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East Bay Insiders is a news podcast hosted by Steven Tavares. It has 100 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

East Bay political discourse will never be the same! Political reporter Steve Tavares, and Alameda County insiders Shawn Wilson and Dan Mendoza, dish the scoop on Alameda County, state, and national political scenes, with a few hijinks along the way.

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1

The precipitous and predictable fall of Eric Swalwell

2

Mike Hutchinson Gives Everyone a Failing Grade

3

Teflon Eric Swalwell

4

Power, Gender, and Retaliation

5

Courtrooms, Campaigns, and Accountability

6

Alameda island vibes with Malia Vella

7

2025: Year in Review

8

3rd Annual Insidey Awards

9

Bonta vs Swalwell

10

The Letter

11

San Leandro is in turmoil

12

From Protégé to Pariah

13

Hopelessness, homelessness, greediness

14

State of politics and journalism with legendary reporter Carla Marinucci

15

Fear factor

16

You chill, we grill 'em

17

There's a new girl in town

18

Trump, chumps, and ambulance lumps

19

Curious incident of a target letter in a poor city striving to be average but where city employees work in the office

20

Viva East Bay Insiders

21

Barbara Lee is Oakland's mayor-elect. Now what?

22

Don't call it a comeback

23

Ask Kevin Jenkins anything

24

Live from Buffalo Bill's Brewery with State Sen. Aisha Wahab

25

East Bay Insiders Unfiltered

26

Judgment Day

27

Live from Castro Valley

28

2nd Annual Insidey Awards

29

The Aftermath

30

East Bay Insiders Centenary with Loren Taylor and Supervisor Nate Miley

31

How 'bout them recalls?!!

32

Election 2024 Preview Show

33

Scam Alert

34

Welcome to the Shawn Wilson podcast

35

Call me incompetent all day long

36

Carson asks Bauters to the couch

37

Pamela Price's worst nightmare

38

Breaking Bad Polling

39

High-stakes hot takes

40

Life of Thao

41

Handicapping the recalls

42

Really?!!

43

Our comms expert Justin Berton is back!

44

Aisha Knowles and The Apology

45

Back to basics

46

Primary Answers

47

Loren Taylor: Live in front of a studio audience

48

He's just Ken

49

Newsom's coup

50

Has the entire county gone nuts?

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