. But we do need to speak out about them. So, who is the most qualified her...

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1:44

Introducing: It's Called Reality

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2026/06/09

Something new from the team behind The Most Important Question! It's Called Reality is a podcast about reality TV, and the systems hiding inside it. Every episode, hosts Willow Beck and Briana Brown take a show you're already watching and pull the thre...

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21:27

Run for Soil and Water and Farmworkers

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2026/06/08

You may feel like you're giving it all you have, but obviously things are tough out there. We're working on all of it, but in particular, you, our listeners have asked for over and over more examples of a fight and actual progress that you can see and ...

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1:31

Bonus: An *Actually* Pro Life T-shirt

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2026/06/03

We've spent the last two essays building the case for *Actually* Pro Life: wht it means, where it comes from, and why the logo was designed to be worn, carried, and declared in public. Now we're asking you to do exactly that. We just launched our first...

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14:27

*Actually* Pro Life: The Design

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2026/05/18

If the name Actually Pro Life is deliberate, then so is the logo. Because like I said in our intro post, we’re reclaiming "pro-life" from the same people who blame kindergartners for getting shot at school, and we’re grounding it in evidence. Evidence ...

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13:40

Introducing: *Actually* Pro Life

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2026/05/12

250 years after a group of slaveowners wrote that "all men are created equal", we're done letting hypocrites own the language of life.Introducing Actually Pro Life: a reframe, a research platform, and a direct challenge to anyone willing to be held acc...

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9:02

How You Changed The Lives of 250 Families in Rwanda

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2026/05/04

Last Christmas we teamed up with about 40 other big podcasts to support our dear friends at Give Directly with a very special campaign called Pods Fight Poverty. The goal was to raise $1 million to send to families in extreme poverty in Bwakira, Rwanda...

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51:59

A Calm Voice In A Loud World

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2026/04/27

Your kids are hearing about the news whether you are ready or they're ready or not. One study said two-thirds of kids aged 8 to 14 are absorbing current events at least every few days, and almost none of it was made for them. They're getting the fear w...

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45:41

What's In Your Water

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2026/04/20

Whoever said this country can't come together about anything anymore in the year of our Lord twenty twenty-six was wrong because PFAS, or forever chemicals, are in the blood of ninety-seven percent of Americans right now. They're in our water, our cook...

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44:17

Life Under A Microscope

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2026/04/13

Since the dawn of recorded history, our living earth has been changed by everyone who spends time on it or in it from the smallest bacteria to the largest animals. But like the brain-gut axis inside of us that we still barely understand, we've really n...

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47:41

Public Health Just Got Personal

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2026/03/30

TheCDCissuedsixhealthalertsinallof2025,downfromdozensinanormalyear,whateverthatmeansanymore.Measles,adiseasewebasicallyeliminated26yearsago,isclosinginon1000cases,withchildrenhospitalizedforbrainswelling.Andthepeoplenowrunningourtophealthagenciesarethesamepeoplewhospentyearsquestioningthesciencethoseagenciesexistedtodefend.Butthegoodnewsispeoplearebuildingnewthings.Statesareformingtheirownhealthalliances.Scientistsareorganizingtofightmisinformationwhereitlives.AndoneepidemiologistinTexasturnedasix-we

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42:56

Public Health Just Got Personal

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2026/03/30

The CDC issued six health alerts in all of 2025, down from dozens in a normal year (whatever that means anymore). Measles, a disease we basically eliminated 26 years ago, is closing in on 1000 cases, with children hospitalized for brain swelling. And t...

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72:02

Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

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2026/03/23

This week, we're dropping an episode from our other show, Not Right Now, in the feed, where Quinn and Claire have community organizer and dad, Garrett Bucks, on the show to chat about parenting, of course, but also how he answered the most important qu...

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01:12:03

Not Right Now: Coloring Pages of Karl Marx

The Most Important Question ·

2026/03/23

This week, we're dropping an episode from our other show, Not Right Now, in the feed, where Quinn and Claire have community organizer and dad, Garrett Bucks, on the show to chat about parenting, of course, but also how he answered the most important question by building community locally and across the nation, and how you can make it easier for parents (and kids, why not) to engage civically as well.Garrett runs The Barnraisers Project, writes The White Pages newsletter, and is the author of the

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52:01

Public Health In A Post-Evidence World

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2026/03/16

Just because we're done caring about an outbreak doesn't mean the outbreak is done with us.Over the last year, we have watched something unsettling happen in plain sight. The quiet, active dismantling of the systems built to catch outbreaks early, coordinate a response, and keep hospitals and communities from getting overwhelmed.Websites have been scrubbed, teams have been hollowed out. Early warning signals have gone silent, and at the exact same time, diseases that many of us haven't thought about

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52:00

Public Health In A Post-Evidence World

The Most Important Question ·

2026/03/16

Just because we're done caring about an outbreak doesn't mean the outbreak is done with us. Over the last year, we have watched something unsettling happen in plain sight. The quiet, active dismantling of the systems built to catch outbreaks early, coo...

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