Ep. 11 Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

05/08/21 • 27 min

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State
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Articles on Ken Blackwell and 2004 Ohio voter suppression and election rigging:

Ken Blackwell’s Greatest “Hits”: Voting Edition – ACLU Ohio https://www.acluohio.org/archives/blog-posts/ken-blackwells-greatest-hits

Mother Jones on voting machines (pre-election) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine/

NY Times: Glitch Found in Ohio Counting https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/politics/campaign/glitch-found-in-ohio-counting.html

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Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State
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We now have fabulous merch! If you want everyone to know you think Local Representation is Sexy then you owe it to yourself to wear it on a t-shirt! (or mug or notebook or stickers etc)

Articles on Ken Blackwell and 2004 Ohio voter suppression and election rigging:

Ken Blackwell’s Greatest “Hits”: Voting Edition – ACLU Ohio https://www.acluohio.org/archives/blog-posts/ken-blackwells-greatest-hits

Mother Jones on voting machines (pre-election) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine/

NY Times: Glitch Found in Ohio Counting https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/politics/campaign/glitch-found-in-ohio-counting.html

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Ep. 10 Christina Haswood, Kansas State Representative - district 10

Christina Haswood, Kansas State Representative, House District 10"How many times in this room of the House of the Chamber are the discussions that try to take and dehumanize Indigenous peoples and Native Americans? I was like, man, whatever they tried to do in this room, it didn’t work. It failed. I’m here." – Christina Haswood
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Here is a link specifically to the TikTok from the swearing in ceremony
And here is the link to the FABULOUS video explainer of "The Kansas Experiment" (aka, "the Brownback Experiment") from Loud Light that Christina mentioned in the interview.
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Ep. 12 Nida Allam, Durham County Commissioner

Nida Allam, Durham County Commissioner
"No one can tell you to wait your turn. No one can tell you that you can't do it." - Nida Allam
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Here’s an article about the study I mentioned about North Carolina no longer qualifying as a functional democracy.

The study’s author, Andrew Reynolds, a professor at UNC – Chapel Hill, taking a victory lap two years later:

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