{"podcast":{"title":"Surviving Trump. Saving America","slug":"surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786","podcast_index_feed_id":7226786,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2455246.rss","website_url":"https://survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/enmy1tzpz6uc093oulxmk29uh1c2?.jpg","author":"Bella Goode","episode_count":95,"summary":"Navigating the chaos of today’s politics can be overwhelming —this show helps make sense of it all. In about 30 minutes each week, host Bella Goode breaks down the players, policies, and threats facing democracy — in plain language and straight talk. Your crash course in today’s politics","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T02:20:32.881940+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786"},"episode":{"title":"Weakening the Voting Rights Act: Removing the Last Safeguard","slug":"weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard","published_at":"2026-03-12T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786/weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2455246/episodes/18690012-weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2455246/episodes/18690012-weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail For decades, the Voting Rights Act was the country’s strongest safeguard against racial discrimination in elections. It didn’t just promise the right to vote—it enforced it. In Episode 12, Bella Goode explains how that safeguard has been systematically weakened over the past decade. Not through a single repeal, but through Supreme Court decisions, shifts in enforcement, and administrative strategy that leave the law standing on paper while stripping away its power in practice...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail For decades, the Voting Rights Act was the country’s strongest safeguard against racial discrimination in elections. It didn’t just promi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1616,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786/episodes/weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/surviving-trump-saving-america-7226786/weakening-the-voting-rights-act-removing-the-last-safeguard.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}