Pod Save the Youth

In this episode, David and Delnaz speak with Arielle and Zamaan from the organization Design It For Us to explore ways of involving young people in policy discussions aimed at improving internet safety. Topics include the potential ban of TikTok in the United States and the recently passed Take It Down Act.

In this episode, David and Delnaz speak with Noah Widmann, one of the youngest candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives running as a Democrat to flip Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The panel discusses Widmann’s campaign, the recent high-profile special elections in Florida, voter perspectives on key issues leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, and strategies Democrats can use to flip Republican-held districts.You can learn more about the Widmann campaign here: https://www.noahforflorida.com/

In this episode, David sits down with Jack Dozier, the Deputy Director of the Yale Youth Poll, to discuss how the poll’s youth-centered approach to developing questions and its methodology for gauging political opinion led to a higher level of accuracy in predicting the results of the 2024 presidential election. This success surpassed that of other firms that measured the support of young voters last year.

In the first episode of Pod Save the Youth sense President Trump’s inauguration, David and Delnaz speak with two immigrant rights advocates about pushing back against mass-deportations in the face of unified Republican government at the national level in the US.

For the first episode of 2025, the team at Pod Save the Youth are turning their eyes to Canadian politics in the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation. In this episode, Canadian political experts Leo Xu and Matt Chilliak join the podcast to give their thoughts on the Prime Minister’s resignation, the upcoming Canadian election, and how the state of US-Canada Relations will evolve with new leaders in both the United States and Canada.

It’s the last episode of 2024 and Pod Save the Youth is ending the year on a hopeful note. In this week’s conversation, David and Delnaz sit down with former organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation and Tufts University Visiting Fellow at the Tisch College of Civic Life, Cameron Conner. The three discuss the role of community organizers in work for political change and various success stories of direct organizing efforts in working-class communities.

In this episode, David and Markus break down the results from the 2024 elections and discuss their implications for the next four years! David and Markus talk through some of the early demographic data, talk through the campaign strategy of the Harris and Trump campaigns, and try to gauge how terrified we all should be about RFK Jr. running HHS.

We made it! The 2024 election is here. On today’s show, David sits down with the person who first got him interested in politics: David’s grandfather, author and political scientist, Edward Lorenz. David and Ed give an update on the state of the race and Kamala Harris's campaign, react to Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, and discuss how demographic shifts will impact the presidential race.

In this episode, David and Delnaz sit down to discuss the state of the presidential race with one week until election day. David and Delnaz speak about the strategies of the Harris and Trump campaigns in the final week, as well as the state of some of the swing House and Senate races, the growing gender divide in the American electorate, and how to best interpret the major polls in this moment and gauge the voting plans of young swing voters.

In this week's episode, David sat down with senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign and former White House Director of Legislative Policy, Louisa Terrell, to discuss the Biden-Harris record, VP Harris's debate responses, and what it could mean for the legislative agenda and success of a possible Harris-Walz administration.