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Everywhere in Washington, D.C., you can find guys like Aaron Parnas — young white politics wonks with diplomas from George Washington University, drawers full of Lululemon athleisure, and C-SPAN addictions. But only one of them has amassed a following as a scrappy independent news anchor — more than 500,000 Substack subscribers, 4.2 million followers on TikTok — large enough to field guest invites from Katie Couric and public fangirling from resistance boomers. Parnas, 26, tells me he gets recognized at least twice a day in the nation’s capitol. “I was at Le Dip,” he says, referring to the Logan Circle politico haunt Le Diplomate, “and three older women start screaming at the top of their lungs, ‘Oh my God, it’s Aaron Parnas!’ They were telling everyone at the restaurant, and I was like, ‘