Alex Seitz-Wald

Small-town newspaperman with the @mainevillager. Former senior national politics reporter for NBC News. Dad, husband, hobby collector.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

We’ve seen a lot of videos about big news outlets preparing for tonight and while the NYT says it has more than 100 staffers on duty, we at the @MaineVillager are proud to announce we have MORE THAN 4 reporters on duty. https://t.co/CY0byb3MxJ

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@NY_LBSS @semaforben @ktbenner @AlexandraBerzon Because it’s such a great place people will literally break the law just to be here.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

This is the guy ICE hired on a fast-track and then set lose in Maine with a gun and a badge who shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero in Biddeford eight months onto the job. From a stunning new story by @ktbenner and @AlexandraBerzon. https://t.co/tiGZXu5q9G

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

His own mother! "He is dangerous and should not have weapons. Believe his victims, not him." https://t.co/tiGZXu5q9G

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@pxwhittle Wonder if he has one guy at that Supercuts or just goes to wherever is convenient

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

That’s Targét in francophone Northern Maine (though the nearest Target to Allagash is over 4 hours away).

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

Nothing tells the populist story of this election quite like Troy Jackson showing up in Washington wearing an $89.99 suit off the rack from Target.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@dankennedy_nu I know they’re theologically controversial, but do they consider themselves Christians?

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Another good example of how Susan Collins survived and over-performed, even while losing: Here's a Unitarian Universalist minister (prob the most left-coded Christian denomination) who supported Troy Jackson writing an op-ed lamenting Collins' departure. https://t.co/zBxcBFIghs

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@dnnation Yep, they went the same way as other Dems - joined calls for Platner to step aside then got behind Troy Jackson.

[Chris Matthews @HardballChris]

We're live for Hardball on Substack with @joshtpm and @aseitzwald will be on next followed by legend Ben Barnes

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

My new startup creates an un-hackable, air-gapped experiential environment where you can know everything is real. It’s an open world, full haptic feedback and 3D motion. It’s called IRL and it’s built on a simple architecture that involves no screens or electronics of any kind!

[Gregory Conti @GregoryConti19]

We are never going to know what's real again. This is a tragedy. This tech is going to do enormous harm to any sense of shared culture and even to the very notion of an objective reality.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Found some vintage Troy Jackson footage in the CNN archives during their 1998 logger protest. (on the right)

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Where else are Covid refugees remaking politics? Vacationy, rural or remote places where people relocated during covid and then stayed because remote work is now a thing?

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

Over 125,000 people moved to Maine since 2020, mostly migrating from east coast cities to affluent Southern Maine towns, fundamentally shifting the electorate in favor of Jackson.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@PaulFerro Other two were redistricting, LePage was only natural one, so to speak. I ran out of room to include

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@3BostonBoys Definitely the second paragraph takes it to the next level, but still 18 kids!

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Paul LePage defied the blue tsunami to be the only Republican in the country to flip a seat currently held by Dems. His early childhood is like a Franco-American Dickens novel:

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@mainebeerbrewer 700k yikes!!

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Rep.-elect Paul LePage says one of his top priorities is ending Trump's tariffs on Canada and "bringing Canada and U.S. back together."

[Paul Steinhauser @steinhauserNH1]

2026 Watch-NOW on @FoxNews - Former Gov. @MainePaulLePage, the #GOP nominee in ME-02, in his first interview after he declared victory over Democrat @dunlap4congress - for what would be the only #GOP congressional flip of a non-redistricted seat in the midterm elections - tells me his brand helped put him over the top. Says he hopes to work with Democrats but argues that "DSA is a poison for this country"

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@maxasteele Inbox: The AARP releases new stomp-clap anthem to promote its new Avocado Toast For All platform.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

The latest thing millennials killed: Lazy stereotypes about millennials that are actually just about young people of any generation, as viewed by their elders.

[Michael Socolow @MichaelSocolow]

@aseitzwald I once wrote it up in @GlobeIdeas : "Paul LePage: Dickens with a Dash of King" back when he was Governor, and the rest of the U.S. didn't quite understand his behavior.

https://t.co/332Zu0QSE6

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

@MichaelSocolow @GlobeIdeas Chef’s kiss!