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American Democracy Minute

American Democracy Minute

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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 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 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. 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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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 14, 2024 Suppression of Native American Voters is on the Rise. Three Pieces of Pending Legislation Could Stop It. The ink wasn’t yet dry on the Indian Citizens Act of 1924 when voter suppression of Native Americans began. Natives have been fighting for their right to register and vote, p…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 11, 2024 Sensing a Threat to Their Power, Idaho GOP Leaders Use Every Lever to Stop Open Primaries & Ranked Choice Citizen Ballot Initiative Apparently sensing an existential threat to their power, Idaho GOP leaders are pulling every lever to defeat an open primaries and ranked choice vo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 10, 2024 Is it Illegal to Pay a $47 Bounty to Get a Registered Voter to Sign a Petition? Elon Musk’s Super PAC is Doing Just That. An Elon Musk super PAC is offering a $47 recruiting bounty for referring registered voters who then sign a petition pledging support for the First and Second…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 9, 2024 State Officials Grant Flexibility to Hurricane Affected Areas of FL, GA, and NC To Support In-Person and Mail-In Voting for Thousands of Displaced Citizens With Hurricane Milton adding insult to Hurricane Helene’s injury, state officials in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina are…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 8, 2024 PA Supreme Court Refuses to Rehear Mail-In Ballot Missing Date Appeal, but Allows Counties to Continue to Notify Voters and ‘Cure’ Ballots The Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to rehear a challenge to mail-in ballots with missing or inaccurate dates on the merits, after dismiss…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 4, 2024 As State Voter Registration Deadlines Draw Near, Data Suggests 2024 New Registrations Still Lagging Behind 2020 As state deadlines for voter registrations draw near, new registrations across the United States are down compared to 2024, according to political data and advertising …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 3, 2024 What is the 'Materiality Provision' of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and How Can it Help Protect Voters? Our report on court challenges to undated or misdated mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania mentioned the “Materiality Provision” of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Just what is the Materia…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 2, 2024 The ACLU Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Rule on Undated Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballots Case We’ve reported for months now on challenges to undated or misdated mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a state court ruling allowing the counting of …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Oct. 1, 2024 Early Voting Ramps Up in Most States in October, and Voter Registration Deadlines Begin to Close. What’s Your Registration and Voting Plan? Early voting for the 2024 general election has begun in six states, either by mail or in-person. Another nine states begin next week. But, b…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 30, 2024 NH Primary AI Robocall Costs Operative $6 Million; Newsmax Settles with Smartmatic Over Airing 2020 Voting Machine Conspiracy Theories The FCC levied a $6 Million dollar fine Sept. 26th for an A-I deep fake robocall in January’s NH Presidential Primary, and on the eve of a civi…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 27, 2024 Spoiler Alert: Ranked Choice Voting Could Solve the Green Party and JFK Jr. ‘Spoiler Effect Spoiler alert: Both major political parties are trying to minimize the impact of voters choosing third party candidates in the 2024 election. What could fix the “spoiler effect”, and all…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report for Sept. 26, 2024 US Postal Service Slowdowns Concern State Election Officials; Will DeJoy’s Leaner USPS Deliver Ballots in Time? GOP challenges to state laws allowing the counting of properly postmarked mail ballots after the election takes on more significance when considering chronic U.S. Postal Servic…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 25, 2024 GOP Challenge to Mississippi Mail Ballot Deadline Law Likely to Set Up U.S. Supreme Court Challenge with National Consequences National and state Republicans will ask the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down a Mississippi law which counts mail-in ballots up to …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report for Sept. 24, 2024 Updates on 97,000 Registered AZ Voters Without Citizenship Proof, CO Open Primaries & RCV Poll; and Stickering Out RFK Jr. in WI We have three quick state updates, including a court decision favoring the over 97,000 Arizona voters who didn’t have citizenship documents on file, a promisin…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 23, 2024 Georgia State Board of Elections Passes Hand Count Reconciliation Rule Against Recommendations of SOS and County Election Officials Against the recommendations of state and county election officials, three Trump loyalists serving on the Georgia State Election Board voted Friday…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 20, 2024 Alabama SOS Sweeps Up Naturalized Citizens In Move to Root Out Noncitizen Voters, Spurs Lawsuit Shortly after taking office, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen directed state election officials to invalidate voter registrations of immigrants who had been issued a Permanent Re…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 19, 2024 State Data Mistake Puts Voting in Local & State Elections at Risk for 97,000 Arizonans Voting in state and local elections is at risk for an estimated 97,000 longtime Arizona voters due to a proof of citizenship data tracking problem at the DMV. To view the whole script of toda…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 18, 2024 Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Intentionally Misleading Description Language for Citizen Redistricting Ballot Measure In a dubious decision, the Ohio Supreme Court mostly upheld the state ballot board’s intentionally misleading description for a citizen redistricting commission mea…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 17, 2024 Pennsylvania Won’t Count Undated Mail Ballots After All; Alaska Natives Organizing to Retain Ranked Choice Voting Two updates on stories we’ve covered recently in Pennsylvania, where its high court invalidated ballots with missing or inaccurate dates, and Alaska, where the Alas…
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Corrected Version The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 16, 2024 Sept. 17 is National Voter Registration Day. If You’re One of the 81 Million Americans Not Registered, Now is the Time. There are an estimated 81 Million Americans who are NOT registered to vote. If you’re one of them, National Voter Registration Day, Tuesday,…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 13, 2024 Following Questionable Late Voter Registration Purges, the U.S. DOJ Issues State Guidance and Asks for Help from Impacted Voters Reacting to recent partisan voter registration purges and rule changes from state officials, legislatures and election boards, September 10th, the U.…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 12, 2024 As in the Republican National Convention, the Debate Claim of Widespread Voting by Noncitizens is Nonsense In the Sept. 10 Trump-Harris Presidential debate, former President Trump made claims that Democrats encouraged illegal immigration so that noncitizens would vote and suppo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 11, 2024 Texas AG Paxton Sues Two Counties to Suppress Voter Registration Effort After ordering controversial searches of homes of LatinX democracy advocates in August, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued two counties in early September for attempting to register citizens to vote pri…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 10, 2024 In Wins for Pennsylvania Voters, Court Rules ‘Naked Ballots’ Can Be Fixed, and Ballots with Date Issues Can Be Counted In wins for voters, two Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court rulings confirmed that so-called ‘naked ballots’ may be cured with a provisional ballot, and that undat…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 9, 2024 National Voter Registration Day is Sept. 17 and Organizers Hope to Enlist More Nonprofit and Corporate Partners to Help The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 69.1% of Americans were registered to vote for the 2022 midterms, the highest number in over two decades. To register the o…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 6, 2024 U.S. DOJ Takes Action on Russian Propaganda Campaign to Influence the U.S. Election and Shape American Attitudes Toward Ukraine The U.S. Justice Department announced actions against a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign, designed to influence voting of specific demographic…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 5, 2024 GOP Lawsuit Targets 225,000 Registered Voters in North Carolina Only Days Before Early Voting, and 11 Weeks Before the Election In a last-ditch effort to purge voters in swing state North Carolina, the GOP has sued the state election board in state superior court to examine the …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 4, 2024 After Losing in Court and at the Polls, Utah Legislature Approves Nov. Ballot Measure to Veto or Alter Citizen Ballot Measures to Protect Its Power In a move exemplifying why gerrymandering is a danger to American democracy, the Utah legislature approved a politician-crafted con…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 3, 2024 Brian is off today, so we're rebroadcasting a still-timely report from June 13, 2024 FL Voters Decide Nov. 5th Whether to Keep Their Small Donor Matching Program, or Turn Funding of Campaigns Over to Special Interests Amendment 6, a repeal of Florida’s public funding of election…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Sept. 2, 2024 Is Organized Labor the Campaign Money Bogey Man the Right Claims? The Data Shows Otherwise. For most of the last century, labor unions could be counted on for financial campaign contributions to state and federal Democratic candidates. That union support has also been vilified b…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 30, 2024 Will Alaska Keep Its Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting? An Upcoming Ballot Initiative, Plagued With Problems, is Critical Test Alaska implemented its Top 4 open primary and ranked choice voting system in 2022, after voters approved Ballot Measure 2 in 2020 in a close vote.…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 29, 2024 Special Counsel Submits Revised Criminal Conspiracy Indictment of Trump After SCOTUS Immunity Ruling on Presidential Powers Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted a revised criminal conspiracy indictment of former President Donald Trump Aug. 27th, adjusted to remove actions deemed…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 28, 2024 Fallout from Georgia State Election Board Decisions; Accusations that Texas AG Paxton’s Raids Homes of LatinX Democracy Activists Were ‘Intimidation’ Tactic We have updates on two state stories today. New reporting suggests Georgia officials may seek to remove State Election Boa…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 27, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Restores Part of Arizona Law Aimed at Disenfranchising Native Americans and College Students In a 5-4 vote August 22nd, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated part of an Arizona voter suppression bill requiring citizens to provide proof of citizenship in addition t…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 26, 2024 Passing the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act are Top Priorities for Democrats, But They Need Majorities to Do It Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said during the Democratic National Convention that he would make passing the Freedom to Vote Act…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for Aug. 23, 2024 New York Court of Appeals Upholds Constitutionality of New Early Mail Ballot Law New York’s highest court upheld two lower court rulings August 20th, giving New Yorkers the opportunity to routinely vote early by mail without an excuse. The decision rebuffed state and national GO…
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