The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Oct. 8, 2026

President Trump Now Says the Government Won’t Pay for His Vanity Ads, His SuperPAC Will. Coordinating Spending with His PAC is Illegal, Too.
After defending the multi-million dollar vanity television advertising touting his conservative accomplishments, President Donald Trump now says his super PAC, not the U.S. Government, will pay for the ads. That’s illegal, too, because coordinating with a super PAC violates campaign finance rules.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

Campaign Legal Center - CLC's Margaret Dylus-Yukins on Recent Political Ads Featuring the President
Campaign Legal Center - Complaint to the Federal Election Commission
President Donald Trump - Post on Truth Social claiming MAGA Inc. will pay for advertising
The Hill - Trump won’t reimburse government for controversial ads
Federal Election Commission - Coordinated communications

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - ‘Paid for by the US Government’: Is President Trump’s Propaganda Advertising Illegal Under Federal Law? Yes, Say Government Watchdogs.
American Democracy Minute - The Federal Election Commission has a New Chair. But It’s Still Paralyzed.

Groups Taking Action:
Campaign Legal Center, C.R.E.W.

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 Oct. 7, 2026

Election Day Voter Registration is Good and Helps People Vote. But for Most Voters, Registering Before the Election is Better.
Procrastinators, take note. If you haven’t yet registered to vote, registering earlier, rather than later, has advantages. Election day registration is a critical last resort, but also makes registration problems harder to fix.

Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

National Conference of State Legislatures - Same-Day Voter Registration
Voting Rights Lab - Same Day Registration Legislation
BallotPedia - Arguments for and against same-day voter registration
MIT Election Science & Data Lab - Provisional ballots
MIT Election Science & Data Lab - Same Day Registration

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - (2025) Over 100,000 Registered North Carolina Voters Must Now Provide ID Information or Vote by Provisional Ballot

American Democracy Minute - (2024) In Seven Super Tuesday Primary States There’s Still Time to Register to Vote, Thanks to Election Day Registration

Groups Taking Action:

Common Cause, Demos, Brennan Center for Justice

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 Oct. 6, 2026

In-Person Voter Registration Deadlines Are Imminent for 16 States. Local Election Offices are Your Best Source for Options & Information.
Voter registration deadlines are imminent in several states the weeks of Oct. 5th and Oct. 12th. While election day registration is available in 19 states, rule changes in some states only allow use of a provisional ballot for same day registrations.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

National Conference of State Legislatures - Voter Registration Deadlines
Vote.Org - Voter Registration Deadlines with Links to State Websites
U.S. Election Assistance Commission - Register And Vote in Your State - Includes List of Local Election Offices
Pew Research - Why Are Millions of Citizens Not Registered to Vote?

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Why People Don’t Vote Week: You Can’t Vote if You Don’t Register — So Why Don’t Nonvoters Register?

American Democracy Minute - Why People Don’t Vote Week: Surveys Show Many Nonvoters Don’t Think Their Vote Matters

Groups Taking Action:

RocktheVote.org, WhenWeAllVote.org, League of Women Voters/Vote411.org

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 Oct. 5, 2026

‘Paid for by the US Government’: Is President Trump’s Propaganda Advertising Illegal Under Federal Law? Yes, Say Government Watchdogs.
The Trump administration began airing paid television advertising Sept. 23rd designed to tout President Trump’s conservative accomplishments right before the midterms - and carrying the disclosure “Paid for by the U.S. Government”. Multiple good government groups say it violates several federal statutes.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

The White House - TV Advertising: America Will Never Be A Socialist/Communist Country
The White House - TV Advertising: America Will Never Be a Communist Country
CNN - ‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign
C.R.E.W. - Trump’s taxpayer-funded propaganda ads violate multiple federal laws
C.R.E.W. - Letter to DHS Inspector General with Complaint
States Newsroom - Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - The Federal Election Commission has a New Chair. But It’s Still Paralyzed.

Groups Taking Action:

CREW, Poynter Institute

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 Oct. 2, 2026

What Happened to the 16,000 Nevada Noncitizen Voters Announced by Trump’s DHS Secretary in July? Turns Out There Weren’t Any.
President Donald Trump claimed in his July 16th speech that the Department of Homeland Security found 278,000 noncitizens on U.S. voter rolls, almost 16,000 of them in Nevada. How many of those Nevada residents were actually illegal voters? Zero.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

Roll Call - Transcript of President Donald Trump's July 16th Election Security Speech
WCNC via YouTube - (July) Markwayne Mullin: Press Briefing on Noncitizen Voting
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security - DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Sends Letters to Secretaries of State Warning About Non-Citizens on Voter Rolls
Nevada Independent - Trump admin quietly walks back claim of 16K noncitizens voting in Nevada
Nevada Independent - 185 noncitizen voters flagged by Trump admin in Nevada are likely citizens, state says
KRNV - Nevada Won't Use Federal Save DataBase to Check Voter Rolls
Brookings - Why do so few noncitizens try to vote?

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Citing Select Declassified Documents President Trump Blames 2020 Loss on China, Says ‘Deep State’ Withheld Intelligence from Him
American Democracy Minute - Research Shows Trump’s Debate Claim of Widespread Voting by Noncitizens is Nonsense

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

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

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#News #Democracy #DemocracyNews #NoncitizenVoting #Nevada #SAVEDatabase #DHS #ConspiracyTheories #MarkwayneMullin

The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for Oct. 1, 2026

Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth Announces Use of Military Cyber Command Assets Against Foreign Election Interference, Backstopping Gutted CISA
The Department of Defense has released a September 22nd memo from Secretary Pete Hegseth, directing the U.S. Cyber Command to combat foreign interference in the November election. Such protections were formerly conducted by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, gutted by the administration in 2025.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

U.S. Department of Defense - Countering Foreign Threats to 2026 Elections
Fed Agent – Iran Conflict Raises Cybersecurity Concerns as DHS Shutdown, CISA Turmoil Continue
Reveal - Russia Targeted Past US Elections. Will It Meddle in the Midterms?
U.S. Department of Justice - (2024) Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - (July) Trump’s July 16th Election Security Speech Appears to Have Elements of Activist-Proposed National Emergency Order Which Surfaced in March

American Democracy Minute - (March) Meeting of 2020 Trump Election Operatives Considers 2026 Litigation Strategies and Declaring a National Emergency to Interfere with the Midterms

American Democracy Minute - (March) Since 2018, CISA Helped States Harden Elections From Foreign Interference by Iran and Others. In 2025 Its Workforce & Funding was Cut.

Groups Taking Action:

Center for Internet Security, IssueOne/Don’t Mess With US.org

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#News #Democracy #DemocracyNews #DOD #CISA #Cybersecurity #2026Midterms

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

California Updates: County Sheriff Must Return the Ballots He Seized; County Registrar Under Scrutiny After Alleging Primary Ballot Stuffing
We have updates from California today, where Riverside County’s sheriff was ordered to return over 650,000 2025 ballots he seized earlier this year, and state and federal officials are investigating after Shasta County’s chief election officer and known election skeptic made allegations of ballot stuffing because the paper didn’t ‘feel right’.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

California Supreme Court - CLARISSA CERVANTES et al., Petitioners, v. CHAD BIANCO, as Sheriff, etc., et al.,
Respondents; RIVERSIDE COUNTY CITIZENS et al.,
CalMatters - California sheriff broke election law by seizing ballots, state Supreme Court rules
Shasta Scout - Federal court subpoenas Shasta elections official, instructs him to bring voted ballots to Sacramento
Shasta Scout - Shasta supervisors censure election official Clint Curtis, citing misconduct against staff
Shasta County, CA - Shasta County Welcomes State and Federal Election Investigators and Encourages a
Review of the County Clerk/Registrar of Voters Office

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Tarrant County, TX Commissioners Close 92 Polling Places; Convicted CO County Clerk Tina Peters Withdraws from Shasta County, CA Job Offer

American Democracy Minute - (2025) Five Years After the 2020 Election, More Election Denier Turmoil in Shasta County, CA

American Democracy Minute - (2023) Shasta County, CA Votes to Hand Count Ballots for its 111,000 Voters. Now They Have to Pay for It.

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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 Sept. 29, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court Again Blocks Third Attempt to Restore Missouri’s Gerrymandered 2025 Map for the Midterm. Now It’s Up to the Voters.
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a gerrymandered Missouri congressional map from being used in the 2026 general election. The September 25th decision ends, at least until after the midterms, state-sponsored GOP efforts to eliminate a long-held Democratic seat in Kansas City.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources

U.S. Supreme Court - PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS, ET AL. v. ROBERT ONDER, ET AL.
SCOTUSblog - For the third time, Supreme Court declines to allow Missouri to use congressional map expected to aid Republicans
Missouri Independent - US Supreme Court again blocks Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map
BallotPedia - Missouri Proposition A, Congressional Map Referendum (2026)
People Not Politicians MO - FAQs on Proposition A

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Missouri Supreme Court Rules Pro-Voter Redistricting Ballot Measure Must Be Added to the Ballot; Secretary of State Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court
American Democracy Minute - Missouri SOS Still Apparently Scheming to Derail November Ballot Initiative to Overturn New Gerrymandered Congressional Map Splitting Kansas City

Groups Taking Action:

People Not Politicians MO

Register or Check Your Voter Registration:

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

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