The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 28, 2025

Recently-Appointed Replacement Prosecutor in Georgia Asks Court to Dismiss State Case Against Trump and All Alleged Accomplices
The new Georgia prosecutor in the election interference racketeering case against President Donald Trump and 17 alleged accomplices has asked the court to dismiss all charges against the defendants accused of trying to overturn a U.S. presidential election.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

CNN - Read the full transcript and listen to Trump’s audio call with Georgia secretary of state
American Democracy Minute - Georgia Indictment of Trump & Allies Includes Ties to Breach of Voting Machines in Coffee County, GA
 Against Fake Electors Revived in Georgia and Nevada
Associated Press – Full Searchable Indictment from the Fulton County Superior Court
Associated Press – Video shows ‘unauthorized access’ to Ga. election equipment
ABC News - Who are the 18 co-defendants charged alongside Donald Trump in Georgia?
American Democracy Minute -  Though the President Pardoned Loyalists for 2020 Election Subversion, State Cases
SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY (via CNN) -  STATE'S MOTION TO DISMISS 

Groups Taking Action:

Protect Democracy,  States United Democracy Center

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 27, 2025

For Thanksgiving, we're rebroadcasting a story from 2024.  Sadly, nothing has changed in this story, and the proposed solutions remain in limbo.

The Supreme Court’s Attack on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Affects Native American Voters, Too.  Proposed Legislation Could Fix It.
The ink wasn’t yet dry on the Indian Citizens Act of 1924 when voter suppression of Native Americans began.  Natives have been fighting for their right to register and vote, proper representation, and fair voting districts ever since.  Three pieces of legislation being blocked in Congress could fix it.

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Articles & Resources:
Native American Rights Fund – (2020) Obstacles at Every Turn
Brennan Center for Justice – How Voter Suppression Laws Target Native Americans
NPR – Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

Split Ticket – The Largest Native American Voting Blocs
Intermountain Histories – Trujillo v. Garley: The Struggle for Native American Voting Rights
The White House – (2022) REPORT OF THE INTERAGENCY STEERING GROUP ON NATIVE AMERICAN VOTING RIGHTS
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren – Native American Voting Rights Act
U.S. Congress – John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act

Groups Taking Action:

Native American Rights Fund, Native Vote, National Congress of American Indians, Declaration for American Democracy

Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 26, 2025

The Purcell Principle, Often Used in the SCOTUS Shadow Docket, Will Be Argued in the Texas Gerrymandering Decision.  What is it?
The Purcell Principle is supposed to keep last minute changes in election law from creating chaos before and during elections.  It’s also been unevenly applied in lower courts and the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called ‘shadow docket', and is being argued again in the current Texas racial gerrymandering case.

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Articles & Resources:

American Democracy Minute - The Purcell Principle:  A SCOTUS Decision Intended to Avoid Voter Confusion May Now Be a Stealth Voter Suppression Tactic
American Democracy Minute - With Candidates Ready to File, SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Ruling on Texas Racial Gerrymandering, Louisiana Gerrymandering Decision Still Pending
American Constitution Society - The Roberts Court, The Shadow Docket, and the Unraveling of Voting Rights Remedies
U.S. Supreme Court - Docket for Greg Abbott, et al., Applicants v. League of United Latin American Citizens, et al., including Monday, Nov. 24 Briefs
SCOTUSBlog - A Purcell Principle Explainer

Groups Taking Action:

LULAC, MALDEF, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 25, 2025

Hawaii Commission Proposes End to Universal Mail Ballots, Ohio May End Mail Ballot Grace Period; New Montana Law Increased Ballot Rejections

We have state updates on mail-in voting rules today. Hawaii’s election commission recommended ending the state’s mail-in voting system; Ohio’s governor is expected to sign a bill ending its mail-ballot grace period; and Montana’s new law requiring a birth date on mail-in ballots was the number one reason for ballot rejection.

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Articles & Resources:

Honolulu Civil Beat - Turnout Is Up. People Like It. But Voting By Mail Is Under Attack In Hawaiʻi
Hawaii Elections Commission - Minutes of Meeting for Oct. 1, 2025  
Ohio Capital Journal - Ohio lawmakers send new Election Day deadline for absentee ballots law to governor
Daily Montanan - Thousands of ballots rejected due to new birth year law
American Democracy Minute - 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  
American Democracy Minute - Americans Like Voting Early, and Other Lessons from the 2024 Election U.S. Election Assistance Commission Follow Up Report

Groups Taking Action:

National Vote at Home Institute, Common Cause, League of Women Voters US

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 24, 2025

With Candidates Ready to File, SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Ruling on TX Racial Gerrymandering, LA Gerrymandering Decision Still Pending
As congressional candidates get ready for the 2026 midterms, the districts in which they run are still in limbo, waiting for the outcomes of two important racial gerrymandering cases in Texas and Louisiana.

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Articles & Resources:

American Democracy Minute - Trump-Requested Texas Congressional District Gerrymandering Blocked by Federal Court Panel 
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas – El Paso – MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
U.S. Supreme Court - Appeal by State of Texas  in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott
Texas Tribune - Supreme Court temporarily restores Texas’ new congressional map
NPR - Redistricting deadlines for the midterms loom as states wait for a Supreme Court ruling
American Democracy Minute - Outlook for the Voting Rights Act Dims, as Court’s Conservatives Appear to Turn Away From Their Own Precedent 

Groups Taking Action:

LULAC, MALDEF, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, ACLU, Legal Defense Fund, Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 21, 2025

Kansas AG Kobach Announces Noncitizen Voting Charges Against Local Mayor, and Promises “Hundreds More” Prosecutions. It’s Highly Unlikely.

Charges of illegal noncitizen voting have been filed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach against a respected local mayor, who just won reelection with 83% of the vote.  The politically ambitious Kobach promises “hundreds” more prosecutions.  It’s highly unlikely.

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Articles & Resources:

Kansas Reflector - Kansas mayor charged with alleged voter fraud; state leader says ‘hundreds’ more cases expected
Topeka Capital Journal - Kansas officials believe illegal voting case is first of many
Kansas Attorney General's Office - Kobach, Schwab announce charges in voter fraud case
Kansas SOS Office - Secretary Schwab and Attorney General Kobach announce voter fraud charges - FULL Press Conference
Brennan Center for Justice - Noncitizen Voting Is Already Illegal — and Vanishingly Rare
Cato Institute - (2020)  Noncitizens Don’t Illegally Vote in Detectable Numbers

Cato Institute - (2024)  Illegal Alien Voting Isn’t Swaying Federal Elections

ProPublica - (2018) How the Case for Voter Fraud Was Tested — and Utterly Failed

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U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 20, 2025

Trump-Requested Texas Congressional District Gerrymandering Blocked by Federal Court Panel
In June, President Donald Trump asked Texas to redistrict and deliver five additional congressional seats before the 2026 midterm, igniting a multi-state gerrymandering arms race.  Nov. 18th, a federal court ruling halted the new districts and said “substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.”

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources: 

Politico - Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’
American Democracy Minute - (Sept) Texas Senate Republicans Approve Gerrymandered Congressional Map; California Democrats Pass Bill to Put Retaliatory Maps on the Ballot 
League of United Latin American Citizens (via Democracy Docket) - Complaint Alleging Racially Gerrymandered Districts in 2025 Maps (1 of 4 complaints from pro-voter groups)
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas - El Paso - MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 
Texas Tribune - Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms

Groups Taking Action:

LULAC, MALDEF, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 19, 2025

Utah Judge Who Struck Down ‘Extreme Gerrymander’ Threatened with Impeachment and Violence; Florida Redistricting Starts December 4

The Utah judge who struck down the state legislature’s proposed congressional map as “an extreme gerrymander” has faced threats of impeachment - and violence.  Florida’s legislature scheduled its initial congressional redistricting committee meeting for Dec. 4th.
 
Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

American Democracy Minute – Utah Judge Rejects Legislature’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Choosing a Map Which Follows the State Constitution Instead

Utah News Dispatch – Utah judge faces impeachment threats after ordering congressional map with 1 Democratic seat

Utah News Dispatch – Utah judiciary issues rare statement addressing threats against judge in redistricting case

Utah Bar Association – Utah State Bar Statement on Call to Impeach Judge Gibson

Utah Judiciary – UTAH JUDICIARY RESPONDS TO THREATS IN REDISTRICTING CASE

Florida Politics – Florida House moves forward with meeting on redrawing Florida’s congressional lines

WJHG – Redistricting committee expected to meet in December

BallotPedia – Florida Fair Districts Now Amendments 5 & 6

Groups Taking Action:

League of Women Voters UT, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause FL,

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 18, 2025

Though the President Pardoned Loyalists for 2020 Election Subversion, State Cases Against Fake Electors Revived in Georgia and Nevada

We recently reported that President Donald Trump pardoned many of the fake electors in the scheme to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.  But state cases in Georgia and Nevada have just been rekindled.

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Articles & Resources:

Georgia Recorder - (2022) UPDATED Trump’s fake electors: Here’s the full list
American Democracy Minute - (2024) 2020 Fake Elector Scheme Investigations Grind On in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia, and Arizona
American Democracy Minute - President Donald Trump Pardons Many of His Accomplices Accused of Trying to Overturn the 2020 Election
Politico - Nevada Supreme Court revives criminal case over Trump elector gambit
Georgia Recorder - New prosecutor tapped to take over Georgia election interference case against Trump
The Guardian - Georgia prosecutor to take over last remaining criminal case against Trump
CBS News Atlanta - Judge officially drops 3 charges in Georgia's Trump 2020 election interference case 

Groups Taking Action:

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Protect Democracy,

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Nov. 17, 2025

Congressional Gerrymandering Arms Race Updates:  Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, California and Florida
We have updates on the congressional midterm gerrymandering arms race from Indiana, Missouri, Kansas,and California.  Florida, which has been on the sidelines so far, may enter the fray soon.

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Articles & Resources:
Indiana Capital Chronicle - Indiana Republican senators reject Trump’s redistricting push; won’t convene in December
Missouri Independent - Judge hears arguments over legality of gerrymandered Missouri congressional map
Missouri Independent - National Republicans gear up to fight referendum on Missouri congressional map 
NPR - In Kansas and elsewhere, some state lawmakers are skeptical of the redistricting rush
Kansas Reflector - Kansas Republicans’ effort to redraw state maps isn’t over, just delayed, leadership says
U.S. Justice Department - Justice Department Sues Governor Gavin Newsom for California’s Race-Based Redistricting Plan
Florida Politics - ‘Stay tuned’: Ron DeSantis still expects Congressional redistricting

Groups Taking Action:

Common Cause, FairVote, League of Women Voters

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

U.S. Election Assistance Commission – How to Register And Vote in Your State

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