Astead
@AsteadWH
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Host/editorial director @voxdotcom @voxmedia Political analyst @cnn Former @nytimes @bostonglobe Full time Cristian Romero + RHSLC enthusiast
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Joined August 2011
Grateful to be named 2025 Journalist of the Year by @NABJ — an organization that has so shaped my life and career. I have many people to thank. But I also want to dedicate this award to every journalist who focuses their reporting on those political systems would rather ignore.
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Government can shut down but not @HacksonTap! With the great @AsteadWH of @voxmedia, @murphymike and I survey the wreckage and implications, short term and long. Total victory for @GOP? Or are the losers now later to win?!? Up now!
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Podcast Episode · Hacks On Tap · 11/12/2025 · 1h 9m
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Bulls up Bears up and The Pope eats Aurelio’s. Perfect time for @HacksOnTap @davidaxelrod
New @HacksOnTap is up! @davidaxelrod and I discuss the Senate Dem’s Greatest Retreat of All Time 😵💫 with Special Guest Hack @AsteadWH
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New @HacksOnTap is up! @davidaxelrod and I discuss the Senate Dem’s Greatest Retreat of All Time 😵💫 with Special Guest Hack @AsteadWH
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Podcast Episode · Hacks On Tap · 11/12/2025 · 1h 9m
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WEMBY IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!! WEMBY WITH THE BLOCK THEN HE PUT VUC ON SKATES FOR THE DAGGER 3
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Timezone in the tweet is insane
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks and owner Patrick Dumont are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at a 10 am central time meeting on Tuesday, sources tell me and Tim MacMahon.
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My first column is about losing my father to deportation — a grief of distance and of loving someone still living but lost to reach. https://t.co/uDREcQizET
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Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and has given me back a person I no longer recognize.
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Vox’s Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O’Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls.
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Vox’s Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O’Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls.
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Astead is right and I find it very telling re: the cynical version of identity politics, that it's the class politics leftist who aren't abandoning trans people and other vulnerable groups that establishment Dems were first to blame and offer up after the 2024 loss.
Voter resentment of Dems leftward turn was largely abt perceived focus on cultural issues. So to blanketly apply that to Sanders/Mamdani ignores the class forward nature of their message. The DSA “left” didn’t drive the Dems embrace identity politics wokeness etc. It was really
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Republicans have long worried that -- once Trump is gone -- the college graduates whom he alienated will remain Democrats, while the disengaged voters whom he mobilized will stop turning out. The 2025 election results make that scenario more plausible
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The 2025 elections illuminate a nightmare scenario for the Republican Party.
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Was great to be on @voxdotcom 'Today, Explained' pod with @AsteadWH talking immigration - check it out -> | 'Trump’s ICE shakeup'
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2) @NoelKing and I discuss the Dems clean sweep. How much of the Mamdani moment is applicable outside NYC and how much of Democrats success on Tuesday night can be applied to 2026 (probably a lot!) and 2028 (probably a little). It's @today_explained
https://t.co/axD1AFO9Pn
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🚨Two @today_explained episodes from that make sense of this week's election results 1) I talked with @awprokop about the "cowboy" phase of Trump's ICE crackdown, and to @mollymotoole about how the American electorate continues to shift on the issue of immigration, with growing
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At the same time — the current backlash to identity politics in national media is such that the fact that Dems biggest winners were all history makers feels like it’s being ignored. I would like to clarify that I think voters care abt representation. They just want it coupled
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Voter resentment of Dems leftward turn was largely abt perceived focus on cultural issues. So to blanketly apply that to Sanders/Mamdani ignores the class forward nature of their message. The DSA “left” didn’t drive the Dems embrace identity politics wokeness etc. It was really
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Great graphic. Would often tell the ppl most confused about Mamdani's rise to ask themselves three questions -- do you take public transit -- do you rent -- do you use tik tok that's more or less the coalition
The new political map of NYC shows some stark divides: Very wealthy, very white and very Hasidic parts of the city went for Cuomo. Young, Black and Hispanic voters went for Mamdani. But the biggest divide? Transit vs. cars. https://t.co/vKjN2i7JDk
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It's disgusting!
Zohran Mamdani is a good politician but I cannot look past his personal beliefs. In 2025 how have we let someone have such a huge platform while supporting such a terrible organisation. I can accept a lot of things but supporting Arsenal is where I draw the line.
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