{"id":134054,"date":"2025-09-10T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134054\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:44:07","slug":"crooked-media-announces-lineup-for-crooked-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134054\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Media Announces Lineup For Crooked Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCrooked Media<\/a> has announced the lineup for its upcoming Crooked Con<\/a>, with guests including elected officials, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, California Rep. Ro Khanna, Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride and political strategists from across the spectrum.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe conference will include a live episode of Pod Save America, the podcast that launched the network, at the Warner Theatre in Washington D.C. on Nov. 6 and a full day of programming on Nov. 7 at The Wharf. Topics include rehabilitating the Democratic brand, next steps for the party and how to organize and mobilize effectively, among other topics. The day will wrap with a live taping of Crooked\u2019s legal podcast Strict Scrutiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c2024 was a disaster. We spent 2025 doing some soul searching and finger pointing. Now it\u2019s time to pull together, strategize, and figure out how we get out of this mess and win in the midterms,\u201d said Crooked Media founders Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett and Tommy Vietor. \u201cThe vision here is to get the smartest, funniest, most available-that-weekend people we know in the same room to talk honestly about how to win again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Favreau, Lovett and Vietor, other hosts in attendance from the network include Pod Save America\u2019s Dan Pfeiffer, Pod Save the World\u2019s Ben Rhodes, Hysteria\u2019s Alyssa Mastromonaco and Erin Ryan; Strict Scrutiny\u2019s Leah Litman, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw; What a Day\u2019s Jane Coaston; Keep It\u2019s Louis Virtel; and Crooked\u2019s vp of political strategy and head of Vote Save America\u00a0Shaniqua McClendon.<\/p>\n

\n\tFull speaker lineup:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear<\/p>\n

Senators Brian Schatz, Chris Murphy and Ruben Gallego<\/p>\n

Reps. Janelle Bynum, LaMonica McIver, Sarah McBride, Ro Khanna, Robert Garcia and Yassamin Ansari<\/p>\n

Alex Wagner, Senior Political Analyst, MSNBC\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anderson Clayton, Chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party<\/p>\n

Ben Wikler, former Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party<\/p>\n

Brian Tyler Cohen, Progressive YouTuber & Content Creator<\/p>\n

Carlos Odio, Co-Founder, Equis<\/p>\n

Cisco Aguilar, Nevada Secretary of State<\/p>\n

David Shor, Co-Founder, Blue Rose Research<\/p>\n

Ezra Levin, Co-Executive Director, Indivisible<\/p>\n

Faiz Shakir, Founder & Executive Director, More Perfect Union<\/p>\n

Hasan Piker, Streamer & Political Commentator<\/p>\n

Jessica Tarlov, Co-Host, Fox News\u2019 The Five<\/p>\n

Justice Allison Riggs, Associate Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court<\/p>\n

Kate Barr, Founder, Can\u2019t Win Victory Fund<\/p>\n

Ken Martin, Chair of the Democratic National Committee<\/p>\n

Lis Smith, Democratic Strategist<\/p>\n

Marc Elias, Founder, Democracy Docket<\/p>\n

Matthew Yglesias, Author, Slow Boring Newsletter<\/p>\n

Maurice Mitchell, National Director, Working Families Party<\/p>\n

Norm Eisen, Executive Chair,\u00a0 Democracy Defenders Fund<\/p>\n

Philip DeFranco, Anchor, The Philip DeFranco Show<\/p>\n

Rebecca Katz, Founder, Fight Agency<\/p>\n

Sarah Longwell, CEO & Publisher, The Bulwark<\/p>\n

Stephanie Valencia, Co-Founder & CEO, Equis<\/p>\n

Tara McGowan, Founder & Publisher, COURIER Newsroom<\/p>\n

Terrance Woodbury, President & Founding Partner, HIT Strategies\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crooked Media has announced the lineup for its upcoming Crooked Con, with guests including elected officials, including Kentucky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,73052,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-134054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-crooked-media","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}