CONCORD, N.H. — The other day, Lauren Chooljian received a text from her father, a lifelong New Hampshire resident, that said: “You’re losing friends in nh.”

She knows, Dad.

Ms. Chooljian, 32, has become a divisive figure in her home state because of her job: co-host of “Stranglehold,” a podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio that, as its name suggests, takes a not always flattering look at the Granite State’s treasured first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

So far, “Stranglehold” has had 16 episodes of varying lengths. An 11-minute episode included a discussion of how the botched Iowa caucuses may affect the New Hampshire primary, which takes place Tuesday. A deeply reported 55-minute episode revealed how the election sausage is made in Dixville Notch, the White Mountains community celebrated by national news outlets for its tradition of midnight voting.

The primary is “protected and upheld by powerful people who stand to benefit from its survival,” Ms. Chooljian said in one episode. “And so reporting that doesn’t interrogate that institution, well, it seems to apply a different standard to the primary than to other important political forces.”