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EPISODE · May 2, 2025 · 31 MIN

Her Parents Couldn’t Vote in the South. Now She’s California’s Top Election Official

from Political Breakdown · host KQED

California’s Secretary of State Shirley Weber is speaking out against federal Republican policies and proposed laws she says will disenfranchise voters. Weber is the daughter of southern sharecroppers and knows what voter suppression looks like. Her grandfather was never given the opportunity to vote and her father didn’t cast a ballot until his 30s, after fleeing a lynch mob in Arkansas and moving to California when Weber was a toddler. She joins Marisa and Scott to discuss threats to voting rights in the U.S.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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