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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 22, 2026 Trump’s July 16th Election Security Speech Appears to Have Elements of Activist-Proposed National Emergency Order Which Surfaced in March President Trump’s July 16th speech included elements of an activist-proposed  national security executive order which surfaced in March.   New reporting suggests representatives of e...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 21, 2026 U.S. Appeals Court Allows the USPS Mail-In Voter Verification Plan to Proceed, But Other Challenges to Trump’s Executive Order are Active A U.S. district court of appeals has allowed President Donald Trump’s executive order, directing the U.S. Postal Service to verify the citizenship of mail-in voters, to move forward....

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 20, 2026 Citing Select Declassified Documents President Trump Blames 2020 Loss on China,  Says ‘Deep State’ Withheld Intelligence from Him President Trump’s election security speech July 16th rehashed election machine vulnerabilities and made allegations that the QUOTE “deep state” withheld classified information about China’s...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 17, 2026 Amidst Signs of Meddling in the Midterms, State & Local Election Officials Plan for Election Interference Scenarios – Including by the Administration Well before President Trump’s July 16th expected rehash of 2020 election conspiracies, pro-democracy groups and election officials were already planning for possible...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 16, 2026 Trump Touts July 16 Primetime Address on Election Security, Telling Reporters ‘It’s Really, Really Big News.’ Here’s What You Might Expect. Claiming “It’s really, really big news,” President Donald Trump addresses the nation on election security, Thursday, June 16th at 9 pm Eastern.  There are few details, but he’s exp...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 15, 2026 Removal of EAC Commissioners Draws Attention to Hollowed Out Federal Agencies with ‘Election Integrity’ Responsibilities Unable to Function We’ve reported on the shocking removal of three commissioners from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. But it’s not the only federal agency with election oversight to be hamst...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 14, 2026 Texas AG, U.S. Senate Candidate and ‘Election Integrity’ Advocate Ken Paxton May Be Living Outside the County in Which He Voted New reporting suggests that Texas Attorney General, U.S. Senate candidate and strident “Election Integrity” advocate, Ken Paxton, may have voted in six elections using an address where he no l...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 13, 2026 U.S. Election Assistance Commission Members Removed Days After SCOTUS Expands Presidential Power Over Independent Agencies  Just days after the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a president could remove personnel at most independent agencies without cause, the remaining commissioners at the U.S. Election Assistance Commi...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 10, 2026 The Tale Tommy Tuberville:  Residency Requirements and Possible Illegal Voting Hound Alabama’s U.S. Senator and Current Gubernatorial Candidate U.S. Senator, current Alabama gubernatorial candidate, and ‘election integrity’ champion, Tommy Tuberville, faces a civil suit on whether his residency meets the state constitu...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 9, 2026 New Financial Disclosures Show President Trump’s Cryptocurrency Gains Rake in an Estimated $1.4 Billion Financial filings by President Donald Trump show he and his family’s cryptocurrency businesses accounted for $1.4 billion dollars in gains in 2025.  While his spokesperson says there’s no conflict of interest, his cry...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 8, 2026 Updates on FBI Raid in Ohio and New Surge in Fulton County, GA, Still Chasing the Specter of Widespread Voting and Registration Fraud 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 registra...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 7, 2026 With the SAVE America Act Stalling in Congress, Look for Renewed Efforts to Pass Similar Restrictions in State Legislatures 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 option...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 6, 2026 Time & Trouble Bringing the ‘SAVE America Act’ to a Merciful End in the U.S. House & Senate, Derailing the President’s Top Priority 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 votin...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 3, 2026 Throwing Off Despotism:  For Independence Day, a Portion on the Declaration of Independence 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...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 2, 2026 U.S. Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Unleashes Political Party Coordinated Campaign Money – And Likely More Big Donor Influence In the tradition of Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority decided National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, allowing political parties to spend unlimited...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 1, 2026 In a Surprising Pro-Voter Decision, the U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Mississippi’s Five-Day Mail-In Ballot Grace Period After Election Day The U.S. Supreme Court surprisingly upheld Mississippi’s law allowing eligible mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after election day.  The decision protects voters in the 29...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 30, 2026 SCOTUS Lets Stand an 8th Circuit Decision Disallowing a ‘Private Right of Action’ in Voting Rights Cases. It May Be the Next VRA Domino to Fall The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a case from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals June 22nd which takes another step toward striking down a “private right of action” for Voting Rig...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 29, 2026 Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration from Implementing Key Parts of Executive Order on Elections as Unconstitutional Overreach Attorneys general from 23 states challenged President Donald Trump’s March 31st executive order on elections under the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  June 25th, a federal dist...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 26, 2026 As Threatened, Trump Holds Up Passage of Long-Awaited Bipartisan Housing Bill, Demanding the Senate Pass the Restrictive SAVE America Act In our June 19th report we told you about President Donald Trump’s threat to not sign the bipartisan housing or FISA homeland security bills unless the Senate passed the SAVE America...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 25, 2026 Trump’s DHS, Having Had State SAVE Database Compliance Blocked by Courts, Reportedly Turns to Withholding State Election Security Funding There’s another development in the deployment of the expanded, and notoriously inaccurate, SAVE database, repurposed to verify citizenship for voting purposes.  The Trump administrat...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 24, 2026 Federal District Court Rules Use of Social Security and Other Federal Data for SAVE Database Violates Multiple Federal Privacy Statutes President Donald Trump’s executive order to verify the citizenship eligibility of registering and mail-in voters was dealt a serious blow by a Federal District Court June 22nd.  It rul...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 23, 2026 Even MORE Redistricting for 2028?  NY Voters Will Be Asked to Allow It, Indiana May Reconsider It, and Georgia Passes on It Redistricting news today, not for 2026, but for AFTER the midterms. The New York Assembly advanced language for a constitutional amendment ballot measure making way for it; a newly-configured Indi...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 22, 2026 Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Michigan Senate Advances State Voting Rights Act, But It Faces A Challenge in the GOP-Led House The Michigan Senate advanced the four bills comprising the Michigan Voting Rights Act June 16th, the second time in three years the bill has been before the legislature.  But, it may face a difficul...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 19, 2026 Trying to Resurrect the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump Demands Attaching it to Bipartisan FISA and Housing Bills President Donald Trump attempted to resurrect the SAVE America Act, stalled in the U.S. Senate, by tying it to the passage of the national security FISA Act, and bills on housing.  It’s still not l...

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 18, 2026 Brian is away today, so we've posted a still-timely report from May 2025.  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Warned Judges Last Year, ‘The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy – on our system of government’ At a Puerto Rico conference in May 2025, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned judge...