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The unintended consequences of voter suppression. Really. Alarming news out of Georgia made national headlines: 53,000 voter registrations were on hold. Black voters didn’t take it lying down. What if voter suppression is beginning to backfire? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv ...  Show more

Five years in prison for voting. That’s the time Crystal Mason will serve for unknowingly voting while on supervised release. In this episode we explore how felons do the time, but are second-class citizens on election day. Americans are comfortable with shutting out felons from ...  Show more

Something that could potentially end the country and it isn’t nukes in space. The real national security threat to the country. The only way to save the country. Assume that the people who have lied to you for years are still lying to you. Losing our seats in congress. Outmann ...

Trevor Noah and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. cover the tactics used to suppress the votes of American citizens, including the Republicans' use of the filibuster to block the Democrats' voting rights bill, and harsher vote-by-mail laws. Plus, Trevor sits with Carol Anders ...  Show more

“I’m worried that democracy is being eroded.”  “The voting system is not secure.”  “It’s like the land of no more moderates.”  “Nothing in this country here really gives me hope.”  As voters are feeling a new level of political disconnect, Astead Herndon asks how we got here and ...  Show more

A new podcast from the makers of "Serial" and The New York Times. For at least a decade, allegations of cheating have swirled around elections in rural Bladen County, N.C. Some people in town point fingers at a Black advocacy group, the Bladen County Improvement Association, accu ...  Show more