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EPISODE · Aug 10, 2025 · 7 MIN

Audio Article: To Protect Voting Rights, We Need a Democratic Constitution

from The Democratic Constitution Podcast · host Lucas De Hart and Luke Pickrell

Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — and our fundamentally undemocratic Constitution is to blame. This is a recording of Luke’s recent Jacobin article, “To Protect Voting Rights, We Need a Democratic Constitution.”

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Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — and our fundamentally undemocratic Constitution is to blame. This is a recording of Luke’s recent Jacobin article, “To Protect Voting...

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