The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast
The American Democracy Minute covers timely democracy news, including redistricting and gerrymandering, voting rights, election law, election subversion, civic engagement, democracy basics, state legislature bills, democracy cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and state courts, and much more. Reports are syndicated nationally by the Pacifica Radio Network, and available in podcast on your favorite podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Audible, Podomatic, or you can ask your smart speaker to “Play the American Democracy Minute Podcast.”
- Polls Show Most Utah Voters Want to Protect Their Fair Redistricting Amendment, But Another GOP-Backed Ballot Initiative Aims to Repeal It
- In Letter to MN Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. AG Pam Bondi Appears to Link ‘Law & Order’ to State Turning Over Voter Data and Meeting Other Conditions
- Trump DOJ Joins California GOP in Attempt to Block Proposition 50 Congressional Maps in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Think Your Mail-in Ballot Gets Automatically Postmarked on the Day You Drop it Off? Think Again.
- DOJ Civil Filing Suggests a DOGE Employee May Have Created External Social Security Data Files and Had Contact with Election Denier Group
- Redistricting Updates: CA GOP Appeals Prop 50 Maps to SCOTUS, VA Dems Push Constitutional Amendment, NH’s Bill Doomed, MD Stalemated
- Federal Circuit Courts Block Trump DOJ from Obtaining California and Oregon Voter Data
- With SCOTUS Appearing Ready to Strike Down More of the Voting Rights Act in 2026, MLK’s 1957 ‘Give Us the Ballot’ Speech is Still Relevant
- Federal Panel Allows California’s Gerrymandered Counterpunch to Five More GOP Congressional Seats in Texas. Will a Politicized SCOTUS Block It?
- New Hampshire Legislators Make Yet Another Attempt at Keeping Students from Voting, Further Tightening Voter ID Regulations
- Voters Identifying as ‘Independent’ Reaches Record High Led by Younger Americans, Says New Gallup Poll
- Trump’s Executive Order on Elections Handed Another Defeat, as Federal Court Upholds a State’s Right to Set Ballot Deadlines, Choose Methods
- Missouri Secretary of State Tactics Attempt to Derail Citizen Repeal of Gerrymandered Congressional Map
- FL Governor Ron DeSantis Calls April Special Session to Gerrymander More GOP Congressional Districts, Escalating Redistricting Fight
- Motor-Voter Laws Have Helped Register Millions to Vote, But Accidentally Signed Up a Relative Small Number of Noncitizens. It’s Still a Big Success.
- The Transcript of Former Jan. 6th Prosecutor Jack Smith’s Deposition to the House Judiciary Committee is Released. It’s an Interesting Read.
- While Texas Trumpets Finding Noncitizens on Its Voter Registration Rolls, the Reality is Less Clear, and Some May Even Be the State’s Fault
- Ohio Election Oversight Becomes More Partisan on Jan. 1; Utah Judge Allows Legislature to Appeal Replacement Fair Congressional Map
- American Bar Association Report Recommends Major Democracy Reforms to Boost Confidence in Elections & Reduce Partisan Polarization
- American Democracy in 2025: Expansion of Presidential Powers has Already Eroded the Independence of Federal Agencies. It May Get Worse.
- American Democracy in 2025: To Prove Racial Gerrymandering, Minority Voters Must Now Show SCOTUS ‘Intent’ to Discriminate, Not Just ‘Effect’
- American Democracy in 2025: The SCOTUS Case Which May End 60 Years of Protection for Minority Voters
- Ohio Joins Kansas in Eliminating Grace Periods for Mail-In Ballots; A 2026 Mississippi SCOTUS Case Could Eliminate Them Nationwide
- The Cheating Side of Redistricting – How Gerrymandering’s Packing, Cracking, and Diluting Voting Districts Rigs Our Electoral System
- Outlook for the Voting Rights Act Dims, as Court’s Conservatives Appear to Turn Away From Their Own Precedent
- Restrictive Voting Laws Passed in 20 States in 2025. Proof of Citizenship, Limits on Mail-In Voting and Narrower Voter ID Rules Dominated.
- Can the Feds Require States to Turn Over Voter Data? A New Paper Suggests Federal Law Doesn’t Explicitly Allow It, So Courts Will Decide.
- Federal Judges Appear Skeptical of GOP Claims of Racial Gerrymandering in California; Judge Orders New Judicial Districts in Mississippi
- Joining the Mid-Decade Gerrymandering Arms Race, Two NH GOP Legislators Propose Bill to Redraw the State’s Congressional Maps in 2026
- U.S. DOJ Sues MA, CO, HI and NV to Turn Over Voter Registration Files, but Even Red States are Pushing Back
- Challenge to California Gerrymandering Reaches Federal Courtroom, but the SCOTUS Decision in Texas Could Undercut GOP Arguments
- Bullied Indiana Senators Not Only Defeat the State’s Trump-Demanded Congressional Gerrymandering Plan, The Vote Wasn’t Even Close
- Just 37 Contributors Donated Over $350M to Fund Trump’s $300M White House Ballroom Project. What Will They Get for Their Money?
- Younger Voters Showed Up and Made a Difference in 2025’s High Profile Elections, Says Recent Tufts University Study
- U.S. Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Coordinated Campaign Finance Limits for Political Parties. It Could Unleash Another Torrent of Election Cash.
- After the SCOTUS Texas Congressional Gerrymandering Decision, Battles Continue in Missouri, Indiana and Florida
- How Much Power Does the President Have Over Independent Agencies? Trump vs. Slaughter in the SCOTUS Tests the ‘Unitary Executive” Theory
- U.S. Supreme Court Majority Embraces Texas Redistricting, Ignores District Court Panel Racial Gerrymandering Findings
- Another Politician Accused of Public Corruption, Congressman Henry Cuellar, is Pardoned by President Donald Trump
- Part of Georgia’s Infamous SB 202 Voter Suppression Law Will Get Another Day in Court, Says Federal Court Panel
- Proposed Congressional Map from Indiana House Erases Both Democratic-Leaning Seats; Support May Not Be Solid in the State Senate
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Tasks Judicial Panels with Hearing Challenges to the State’s Congressional Districts
- Developments in North Carolina and Indiana Congressional Map Gerrymandering, as Trump Quest for More GOP Seats Continues
- Recently-Appointed Replacement Prosecutor in Georgia Asks Court to Dismiss State Case Against Trump and All Alleged Accomplices
- The Supreme Court’s Attack on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Affects Native American Voters, Too. Proposed Legislation Could Fix It.
- The Purcell Principle, Often Used in the SCOTUS Shadow Docket, Will Be Argued in the Texas Gerrymandering Decision. What is it?
- Hawaii Commission Proposes End to Universal Mail Ballots; Ohio May End Mail Ballot Grace Period; New Montana Law Increased Ballot Rejections
- With Candidates Ready to File, SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Ruling on Texas Racial Gerrymandering, Louisiana Gerrymandering Decision Still Pending
- Kansas AG Kobach Announces Noncitizen Voting Charges Against Local Mayor, and Promises ‘Hundreds More’ Prosecutions. It’s Highly Unlikely.
- Trump-Requested Texas Congressional District Gerrymandering Blocked by Federal Court Panel
- Utah Judge Who Struck Down ‘Extreme Gerrymander’ Threatened with Impeachment and Violence; Florida Redistricting Starts Dec. 4
- Though the President Pardoned Loyalists for 2020 Election Subversion, State Cases Against Fake Electors Revived in Georgia and Nevada
- Congressional Gerrymandering Arms Race Updates: Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, California and Florida
- Can Mail-In Ballots, Eligible in Every Other Way, Be Counted if They Arrive After Election Day? The Question will be Heard in the U.S. Supreme Court
- Utah Judge Rejects Legislature’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Choosing a Map Which Follows the State Constitution Instead
- Court Case Defending Maine’s Limit on Contributions to Super PACs Gets Unlikely Allies: Billionaires
- President Donald Trump Pardons Many of His Accomplices Accused of Trying to Overturn the 2020 Election
- CA Sees No Voter Intimidation – or Fraud – Despite President’s Claims; Bomb Threats in NJ, ‘Swatting’ in NY
- Maine Voters Defeat Initiative to Further Limit Voter ID Options and Restrict Voting by Mail
- What’s the Impact of Ending the Filibuster in the U.S. Senate? It’s Not Likely, But if it Happens, We’re in for a Wild Ride.
- President Trump Called for a Senate Rules Change to End the Filibuster. What is a Filibuster, and How Does it Work?
- Federal Court in DC Issues Permanent Injunction on Part of Trump Executive Order on Elections; No to Changing Federal Registration Form
- Ohio General Assembly to Vote on a Further Gerrymandered Congressional Map Put Forward by Politician-Led Redistricting Commission
- Ohio Secretary of State Refers 1,200 Alleged Illegal Voting Cases to U.S. DOJ. His Track Record is Less Than Stellar
- Could the President Run for a Third Term? The 22nd Amendment Prohibits it, But a TN Congressman Wants to Repeal It. And There are Loopholes.
- Indiana is the Latest State to Consider Trump’s Mid-Decade GOP Gerrymandering Scheme, Kansas Edges Closer
- Trump DOJ Says It Will Monitor Elections Nov. 4th in Five California Counties. Many Fear It’s a Voter Intimidation Tactic.
- NC Legislature Approves Gerrymander to Add Another GOP Congressional Seat, But Dilutes Black Voting Power in the Process
- Lawyer Advising Trump During January 6th Appointed to Rehash the President’s 2020 Election Fraud Claims
- Election Officials Urge Immediate Fixes to New Texas Voter Registration System, Part of the State’s Effort to Replace ERIC
- Former Congressman George Santos, Who Defrauded Voters and Donors, Has 7 Year Sentence Commuted by President Trump
- Wisconsin Voters Face Another Bonkers State Supreme Court Election in April 2026, and More Campaign Spending Records
- Outlook for the Voting Rights Act Dims, as Court’s Conservatives Appear to Turn Away From Their Own Precedent
- North Carolina Plans to Gerrymander a GOP Seat to Help Retain Control of the U.S. House in 2026
- The Oct. 15 Louisiana v. Callais Voting Rights Case Depends on the Interpretation of the 14th & 15th Amendments. What Do They Say?
- In a Big Week for Voting Rights, U.S Supreme Court Hears More Arguments in Louisiana vs. Callais. VRA Protections for Minority Voters are at Stake.
- Dominion Voting Systems, Object of Debunked Right Wing Conspiracies, Sold to Missouri Election Technology Company and Renamed
- Class Action Suit by Voters Claims Personal Data Shared to the Trump Administration’s SAVE Database Violates the Privacy Act of 1974
- The Plot Thickens in Maine After 250 Missing Unmarked Mail Ballots Show Up on a Doorstep
- Utah Legislature Passes a Gerrymandered Congressional Map – Again. But a Judge Will Have the Final Say Nov. 10
- U.S. Supreme Court Weighs Equal Protection Clause vs. the Voting Rights Act, and Revisits Big Money Campaign Funding Limits for Political Parties
- First Challenge to Trump-Requested Gerrymandering of Texas Congressional Maps Reaches a Federal Courtroom
- Six More States Sued by Trump DOJ for Not Turning Over Voter’s Personal Information. It Could Be a Good Thing.
- More Accountability for Trump ‘Big Lie’ Allies as Voting Tech Companies Prevail Over Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell
- New Hampshire Tightens Absentee Voting to Stop Purported Voter Fraud, But Makes it Harder for Elders, the Disabled and Students to Vote, Too
- What States are Next? Updates on Pre-Midterm Gerrymandering Prospects in Missouri, Kansas, Florida, Ohio, Alabama & New Hampshire
- Americans Like Voting Early, and Other Lessons from the 2024 Election U.S. Election Assistance Commission Follow Up Report
- Restrictions for Mail-In Voting and Voter ID on the Ballot in Maine Nov. 4th Even Though Voter Fraud in Maine is Almost Nonexistent
- Appeals Court Affirms North Carolina’s Jim Crow-Era Returning Felon Voting Law is Unconstitutional, and Questions Why It Wasn’t Repealed
- Legal Action by States Can Move Forward Against Trump’s Restrictive Executive Order on Elections, Says Federal District Judge
- New Federal Policy Bans League of Women Voters and Other Pro-Voter Groups from Registering New Americans at Naturalization Ceremonies
- South Carolina Supreme Court Decides ‘All elections shall be free and open’ Doesn’t Mean Partisan Gerrymandering is Unconstitutional
- Justice Department Sues Maine & Oregon for Withholding State Voter Registration and Voting Data from Trump Administration
- Effort by UT Legislature to Stop Court-Ordered Fair Congressional Map Before the 2026 Midterm Fails, as State Supreme Court Denies Stay
- Bipartisan Bill Introduced Banning Members of Congress from Owning or Trading Individual Stocks and Bonds, but Gives Tax Benefits to Them, Too
- American Bar Association Report Recommends Major Democracy Reforms to Boost Confidence in Elections & Reduce Partisan Polarization
- Missouri Legislature Passes New Gerrymandered Congressional Map with One More GOP Seat and Moves to Quash Future Citizen Ballot Initiatives
- Native Nations Call on the U.S. Supreme Court to Uphold ‘Private Right of Action’ of Citizens to Bring Complaints Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act
- Voting Dogs, Habeas Corpus and Fake Electors: Updates on Election Deniers and Their Legal Jeopardy
- National Voter Registration Day is Sept. 16th and Millions of Americans Aren’t Registered or May Not Know Their Voter Registration Status
