Heather sits down with Arielle Fodor (@mrs.frazzled) — the former kindergarten teacher whose reporting helped end Eric Swalwell’s run for California governor AND his time in Congress (with Texas Republican Tony Gonzales falling the same day for good measure).
Arielle breaks down how it actually happened: the whisper network that kept women safe for a decade while CNN sat on the story since 2016, the patterns that made her certain (yes, including the 40-year-old congressman sliding into Snapchat DMs), why she took out an umbrella insurance policy on her house before posting his name, and the call she got afterward — “they’re afraid of you.”
Plus: why “content creator” became the dirty word campaigns use to discredit women, what the right’s paid signal-chat cohorts have that the left doesn’t (and why that’s actually good for democracy), the night the white House Correspondents’ Dinner got locked down over a gunman, and the $675 Venmo mistake that her audience covered in 24 hours.
A conversation about what happens when the people who used to have no access suddenly have all of it — and what they choose to do with it.
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