It's one thing to know how politics works, it's another to be a fly on the wall and get to watch it play out in back rooms in real time. That's a bit of what we have today, as Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat in the House, sat down with Levi Tillemann, a progressive Democrat running for a House seat in Colorado.
Tillemann was pushing Hoyer to get the party to stay neutral in the primary. Hoyer, meanwhile, was pushing Tillemann to get out of the primary. And Tillemann was recording the whole thing. Lee Fang obtained the audio and we published that conversation -- along with a dramatic, cartoon rendering -- here.
Speaking of how our democracy works, Shaun King is reporting that law enforcement groups in Sacramento gave more than $400,000 to the district attorney who decided not to charge them with the murder of Stephon Clark. She's now up for reelection. If you want to get involved with that campaign, you can do that here.
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