Open Democracy Minute

Brian Beihl

Open Democracy Minute

A weekly News and Politics podcast

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Open Democracy Minute

Brian Beihl

Open Democracy Minute

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Open Democracy Minute

Brian Beihl

Open Democracy Minute

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You're listening to the American Democracy Minute, keeping our government by and for the people.After months of promising an open and fair process, the NH Senate Election Law Committee voted last Monday to recommend two rigged voting district
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  It will be a light schedule in the NH Legislature this week, but we have a heavy topic to discuss:  “Provisional Ballots”.Senate Bill 418
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  We billed last week’s report as a “reckoning” for NH Redistricting, which turned out to be only partially true. February 14, as expected,
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  We expect a week of reckoning on the NH redistricting process.   Public statements by Governor Chris Sununu asked for changes to the gerryma
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  A small but vocal group of Stop the Steal activists have been making the rounds in New Hampshire.  As a voter, you have reason to be concern
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  A fascinating NH Senate Election Law & Municipal Affairs committee hearing on Monday, as the House-approved Congressional & NH House voting
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.  Happy Granny D Day, honoring America’s campaign finance reformer Doris “Granny D” Haddock on her January 24 birthday.  There are two good
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.   It’s only January 17th, and already this year the majority in the NH House has passed gerrymandered House & Congressional maps, and introdu
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.   The NH House had its full session last week, Jan 5th, 6th & 7th and started with parliamentary trickery by moving their redistricting bills
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.   A big week in redistricting coming up in New Hampshire.  The full NH House meets this Wednesday, Thursday and possibly Friday to consider
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.    While we await the return of the U.S. Senate to Washington for further action on the filibuster rules and the Freedom to Vote Act, back he
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.   After months of letters, calls and emails from constituents asking her to change or abolish the filibuster, and to support the Freedom to V
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.    This past week, President Joe Biden convened the Summit for Democracy, a virtual meeting of world democracies.  Democracy activists in the
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.Holidays or no, there is one month left before the full NH House votes on the gerrymandered Congressional maps, and NH House maps that kept 53
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.While New Hampshire activists gear up to fight the NH GOP-proposed gerrymandered voting districts, the bill in Washington which would end gerr
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.Hearings in the NH House Special Committee on Redistricting were held last week on proposed Democratic and Republican maps for NH House, U.S.
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.After months of claiming there would be a fair, transparent process, the majority in the NH House Special Committee on redistricting dropped a
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.This past weekend, the Map-a-Thon Coaltion, a group of over 250 NH voters who have been working since May, released their NH House voting dist
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.As expected, the move to debate the Freedom to Vote Act in the US Senate was stonewalled with the filibuster, adding more pressure to change o
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.It appears that the Freedom to Vote Act will get its first of a number of votes in the U.S. Senate later this week.   The first move will be t
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.Updates again this week on the Freedom to Vote Act, and NH redistricting. Both are critical to restoring honest elections in New Hampshire, an
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.First a national update. The For the People Act, now revised as a new bill called the Freedom to Vote Act has been put on the back burner whil
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.Two down, seven more to go. With the Merrimack & Strafford county hearings complete, there was not, unsurprisingly, a single person who testif
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.This Wednesday is the second public “listening session” for the Special Committee on Redistricting, held at the Strafford County Courthouse at
You're listening to the Open Democracy Minute, keeping Granite State government by and for the people.While the state legislature's Special Committee on Redistricting has just started learning how to use its software, the Map-a-Thon citizen map
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