Democracy is Dead
What the result of the American Presidential election in 2024 means to democracy in America. Serve with alcohol.
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Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
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.
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
Saturday Apr 05, 2025
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
Monday Mar 31, 2025
Monday Mar 31, 2025
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.”
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
Sunday Mar 30, 2025
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://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022
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/
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
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.
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
Sunday Mar 23, 2025
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
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
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!
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
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 Ceasefirehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg70y3ydmdno https://eutoday.net/musks-cuts-halt-efforts-to-rescue-ukrainian-children/ Re: Department of education cutshttps://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: USAIDhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrxez45dr1ohttps://www.who.int/news/item/05-03-2025-funding-cuts-to-tuberculosis-programmes-endanger-millions-of-lives Re: Tesla and Trump administrationhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dzq8vo https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/musk-trump-100-million-donation-political-operation Re: Travel banhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/trump-administration-travel-restrictions Re: Funding Billhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/aoc-chuck-schumer-gop-funding-bill Re: Panama Canalhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/trump-pentagon-panama-canal Re: Duterte arresthttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw1nklxezo Re: Aliens Acthttps://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 Apphttps://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/11/cbp-app-self-deport-00225102 Re: Indian Student Deportedhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14501099/indian-student-deport-donald-trump-columbia-protesters-ranjani-srinivasan.html Re: Deporting brain cancer child who is citizenhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-mexico-child-cancer-deportation-b2714565.html Re: Summary of weekhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnzp4ye5zo
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
** 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 protestshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp979w055o Re: Postal Service Changeshttps://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/trump-postal-service-executive-order-mail-voting-threat/ Re: Transgender women in men’s prisonshttps://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 Layoffshttps://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 Officialshttps://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 Ukrainianshttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/ Re: Ukraine hotel missile attackhttps://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: Tariffshttps://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 Russiahttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2er34w0jgdo Re: Fort Blisshttps://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
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
In this week's episode, we discuss the mechanisms by which the Trump administration is using to undermine voting in the next elections.