The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Feb. 4, 2026

In Stunning Statement, a U.S. President Suggests ‘Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting.’

In a stunning phone interview February 2nd, President Donald Trump suggested Republicans should take over the voting in 15 states, though it’s not clear to which states the president was referring. The statement follows seizure of three truckloads of 2020 ballots last week in Georgia, fueling speculation that there may be an attempt to subvert the 2026 midterm election.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

The Dan Bongino Show (via journalist Aaron Rupar on Bluesky) - Feb. 2 Interview with President Donald Trump
U.S. Congress - The U.S. Constitution's Elections Clause
Newsweek - Trump’s Call to Nationalize Elections Sparks Concerns
The Hill - Trump suggests GOP should ‘take over’ voting process in multiple states ahead of midterms
Brennan Center for Justice - The Power Struggle Over Elections
Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon - Post opposing President Trump's comment on nationalizing elections

Associated Press - After quiet off-year elections, Democrats renew worries about Trump interfering in the midterms

Groups Taking Action:

Campaign Legal Center, 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 Feb. 3, 2026

Court Opinion Blocking More of Trump’s Executive Order on Elections Also Demands the Administration Follow Federal Citizen Data Privacy Statutes
A section in President Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections authorized what became a battle between states and the Department of Justice over access to voter data and election records. A January 30th court ruling put a shot across the Trump administration’s bow on strictly observing federal privacy statutes.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

The White House - PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS
U.S. Dept. of Justice Office of Privacy & Civil Liberties - The Privacy Act of 1974
American Democracy Minute - (Oct. 2025) Class Action Suit by Voters Claims Personal Data Shared to the Trump Administration’s SAVE Database Violates the Privacy Act of 1974
American Democracy Minute - DOJ Civil Filing Suggests a DOGE Employee May Have Created External Social Security Data Files and Had Contact with Election Denier Group
American Oversight - The Trump Administration’s Citizenship Data System

Groups Taking Action:

League of Women Voters, C.R.E.W., Electronic Privacy Information Center, Democracy Forward, Fair Elections 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 Feb. 2, 2026

It's Goundhog Day All Over Again: Trump Executive Order on Elections Loses Again on Constitutional Grounds
A federal court blocked more of President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order on elections January 30th. It may seem like Groundhog Day, because it’s the President’s sixth defeat on the elections order, invalidating most of it.

Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

The White House – Executive Order: PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS
U.S. Congress – U.S. Constitution ArtI.S4.C1.2 States and Elections Clause
The Brennan Center - Explainer on The President’s Executive Order on Elections
American Democracy Minute - (March 2025) New Trump Executive Order Attempts to Bypass Congress & States to Require Proof of Citizenship Documents & Mandate Election Deadlines
American Democracy Minute - (Sept. 2025) Legal Action by States Can Move Forward Against Trump’s Restrictive Executive Order on Elections, Says Federal District Judge
American Democracy Minute - (Nov. 2025) Federal Court in DC Issues Permanent Injunction on Part of Trump Executive Order on Elections; No to Changing Federal Registration Form
American Democracy Minute - (Jan. 13) Trump’s Executive Order on Elections Handed Another Defeat, as Federal Court Upholds a State’s Right to Set Ballot Deadlines, Choose Methods

Groups Taking Action:

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, League of Women Voters US, National Partnership for New Americans

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Jan. 30, 2026

FBI Raids Fulton County, GA Election Office, Seizing Ballots and Documents in Apparent Pursuit of 2020 Presidential Election Fraud
The FBI raided the Fulton County, GA election offices January 28th under a Trump DOJ initiated, and federal court authorized, warrant. In a highly-irregular action, voter rolls, sealed 2020 ballots and election machine documents were seized and taken out of state in an apparent effort to find already-debunked widespread voter fraud.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

Georgia Secretary of State - 2020 General Election Risk-Limiting Audit
Georgia Secretary of State - County Summary Data
U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia - (2021) Dismissal of Trump v. Kemp
Atlanta News First - Justice Department files lawsuit against Fulton County for 2020 election records
Georgia Recorder - FBI raids Fulton County elections warehouse seeking 2020 ballots
WXIA-TV - FBI to seize all 2020 election ballots, records after raiding Fulton County elections hub: warrants
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff - Sen. Ossoff Statement on FBI Raid of Fulton County Elections Office
Fox5 Atlanta - Legal questions surround FBI search of Fulton election office

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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 Jan. 29, 2026

Virginia Court Decisions Block Democrat Mid-Decade Redistricting Amendment, and Restore Rights to Some Citizens Convicted of Felonies
We have two stories from Virginia today. An effort by Democrats to gerrymander more Congressional seats was blocked by a county court January 27th, and a federal judge found the commonwealth’s felon disenfranchisement amendment violated a 150-year-old federal law.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
American Democracy Minute - Redistricting Updates: CA GOP Appeals Prop 50 Maps to SCOTUS, VA Dems Push Constitutional Amendment, NH’s Bill Doomed, MD Stalemated
Virginia Mercury - Virginia court strikes down redistricting amendment headed for April ballot
Tazewell, VA Circuit Court (via Virginia Mercury) - Decision Blocking VA Democrats Proposed Amendment

American Democracy Minute - (2023) Virginia’s Governor Ended Automatic Voting Rights Restoration for 12,000 Returning Felons this Year. A State Error Almost Disenfranchised 3,400 More.
American Democracy Minute - (2025) VA Legislature Sends Several Pro-Voter Bills to Gov. Youngkin, and a Constitutional Amendment Restoring Returning Citizen Rights to Voters
Courthouse News Service - Judge says Virginia violated Reconstruction Era law by disenfranchising certain felons
U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Virginia - Opinion in Felony Disenfranchisement Case
Encyclopedia Virginia - An Act to admit the State of Virginia to Representation in the Congress of the United States (January 26, 1870)
State of Virginia - Current Rights Restoration Rules

Groups Taking Action:

ACLU VA, Collateral Consequences Resource Center

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American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Jan. 28, 2026

Polls Show Most Utah Voters Want to Protect Their Fair Redistricting Amendment, But Another GOP-Backed Ballot Initiative Aims to Repeal It
As you’ll recall, the Utah state courts struck down multiple GOP efforts to neutralize a constitutional amendment creating an independent redistricting commission and a ban on gerrymandering. Despite wide bipartisan support for the fair redistricting amendment, a new Trump-endorsed ballot measure aims to repeal it.
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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

BallotPedia - (2018) Utah Proposition 4, Independent Advisory Commission on Redistricting Initiative (2018)
American Democracy Minute - (Sept. 2024) - After Losing in Court and at the Polls, Utah Legislature Approves Nov. Ballot Measure to Veto or Alter Citizen Ballot Measures to Protect Its Power
American Democracy Minute - (Nov. 2025) Utah Judge Rejects Legislature’s Gerrymandered Congressional Map, Choosing a Map Which Follows the State Constitution Instead
Better Boundaries Utah - Utah poll on redistricting and the state Supreme Court
Utah News Dispatch - As deadline looms, Trump looks to boost effort to repeal Utah independent redistricting law
Truth Social - President Donald Trump's Post Supporting Ballot Measure to Repeal Proposition 4
ABC4 - Utah legislature files notice to appeal redistricting case to Utah Supreme Court
ABC4 - Proposition 4, Map C, and special sessions: A timeline of Utah’s redistricting saga

Groups Taking Action:

Better Boundaries Utah, League of Women Voters UT, Mormon Women for Ethical Government

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The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Jan. 27, 2026

In Letter to MN Gov. Tim Walz, U.S. AG Pam Bondi Appears to Tie ‘Law & Order’ to State Turning Over Voter Data and Meeting Other Conditions
A January 24th letter from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appears to link a return to “law and order” to meeting three conditions, including turning over voter & personal data to identify voter fraud.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

American Democracy Minute - U.S. DOJ Sues MA, CO, HI and NV to Turn Over Voter Registration Files, but Even Red States are Pushing Back
Fox News - 1/24/2025 Letter from U.S. AG Pam Bondi to MN Gov. Tim Walz
Minnesota Public Radio News - 1/25/2025 Press Conference with Gov. Tim Walz
The Hill - Walz to Bondi after Minnesota shooting: ‘Go ahead and work on’ Epstein files
MN Secretary of State's Office - Statement from Secretary Simon

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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 Jan. 26, 2026

Trump DOJ Joins California GOP in Attempt to Block Proposition 50 Congressional Maps in the U.S. Supreme Court

As expected, the California GOP filed an emergency U.S. Supreme Court appeal of the Proposition 50 congressional districts, claiming racial gerrymandering. Also unsurprisingly, the Trump Department of Justice filed a brief supporting the appeal, saying that while the map was done for partisan reasons, it was accomplished using racial gerrymandering.

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Articles & Resources:

American Democracy Minute - U.S. Supreme Court Majority Embraces Texas Redistricting, Ignores District Court Panel Racial Gerrymandering Findings
American Democracy Minute - Federal Panel Allows California’s Gerrymandered Counterpunch to Five More GOP Congressional Seats in Texas. Will a Politicized SCOTUS Block It?
U.S. Supreme Court - DAVID TANGIPA, et al., Applicants, v. GAVIN NEWSOM, et al.,
U.S. Supreme Court - BRIEF FOR THE UNITED STATES AS RESPONDENT IN SUPPORT OF THE APPLICATION
SCOTUS Blog - Trump administration urges Supreme Court to find California’s redistricting map unconstitutional
Legal Defense Fund - Redistricting Watch 5.0: Tracking the Latest Updates on Congressional Map Movements

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

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