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Episode 1115: Missouri Supreme Court Rules Pro-Voter Redistricting Ballot Measure Must Be Added to the Ballot; Secretary of State Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1114: Court Battles Rage Over Trump USPS Mail-In Ballot Order As First Midterm Absentee Ballots are Sent Out in North Carolina	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1113: Tarrant County, TX Commissioners Close 92 Polling Places; Convicted CO County Clerk Tina Peters Withdraws from Shasta County, CA Job Offer	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1112: USPS Whistleblower Claims Portal to Verify Citizenship of Mail-In Voters Risks ‘Catastrophic Failure’ and Could ‘Derail the Midterms’	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1111: Tarrant County, TX Proposes Eliminating 93 Polling Places Just Before the 2026 Election for Financial Reasons. Voters Aren’t Buying It.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1110: Trump USPS Mail-In Ballot Order Now Faces 2nd Appeal, Now That ‘State Citizenship List Rules’ are Finalized. The Clock is Ticking.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1109: On the 63rd Anniversary of the March on Washington, ‘Defend the Vote’ Decries Erosion of Voting Rights and Gutting of the Voting Rights Act	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1108: WI District Attorney Punts on Musk Charges; CA Justices Not Buying Sheriff’s Ballot Seizure Defense; Callais Decision Threatens GA Districts	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1107: The SCOTUS USPS Mail-In Ballot Ruling May Not Be the Final Word. USPS Has Now Released Its Rules and Challenges Have Already Been Filed	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1106: In 6–3 Decision, Supreme Court Majority Stops Lower Court’s Ruling Blocking U.S. Postal Service Plans for Mail-In Voter Citizenship Verification	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1105: Elon Musk and America PAC Face Prosecution for ‘Election Bribery’ for Million Dollar Check Giveaway During 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Race	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1104: Does the Missouri Constitution Allow Ballot Initiatives to Change Voting Districts? Updates on Epic Battle Over Racially Gerrymandered KC Map	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1103: Election Officials are Worried About Midterm Election Interference, Replacing Lost Federal Funding, and Their Safety & Security, Says Brennan Center Poll	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1102: ‘Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,’ He Says, But President Trump Voted Again by Mail, This Time in the 2026 Florida Primary Election	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1101: Kansas Voters Reject Constitutional Amendment to Elect the State Supreme Court; North Carolina Governor Vetoes Anti-Voter Bill	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1100: Updates on Challenge to Missouri SOS Invalidation of Redistricting Ballot Measure, and DOJ Loses Two More State Voter Data Cases	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1099: An April Poll Suggests Half of Americans are Concerned President Trump May Use the Military to Seize Ballots or Election Machines.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1098: District Court Block of Executive Order for USPS Citizenship Verification Now Nationwide; DOJ Asks SCOTUS to Quickly Overturn the Ruling	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1097: Alabama Holds 2nd Primary Election With Legislature’s Discriminatory Congressional Districts, Restored After SCOTUS Callais Decision	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1096: Let’s Just Say the Trump Administration’s Quest to Obtain State Voter Data Has Not Gone Well. DOJ is now 0 for 22, With 9 More Cases Pending.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1095: The U.S. Senate Will Leave for Summer Recess Without Passing the SAVE America Act, But the Restrictive Voting Bill Will Be Back in the Fall	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1094: Delaware Enacts State Voting Rights Act; Virginia Strengthens Its VRA, Laying Groundwork for Automatic Voter Registration	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1093: North Carolina Governor Signals Veto of Bill Shortening Early Voting, and Lengthening the Window for Ballot Challenges	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1092: Missouri Voters Block GOP’s Attempt to Change Ballot Measure Rules; State SOS Blocks Nov. Measure Trying to Overturn Legislature’s Racially-Gerrymandered Congressional Map	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1091: The Supreme Court's Callais Decision Likely to Take Down Another Majority-Minority District, This Time Impacting Native Americans	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1090: California Supreme Court Schedules Special Session to Hear Cases Against Riverside County Sheriff Who Seized 600,000 Ballots	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1089: Virginia’s Governor Has Restored Rights to Over 66,000 Formerly Incarcerated Citizens. November’s Question 3 Would Make it Automatic.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1088: Community Poll Workers are Essential to a Safe, Secure and Accessible Election. August 11 is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1087: Making Sense of Latest Conflicting Appeals Court Rulings on Trump’s March Executive Order on Elections. Has Harm Been Done–Yet?	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1086: Largely Blocked by Lower Courts, Administration Asks SCOTUS to Allow Executive Order Directing USPS to Verify Citizenship of Mail-In Voters	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1085: Software Design Error and Slow DOT Response Likely Led to Noncitizen Registrations in New Jersey, Not Intentional Fraud	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1084: Trump Administration Withholds FEMA Disaster Relief Funding Because States Refused to Provide Voter Data. In response, 24 States & DC Sued.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1083: U.S. House Passes the SAVE America Act and Will Combine It With a Defense Appropriations Bill to Make it Harder to Vote Down in the Senate	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1082: Yet Another ‘Election Integrity’ Crusading Politician is in Hot Water, This Time for Not Being a Registered Voter: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1081: Trump’s July 16th Election Security Speech Appears to Have Elements of Activist-Proposed National Emergency Order Which Surfaced in March	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1080: U.S. Appeals Court Allows the USPS Mail-In Voter Verification Plan to Proceed, But Other Challenges to Trump’s Executive Order are Active	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1079: Citing Select Declassified Documents President Trump Blames 2020 Loss on China, Says ‘Deep State’ Withheld Intelligence from Him	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1078: Amidst Signs of Meddling in the Midterms, State & Local Election Officials Plan for Election Interference Scenarios – Including by the Administration	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1077: Trump Touts July 16 Primetime Address on Election Security, Telling Reporters ‘It’s Really, Really Big News.’ Here’s What You Might Expect.	American Democracy Minute	01:30
Episode 1076: Removal of EAC Commissioners Draws Attention to Hollowed Out Federal Agencies with ‘Election Integrity’ Responsibilities Unable to Function	American Democracy Minute	01:30

Episode 1115: Missouri Supreme Court Rules Pro-Voter Redistricting Ballot Measure Must Be Added to the Ballot; Secretary of State Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court

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Episode 1114: Court Battles Rage Over Trump USPS Mail-In Ballot Order As First Midterm Absentee Ballots are Sent Out in North Carolina

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Episode 1113: Tarrant County, TX Commissioners Close 92 Polling Places; Convicted CO County Clerk Tina Peters Withdraws from Shasta County, CA Job Offer

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Episode 1112: USPS Whistleblower Claims Portal to Verify Citizenship of Mail-In Voters Risks ‘Catastrophic Failure’ and Could ‘Derail the Midterms’

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