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Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas

Podcast: Key takeaways from the Wisconsin primaries with Madison City Attorney Michael Haas

Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) Elections Integrity Fellow David Levine spoke with longtime Wisconsin election administrator and Madison City Attorney Michael Haas about conducting Wisconsin elections, including the state’s August 9th primary, in the state’s hyper-polarized atmosphere.

Localities can often take steps to protect election workers, such as by creating task forces that respond to election worker threats and adopting meaningful penalties for threatening and harassing election workers.


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Project 2025’s Media Agenda: The Executive Order Threatens NPR and PBS
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Project 2025’s Media Agenda: The Executive Order Threatens NPR and PBS

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday evening to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS. The order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and other agencies to cease both direct and indirect public financing for these public broadcasters.

In a social media post, the administration defended the decision, asserting that NPR and PBS "receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.’" The executive order argues that government-funded media is outdated and unnecessary, claiming it compromises journalistic independence.

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‘Black jobs’ slur and anti-DEI mindset are bad for business
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The Calculated Dismantling of Minority Business Opportunity in America

A recent executive order to dismantle the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is another policy change in America's long history of systematically suppressing minority economic advancement. This decision, which threatens to unravel decades of progress in fostering minority entrepreneurship, demands immediate attention and action.

Since its inception, the MBDA has been a lifeline for America's 12 million minority-owned businesses, facilitating access to over $1.5 billion in capital in 2024 alone. Its dissolution represents the loss of a government agency and the destruction of a crucial bridge to economic opportunity for countless entrepreneurs from marginalized communities.

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World Vaccine Congress Washington Tackles Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric in U.S. Politics

The World Vaccine Congress Washington is held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, April 23, 2025

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World Vaccine Congress Washington Tackles Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric in U.S. Politics

WASHINGTON—A vaccine policy expert challenged attendees of the World Vaccine Congress Washington to imagine a deadly disease spreading in various places around the country. We have the tools to stop it, but lawmakers were instead debating whether or not to use them.

In fact, that describes what is currently happening across the United States, according to Rehka Lakshmanan, M.H.A.

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