I first met Tina Nguyen when we overlapped for a brief time at Vanity Fair’s The Hive—both of us were brought there, of course, by our friend and fearless Puck leader Jon Kelly. But it wasn’t until I started working more closely with Tina at Puck that I started to appreciate her deep familiarity not just with Republican politics, but also with the behind-the-curtain machinations of the conservative movement that have powered Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and the next generation of MAGA politicians and media stars. Tina simply has sources in right-wing politics that other journalists don’t, an ability to write about the conservative movement without lazy contempt, and antennae for compelling stories about Republicans that other journalists either ignore or can’t sense in the first place.