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 options.  Some have already passed similar provisions.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

Voting Rights Lab - 2026 Legislative Session in Review
Center for American Progress - The SAVE Act May Be Stalled in Congress, But State Versions Are Being Advanced All Across the Country
Brennan Center for Justice - States Already Enacting Harmful SAVE Act Policies, Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote 

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Florida Legislature Passes State Version of the SAVE America Act. Its Proof of Citizenship & Voter ID Rules May Disenfranchise Thousands.

American Democracy Minute - (2025) Restrictive Voting Laws Passed in 20 States in 2025. Proof of Citizenship, Limits on Mail-In Voting and Narrower Voter ID Rules Dominated.

Groups Taking Action:
League of Women Voters FL, ACLU UT, Legal Defense Fund

Register or 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 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 voting bill to critical bipartisan housing, national security and defense appropriations bills.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

The Hill - House conservatives block rule advancing NDAA, stalling key bills
The Hill - Thune says Senate will move FISA bill without SAVE America Act, rebuffing Trump
The Hill - Tillis: SAVE America Act is ‘dead’ as time has run out to implement new voting rules
Politico - The GOP’s dirty little secret about the SAVE America Act

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - As Threatened, Trump Holds Up Passage of Long-Awaited Bipartisan Housing Bill, Demanding the Senate Pass the Restrictive SAVE America Act

American Democracy Minute - President Trump Ties Ending the Partial Government Shutdown to Passage of the SAVE America Act. The Draconian Voting Bill Still Doesn’t Have the Votes.

Groups Taking Action:

League of Women Voters US, Common Cause, Legal Defense Fund

Register or 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 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 design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government."  Happy Independence Day.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

National Archives - Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
National Archives - The Declaration of Independence: A History
American Constitution Center - Constitutional Voices: African Americans’ early responses to the Declaration of Independence
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Declaration of Independence and Women’s Rights 

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Thomas Jefferson Gets the Credit for the Declaration, but the ‘Independence’ Part Came from Richard Henry Lee on June 7, 1776

Register or 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 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 funds on behalf of a  federal candidate. It could unleash even more campaign money and more big donor influence.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

U.S. Supreme Court - Opinion in Republican Senate Campaign Committee v. FEC
Federal Election Commission - Supreme Court issues opinion in National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. FEC, et al.
SCOTUSblog - Justices strike down campaign finance law
Covington & Burling Law Firm - Supreme Court Decision in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission Empowers Political Parties, Calls Other Restrictions into Question
End Citizens United - ECU Blasts SCOTUS for Siding With Billionaires and Special Interests Over Voters in NRSC v. FEC

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - (2025)  U.S. Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Coordinated Campaign Finance Limits for Political Parties.  It Could Unleash Another Torrent of Election Cash.

Groups Taking Action:
Issue One, Public Citizen, Campaign Legal Center/League of Women Voters/Common Cause

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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 states which allow receipt of absentee, mail-in, or overseas UOCAVA ballots after election day, if postmarked on or before that day.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

U.S. Supreme Court - Opinion in Watson v Republican National Committee
U.S. Supreme Court - Docket in Watson v Republican National Committee

SCOTUSBlog - Justices uphold state law allowing for late-arriving mail-in ballots
Brennan Center for Justice -  Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Watson v. Republican National Committee
National Conference of State Legislatures - Receipt and Postmark Deadlines for Absentee/Mail Ballots

 
Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - March 23rd, U.S. Supreme Court Hears Mississippi Case Which Could Impact Mail-in Ballots in 14 or More States

American Democracy Minute - The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Appear Likely to End Mail-In Ballot Grace Periods, Affecting Dozens of State Laws and Millions of Voters

Groups Taking Action:
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC,  ACLU MS, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Campaign Legal Center

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

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

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#Democracy  #DemocracyNews #USSupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Mississippi #WatsonvRNC #MailInBallots

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 Rights Act cases.  For the moment, it impacts only seven states, but it may be the next VRA domino to fall.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

U.S. Supreme Court -  Decline of 8th Circuit's ARKANSAS UNITED, ET AL. V. THURSTON
U.S. 8th Circuit  Court of Appeals - ARKANSAS UNITED, ET AL. V. THURSTON
MALDEF (via Democracy Docket) - (2023) ARKANSAS STATE CONFERENCE NAACP v ARKANSAS BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT, ET AL.,
NPR - Supreme Court allows a ruling that ends a tool to protect minority voters in 7 states

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - (2024) Look for 2025 Conservative Challenges to a ‘Private Right of Action’ for Voting Rights Cases, Attempting to Dismantle the Voting Rights Act
American Democracy Minute - (2025) Eighth Circuit ‘Private Right of Action’ Ruling Temporarily Halted by Justice Kavanaugh in Case by North Dakota Tribal Nations
American Democracy Minute - (2023)  Radical Federal Court of Appeals Ruling Deals Another Blow to Voters, Democracy Groups and the Voting Rights Act

Groups Taking Action:
Arkansas United,  Native American Rights Fund

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

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

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#Democracy  #DemocracyNews #PrivateRightofAction #Arkansas #SCOTUS #USSupremeCourt #8thCircuit #VRA #VotingRights 

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 district court judge blocked the administration and U.S. Postal Service from implementing key sections of the order.

U.S. District Court for Massachusetts (via Court Listener) - Ruling in California v. Trump
U.S. District Court for DC (via Court Listener) – League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security
The White House – ENSURING CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION AND INTEGRITY IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS
U.S. Postal Service via The Federal Register – Proposal to Comply President Trump’s Executive Order: POSTAL SERVICE 39 CFR Part 111 Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
Brennan Center for Justice – Analyzing the President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting  
NPR - Judge blocks Postal Service proposal to restrict mail-in voting under Trump's order

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Federal District Court Rules Use of Social Security and Other Federal Data for SAVE Database Violates Multiple Federal Privacy Statutes

Groups Taking Action:

ACLU MA, League of Women Voters

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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 Act. The Senate passed the housing bill – without the SAVE Act attached – and its signing ceremony was abruptly cancelled.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

The Hill - Senate overwhelmingly passes sweeping bipartisan housing affordability bill
The Post & Courier - US Sen. Tim Scott’s bipartisan housing bill stopped cold as Trump refuses to sign it
MSNow - Housing Bill Sponsor Sen. Elizabeth Warren Speaks on Cancelation of Bill Signing
U.S. Congress – Text of H.R.7296 – SAVE America Act
Campaign Legal Center – What You Need to Know About the SAVE Act

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Trying to Resurrect the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump Demands Attaching it to Bipartisan FISA and Housing Bills

American Democracy Minute - The GOP’s Restrictive SAVE America Act is Stalled, and Slipping It into a Budget Reconciliation Bill was Blocked.  Is it Dead?

Groups Taking Action:

Declaration for American Democracy, National Coalition for Accessible Voting, AARP, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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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 administration, having lost multiple court challenges, is reportedly proposing to withhold CISA state election security funding for noncompliance.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

CNN - Exclusive: Trump administration plans to use homeland security funds to pressure states into election changes
Brennan Center for Justice - Tracker of Justice Department Requests for Voter Information
Legis1 - Election Security Funding Crisis Exposed at House Hearing
NOTUS - Trump Tries a New Tactic to Change Election Rules
Protect Democracy – The SAVE tool, explained

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Federal District Court Rules Use of Social Security and Other Federal Data for SAVE Database Violates Multiple Federal Privacy Statutes
American Democracy Minute - Federal Circuit Courts Block Trump DOJ from Obtaining California and Oregon Voter Data

Groups Taking Action:

League of Women Voters, Electronic Privacy Information Center, ACLU

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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 ruled that the integration of Social Security and other federal data into the SAVE database violated federal privacy statutes.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

U.S. District Court for DC (via Court Listener) - League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security
The White House – ENSURING CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION AND INTEGRITY IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS
U.S. Postal Service via The Federal Register – Proposal to Comply President Trump’s Executive Order: POSTAL SERVICE 39 CFR Part 111 Ballot Mail for Federal Elections
Brennan Center for Justice – Analyzing the President’s Executive Order on Mail Voting 
Protect Democracy – The SAVE tool, explained

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - In Response to Executive Order Federalizing Mail-In Voting Rules, the U.S. Postal Service Proposes Rules to Verify Voter Eligibility

American Democracy Minute - Trump Executive Order on Mail-In Voting Spurs 5 Lawsuits from States, Pro-Democracy Groups, Civil Rights Groups and the Democratic Party

Groups Taking Action:
League of Women Voters, Electronic Privacy Information Center

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