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I'm Amanda Litman and this is Battleground, a podcast from the Re-count.

Our guest this week is Boolean Castro, former mayor of San Antonio and secretary of housing

and urban development during the Obama administration.

We're talking to secretary Castro about the housing affordability crisis, what Democrats

need to deliver for the American people, and of course, the state of Texas.

But before we get to my conversation with secretary Castro, I want to talk a little bit about

a debate that is absorbing the Democratic Twitter media ecosystem lately.

Last week, as a decline, one of my honestly favorite columnists at the New York Times

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