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Vincent and Joel sit down with guest Representative Brandon Newton, elected in 2017 at age 22 as the youngest State Representative in the country. They discuss election reform, judicial reform, income tax cuts, infrastructure, increasing teacher pay, and so much more! Joel and Vincent breakdown the status of the Republican primary between former Governor Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump.    

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Mayor Hillary Schieve was elected as the Mayor of Reno in 2014. She is serving her last term as Mayor and is currently the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. She is also an entrepreneur with a passion for using technology and innovation to improve her community. In this episode, we get into some pressing issues facing our society, from our antiquated government and the need for election reform to our current mental health crisis. 

Key Topics:

• Technology and innovation in government
• How blockchain technology can improve our record-keeping and election process
• A proactive approach to America's mental health crisis
• Bringing jobs and innovation by bringing a Telsa Gigafactory to Reno
• The need for election reform
• Her story of stalking and finding a GPS tracker on her car
• How mental illness and drug addiction has affected Mayor Schieve personally

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• Mayor Schieve's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MayorSchieve
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hillary-schieve-7b3361b/
• Mental Health Survey of our cities by the U.S. Conference of Mayors: https://www.usmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/USCM-Mental-Health-Survey-2023.pdf

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"The future health, if not survival, of American democracy is in danger in a way that it hasn't been in our lifetime," warns Larry Diamond, who sat down with Francis Fukuyama to discuss voting rights, the Electoral Count Act, and what reforms are needed to avert a future political catastrophe.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also a professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. His research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His latest edited book (with Orville Schell), China's Influence and American Interests (Hoover Press, 2019), urges a posture of constructive vigilance toward China’s global projection of “sharp power,” which it sees as a rising threat to democratic norms and institutions. He offers a massive open online course (MOOC) on Comparative Democratic Development through the edX platform and is now writing a textbook to accompany it.

Diamond’s book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy in the United States and around the world at this potential “hinge in history,” and offers an agenda for strengthening and defending democracy at home and abroad. A paperback edition with a new preface was released by Penguin in April 2020. His other books include: In Search of Democracy (2016), The Spirit of Democracy (2008), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999),  Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989). He has also edited or coedited more than forty books on democratic development around the world, most recently, Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years.

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As Conservatives watched the election returns come in across the country, we saw unprecedented irregularities as Democrats and even Republicans used the Virus as an excuse to do away with many time-honored election integrity measures. No doubt, Trump faced an uphill battle – going up against the leftist media corporations, social media censorship and the pandemic. It was not a fair fight.
 
However, how are we supposed to identify true election fraud?
 
Dr. Douglas G. Frank, a world-renowned physicist, approaches the issue using the scientific method.  He was recently featured in two of Mike Lindell’s documentaries (“Scientific Proof” and “Absolute Interference”) after his discovery of two algorithms that he believes were used to manipulate our elections.  Dr. Frank has been working with dozens of teams across the country for election reform and will be speaking in Tennessee in late January 2022.
 
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In the season finale of Nuestro, Chuck Rocha (@ChuckRocha) talks with his good friend US Senator Alex Padilla (@AlexPadilla4CA) about the valuable lessons (and recipes!) his immigrant parents passed down, making the jump from mechanical engineering to electoral politics, his work to expand voting rights and climate change solutions for California residents, his Capitol Hill support system, and so much more. 

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My thoughts and plan for voter reform

What's REALLY in the Georgia Voter Reform Law and why are some people and businesses so offended by it?  This week the National Crawford Roundtable debunks the fallacies being perpetrated by opponents to the "new" law and also looks at hypocracy of the corporations who choose to join in on the boycott of Georgia but remain tied to foreign companies with abysmal human rights policies.

The 2020 elections hinged, in dramatic ways, on widely varying state laws and state election procedures. Major changes were made in light of the pandemic, to expand options for mail-in and early voting and to Election Day itself. These changes engendered strong support and strong opposition, and were one reason for the record turnout of 160 million voters. Now, state legislatures are in session all around the country. Will the changes adopted in 2020 be made permanent? Will voting options be expanded further? Or will states seek to roll back voting opportunities as a result? 

On Thursday, February 18th, the Ash Center hosted a discussion titled Moving Forward or Moving Backward: Election Legislation in the States with leading state election experts and state legislators to see where things stand, and where they might go.  Tune into the discussion featuring: 

• Dale Ho, Director of the Voting Rights Project, ACLU
• Nan Grogan Orrock, State Senator, Georgia
• Wendy Underhill, Director of Elections and Redistricting, National Conference of State Legislatures
• Miles Rapoport (Moderator), Senior Practice Fellow of American Democracy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

The transcript for this episode is online here. 

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