The Cycle | Monday Memo | Week One

The Cycle goes daily—here’s what that means for you (and why now’s the time to go paid)

ICYMI: The Cycle is now publishing five days a week.

Paid subscribers get strategy breakdowns, live briefings, exclusive interviews, and election analysis you can’t find anywhere else—starting this week!

Hey folks,

BIG NEWS: The Cycle is moving to a five-day-a-week publication schedule for paid subscribers.

• Mondays: The Monday Memo (free)

• Tuesdays: This is America Pod (free)

• Wednesdays: Live Chat with Rachel at 4pm pacific time (Insiders only)

• Thursday: STAT(S) of the Week Analysis (Insiders only)

• Friday: The Living History Pod (Insiders only)

Speaking of the Living History Pod, I’m excited to announce a new format for my conversational pods with various movers and shakers called Living History. The premise of the show is that the present now will later be past and that we are, in fact, living through one of the most interesting and perilous times in human history. Yeah us!!

Don’t worry—if you’re a free subscriber, you’ll still receive plenty of content, including the Monday Memo and access to the This Is America podcast, which I hope you agree has been a smashing success!

That said, this is a GREAT time to consider an upgrade to a paid subscription and join The Cycle Insider’s Club.

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Cycle Insiders receive:

• The Monday Memo from Rachel

• This is America Pod

• STAT(S) of the Week

• The Living History Pod

• Substack Chats and Lives

• Special Content

Cycle Insiders will also get exclusive access to my election analysis work which will be featured in Thursday’s STATS(S) of the Week. Along with national politics I will be analyzing this year’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania which I expect to produce massive “Trump Effects” both on turnout and on the vote choice of swing voters as well as the 2026 Midterms. .

AND THAT”S NOT ALL!

I’m making a BIG ADDITION to The Cycle team. I’m excited to announce that as part of this expansion Jennifer Brown, formerly of the Don Lemon Show on CNN, is coming on board as a producer for The Cycle. Jennifer is madly talented and has decades of experience connecting newsmakers with media analysts so I’m beyond excited about the caliber of guests we will be bringing onto The Cycle as we progress.

NOTE:

If you are already a paid subscriber, thank you for your support growing The Cycle. It wouldn’t and couldn’t exist without you. All paid subscribers will automatically be converted to The Cycle’s Insider Club. If you are a free subscriber that likes The Cycle please consider putting a ring on it so you can be an Insider too!

Want to be a Cycle Insider? Go paid!!

P.S. Our first Cycle Insider-only live chat is happening this WEDNESDAY at 4pm PST—be there or be square.

-Rachel