Revisiting How to Stand Up for Voting Rights (with Andrea Hailey)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Voting is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy, yet access to the ballot is increasingly under threat in America. No matter who wins the Presidential race, it should be a priority to strengthen and expand accessible and secure voting. This election day, we’re revisiting a conversation we had in 2021 with Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org, where we unpack the ongoing fight for voting rights and discuss how restrictive policies disproportionately impact marginalized communities. Hailey shares insights into the tools and strategies we can all use to ensure that every American has an equal voice at the polls. She also explains why voting access matters more than ever and how we can stand up for democracy by defending the right to vote. This episode originally aired on October 21, 2021. Andrea Hailey is the CEO of Vote.org, the nation’s largest nonpartisan digital voter engagement organization. Twitter: @votedotorg See what’s on your ballot Sign up to get election reminders Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon, @NickHanauer, @civicaction Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Threads: pitchforkeconomics YouTube: @pitchforkeconomics Substack: The Pitch

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0:00.0	Hey, pitchfork listeners. Today is Election Day. And if you're anything like me, you are extremely
0:08.3	anxious right now. So rather than throw you a whole new episode to listen to carefully and
0:16.4	engage with and enjoy, we thought we would re-air an episode from October of 2021, a conversation we had with
0:26.6	Andrea Haley about how to stand up for voting rights. Seems appropriate for the day. We hope you
0:36.2	enjoy, and we hope we still have voting rights next week.
0:41.1	And if you haven't voted yet and aren't sure where to go or what to do, we'll provide a
0:47.2	helpful link in the show notes.
0:50.0	The rising inequality and growing political instability that we see today are the direct result of decades of bad economic theory.
0:59.3	It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down.
1:04.7	Middle out economics is the answer.
1:07.0	Because Wall Street didn't build this country. Great middle class built this country.
1:11.6	The more the middle class thrives, the better the economy is for everyone, even rich people like me.
1:19.6	This is Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer, a podcast about how to build the economy from the middle out.
1:31.4	Welcome to the show.
1:38.8	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures.
1:42.4	I'm David Goldstein, Senior Fellow at Civic Ventures.
1:47.0	So, Nick, some time ago, you warned America and your fellow plutocrats that the pitchforks were coming.
1:57.0	Yep.
1:58.0	Hence the name of this podcast.
2:00.0	And one of the truths about history is that when you look at
2:06.6	the modern democracies, they weren't all that democratic for the most part. And the Democratic
2:13.3	franchise only expanded as a way to avoid pitchforks.
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