In 2020, Podhorzer played a pivotal organizing role in the effort to prevent Trump from overturning the election results, as reported in Time and the New York Times, and his early leadership in evidence-driven politics was documented in the 2013 book The Victory Lab by Sasha Issenberg. He continues to serve, or has served, as Chair or Executive Committee member of each of those organizations. He founded the Analyst Institute, the Independent Strategic Research Collaborative (ISRC), the Defend Democracy Project, and the Polling Consortium, and helped found America Votes, Working America, For Our Future, and Catalist.
Michael Podhorzer is the former political director of the AFL-CIO. Weekend Reading is written by Michael Podhorzer and edited by Emily Crockett, with research and editing assistance from Andrea Evans and Thomas Mande, as well as data-wrangling from Alison Collins, Brendon Mills, Trevor Smith and Spencer Brown (BlueLabs).
