The Matthew Dowd I Know

He spoke truth to power. In Trump's America, that's a fireable offense.

I lived in a fallout shelter with Matthew Dowd for a year-and-a-half.

In the spring of 1999, Mark McKinnon assembled the media team to make ads for the 2000 Bush presidential campaign. The Bush campaign had headquarters in an office building in downtown Austin, but Mark moved our little team into an old fallout shelter that was attached to a video post-p…