We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

Intro/outro music: Back at It - Silencyde

References:

Re: Stephen Miller

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may/09/end-habeas-corpus-detention-trump-stephen-miller

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/6/america-first-legal-pro-trump-group-sues-chief-justice-roberts-denied/

Re: Pete Hegseth

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-reduce-4-star-positions-by-20-official-says-2025-05-05/

Re: Haitian gangs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/02/haiti-gangs-terrorist-groups-us

Re: Newark Mayor arrested by ICE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy904elvxj3o

Re: Deporting Asians to Libya

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/libya-deportation-blocked-judge-migrants-trump-b2746782.html

Re: CBP Recission of protections

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-rescinds-policies-on-care-of-pregnant-women-infants/

Re: ICE in Worcester, MA

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-arrest-mother-video-massachusetts-daughter-b2747948.html

Re: Release of students from Columbia and Tufts

https://apnews.com/article/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-student-palestinian-release-dd95ffff78464df1b485d5912f1b3fcb

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-tufts-student-deportation-rumeysa-ozturk

Re: White Afikaner refugees to be welcomed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans

Re: Ban of transgender troops

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-troop-ban-hegseth-pentagon-45c8eeec86c3148eadf63ff8d709f00b

Re: FEMA

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/05/trump-admin-fires-acting-fema-administrator-after-house-hearing/

Re: NIH pulls out of Safe to Sleep/SIDS misinformation

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/the-trump-administration-canceled-a-program-that-reduced-sids-enter-the-anti-vaxxers/

Re: Trump picks for Surgeon General and DC prosecutor

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/kennedy-defends-new-surgeon-general-pick-maga-backlash-2025-05-08/

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jnl79mejo

Re: Executive order regarding DHS and immigration

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/

Re: US-UK trade deal

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/us-uk-trade-deal-beef-explained-trump-starmer-b2747429.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/09/us-uk-trade-deal-imposes-conditions-on-ownership-of-british-steel-plants

Re: Shiloh Hendrix raises money after calling child N-word

https://newrepublic.com/article/194925/shiloh-hendrix-right-ring-fundraising

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

Re: Trump budget proposal

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-unveils-federal-budget-blueprint-2025-05-02/

Re: Gaza Malnutrition and Starvation:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/57-palestinians-starved-to-death-under-israels-blockade-of-gaza

Re: Pierre Polliviere losing Canadian election

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkx3gdvv75o

Re: Australia election results

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxgwnj8v5eo

Re: Zelensky minerals deal and Trump meeting

https://kyivindependent.com/vatican-meeting-with-trump-was-best-conversation-yet-zelensky-says/

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-says-conclusion-of-minerals-deal-is-first-result-of-talks-with-trump-in-vatican/

Re: Marco Rubio, Germany’s AFD party

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd

Re: Fentanyl and Narcan

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-news-doj-fentanyl-pam-bondi-lives-saved.html

https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/05/01/opiod-overdose-miracle-drug-faces-56m-cuts

Re: Trump and upholding the Constitution.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580

Re: Executive order Hegseth and Pam Bondi

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bondi-hegseth-military-law-enforcement-b2741549.html

Re: Trump 3rd term and 22nd amendment

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9l3399wvno

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-22/#:~:text=No%20person%20shall%20be%20elected,the%20President%20more%20than%20once.

Re: Trump taking credit for economy good parts and blaming bad parts on Biden.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-rejects-concerns-prices-economic-uncertainty-defends-agenda-rcna203512

Re: LA ports and Tariffs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/los-angeles-ports-trump-tariffs

Re: Trump’s polling numbers

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/trump-popularity-voters-economy-immigration

Re: Economy Contraction

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/30/economy-gdp-q1-trump-tariffs

Re: Trump DOJ and warrantless search

https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Re: Warrantless Mahmoud Khalil

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-student-mahmoud-khalil-was-detained-arrest-warrant-trump-admi-rcna202946

Re: Memos regarding Trump admin telling ICE to break into homes https://www.thedailybeast.com/leaked-memo-donald-trumps-ice-breaking-into-homes-without-warrant/

https://newrepublic.com/post/194442/trump-doj-memo-ice-arrest-search-warrant

Re: ICE stealing life savings

https://newrepublic.com/post/194557/ice-invades-wrong-home-oklahoma-girls-underwear-life-savings

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/oklahoma-city-ice-raid-family-defend-themselves-rcna204308

Re: Mike Waltz Ousting

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mike-waltz-trump-problem-signal-scandal-rcna204222

Re: Trump military parade cost

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-defends-high-cost-military-parade-peanuts-rcna204581

Re: Trump Pope picture

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrg8zkz8d0o

Re: Cutting funding to PBS and NPR

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/04/npr-pbs-funding-trump-order

Re: Mexico says no to US troops crossing boarder

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/04/nx-s1-5386456/mexico-president-rejected-trumps-plan-us-troops-across-border

Re: Trump and Due Process

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-hes-unsure-whether-people-us-are-entitled-due-process-2025-05-04/

Re: Republicans shoot down amendments prohibiting deportation of US citizens

https://newrepublic.com/post/194664/republicans-kill-amendment-stop-ice-deporting-us-citizens

Re: ICE RAIDS and city events

https://www.cnn.com/us/cultural-events-canceled-trump-deportations

Re: Martin Diaz detention

https://www.newsweek.com/man-who-came-us-toddler-married-us-citizen-detained-ice-2067654

Re: Death in ICE custody

https://truthout.org/articles/3-people-die-in-ice-custody-in-april-as-conditions-worsen-in-immigration-jails/

Re: Health Tracking Programs:

https://apnews.com/article/cdc-disease-tracking-health-surveillance-554eb9aa20b758714eba8b835dcde856

Re: RFK autism

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/autism-community-needs-rfkjr-stigma-funding-rcna203578

Re: RFK Autism Registry

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/rfk-jr-autism-registry-trump-google-ice-hegseth-rcna202393

Re: RFK vaccines

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkx3egk3ygo

Re: Homan vs. AOC

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/aoc-claps-back-at-tom-homans-deportation-threat-come-take-me/articleshow/120853602.cms

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/aoc-challenges-border-czar-tom-homan-to-come-for-me-after-doj-referral-threat/ar-AA1E6DmA?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

Re: Climate Change Dismissing by White house

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5380816/climate-assessment-authors-released

Re: Oklahoma social studies curriculum

https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-social-studies-standards-moving-forward-ryan-walters/64623287

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:

https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdfs/Immigrants/Home_Customize.pdf

Re: Executive orders

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bondi-hegseth-military-law-enforcement-b2741549.html

Re: Threats on the judiciary

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan-democrats-republicans

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/new-mexico-judge-arrested-venezuelan-gang-b2739551.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/trump-immigration-executive-orders

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/new-mexico-judge-arrested-venezuelan-gang-b2739551.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-administration-initimidates-judges/682620/

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_e6ce6e4a-4161-476f-8d28-94150a891092.html

Hitler statement on judges

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/transcripts/3-transcript-for-nmt-3-justice-case?seq=209

Re: Media record subpoenas

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reversal-us-justice-department-says-media-records-can-be-seized-leak-probes-2025-04-26/

Re: ActBlue

https://apnews.com/article/trump-actblue-democratic-fundraising-9f990e668572709ce0e3260bbdb6f61b

Re: George Santos

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/george-santos-sentenced-87-months-prison-fraud

Re: Immigration and deportations

https://www.latintimes.com/wife-kids-abrego-garcia-safe-house-after-us-officials-publish-home-address-i-dont-feel-safe-581507

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article304988381.html

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-mothers-deported-d8c5c0353c18e9ee0c228ea15e02d759

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/migrant-children-deportation-hearings-b2739754.html

Re: Women’s Health initiative

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/womens-health-initiative-trump-cuts-reversed

Re: Bird flu

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-cancels-science-group-workshop-preventing-human-bird-flu-infections-2025-04-29/

Re: Salmonella in raw poultry

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/usda-salmonella-poultry-withdraw-biden-plan-1235325722/

Re: Measles

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/texas-measles-cases

Re: Defunding Narcan program

https://www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-godsend-narcan-program-that-helped-reduce-overdose-deaths-despite-his-past-heroin-581846

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-narcan-overdose-grant-b2739727.html

Re: Wikipedia

https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-prosecutor-threatens-wikipedia

Re: DOGE and NPS

https://www.fodors.com/news/news/national-parks-will-now-be-run-by-elon-musks-doge

Re: Tariff effects

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/trump-tariffs-shipments-us-ports

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truckers-speak-english-order-b2741432.html

In this episode of DemocracyisDead, we discuss the suspension of due process that the Trump Regime has been implementing against those they are "deporting" but really kidnapping and exiling from the country.

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

Re: Homegrown deportations to El Salvador

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-home-growns-bukele-citizens-b2733207.html

Re: April 19th protests

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/anti-trump-rallies-protests

Re: Replacing Hegseth

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department

Re: Supreme court blocking deportation of Venezuelan prisoners.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alito-supreme-court-trump-venezuelans-b2736398.html

Re: Abrego Garcia

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/chris-van-hollen-kilmar-abrego-garcia

https://abcnews.go.com/US/el-salvador-government-rejects-lawmakers-request-visit-abrego/story?id=120910107

Re: Erlin Richards deportation

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/green-card-holder-living-in-us-since-the-90s-detained-after-international-travel-return-heres-why/3806639/

Re: Immigration OS and Palantir

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-palantir-expanding-immigrant-surveillance-tools-ice-tune-30-million

Re: Mohsen Mahdawi arrest

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/21/mohsen_mawdawi

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/protesters-chain-themselves-to-columbia-university-campus-gates-to-call-for-activists-release/3544835

Re: American Citizen  doctor asked to self-deport

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna201698

Re: Jose Hermosillo detention

https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2025/4/18/224512-us-citizen-in-arizona-detained-by-immigration-officials-for-10-days/

Re: Indonesian father with valid visa detained

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/aditya-wahyu-harsono-immigration-indonesia

Re: Japanese student

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216

Re: Two german tourists deported

https://beatofhawaii.com/why-these-hawaii-travelers-were-jailed-and-deported/

Re: IRS and Harvard

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-irs-planning-rescind-harvards-tax-exempt-status-cnn-reports-2025-04-16/

Re: Trans kids tip line

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/administration-opens-a-snitch-line-to-report-trans-kids-getting-health-care/

Re: Increasing birth rate

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-vance-birth-rate-b2736924.html

Re: RFK building autism registry

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/rfk-jr-autism-nih

Re: Ben Edwards measles

https://apnews.com/article/texas-measles-outbreak-rfk-jr-ben-edwards-2dd7c79d47c64ad2e6d4a4ac3c87ec1f

Re: Lab Leak Theory

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/white-house-covid-web-page-page-supporting-lab/story?id=120956514

Re: Dr. Oz telling US citizens to not get sick and use less drugs

https://www.latintimes.com/dr-oz-ridiculed-advising-americans-use-less-drugs-reduce-drug-spending-tell-that-diabetic-581196

Re: HHS budget cuts

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-health-budget-cuts-hhs

Re: Measles Cases

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

Re: DOGE and social security

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/

Re: CFPB firings blocked by judge

https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-terminations-paused-trump/

Re: FSU shooter

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/fsu-shooting-florida-state-university-suspect-live-updates-b2735641.html

Re: Human rights changes at State Department

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts

Re: Luigi Trial

https://abcnews.go.com/US/luigi-mangione-indicted-federal-charges-ceo-killing/story?id=120928265

Re: 1 billion missing and DOGE

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/elon-musks-doge-shaves-off-nearly-1-billion-in-savings-overnight-internet-left-chasing-receipts/articleshow/120409881.cms?from=mdr

Re: Mexico counters deportations

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1k2zdrq/mexicos_sheinbaum_counters_trump_deportations/

Re: Crimea

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-peace-talks-include-recognizing-russian-control-of-crimea/

RE : Easter Ceasefire

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c787v5gxny7o

Re: Fox news calls Kyiv a Russian city

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-foreign-ministry-calls-out-fox-news-for-labeling-kyiv-a-russian-city/

Re: Murder of Gaza Aid workers

https://www.politico.eu/article/israeli-military-says-review-into-its-killing-of-gaza-aid-workers-found-professional-failures/

Re: Pope Francis and Vance

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/jd-vance-granted-lightning-audience-with-pope-francis-in-vatican

Re: USAID cutting causing starvation in Sudan

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x87ev5jyo

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

References:

Re: SAVE Act

https://apnews.com/article/congress-save-act-citizenship-voting-elections-a37c139461d11eb5f82086680b67ffe7

Re: Immigration

https://apnews.com/article/rubio-south-sudan-visas-f2716e1871d8d1422546fdc447bac215

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gnzzeg34o

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/kilmar-abrego-garcia-wrongly-deported

https://apnews.com/article/living-immigrants-dead-social-security-numbers-trump-c10737cbe36e3108fb244a555777d880

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-fine-migrants-998-day-failing-leave-after-deportation-order-2025-04-08/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-student-visas-deportation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-with-us-working-visa-detained-insulted-deported

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/amir-makled-phone-search-border-immigration

https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-press-sec-says-trumps-seriously-considering-deporting-u-s-citizens/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/homeland-security-revokes-legal-status-for-migrants-who-entered-u-s-using-cbp-one-app

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/04/13/boston-immigration-attorney-a-citizen-told-by-dhs-to-leave-the-country/

https://documentedny.com/2025/04/12/dhs-cbp-one-trump-biden-legal-email-termination-notice-parole/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeng08qe7zo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon

Re: Underground Railround revisionist history

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-national-park-service-underground-railroad-website-1235311535/

https://www.phillytrib.com/national-park-service-restores-underground-railroad-webpage-after-outcry/article_5b8aa5a9-2a22-569a-9f43-d2c74049a03a.html

Re: Environment and Climate Change

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-forests-emergency-logging-rollins-e2d7173bedcc697dee56f94ab613276f

https://apnews.com/article/trump-coal-industry-mining-fact-check-69bc9919c2899a87c65c4c89a84a973e

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-water-pressure-shower-executive-order-b2730973.html

Re: Tariffs and stock market

https://apnews.com/article/trump-truth-social-djt-tesla-musk-tariffs-pause-fccfa6b06c8f1ec0cd7844641ca52669

https://apnews.com/article/greene-stocks-conflicts-interest-restoration-hardware-tariffs-trump-f9922a970c837cb76dd8ddc01f20f51d

Re: RFK Jr and measles

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-measles-flip-flop-is-never-coming/

Re: DOGE

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-doge-privacy-personal-info-data-social-security-1235312853/

https://www.theverge.com/news/644327/musk-doge-irs-hackathon-taxpayer-data-transfer-cloud

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/ssa-shifts-to-x-posts-for-official-messaging-after-cuts-to-communications-staff/

Re: Other authoritarian actions

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-mobilized-armed-marshals-warn-ex-lawyer-over-congressional-2025-04-07/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-directs-doj-to-investigate-former-administration-officials-who-criticized-him

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/column-fed-chairs-job-security-depends-embattled-supreme-court-precedent-2024-11-11/

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/09/congress/house-passes-national-injunction-bill-00282914

In this episode of DemocracyisDead, we discuss the Insurrection Act that is slated to potentially be used on April 20th 2025 by the Trump Regime to consolidate power.

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

Re: Trump Third Term

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-third-term-republicans-b2723487.html

https://medium.com/@jamesrawillis/trump-in-four-years-you-wont-have-to-vote-again-d337b8fcfb9f

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/13/trump-says-he-will-negotiate-third-term-because-hes-entitled-to-it/

https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-proposes-amending-22nd-amendment-allow-trump-serve-third-term

Re: Signal and National Security

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/white-house-moving-on-waltz-signal-drama-00260891

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/trump-mike-waltz-signal-groups

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/michael-waltz-gmail-signal-national-security

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/schumer-proposes-security-trainingtrump-officials-signalgate

Re: Laura Loomer and NSA firings

https://apnews.com/article/trump-waltz-laura-loomer-national-security-council-959b718b04b240c5c8ba3736b4d8aa62

Re: Tariffs and Stock market crash

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/stock-markets-trump-tariffs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/trump-tariffs-come-into-effect-in-seismic-shift-to-global-trade

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjl3k1we8vo

Re: El Salvador detention

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/el-salvador-deportations-removal-gang-tattooos-what-happens-now-cecot-trump-ice-dhs/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-el-salvador-prison-kilmar-abrego-garcia-5a92d6bd7f893eed64c2607cc129a6f9

Re: US-Canada border detentions

https://www.investigativepost.org/2025/04/01/feds-locking-up-families-children-at-canadian-border/

Re: College student visas

https://apnews.com/article/college-international-student-f1-visa-ice-trump-7a1d186c06a5fdb2f64506dcf208105a

https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/02/csu-cu-uccs-international-students-visas-revoked/

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2025/04/04/arizona-state-university-student-detained-after-visa-revocation/82793138007/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/stanford-students-visas-revoked-20260431.php

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2025/04/04/ohio-state-university-5-international-students-visas-revoked-trump/82893316007/

Re: RFK and HHS cuts

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoff-rfk-staff-cuts

https://apnews.com/article/heating-assistance-hhs-layoffs-kennedy-trump-91e466c458ac804b098be00867a92106

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/maternal-child-health-cuts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/02/hhs-layoffs-world-trade-center-program-staff/82775014007/

https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2025/04/03/trump-administration-and-doge-eliminate-staff-who-help-older-adults-and-people-with-disabilities/

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-rfk-job-cuts-communications-foia-operations/

Re: Measles

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/05/us-has-twice-as-many-measles-cases-so-far-this-year-than-in-all-of-2024

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/

Re: Pertussis

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-louisiana-infants-die-whooping-vaccinations.html

Re: Dr. Oz Senate confirmation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/mehmet-oz-confirmation-medicare-medicaid

Re: Domestic/State Programs and Issues

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-peace-corps-says-musks-cost-cutting-team-has-arrived-its-hq-2025-04-04/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-dade-county-ends-water-fluoridation-after-vote-22787216

https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-s-doe-targets-calif-and-other-blue-states-cuts-leaked-docs

https://prh.org/press-releases/trump-cuts-35-million-in-title-x-funding/

https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/new-trump-administration-funding-freeze-imperils-reproductive-care

In this episode we discuss the Trump Regime's and the GOPs plans to end free elections in this country and why we call the podcast DemocracyisDead.

References and Show Notes:

SAVE Act:

Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. Jan 3 congressional republicans.

If enacted, the SAVE bill would require all voters to prove their American citizenship in-person when registering or updating their voter registration, providing specific documentation such as a passport or birth certificate.

According to an analysis of the bill by the Brennan Center for Justice, the SAVE Act would undermine voting rights and disenfranchise tens of millions of American voters, as more than 21 million citizens lack these documents.

The bill’s in-person requirement could also disenfranchise approximately 60 million rural voters, who would have to travel great distances to register to vote.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-save-act-an-attempt-to-restrict-voting-rights/

While this may sound easy for many Americans, the reality is that more than 140 million American citizens do not possess a passport and as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.

I’m sure that all the layoffs that are occurring will spare the people who issue passports so that they can get these 140 million people passports in the next four years so they can exercise their right to vote.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

ALL Mail in voting will be cancelled because proof of citizenship by this act will be required IN PERSON.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/save-act-would-undermine-voter-registration-all-americans

Americans abroad vote blue in overwhelming numbers. From 2020 to April of 2024, 77.65% voters using the voting tool votefromabroad.org registered as left leaning. 17.2% registered as having no party preference. Only 2.5% registered as Republican.

https://www.democratsabroad.org/our_impact

Voter fraud allegations:

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud

Chip Roy a Texas republican.

Executive order passed by Trump on voting rights. March 26 2025

The order requires individuals to show documents proving their citizenship in order to register to vote – permitting only a narrow set of documents, such as a passport, that many Americans do not have easy access to. It also attempts to bar states from counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day, even if they were mailed and postmarked on or before Election Day. Currently, 18 states allow mail ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/ldf-condemns-illegal-unconstitutional-executive-order-seeking-to-undermine-voting-rights-in-federal-elections/

The order also directs the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to decertify any voting systems that use barcodes or QR codes on ballots — a technology commonly used across the country. The EAC is now tasked with reviewing all certifications within 180 days.

This move could force states and counties to replace their voting machines on short notice — without any new funding.

“Imagine buying new equipment, and now it’s suddenly banned,” said Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, who recently approved a $20 million purchase of new ballot scanners. “There is no remedy for that in the order.”

We continue with our Democracy is Dead News segment covering the policy changes and goings-on in the new American Fascist administration. This is a weekly addition to the podcast to attempt to catalogue for listeners as concisely as possible the growing fascist threat in America perpetrated and planned by Trump's second term. Please see references below.

References:

Re: Signalgate

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://archive.is/20250329023654/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-pentagon-attack-plans-petraeus-clinton-comey-3ab3773b2642abaf024d3a5f3eb66f4b

Re: Voter Registration Executive Order

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trumps-executive-order-on-elections-aims-to-dictate-how-states-run-elections-and-handpicks-which-citizens-can-vote/

Re: Georgia Miscarriage

https://thegeorgiasun.com/news/woman-arrested-after-miscarriage-in-georgia-under-abortion-law/

Re: Transgender people in military

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judge-denies-trump-admins-001645782.html

Re: Arrests by ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ice

https://www.wvtm13.com/article/university-alabama-student-detained-ice/64302744

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/28/university-of-minnesota-student-detained-by-ice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/columbia-gaza-protester-yunseo-chung-lawsuit

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/trump-ice-milwaukee-laos-ma-yang-deported-b2721619.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-calls-release-woman-legally-195654715.html

Re: Social media screening

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-green-card-applicants-social-media-b2720180.html

Re: Auto Tariffs

https://apnews.com/article/autos-tariffs-trump-tax-imports-ford-gm-e53823ef7bbb7b3c46d11eca90aaa638

Re: Shell companies

https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2025/03/treasury-department-wont-enforce-beneficial-ownership-rule-under-the-corporate-transparency-act/

Re: USAID

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/appeals-court-usaid-ruling-doge-00259154

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/state-department-notified-congress-intent-reorganize-usaid-rubio-says-2025-03-28/

Re: Ending child vaccine aid

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/funding-for-child-vaccines-in-poor-nations-trump-administration/105101058

Re: RFK Jr and HHS

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/rfk-jr-plans-10000-job-cuts-major-health-department-restructuring-wsj-reports-2025-03-27/

https://apnews.com/article/fda-vaccine-chief-peter-marks-resign-rfk-kennedy-7743be11cec4e4e22c50c2ddbcb6bcd8

https://www.yahoo.com/news/after-rfk-jr-recommends-vitamin-a-as-a-measles-treatment-some-texas-patients-show-signs-of-toxicity-214353603.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-government-pulls-back-over-11-billion-funding-state-health-departments-2025-03-26/

Re: Domestic Issues

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-takes-bid-slash-teacher-training-funds-us-supreme-court-2025-03-26/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa

https://apnews.com/article/trump-unions-collective-bargaining-end-national-security-deabc796751dc038a8500774fe174a99

Re: Mike Johnson threat to shut down federal courts

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-mike-johnson-shut-down-court-trump-b2722358.html

Re: Reorganizing Government Act of 2025

https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/congress-debates-bill-fast-track-approval-trump-and-musk-agency-cuts/404045/

Re: Child labor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-republicans-immigrant-jobs-child-labor

Re: Measles forecasts buried at CDC

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/the-cdc-buried-a-measles-forecast-that-stressed-the-need-for-vaccinations/