HR-1, HR-4 & THE GOP WAR ON VOTER RIGHTS Our 41st Grassroots Election Protection Zoom takes us deep into the vital roots of America’s most critical voter rights bills in decades. We are guided through these immensely complex laws by the great RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta NAACP. With an incisive power point provided by ANDREA MILLER, we explore these …

In our GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION Zoom #40 we get deep in the weeks of the most important federal voting laws in many decades. With 80 election experts and long-time Congressional staffer JOEL SEGAL—Legislative Godfather of Obamacare—we look in serious detail at these two complex and critical attempts to update American democracy at the ground floor. HR-1 and HR-4 mean …

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK:  STATE-BY-STATE FIGHTS FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE SHADOW OF HR-1 As Trump’s Second Impeachment rolls out, we deal with the nitty-gritty issues of saving and uplifting our democracy. People Demanding Action’s brilliant ANDREA MILLER spells out how GOP operatives in Georgia and at least two dozen other states have introduced more than 100 bills aimed at undermining …

A BIG VICTORY IN NY & MAJOR ELECTION PROTECTION CHALLENGES To being Election Protection Zoom #38, we celebrate a big victory over bad voting machines in NY. Legendary activists LULU FRIESDAT and JULIE WIENER join Green Party presidential candidate HOWIE HAWKINS to explain how a grassroots citizens movement stopped certification of terrible electronic voting machines in NY. The roots of …

WE FIGHT FOR VOTER RIGHTS IN THE POST-TRUMP ERA We plunge into the post-Trump era with a fight in New York over worthless, useless Ballot Marking Devices that must be stopped.  LULU FRIESDAT and HOWIE HAWKINS tell us how. We then visit with DANIEL BLACKMAN whose race for the Public Service Commission of Georgia may have been derailed by his …

This weekly Grassroots Election Protection Zoom (#36) is made joyful by major victories that have moved the nation. In Michigan, JAN BENDOR reports on an extremely powerful anti-gerrymandering amendment that establishes a multi-partisan commission to draw up redistricting lines. This complex, democracy-based system will bring competitive Congressional and legislative races to a state previously defined by corruption and theft. We …

Amidst an astonishing moment in our history, ignited by an election that wasn’t stolen, we dissect huge steps forward in Election Protection. ANDREA MILLER (People Demanding Action), EMILY LEVY (Scrutineers) and CHRISTIAN NUNES (National Organization for Women) all report on the amazing grassroots upheaval in Georgia. With a voter turnout that exceeded all expectations, these three great activists explain the …

VICTORY IN GA, INSANITY IN DC In this LIVE podcast we celebrate an EARTH-CHANGING double-victory in Georgia, made possible by amazingly powerful on-the-ground grassroots organizing. RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta NAACP explains how “ground game” campaigning brought a huge turnout to Georgia’s two pivotal US Senate races, making Kamela Harris the new Majority Leader and moving the Congress forever left. …

LAST TRAIN TO SAVING THE GEORGIA ELECTIONS The hugely publicized special US Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of the upper house….and of much of the political agenda for years to come. This Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition zoom gathering #33 gets into the deep detail of how the election will be conducted and protected. We’re joined again by …

DEEP IN THE GEORGIA-GEDDON ELECTION WEEDS Our emergency election protection excursion takes us today deep into the weeds of Georgia. As we face the most critical pair of US Senate runoffs in our nation’s history, we take on the details on exactly how this election will be conducted and how it must be protected. We start with RAY MCCLENDON, political …