The Women of Texas’s Secret Resistance
Rural Texas has a reputation for voting solidly Republican, but hidden within those large swaths of red are tiny flecks of blue. WNYC’s Amanda Aronczyk has reported on a group of progressive Texas...
View ArticleCan Voters with Disabilities Get in the Door?
As New Yorkers head to the polls on Tuesday, some voters with disabilities may face physical barriers to getting into their polling place.The Board of Elections has yet to survey 228 poll locations —...
View ArticleAmy Walter's Final Take on The Midterm Elections
For months now, we’ve been hearing from pundits and politicians that this is the most consequential midterm election of our lifetime, The Takeaway's Amy Walter gives her take on exactly what's at...
View ArticleSurvivors of Domestic Violence Still Face Obstacles to Voting
There's good news and bad news for domestic violence survivors who want to vote in New York. First, the positives. Although voter registration information is normally public, domestic violence...
View ArticleThis Week in Politics: What the Midterms Mean For New York and New Jersey
Next Tuesday, November 6th, is Election Day. It's the culmination of nearly two solid years of campaigning and organizing for what has been called the most significant midterm election in recent...
View ArticleThe Secret Women of Red Texas
One of the most closely watched races in the country is taking place in a state that has been reliably red for decades. Beto O'Rourke is challenging Ted Cruz for his senate seat and while O'Rourke lags...
View ArticleThe Mission to Chase Down Mail-In Ballots In NJ 11
In the past three weeks, Caren Aardema has tracked down hundreds of voters in her hometown of Denville, N.J., and asked them to fill out their mail-in ballots. "It's like, who you gonna call? Vote...
View ArticleThis Week in Politics, Sunday Edition: Four Things You Should Know About...
1. Assuming the pundits don’t all have Dewey-Defeats-Truman egg on their face Wednesday morning, and all the state-wide races — the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and comptroller —...
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Voters Think Out Loud Before Making Up Minds on Midterms
We've been conducting scores of pre-election interviews on both sides of the Hudson River. The result: if voter sentiment were a wine, we'd be forced to describe it with adjectives such as astringent,...
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Leonard Lance Fights to Be the Last Moderate Republican Standing in New Jersey
Any doubt Leonard Lance had that the Trump presidency was going to a pose a problem for him was most certainly erased 33 days after the inauguration. Unlike several of his other Republican counterparts...
View ArticleToo Young to Vote, But Not to Have an Opinion
If this Harvard survey is to be believed, young adults (18 to 29) are "significantly more likely" to vote in the midterms this year than in previous midterms, but we wondered: What does the political...
View ArticleVolunteer Canvassers Get Celebrity Sendoff from Hamilton Creator Lin Manuel...
Broadway sensation Lin-Manuel Miranda is getting behind efforts to to flip the House blue.Droves of progressive New York City residents headed to swing districts in the area over the weekend to canvass...
View ArticleThis America
In "This America," Jill Lepore reports on how the bloody-mindedness of broken men can be countered only by principle and fortitude.
View ArticleWhat Does the Right Kind of Woman Sound Like?
Shrill, strident, bossy. These are the misogynistic slurs women often face when they run for elected office. In this episode, we meet Rena Cook, a voice coach in Oklahoma who’s training progressive,...
View ArticleRoxane Gay Gets Being Disillusioned, But She Still Wants You to Vote
When it comes to turnout, an engaged American electorate will send 60 percent of voters to the polls on a big presidential election year, as we saw in 2008. But elections since have failed to hit that...
View ArticleIn Washington State, Climate Change is on the Ballot. Can It Help Alleviate...
On Tuesday, voters across Washington state will be taking to the polls where climate change is on the ballot.Initiative 1631 in the state is an attempt to limit carbon emissions. Effectively, it would...
View ArticleVIDEO: Here's Your 34-Inch Long Ballot — Don't Forget to Flip
As New Yorkers head to the polls Tuesday, they'll get a two-page ballot for the first time.The pages are connected at one end with a perforated edge, kind of like sheets of toilet paper. All together,...
View ArticleImmigrants Turn to Bollywood and Celebrities to Get Out the Vote
What does it take to get someone to the polls? Maybe group shame?"Did you know that only 49 percent of Asian-Americans who were eligible to vote, voted in the last election?" asked actor Kelvin Han Yee...
View ArticleTranslators Kept Away from Voters They're Meant to Help
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has expanded a program that puts more translators at polling places across the city, but good government groups fear they won't be able to connect with voters.That's...
View ArticleWhat We Learned From Talking to You About Civic Participation
This election season, WNYC’s Yasmeen Khan and Shumita Basu have been talking to people in the New York-New Jersey area about more than straight politics, parties and candidates. They’ve been asking...
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