American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast

Foes of Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting Alleged to Have Used Church as a Front to Shield Disclosure of Donors

July 11, 2023July 11, 2023

A group organized to repeal ranked choice voting in Alaska may have used a church’s nonprofit status to avoid disclosing donor information, according to a complaint filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission.

Democracy Advocates Win First Round Battling State of Florida’s Attempt to Stop Voter Registration Drives

July 6, 2023July 6, 2023

Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked parts of a new Florida law targeting new Americans and communities of color by stopping some voter registration organizations from registering new voters.

North Carolina Prepares to Implement Strict Voter ID Law, After Partisan State Supreme Court Reverses Opinion

July 5, 2023July 6, 2023

The showdown between the North Carolina legislature and North Carolina Supreme Court has ended, but now the implementation of strict voter ID laws in the state has begun.

Impacts of Recent SCOTUS Decisions on Gerrymandering in Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin

July 4, 2023July 4, 2023

U.S. Supreme decisions in Moore v. Harper and Milligan v. Merrill set in motion changes to gerrymandered maps in Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Ohio & potentially Wisconsin.

Would the Founding Fathers Have Given You the Freedom to Vote?

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023

Thomas Jefferson was an owner of enslaved people when he wrote this line in the Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed." Who could give that Consent by voting was debated by the landed White male gentry, framing what became the U.S. Constitution in 1787.