Democracy is Dead

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/

In this episode we discuss the flagrant breaking of laws by the Trump administration and why there aren't any consequences of them doing it. We give multiple historical examples when this occurred and provide some predictions of what may be coming our way.

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: Attempted POC Erasure from military websites

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii

Re: Illegal detainment

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tourists-us-residents-detained-arrested-deported-ice-immigration-trump

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrests-chicago-complaint-bcc80d6aeeed824428431a318e427cd3

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/20/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-prison-trump-deportations

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/trump-foreign-prison-threats-civil-rights-groups-027162

Re: Revoking temporary legal status

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33706jy774o

Re: Dept of Ed

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79zxzj90nno

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/trump-order-education-department-dismantle

Re: Dismantling IMLS

https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls

Re: Trump disregarding Biden pardons

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqk1x0n5lo

Re: Student travel ban

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/yale-warn-international-students-travel-ban

Re: US Human rights report

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/trump-human-rights-report-00238581

Re: Canada and European urging travel precautions to US

https://www.wesa.fm/2025-03-22/some-european-countries-and-canada-issue-advisories-for-travelers-to-the-u-s

Re: Social Security Cuts

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5320263/social-security-administration-changes-identity-office

Re: Columbia University Caving to Trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q499x3v4yo

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/columbia-university-ban-masks-trump-republican-demand-pro-palestinian-israel-protests/

Re: Media silencing

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250319-trump-mutes-voice-of-america-rfe-rl-makes-space-for-russian-and-chinese-influence

Re: Israel/Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/why-has-israel-resumed-large-scale-airstrikes-on-gaza

Re: Russia/Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-ceasefire-talks-drones-65c00a0afd130731e0e0c054ac528b44

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-zelensky-ceasefire-latest-news-b2719778.html

Re: Bird flu H5N1

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-wants-to-let-bird-flu-spread-on-poultry-farms-why-experts-are/

Re: FTC

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-fires-both-democratic-commissioners-ftc-sources-say-2025-03-18/

Re: Elon/DOGE

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/doge-institute-peace-staff-resistance-00238488

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/musk-starlink-internet-white-house

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-calls-prosecutions-pentagon-staff-who-leaked-new-york-times-2025-03-21/

https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-pentagon-leakers-new-york-times-briefing-china-war/

Re: ICE detention of 48 New Mexican Residents

https://www.aclu-nm.org/en/press-releases/urgent-human-rights-complaint-submitted-after-ice-disappears-48-new-mexico-residents

In this week's episode, we discuss how the political landscape is changing perceptions of firearm ownership across the USA.

If things have changed in your viewpoint, please let us know in the comments!

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:

The 10 Democratic Senators that voted for Trump’s funding bill:

·       Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

·       Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania

·       Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada

·       Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii

·       Senator Durbin of Illinois

·       Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York

·       Senator Gary Peters of Michigan

·       Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire

·       Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire

·       Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who frequentlycaucuses with Democrats

RE: Ukrainian conflict and Ceasefire

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg70y3ydmdno

https://eutoday.net/musks-cuts-halt-efforts-to-rescue-ukrainian-children/

Re: Department of education cuts

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/ce98y47515jo

Re: USDA

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796

Re: USAID

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrxez45dr1o

https://www.who.int/news/item/05-03-2025-funding-cuts-to-tuberculosis-programmes-endanger-millions-of-lives

Re: Tesla and Trump administration

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dzq8vo

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/musk-trump-100-million-donation-political-operation

Re: Travel ban

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/trump-administration-travel-restrictions

Re: Funding Bill

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/aoc-chuck-schumer-gop-funding-bill

Re: Panama Canal

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/trump-pentagon-panama-canal

Re: Duterte arrest

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw1nklxezo

Re: Aliens Act

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5246028/trump-alien-enemies-act-tren-de-aragua-deportation

Re: Immigration/Deportation:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

Re: Migrant App

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/cbp-app-self-deport-00225102

Re: Indian Student Deported

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14501099/indian-student-deport-donald-trump-columbia-protesters-ranjani-srinivasan.html

Re: Deporting brain cancer child who is citizen

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-mexico-child-cancer-deportation-b2714565.html

Re: Summary of week

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo

** Apologies! Last Episode had the wrong file. This is the correct episode**

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: Columbia funding and protests

⁠https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp979w055o⁠

Re: Postal Service Changes

⁠https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-postal-service-executive-order-mail-voting-threat/⁠

Re: Transgender women in men’s prisons

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump

Re: VA Lay offs

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/va-plans-lay-many-83000-employees-year/403477/

Re: NIH Layoffs

⁠https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/nih-faces-renewed-doge-directive-cut-staff-pre-covid-levels-putting-thousands-line-rifs/403593/⁠

Re: Politicizing Federal HR Officials

⁠https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/trump-administration-moves-politicize-top-hr-officials-following-firing-irs/403546/⁠

Re: TSA

⁠https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/trump-administration-outlaws-unions-tsa/403577/⁠

Re: Revoking protections for Ukrainians

⁠https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/⁠

Re: Ukraine hotel missile attack

⁠https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-attack-kills-two-injures-seven-ukraines-kryvyi-rih-2025-03-05/⁠

Re: US relationship with Hungary

⁠https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/07/donald-trump-considers-pulling-troops-out-of-germany/⁠

https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-us-agree-economic-cooperation-package-pm-orban-says-2025-03-08/

Re: Tariffs

⁠https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-administration-briefing-trump-changes-tack-on-tariffs-again-as-us-plans-to-close-consulates⁠

Re: Cyberattacks Russia

⁠https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2er34w0jgdo⁠

Re: Fort Bliss

⁠https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/texas-army-fort-bliss-deportation-detention⁠

Re: Withdrawal from UN Climate Change Fund

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/us-exits-fund-that-compensates-poorer-countries-for-global-heating

In this week's episode, we discuss the mechanisms by which the Trump administration is using to undermine voting in the next elections.