Check out the first episode of a brand new podcast series that I am helping to launch, Race to the Top, an election analysis podcast in which we analyze a series of races in the 2026 midterm election cycle using quantitative and qualitative data. Join myself, Boden Wise, Adithi Rallapalli, and Philip Ouma for this first episode of Race to the Top and be sure to follow this brand new podcast series as it develops.

In this podcast episode, I analyze United States President Joe Biden's COVID-19 response through the political figure of Jeff Zients, who was the COVID-19 Response Coordinator early on in Biden's administration before becoming the White House Chief-of-Staff. I introduce Zients as a former bagel chain owner, using his occupation as an inconspicuous entry point into Zients' career. I then peel back the layers of Zients' past as a businessman to reveal that he has consistently prioritized corporate profits and self-interest over public health.

In this special episode of Politics With Paxton, I interview Jason Paul, a candidate for the position of DNC Chair.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I examine the policies that Eric Swalwell proposed to address gun violence, especially the mandatory ban and buyback of assault weapons, in his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, and why these policies are important to implement to save lives and to fulfill the historical mission of the United States.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I engage in a comprehensive analysis of many of the plans that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Jay Inslee devised to combat the crisis of climate change. In the process, I compare and contrast Inslee's environmental policies to those of United States Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden and highlight the ways in which Inslee's environmental policies would have improved upon those of Obama, Trump, and Biden and how the 2020 presidential election and Inslee's debates with Biden warned us of Biden's approval of the Willow Oil Project.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I analyze the importance of the 1844 and 1848 presidential bids of Lewis Cass, how his story reflects the imperative to never reward white supremacy, and why the 1848 election was a turning point in American history.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I examine the importance of John Bell's 1860 Constitutional Union presidential campaign as well as its spiritual successors in Andrew Johnson and the National Union Party and Andrew Yang and the Forward Party, and why they serve political forces that oppose progress.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I introduce Season 3 of Politics With Paxton, during which I will be examining the legacies and importance of various "What If Presidents", presidential candidates that very nearly were elected president. I will analyze what their prospective administrations likely would have been like had they been elected president.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I issue a call to action about the imperative to abolish private prisons. I also discuss the challenges that American citizens may encounter in their efforts to do so.

In this episode of Politics With Paxton, I highlight the imperative to allow both currently incarcerated and formerly incarcerated American citizens to vote.