The Steve Marchand Podcast
The Steve Marchand Podcast
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Steve is a longtime political professional in New Hampshire whose worn about every hat you can: A former mayor and gubernatorial candidate who has managed races for governor, congress, NH's First in the Nation Primary, and every possible downballot race. He now uses his experience and analytics background to run his Democratic advocacy organization, Move The Goalposts, and authors a successful Substack, The Politics of New Hampshire. On this podcast, Steve talks state and national politics with politicians, operatives, journalists, and you.
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Explores topics like election strategies, political campaigns, and grassroots movements with episodes detailing upcoming political races, insights into the Democratic party's direction, and the influence of local issues such as housing and education funding
Steve is a longtime political professional in New Hampshire whose worn about every hat you can: A former mayor and gubernatorial candidate who has managed races for governor, congress, NH’s First in the Nation Primary, and every possible downballot race. He now uses his experience and analytics background to run his Democratic advocacy organization, Move The Goalposts, and authors a successful Substack, The Politics of New Hampshire. On this podcast, Steve talks state and national politics with politicians, operatives, journalists, and you.
New Hampshire State Representative Anita Burroughs has seen a lot during her four terms in the NH House, going back to her upset win vs. former Speaker of the House Gene Chandler in 2018. In the 7+ years since then, Burroughs has become a well-respected member of the Commerce & Consumer Affairs Committee, able to thread the needle: Working well with Republicans while publicly calling out the problems she sees with the GOP's agenda and leadership.
Her Substack, Inside the New Hampshire Dome with Anita Burroughs, does a great job of providing the blow-by-blow of policymaking in NH from a veteran legislator's perspective.
We go through some of the highest-profile and potentially most consequential bills of 2026; how she got involved in politics in the first place, and what it was like to take on one of the most prominent state-level politicians in NH; and the changing politics of her part of the state (she represents the northern part of Carroll County, a part of the state with a combination of bright blue and ruby red – towns quickly getting bluer thanks to an influx of tourists-turned-residents and anti-MAGA Yankee Republicans, and other towns getting redder, reflecting the transition of blue-collar mill towns we see across the country).
It's a great, relaxed, wide-ranging conversation. Learn more at Anita's Substack (go to Substack.com and type her name into the search bar), and visit Steve's Substack at www.SteveMarchand.com.
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