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A 90-second radio report and podcast which keeps you informed of the key democracy issues in the U.S. Visit us at AmericanDemocracyMinute.org, on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @democracyminute. The American Democracy Minute is the successor to the Open Democracy Minute, produced from 2019 to 2022 and focused on NH democracy issues. Click on the ADM Logo on the episode, or in other players, the Play ⏯️ button. Are you a radio station? Find our broadcast files at Pacifica Radio Network's A ...
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 23, 2024 USPS Issues Upbeat Report on Ballot Delivery Performance for the 2024 General Election, But Lower Use of Mail-In Ballots was the Biggest Factor We reported in September on concerns from election officials on whether the U.S. Postal Service could meet its mail ballot delivery obl…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 20, 2024 NYC’s Embattled Mayor Denied $4.5 Million in Matching Funds from City’s Public Campaign Finance Funding System New York City Mayor Eric Adams was denied access to over $4 million dollars in matching public funding for his 2025 campaign, due to questions over an ongoing federal i…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 19, 2024 Among 2024 Electoral College Presidential Electors Were 13 2020 Alleged Fake Electors, Some of Whom Await Trial on Fraud Charges In official meeting rooms around the country, 538 electors for the 2024 Presidential election met December 17th to cast their vote on behalf of their …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 18, 2024 New Report Shows Gerrymandering’s Impact on Control of Congress Gerrymandering, the manipulation of voting district boundaries to engineer an election outcome which benefits a particular party, had a significant impact on control of the new Congress, according to a new report. T…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 17, 2024 Ohio Voters Bill of Rights Ballot Measure Finally Authorized to Collect Signatures Following up our report on states which have passed a voting rights act comes an authorization to collect signatures for the Ohio Voters Bill of Rights, protecting voters from suppression tactics,…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 16, 2024 Brian is gone today. The current climate suggests that further VRA destruction is imminent, so expect pro-democracy states who've not already implemented state VRAs to act rapidly in 2025. With the SCOTUS Majority Intent on Dismantling the Voting Rights Act, Pro-Democracy States…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 13, 2024 Updates for State Stories We’ve Been Following in North Carolina, Alaska, and Wisconsin We have updates on stories we’ve been following, including North Carolina’s Supreme Court race & a power grab by its legislature, ranked choice voting in Alaska, and more charges in Wisconsin…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 11, 2024 After losing two recounts in State Supreme Court Race, North Carolina GOP Candidate Is Still Challenging the Eligibility of 60,000 Voters After two recounts, an incumbent North Carolina Supreme Court justice was declared the winner by 734 votes, with 5.5 million ballots cast. He…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 11, 2024 Restoration of Fair Voting Districts in Wisconsin Ends GOP Near Supermajority in Assembly and Senate If you follow the American Democracy Minute you know that until last year Wisconsin held the infamous title as one of the most gerrymandered states in the U.S. That changed Novem…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 10, 2024 More than 83 Million Americans Voted Early in 2024. Trump Says He Wants Rollbacks of Early In-Person and Mail Voting In the 2024 election, estimates show that more than 83 million Americans voted early in person, or by mail. President Donald Trump said December 5th he wants to l…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 9, 2024 Brian is away today, but this report from earlier this year remains an important tool for election officials around the country to help make elections as accessible as possible. Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Private …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 6, 2024 Before it Loses its Supermajority, the North Carolina Legislature Strips Election Powers from Its Governor, Bans AG from Opposing the Legislature. Will the House Override the Veto? Before a new Democratic governor takes office in January and it loses its supermajority, the GOP-co…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 5, 2024 Control of the Minnesota House May Come Down to a Race Decided by 15 votes - and 21 Missing Absentee Ballots If you ever need proof that your vote matters, consider a Minnesota House race decided by only 15 votes. Or was it? Twenty-one absentee ballots are missing, and hanging in…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 4, 2024 Brian is preparing for a meeting this evening, but this report is a great follow-up to yesterday's Presidential pardon primer. Can a U.S. President Pardon Him or Herself? Legal Scholars Think The Question Will Likely End Up in the U.S. Supreme Court. Recently, we discussed the Pr…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 3, 2024 President Biden Pardons Son, Trump Previously-Pardoned Ambassador Nominee & Family Member. How Did Presidential Pardons Evolve, and What Are Their Limitations? December 1st, President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, convicted on federal gun and drug charges. President-elect Tr…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Dec. 2, 2024 Brian took a few days off, so we're revisiting a report from this past July which is even more relevent as the Trump administration takes shape. Would the Founding Fathers Have Embraced Having Unfettered Power for the Presidency? Not Likely. Anti-authoritarian feelings ran high i…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 29, 2024 Brian's taking a couple of days off. Here's a still-timely report from earlier this year! What is the ‘Gingles Test’ and How Does it Impact Minority Voting Rights? Today, we’re looking at a principle called the “Gingles Test” that federal courts use when determining whether a ge…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 28, 2024 Brian is taking off a couple of days, but for Thanksgiving Day, is repeating a report on the increasing voter suppression of Native Americans. Rank and file voters of all parties find this appalling, but few know that their party perpetrates such suppression tactics to protect p…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 27, 2024 The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause was Intended to Stop Bribery and Corruption. Recently, Not So Much. The framers of the U.S. Constitution included the Foreign Emoluments Clause because they feared the influence, corruption and bribery they witnessed in Europe’s monar…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 26, 2024 The Presidential Transition Turns Into One Big Dark Money Special Interest Swamp Federal election law governs campaign contributions directly to Presidential candidates. But when an incoming administration refuses to follow the Presidential transition rules, those contributions …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 25, 2024 Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting and ‘Top 4’ Open Primaries Survive Repeal Referendum - By a Whisker With a razor-thin statewide margin of 664 votes, ranked choice voting and open primaries weathered a repeal challenge in Alaska, one of the few democracy reforms to survive the 2024…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 22, 2024 AZ U.S. Senate Candidate & Election Denier’s Streak of Election and Courtroom Losses Continues, But Kari Lake May Resurface in DC Anyway One of the most strident election deniers and ardent Trump supporters lost her Arizona U.S. Senate race November 5th. But Kari Lake still has …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 21, 2024 SCOTUS Turns Down Case Challenging Alaska’s Dark Money Disclosure Law. Great News for Voters and a Possibly a Future Case in Maine. A 2020 Alaska ballot initiative took steps to shine a light on dark money campaign funding. The U.S. Supreme Court just turned down a challenge to …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 20, 2024 After Years of Litigation, Undated Ballot Envelopes are Again at Issue in Pennsylvania’s 2024 Election - and Thousands Likely Disenfranchised Four Democrat-led counties defied a Pennsylvania state law and counted undated mail-in ballots, a controversy under litigation for years.…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 19, 2024 Anti-Voter States Line Up for Showdown on 1965 Voting Rights Act at the U.S. Supreme Court The 2020 redistricting cycle featured several examples of egregious, racist gerrymandering to dilute Black voting power in the South, but also Native American voters in the West. A 2022 Lo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 18, 2024 Colossal Crypto Contributions Change Trump’s Mind, Likely Leading to Friendly Regulation - Or None at All President Donald Trump was not a fan of crypto currency. That is, until crypto magnates started pouring money into SuperPACs supporting his candidacy and select Congressiona…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 15, 2024 Trump ‘Election Integrity’ Lawyer Cleta Mitchell Calls for the Firing of All DOJ Voting & Civil Rights Lawyers Cleta Mitchell, a 2020 Trump election lawyer who later pushed so-called ‘election integrity’ laws in states around the U.S., is now calling for all U.S. Department of J…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 14, 2024 Fringe Federal Court Ruling Invalidating the Counting of Mail-In Ballots in Mississippi After Election Day is Challenged by Pro-Voter Groups In a case likely destined for the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal appeals court struck down a Mississippi law allowing receipt and counting …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 13, 2024 Maine Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Constitutional Amendment to Limit Individual Contributions SuperPACs, and Lay the Groundwork for SCOTUS Case “Do you want to set a $5,000 limit for giving to political action committees that spend money independently to support or defeat candidat…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 12, 2024 Colorado Activists Arrested for Allegedly Stealing and Submitting Mail-In Ballots to “Test” Election Security November 6th, the Mesa County, Colorado district attorney’s office announced charges against two women who allegedly stole mail-in ballots, filled them out and submitted…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 11th, 2024 Florida Voters Retain Public Funding of Elections, as Amendment 6 Repeal Fails to Reach 60% Constitutional Threshold In an election with few bright spots for democracy, Amendment 6, a repeal of Florida’s public funding of elections option, failed to reach its 60% constitutiona…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 8, 2024 Hoax Bomb Threats, Ballot Shortages, and Unlocked Access Panels Appear to be the Worst of the 2024 Election Problems State and federal election officials termed most problems encountered in the Nov. 5th Presidential election as routine, with quickly discredited bomb threats and b…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 7, 2024 High Turnout of Conservative Voters Also Led to Losses for Democracy Reform in Ohio, Nevada, Colorado and Potentially Alaska Democracy reform-related citizen ballot initiatives failed November 5th, as high turnout of GOP voters and deceptive messaging overwhelmed a citizen-led re…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 6, 2024 States Increased Security in Election Offices and Polling Places, and Increased Penalties for Threatening or Harassing Election Officials Election deniers, take notice. Since just 2022, 20 states have tightened laws to protect election workers, upping penalties, expanding definit…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 5, 2024 Close Races, New Rules, Mail-in Ballots and Election Deniers Mean Election Night is Not Likely to Be Results Night Election night is unlikely to be “results night”. Irresponsible candidates may exploit an extended time to declare a winner and say there’s something illicit about t…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 4, 2024 Not Registered to Vote? Your State May Be One of Nineteen Which Allows Election Day Registration, But You’ll Need to Be Prepared. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow citizens to register to vote on election day. But that doesn’t mean that election-day registration …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Nov. 1, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge of Alleged Non Citizen Voters Only Days Before the Election, Ignoring Established Federal Law Ignoring established federal law, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned two lower court decisions and allowed Virginia to …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 31, 2024 If Your Mail-In or Absentee Ballot is in the Mail, Here’s How to Track It. If it’s Not, Hand Delivery to Your Election Office or Drop Box is a Safer Bet. Time has run out for mailing a mail-in or absentee ballot, but if it’s already mailed, there are tools for tracking its statu…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 30, 2024 Updates on Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia Voting Rights Appeals and Decisions Just Days Before the Election We have updates for three consequential voting rights cases we’ve been following in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Georgia, just a week before the November 2024 election. To v…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 29, 2024 It May Be Bumpy, But Most Democracy Experts Think the Electoral Count Reform Act Will Help Protect the Election Our last three reports focused on the likely plans for bad actors to subvert the election. Thankfully, Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, which mo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 28, 2024 ‘Deceive, Disrupt, Deny’ Report Anticipates Non Citizen Voting Will Be Used to Justify Post-Election Delays, Sham Audits & Litigation Our third segment on Protect Democracy’s “Deceive, Disrupt, Deny” report anticipates how bad actors will likely use bogus claims of widespread no…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 25, 2024 The ‘Deceive, Disrupt, Deny’ Subversion Plan: After Claims of Widespread Noncitizen Voting, Comes Intimidation, Disruptive Poll Watchers & Baseless Lawsuits We’re examining ‘Deceive, Disrupt, Deny’, a new report which games out a likely election subversion plan by partisan extre…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 24, 2024 ‘Deceive, Disrupt, Deny’: Report Lays Out Likely Playbook to Subvert the 2024 Election, Some of Which is Already in Motion We’re exploring a new report by election system watchdog Protect Democracy called ‘Deceive, Disrupt, Deny’, which lays out the likely strategy by bad actors…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 23, 2024 Republicans Appeal to Georgia Supreme Court to Restore Fringe Georgia Election Board Rulings Struck Down by Lower Courts There are developments in a court challenge to questionable Georgia Election Board rules recently struck down by state courts. The rules are widely seen as in…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 22, 2024 Reporting Shows Pro-Trump Dark Money Group Funding Misleading Fake ‘Pro-Harris” Website & Ads Money-in-Politics watchdog Open Secrets reports that online advertising and a website popped up in early October, pretending to be pro-Harris political action committee. It’s actually b…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 21, 2024 Early Voting Begins in 18 States This Week, But Voter Registration Ends in 6 States. You Can’t Vote If You’re Not Registered. Early voting is well under way in 22 states, and will be joined by another 11 states Oct. 21st and 22nd. But if you’re not registered in Pennsylvania, Al…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 18, 2024 Courts Order Halt to Alabama Voter Purge and to Allow Nebraska’s Formerly Incarcerated Felon Citizens to Register & Vote In separate rulings October 16th, courts in Alabama and Nebraska sided with voters over zealous state officials, protecting the right to register and vote in …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 17, 2024 In Case with 2024 Presidential Election Implications, Georgia Judge Blocks Controversial State Election Board Rules for Hand Counting & Certification In two cases with national implications, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge temporarily blocked implementation of new Georgia E…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 16, 2024 Polling Shows Ohio Voters Lean Toward Passing Citizen-Led Redistricting Commission Ballot Measure, Despite Disinformation from State Officials We’ve reported for months about state officials in heavily-gerrymandered Ohio attempting to derail a citizen-led redistricting commissio…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 15, 2024 Disabled Alabama Voters Get Win as Federal Judge Stays Portions of Law Prohibiting Assistance with Absentee Ballots Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a law in March prohibiting voters from receiving assistance in filling out or delivering their absentee ballots. A federal judge s…
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