On this episode, our progressive professor, Stephen Handwerk, returns to help us debrief the Louisiana Democratic Party DSCC and Party Chair elections. Here we come full circle from our January 2023 conversation on “Demystifying Party Chair Elections.” 

Read The Illuminator’s Piper Hutchinson’s first hand report of the chair election: ​​Gaines takes over as La. Democratic Party chair after Bernhardt ousted in procedural fluke

Listen to our interview with new state party chair Randal Gaines: The State Party Rises

Thanks to Ben Collinsworth for producing Louisiana Lefty, Jennifer Pack of Black Cat Studios for our Super-Lefty artwork, and Thousand $ Car for allowing us to use their swamp pop classic, Security Guard, as the Louisiana Lefty theme song.