You're Probably Getting Screwed

2025 State Legislative and Policy Preview with Pat Gar

Welcome to You’re Probably Getting Screwed, a weekly newsletter and video series from J.D. Scholten and Justin Stofferahn about the Second Gilded Age and the ways economic concentration is putting politics and profits over working people.

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Wait… Wasn’t there a You’re Probably Getting Screwed on Thursday? Yes, but in 2025 we plan to do more.

First, we plan to do more interviews. This week, J.D. interviewed Pat Garofalo who is the Director of State and Local Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project. We talked about his State Policy preview as we near the legislative season in States all across the country.

To see the entire “2025 State Legislative and Policy Preview” you can see it at Pat’s Substack titled “Boondoggle.”

Book Club!!!

We are adding a book club!!!

Each month we will be promoting a book and at the end of the month we will interview the author. We encourage folks to read the book and send in questions that we will ask the authors.

Our first book is Austin Frerick’s Barons. This book came out in 2024 and has received a ton of good reviews and press, which you can read about here.

You can purchase the book at your local bookstore and many places online, including at the Greatest Store in the Universe.

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BEFORE YOU GO

If you have ideas on who to interview or what book should be the “book of the month” down the road, please let us know.

Standing Tall for All,

J.D. Scholten