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Ask a Pol’s your conduit to Congress. We're veteran journalists. The Capitol’s our office. Senators our sources — well, now your sources too.
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Who we are:
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Ask a Pol’s subscribers are as anonymous as they want to be in our private community that’s a blend of skeptics and true believers alike.
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Our raw interviews are FREE for everyone on our sites, but occasionally paying subscribers get special advanced access. In part, because when we get breaking news on insanely busy days, we’re dying to share it immediately!
So we do, privately to our most loyal — and straight baller! — supporters before we’re able to formally post it publicly.
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About Ask a Pol’s chief correspondent:
Since 2006, Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo’s covered Congress for WIRED, VICE News, Playboy, Rolling Stone, VICE News Tonight w/ HBO, The Daily Beast, along with 65+ local NPR member stations, etc.
Since 2016, Laslo’s been an adjunct new media and journalism professor at various schools in the nation’s capital, including Johns Hopkins University (MA, Government), Boston University (MA & BA, Journalism), George Washington University (MA, Communications) and the University of Maryland (BA, Journalism).
Laslo’s made a career out of pulling pull the veil back and showing Congress as it really is. We also hear he’s fun, knowledgeable, untamable, unbought and a tad unpredictable…
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