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Updates on FBI Raid in Ohio and New Surge in Fulton County, GA, Still Chasing the Specter of Widespread Voting and Registration Fraud

July 7, 2026July 7, 2026

The FBI is reportedly throwing more agents and more overtime at its investigation of Fulton County, Georgia’s 2020 election. After another FBI raid in Ohio, a funder of the voter registration nonprofit reports its records have also been subpoenaed.

With the SAVE America Act Stalling in Congress, Look for Renewed Efforts to Pass Similar Restrictions in State Legislatures

July 6, 2026July 6, 2026

With the SAVE America Act now stalled in Congress and unlikely to pass, more GOP-dominated state legislatures may take up SAVE Act-like restrictive proof of citizenship and narrower voter ID options. Some have already passed similar provisions.

Time & Trouble Bringing the ‘SAVE America Act’ to a Merciful End in the U.S. House & Senate, Derailing the President’s Top Priority

July 5, 2026July 5, 2026

The passage of the SAVE America Act appears to be nearing a merciful end in the U.S. House and Senate. Both have now rebuffed the President’s demand to attach the restrictive voting bill to critical bipartisan housing, national security and defense appropriations bills.

American Democracy Minute’s Brian Beihl Reads the full original text of the Declaration of Independence

July 3, 2026July 3, 2026

Host Brian Beihl reads a transcription of the original Declaration of Independence on July 2, 2026 in celebration of the United States' 250th birthday. Feel free to share this recording with others. A reminder that the text includes racist descriptions of Native Americans.

Throwing Off Despotism: For Independence Day, a Portion on the Declaration of Independence

July 2, 2026July 3, 2026

For July 4th, while we can't read the entire Declaration of Independence in 90 seconds, we read a portion which includes the passage: "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government." Happy Independence Day.