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Uncontacted Indigenous tribes are threatened by growing contact from missionaries, miners, criminal gangs and social media influencers according to Survival International.



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Nov. 15, 2025, 5:00 AM ESTBy Alexandra MarquezDemocrats were knocked back on their heels in 2024 by the party’s erosion of support among young men. They were gratified to see improvement with that group in key elections earlier this month.In between, the party has been on a mission to stop its erosion among young voters, launching research efforts, piloting different styles of communication and elevating new voices. And it has already come to one important conclusion, according to interviews in October with a range of people on the left working on the issue: The solution to Democrats’ struggle to appeal to young men won’t come from one national figure who will instantly, magically draw them in.“If not Trump, then who? 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Colin Allred, who was a collegiate and professional football player in the NFL before running for office, say it’s because Democrats alienated young men with their messaging.“If you listen to many Democratic speeches over the last few years, and you kind of listen to the recitation of policies, if you’re a young man listening into that, you might think that none of those were directed towards you. And I think that was a mistake,” Allred, who is running for Senate again in Texas next year after losing to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz last year, told NBC News.“What I’ve seen is that if somebody agrees with you on policy, but thinks that you don’t understand them, their culture, what they’re going through and where they come from, then they’re still not going to want to support you,” he added.One place that young male voters found a sense of community and culture, Democrats say, is in the loose collection of podcasts often dubbed the “manosphere.”These podcasts — hosted by comedians such as Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Tim Dillon and Andrew Schulz — often make “you feel like you’re not alone,” Litman said.“It’s funny, often very funny. It’s a little subversive or often very subversive. It feels intimate. You get to know the hosts over the course of hours and hours of conversation: their lives and their, their personalities and their quirks, and I think that is really special. Like, the parasocial relationship can be very powerful,” she added.Litman’s conclusions about the power of these podcasts are backed up by a Priorities USA research project called Warbler, which works to understand voters’ online habits and media consumption.“One of the things I think that we were struck by in the research that we did is, people are looking for long-form , by and large,” said Jeff Horwitt from Hart Research, a Democratic polling firm that partnered with Priorities USA on some of the research. (Horwitt and his firm also partner with a Republican polling outfit on the NBC News poll.) “They want a conversational back and forth. 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We’re going to have to make sure we are offering an alternative point of view, alternative policies that solve their economic anxieties, visions for the future, etc.,” she said.“That’s going to be the difference between an okay midterm and a really amazing midterm,” Butterfield continued, adding: “We’re not going to just get by on people hating Trump alone. We’ll get far-ish, but not as far as we need to go.”In last week’s New Jersey and Virginia elections, for example, Democratic Govs.-elect Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger won by larger-than-expected margins and made gains among young men in both states, exit polls show. But those margins among young men were still in line with their overall margins of victory, among an age group in which Democrats for years ran up the score compared to the overall electorate.‘Message, messenger and medium’ are the keysIn some ways, Democratic strategists and candidates say, the solution to their party’s concerns about its performance among young men — or at least the start of it — is as easy as just appearing on these podcasts and in other male-friendly spaces.It’s something several potential 2028 presidential candidates have already dabbled in. In April, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg sat for a nearly three-hour-long interview with the hosts of “Flagrant.” In July, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, participated in a four-hour-long podcast taping of the “Shawn Ryan Show.” Both these podcasts hosted Trump in 2024.The problem with this strategy, Litman pointed out, is that not all Democratic leaders are comfortable with appearing on such programs.“You shouldn’t force it, but for the leaders who are capable of having those kinds of conversations, I think they should absolutely go into those environments and be a little bit risk averse or a little bit risk tolerant, rather,” she said.“It’s both message, messenger and medium — it’s all of the above,” Litman added later.One 2025 election winner who embraced this strategy was New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who gained popularity on TikTok, appeared on popular social media shows like “Subway Takes,” and joined the “manosphere” podcast “Flagrant.”Allred cited these “manosphere” podcasts as one place more Democrats should be going, but said there are local spaces with the same informal, intimate environment — like high school football games — that many of his fellow Democrats should feel comfortable in but don’t.“I think that in the Democratic Party, there’s almost been a reluctance to engage in things like football, and I don’t really get that. I don’t think you have to be the biggest fan of it to know that this is a place where the community is gathering and people are having, at least for me, these are some of the realest conversations I have in the entire week,” he said.Appearing in these spaces would go a long way “in terms of people seeing us, not as, kind of, elite ivory tower policy wonks,” Allred added. “At a football game, you can have the same conversation about policy. It might be a little bit less wonkish, but it’ll be more authentic … I think it’s what most people are looking for in their leaders.”Looking ahead to 2026 and 2028, Butterfield said that a priority “is making sure that we’re not sticking out like sore thumbs in these kind of ‘entertainment-first’ spaces.”“I think that your ability to authentically communicate in these spaces should be a requirement to be a good candidate in today’s world, right?” she added. “We need to be holding our candidates to a high standard of electability, such that if you can’t come across as yourself on social media, maybe we need to pick a different candidate.”Alexandra MarquezAlexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
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