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Aaron Kleinman

Aaron Kleinman is Heartland Media’s Senior Political Analyst, a role where he leverages his deep experience with state politics to inform the public about what’s going on across the country. Prior to his time at Heartland he served as the Director of Research for The States Project, an organization dedicated to achieving America’s Promise by educating people about the states. He’s a Connecticut native and won the state’s 1996 Geography Bee.

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Aaron's Latest Articles

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Radio Free America: Political nonprofits are the establishment

Former nonprofit executives keep campaigning as anti-establishment outsiders. The problem? When your career runs on big donor funding, you are the political establishment.

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Radio Free America: The Right is objectively pro-diarrhea

RFK Jr.’s war on the FDA is making "real food" more dangerous than junk food. As a painful cyclospora outbreak spreads through fresh vegetables, a year of federal budget cuts and deregulation has left the agency increasingly powerless to police what we ingest.

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Radio Free America: What Marc Andreessen can learn from Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift

Billionaire Marc Andreessen claims charity is pointless, but his AI data centers are facing major public backlash over their staggering energy consumption. Silicon Valley tech giants could learn a valuable lesson in public relations from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

**Alt Text:** A photoshopped image showing the head of politician Hakeem Jeffries superimposed onto the body of a basketball player executing a slam dunk. The player wears a white New York Knicks jersey with the number 8, hanging from the rim as the basketball passes through the net. The background shows a blurred stadium crowd under arena lighting.
Radio Free America: How to lib out over sports

Nathaniel Frum says Democrats can win back men by out-arguing sports radio callers about Arch Manning. He's wrong, but not for the reason you think. Sports do give politicians a way to talk about their values. They're just not doing it.

A political map of the United States shows the country divided into congressional districts, colored in varying shades of red and blue to indicate partisan lean. The majority of the map's geographic area, particularly across the Great Plains, South, and Mountain West, is dominated by shades of red. Blue areas are concentrated in urban centers, parts of the West Coast, the Northeast, and scattered districts across the South.
What Congress would look like without gerrymandering

A 435-district map drawn without partisan favoritism shows what fair districts would look like nationwide — more representative, more competitive, and close to guaranteeing that whichever party wins the popular vote wins the House.

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Radio Free America: Can Jon Ossoff be the American Péter Magyar?

Jon Ossoff is hitting Magyar-esque notes on corruption and the mafia. Why Georgia's senator, not Hungary's playbook, points the way for Democrats.

Minnesota Republicans propose using taxpayer dollars for Charlie Kirk statue

A group of Minnesota Republican state senators have shown their priorities for the current legislative session by offering a bill that would use taxpayer funds to create a statue of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk.

How Tennessee 7th’s 13-point Democratic shift would look across the nation for 2026

Aaron Kleinman writes, "All told, Democrats would win around 600 new seats across the nation, with even bigger impacts beyond that."

OPINION: How to fix the 2028 Democratic primary (ranked-choice voting is not the answer)

Aaron Kleinman writes, "Adopting RCV would face too many hurdles and doesn’t seem to solve any of the issues with the primary process. But another option could do the job much better."

ANALYSIS: Ohio Democrats show when a bad map is a good deal

Aaron Kleinman writes, "Ohio Democrats just gave up a congressional district to Republicans. Good on them."

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