The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system through intimidation, the distortion of information, financial corruption, and the dismantling of government offices. In the final episode of this season, we examine whether the administration is also trying to change the rules of our elections. Dawn Baldwin Gibson, a North Carolina pastor, tells us about how, in 2024, her vote was challenged for reasons that still aren't clear to her. Host Anne Applebaum interviews Stacey Abrams, who has spent years fighting voter-suppression tactics. Abrams argues that Gibson's story is one of many attempts to change how people vote and how their votes are counted. Anne Applebaum: From The Atlantic, this is Autocracy in America. I'm Anne Applebaum. This season, we've been talking about the Trump administration's unprecedented accumulation of power. But we're still missing one piece of the story: the elections themselves. We've heard people talk about how they fear soldiers on the...
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