CORASANITI: I think what we've seen in a lot of these bills is efforts by legislatures to take power of election administration away from election officials. Their new book is Honey, Baby, Mine. Yet it would still carry pretty draconian penalties for these election judges who, again, aren't state employees, aren't even necessarily county employees. And so all of those are, you know, Democratic initiatives or more liberal initiatives that, you know, pass in these ballot initiatives at the state level because they're popular with the majority. npr.org. And they also have financial fines up to $10,000. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. In 1923, a Tulsa Klan holding company erected a meeting hall, a fortress of racism. The Fresh Air Archive is the culmination of many years of work to create a digital database that captures the past, present, and future of Fresh Air. The Texas bill that was introduced seeks to ban both of those. You know, in Detroit, where they were counting absentee ballots, you know, there were Trump supporters who showed up outside of that arena banging on the windows, you know, really scaring people inside. GROSS: What are some of the more unique or extreme or extremely baffling restrictions that you're aware of? This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. One of the first openly gay editors working at a major publishing house, Denneny launched the Stonewall Inn Editions imprint. "You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. And so in Florida, if an election official or a poll worker, you know, isn't monitoring for even a minute and gets caught, it's a $25,000 fine. Fresh Air | WAMU I'm Terry Gross. GROSS: Let's take another short break here, and then we'll talk some more. DAVID BIANCULLI, BYLINE: When the fantasy TV series "Watchmen" premiered two years ago on HBO, it opened with a prologue set in 1921 in Tulsa, Okla. 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Gross appeared as a guest voice on The Simpsons as herself in the episodes "The Debarted" and "The Girl on the Bus". Exactly. [8] They reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and share a passion for music. You've seen the more conventional romantic-triangle version of this story but there are no heroes and no villains here. GROSS: Nick Corasaniti, thank you so much for talking with us. So it's kind of a ludicrous thing, you know, if you see the canvassers on street corners who, you know, are asking you to sign something, and then all of a sudden they unfurrow, you know, a piece of paper that could cover your couch at home. You know, the utility of a dropbox is that it's a 24/7 voting center. And, you know, Republicans and Democratic election officials have said, you know, this is wrong, and this is kind of going in the wrong direction for what we're trying to do with this method of voting. See All Recent Segments. And I think it's important to remember what former President Trump was asking a lot of these Republican state legislatures to do after the 2012 election. It's everyone from your local poll workers or local election judges, as they're called in Texas, who are basically low-paid employees or, you know, volunteers with a little bit of cash who show up and help administer the election during early voting or on Election Day. Pain and pleasure do the tango in the engrossing new novel 'Kairos'. GROSS: In one of your articles, you described Georgia's new voting law as having a breathtaking assertion of partisan power in elections. [23] They have no children, which Gross has said was a deliberate choice on their part. And by then reducing early voting hours, those lines will now be longer. It dramatized a brutal attack on the prosperous Black neighborhood of Greenwood with thousands of angry white people targeting the town and its citizens in a concentrated wave of violence that included murder, shootings, the looting of homes and businesses, fires set by torches, even incendiary explosive devices dropped by a small fleet of airplanes. Avatar: The Way of Water isn't one of the year's best movies, but it's undoubtedly one of the best movie-going experiences Justin Chang has had in a while. [10] She obtained a divorce by the time she started her radio career in 1973. Latest Show. If there's a Republican secretary of state who's very loyal to the party, let them have a lot of control. It is produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, where Gross began hosting the show in 1975, when it was broadcast only locally. Terry Gross. And what they've done is made it very difficult, almost nearly impossible to remove a partisan poll watcher for bad behavior. So there's a long history of voter ID being used as a way to block access to voting in communities of color. Fresh Air with Terry Gross | WYPR CORASANITI: So the targeting here is almost universal in terms of people who run elections. And it's just an indication of how much this, you know, repetitive pushing by the former president of this false idea of voter fraud. Fresh Air from WHYY, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. It's not just voters anymore. A majority of state legislatures in the U.S. have Republican majorities. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. Baldwin's books include Go Tell it on the Mountain, The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. Thinking she had just months to live, Laura Dern's mother 'spilled the beans' Discovery recently announced a shake-up at the network, which for years has offered a well curated film selection. 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So one specific thing that they've targeted has been absentee ballots and mail-in voting. Eight sushi chefs compete at specific, well-designed challenges for head judge Masaharu Morimoto and celebrity chef judges in this six-part competition show on the Roku Channel. Latest Episodes Fresh Air Weekend: Tupac Shakur's 'Amerikan Family'; birder Christian Cooper June 24, 2023 NICK CORASANITI: Right. CORASANITI: Well, it's a really recent trend that we've seen Democrats and liberal groups really leverage ballot initiatives to kind of bypass Republican-controlled legislatures and enact laws in red states that, you know, were popular statewide but would have never passed within the state legislature. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! They can really drag out. 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In 1985, Fresh Air with Terry Gross went national, being distributed weekly by NPR. If you're just joining us, my guest is Nick Corasaniti, a New York Times political reporter who has been covering voting-related issues. They're designed to target Black voters. And so they've come into the crosshairs of some of these Republican legislatures. In 2003, she received the Corporation for Public Broadcastings Edward R. Murrow Award for her outstanding contributions to public radio and for advancing the growth, quality and positive image of radio.Gross is the author of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, published by Hyperion in 2004. And it got to some underlying tension that's, you know, kind of present in all of these voting bills. Subscribe to Fresh Air Plus! It was painted white and towered over the ruins of Greenwood. [8][9][6] She said that her family lived in an apartment near Senior's Restaurant, a local landmark. So that moment about the purity of the ballot box kind of really, I think, underscored how a lot of Democrats and civil rights groups are feeling about these voting laws. It's the account of a prominent Black newspaper publisher who fled to Boston after the massacre. For more than 40 years, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has inspired and engaged audiences, both in the Greater Philadelphia area where it began as a local program on WHYY-FM in 1975and across the country as a nationally-broadcast show since 1987. CORASANITI: Well, the one that has really, I think, annoyed a lot of election officials that they've almost testified against - and these are bipartisan election officials - has been some of the limits on dropboxes that, you know, basically render them almost pointless. CORASANITI: Yes. Music | January 21, 2022 6:00 am Remembering Gene Simmons' Contentious Interview with Terry Gross, 20 Years Later The KISS frontman would rather we all forget it Two decades ago, Gene Simmons and Terry Gross faced off on NPR. Download; Embed. I think of the amazing series that my colleague Jim Rutenberg did in 2015 on the unraveling of the Voting Rights Act, that when there are these attacks on voting, regardless of where they're coming from, it's really an attack on American democracy and small D democratic norms. It is a love story and a rich portrait of people watching their country disappear. CORASANITI: Right. We'll talk more about Republican efforts to change how Americans vote and who gets to vote after we take a short break. Fresh Air with Terry Gross received a Peabody Award in 1994 for its probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight.America Women in Radio and Television presented her with a Gracie Award in 1999 in the category of National Network Radio Personality. Fresh Air with Terry Gross received a Peabody Award in 1994 for its "probing questions . At the same time, Republican lawmakers in at least eight states controlled by Republican legislatures are trying to remove the powers that secretaries of state, governors and nonpartisan election boards have over how elections are run. She has hosted the show since 1975 and received a National Humanities Medal in 2016. You've written about how Republicans and conservative groups are coordinating efforts to write bills for different states that would restrict voting. The Fresh Air Archive is made possible by a generous grant from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. Fresh Air | Iowa Public Radio And we've kind of seen different bills laying new penalties or fines or threats on the heads of everyone. Now, that varies from kind of tacit support about overall election security to outright statements about, quote-unquote, "stop the steal" or appearing at some of these rallies after the election to support the president's effort to overturn the results. (SOUNDBITE OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S "SHENANDOAH") So when viewed through that lens and remembering that effort, the power grab that a lot of the legislatures are attempting to pull off with these bills is kind of all the more alarming, I think, for voting rights advocates and for Democrats. Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features. 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