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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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Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy

Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy

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This is the official podcast of the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy. Our mission is to continue the distinguished legacy and lifetime work of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to advance American democracy through multigenerational civics education, civil discourse and civic engagement.
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Estate Sale: the selling out of American democracy

Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann

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Democracy depends on a free press, a government for the people, a just legal system and separate-but-free church. Yet, we have a corrupt U.S. president, a partisan Supreme Court, a power-hungry white evangelical bloc and a lazy press - which is revealing just how much our American values are being sold out. With a lot of informative guests and a few F-bombs, co-hosts Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann and Brad Raley are going to change that.
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We are excited to revisit this fascinating discussion with Judge Douglas Ginsburg as he delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution - just in time for the 4th of July and the celebration of our Country’s independence. Judge Ginsburg is the author of Voices of Our Republic, the companion to the…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 3, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Majority Says Trump Immunity Hinges on ‘Official’ vs. ‘Private’ Actions, and Alarmingly Expands Presidential Powers The U.S. Supreme Court ruled July 1st that former President Donald Trump has criminal immunity for his “official” acts as President, but not for …
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We don't wanna pull a trigger Every time we need to shoot That's too slow we want it quicker We need machine guns, dude We love our guns more than life We love our guns n ammo Shooting stuff is better than sex The faster the better, you know We are the MAGAgelicals We are the PRO-LIFE people We control the female bodies We decide what is legal We a…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 2, 2024 North Carolina Senate Sends ‘Citizen-Voting-Only’ Ballot Measure to Voters, Fails Measure to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Literacy Test The North Carolina Senate endorsed a ballot measure June 25th prohibiting noncitizens from voting - for which there is already existing law. And the Sena…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 1, 2024 What Are ‘Open’, ‘Brokered’, and ‘Contested’ Party Conventions, and Could We See One This Summer? President Joe Biden’s poor performance at the first debate with Donald Trump precipitated conversations about nominating another candidate at the convention. Can that happen? And wha…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 28, 2024 Federal 5th Circuit Refuses Challenge to ‘Private Right of Action’ - For Now. It’s the New Battleground to Dismantle the 1965 Voting Rights Act A 2023 decision in an Arkansas redistricting case found individual voters did not have a “private right of action” to challenge the map…
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The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy presents a conversation with author and historian Claire Rydell Arcenas and Liam Julian, director of Public Policy at the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute. In her book America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life, Rydell Arcenas seeks to better understand and illuminate the cr…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 27, 2024 The SCOTUS Majority is Bent on Dismantling the Voting Rights Act. Lacking Federal Protection, Pro-Democracy States are Enacting State VRAs We reported recently on the impact of Shelby County v. Holder, the U.S. Supreme Court majority’s decision invalidating Section 5 of the 1965…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 25, 2024 Eleven Years After Shelby County v. Holder, Anti-Voter Legislatures are Stripping Voting Rights at an Alarming Rate June 25th is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s infamous Shelby County v. Holder decision. It stripped federal oversight of states with a history of discrimina…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 25, 2024 Fines Upheld for Alaska Pastor Using His Church Organization to Funnel “Free Speech” Money to Political Groups Trying Repeal Ranked Choice Voting Last year we reported on accusations of a pastor using his Alaskan church to funnel money to an anti-ranked choice voting group. Most…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 24, 2024 State Judge Throws Out Case Against Nevada Fake Electors Over Venue; AG Vows to Appeal A Nevada county judge threw out a case against the state’s six accused 2020 fake electors June 21st, not on the merits, but citing an inappropriate venue for the case. The state attorney gener…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 21, 2024 What Voter Harassment & Intimidation Might We Face in 2024? A New Report Shows Election Officials What to Look For, and How to Combat It A new report outlines the types of harassment and intimidation we might face in the 2024 elections, how to identify it, and legal remedies to …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 20, 2024 Remaining Accused Fake Electors Arraigned in AZ; Preliminary Hearings Conclude for Six More in Michigan Following charges for Wisconsin’s alleged fake elector scheme organizers on June 4th, Arizona arraigned the last of the 18 involved in the scheme there. Michigan completed pre…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 19, 2024 Pew Study Finds 85% of Americans Don’t Think Elected Officials Care About What People Like Them Think – Up 30% since 2000 A Pew Research Center report released in late April finds that Americans are frustrated with their federal government, and say that elected officials don’t c…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 18, 2024 The Feds Warned States to Harden Election Infrastructure. The U.S. House Appropriations Committee Just Eliminated the Election Security Grant Funding to Help States to Do It Yesterday, we reported on government warnings of foreign election interference by Russia and other actors…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 17, 2024 Brian is taking Father's Day off, but is rebroadcasting this report from April 22. Tuesday's report will build on this one, as the U.S. House Appropriations committee shockingly and short-sightedly cut funding last week for election cybersecurity state grant funding. FBI, CISA a…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 14, 2024 NH Voter Suppression Bill Eliminates Sworn Affidavits for Voter Registration, Demanding Citizenship Documents for Otherwise Qualified Voters. It Could Disenfranchise Thousands. A voter suppression bill aimed at students and younger voters in New Hampshire has moved forward in th…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for 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 elections option, faces voters on November 5th. Such small donor matching systems help candid…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 12, 2024 More Mixed Messages from Trump and the RNC on Mail-In Voting: ‘Swamp the Vote” vs. Swamp the Courts While new messaging from the Republican National Committee and former President Donald Trump encourages turnout by early, absentee or mail-in voting, GOP lawyers in Nevada, Pennsy…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 11, 2024 North Carolina Senate Uses Anti-Masking Bill as Vehicle for Masking Dark-Money Political Donors Without a committee hearing, North Carolina Senate Republicans slipped a dark money amendment into an already controversial anti-mask bill. The amendment allows contributors to wash c…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 10, 2024 Colorado Governor Signs Election Administration Bill with Amendment Neutralizing an Open Primary and RCV Initiative; Promises Future Action Colorado’s governor signed a bill June 6th implementing several election administration changes which local election officials supported. B…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 6, 2024 Why Was Joe Biden’s Appearance on the Ohio Ballot in Question? Partisan Politics, and Another Attempt to Derail Citizen Ballot Initiatives. Ohio has an Aug. 7th deadline for November’s candidate registration. Problem is, Joe Biden wasn’t going to be nominated until the Democratic…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 6, 2024 Wisconsin AG Files Forgery Charges Against Three Trump Alleged Fake Elector Organizers; No Charges Yet Against Signers Wisconsin’s attorney general announced felony forgery charges against three Trump fake elector scheme organizers on June 4th. Wisconsin is the fifth state to bri…
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There is broad scholarly agreement that our current political world owes much to what Thomas Paine was the first to call the "age of revolutions"—that is, the several late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century decades during which revolutions rocked the globe. But what gave rise to the age of revolutions? Why, suddenly, were era-spanning monarch…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 5, 2024 After Raising the Bar to Prove Racial Gerrymandering in South Carolina Case, the U.S. Supreme Court Reopens a 2022 Arkansas Redistricting Case Is the U.S. Supreme Court aiming to take yet another chop at the 1965 Voting Rights Act? An Arkansas redistricting case has been sent bac…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 4, 2024 Kansas Supreme Court Rules There is No Natural Right to Vote for Kansas Citizens, Only a Political Right Subject to the Legislature’s Restrictions The Kansas Supreme Court issued a contentious narrow decision Friday, determining that Kansas citizens do not have a “natural right” …
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Mesmerized, hypnotized, radicalizedThey try so hard to please him To bend over and take his rodThat old demented felonIs their one and only godThey obey a convicted felon The MAGA Republicans The Cult of MAGAtology The Convicted Felon Cult They are not Scientologists 13They are the MAGA RepublicansThey bow to that old MAGAtologistTheir Dear Loser a…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for June 3, 2024 Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s South Carolina Gerrymandering Decision Finds Disturbing Guidance for Lower Courts We reported last week on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in a South Carolina case, finding no racial gerrymandering when 30,000 Black voters we…
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Donny is that guy that everybody hates The Jody that stays home afraid to fight And while military men are fighting away Jody bangs their girlfriends and their wives Donny dodged the draft He was weaker than you His daddy was rich He knew what to do He wanted a purple heart For getting a penicillin shot To treat his VD And that stinky yellow sauce …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 31, 2024 Galveston County, TX Racial Gerrymandering Case Could Weaken Voting Rights Act Protections for Mixed Minority Communities The U.S. Federal Court’s Fifth Circuit, known for its conservative and sometimes fringe rulings, recently reheard a case from Galveston County, Texas over whe…
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They are not Scientologists They are the new RepublicansThey worship that old MAGAtologist Their Dear Loser and Convicted Felon They are not the Peoples Temple Just your basic RepublicanRaising a cup of Kool-Aid to Their Dear Loser and Convicted Felon Down deep they want to escape One day they will get away from That ugly MAGA face ofTheir Dear Los…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 30, 2024 Gallup Polling Finds Americans Think a Major Third Party is Needed A poll by Gallup finds majority support for a major third party option among almost every segment of voters, ticking up to 63% last fall. This includes increases among Republicans and independents. To view the who…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 29, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Finds South Carolina Gerrymandering Case ‘Bleaching’ Congressional District Not Racially Motivated Back in October 2023, U.S. Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments to determine whether redistricting by the South Carolina legislature was prohibited racial …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 27, 2024 On Memorial Day, Words from Legendary Campaign Finance Reformer, Doris “Granny D” Haddock On Memorial Day, an abridged portion of a speech at the U.S. Capitol by legendary campaign finance reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the 90-year-old grandmother who walked across the U.S. t…
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Sammy Alito MAGA mosquito Destroying our lives For his bloodthirsty ego Puts up his flag Upside down Like those MAGA Insurrection clowns Sammy Alito MAGA mosquito Destroying the USA With his MAGA amigos Lay down that flag Upon the ground Uzip your robe Make it yellow and brownThe Supreme Court fell When MAGA stole its soul We are mad has hell We wo…
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Put up your feet Spread your thighs Doctor MAGA Gonna look inside He's checking your thing He's looking to prove You been copulating Without a license to screw You got to get married Say the MAGA men Before you do the deed Like Mary Magdalene And don't you dare Use contraception Your gonna pop em out Til Jesus says you're done Doctor MAGA will tell…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 24, 2024 Twelve Arizona Fake Electors Arraigned; Trump Remains an Unindicted Co-Conspirator Eleven of 18 Arizona 2020 fake electors and Trump election lawyers were arraigned May 21st on nine felony counts after being indicted by a grand jury on April 26th. Former President Trump was named…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 23, 2024 Minnesota Takes More Big Steps in Expanding and Protecting the Right to Vote, Including Passing the Minnesota Voting Rights Act May 17th, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an omnibus democracy reform bill which included the Minnesota Voting Rights Act, on the heels of 2023’s Dem…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 22, 2024 Another Tactic to Undermine Citizen Ballot Initiatives in Arizona: Slap Signature Collectors with a Subpoena Yesterday, we reported on attempts by anti-voter legislators in Arizona to make it harder to get citizen ballot initiatives on the ballot, and a higher threshold to pass o…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 21, 2024 Arizona Anti-Voter Legislators Up Their Game to Quash Citizen Ballot Initiatives How’s this for cruel irony: Arizona anti-voter legislators are proposing voters pass their legislative constitutional ballot question this November to make it harder for voters to get a citizen ballo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 20, 2024 Why People Don’t Vote: Surveys Show Many Nonvoters Don’t Think Their Vote Matters A 2020 survey by political research site FiveThirtyEight.com found that many just don’t like the candidate, some have to wait in line for hours, and some, well, they just don’t think their vote make…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 17, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Stays 5th Circuit, Allowing Louisiana’s Fairer Congressional Maps - Apparently Invoking the Purcell Principle We recently explained the Supreme Court’s Purcell principle and its impact. May 15th, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a shocking Fifth Circuit decisi…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 16, 2024 The Purcell Principle: A SCOTUS Decision Intended to Avoid Voter Confusion May Now Be a Stealth Voter Suppression Tactic You may have heard references to the “Purcell principle” in news reports. What started as a U.S. Supreme Court opinion to minimize confusion and disruption clo…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 14, 2024 Nevada Supreme Court Throws Out Citizen Ballot Initiatives on Redistricting, and May Have Damaged Future Direct Democracy Efforts in the Process Fair Maps Nevada had its ballot questions written and vetted by the secretary of state to put a citizen-run independent redistricting c…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 14, 2024 Shades of Corruption: Menendez & Cuellar Prosecuted for Accepting Cash & Cars; Trump Reportedly Promises Climate Rollbacks for $1B in Campaign Contributions from Big Oil The corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez started May 13th for allegedly taking gold bars and cash …
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 13, 2024 New York Appeals Court Protects the State Mail-in Voting Law, Dealing a Blow to NY Congresswoman & GOP Groups A New York state appeals court upheld a new state law allowing any state resident to vote by mail during the early voting period. New York and national Republican committ…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 10, 2024 South Dakota Democracy Advocates Submit Ballot Measure Signatures for a ‘Top 2’ Single Ballot Open Primary System. If Approved, All Voters Get a Voice in the Primary May 7th, South Dakota democracy advocates submitted the necessary signatures to put a constitutional amendment est…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 9, 2024 Betrayed by State Officials, North Dakota Native Americans Forced to Again Fight for the Right to Choose Their Own State Representation In 2021, Native Americans nations negotiated with the State of North Dakota to create majority minority state House districts under the Voting Ri…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 8, 2024 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 gerrymandered redistricting map is a violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. How that test is…
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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for May 7, 2024 Oklahoma Becomes the 7th State to Ban Ranked Choice Voting, While Pro-Voter States Consider Its Adoption After a 2023 resolution by the Republican National Committee, GOP state legislators have pushed legislation to ban ranked choice voting. April 29th, Oklahoma became the seventh…
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