We grew up on the same street in Michigan and we've been having this argument since high school. Now we live in the Texas suburbs that just flipped the state, and we're having it in public.
We're not staffers. We're not journalists. We've never worked in the building. We've just been paying attention for thirty-five years.
The House flipped. The Senate flipped. Texas flipped for the first time since 1994. The vice president says it was the war, the polls say prices, Bryan says a mandate and Matt says the pendulum. Thirty-five minutes to find out which of us is wrong.
Collin and Denton went Democratic statewide and then said no to Prop A. Both things are true.
35 min · Coming Nov 24Who we are, why a reformist and a socialist are doing a show together, and the argument since high school.
25 min · Coming Nov 17A mandate, a pendulum, or a referendum on one war and one year of prices.
35 min · Coming Nov 17Every episode's written edition lists every factual claim we made, with a timestamp and a link to where it came from. Opinions are labelled as opinions. When a source is thin we say so, and when we got one wrong we say that on air the following week, first thing.
Not former staffers, not journalists. The receipts are how two people who aren't the building earn the right to be listened to.
See episode 1's receipts →Political junkies for decades. Not former staffers, not Hill people, not journalists. Not the building. One of you.
Lifelong independent, registered Democratic in 2024. Compassionate capitalism: a referee with teeth. Old-school conservative on foreign policy. Builds AI systems for a living. Catchphrase: balance wins.
Deeply progressive. Single-payer, regulated banks, no corporations owning single-family homes. A Christian who watches his faith being made a weapon. Consistent since high school, which Matt finds annoying.
Every episode's argument as an essay, with every source. Plus two columns you won't find anywhere else.
The written edition every Tuesday, and a Thursday column on the one thing the week's coverage got wrong, traced back to its source.
Read Balance WinsNorth Texas and the new state government, every other Sunday, from the suburbs that flipped it. The legislature in January, Prop A and what the county does instead, who is running for what in 2028.
Read Dallas DeskFree. No yelling, no doom, and you can leave whenever you like.