Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. If a friend sent you this and you’d like to sign up, CLICK HERE. We spent yesterday at the big AI summit in Washington. We listened to Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders find common ground, and then asked key players what they thought. We also parsed the very deep differences between Bannon and Sanders on what comes next. Plus, just why did Jim Banks endorse JD Vance for president this week?

Alan Minsky is the executive director of the Progressive Democrats of America. He believes in the Green New Deal and that conservatives are using culture war issues, such as trans athletes in women’s sports, to divide the working class and distract from the real struggle.