American Democracy Minute for June 21, 2022: MI, MN & IL Vie for DNC’s Early Presidential Primary Spots

For years, New Hampshire and Iowa have been first in the nation for their presidential primary and caucus. A place where presidential candidates come, visit diners, eat corn dogs, and practice their stump speeches. Their audience? Most rural white people. Now it appears that three upper midwestern states are vying for a chance to be the new proving ground.

American Democracy Minute for June 10, 2022: State AG Investigates Alleged Voting Machine Tampering by Big Lie Proponents in 11 MI Townships

It’s not only the January 6th committee who has questions about security breaches after the 2020 election. Michigan’s attorney general is pursuing allegations in 11 towns in Michigan of voting machine tampering or the sharing of electronic data from tabulation machines to third parties. The tampering was apparently instigated by local Trump loyalists who believed former President Trump’s now debunked claims of voter fraud.