{"podcast":{"title":"What A Day","slug":"what-a-day-96811","podcast_index_feed_id":96811,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43408283.jpg","author":"What A Day","episode_count":1600,"summary":"If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Friday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never this easy.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T18:19:00.313487+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811"},"episode":{"title":"A Committee Protecting U.S. Elections Is Under Threat","slug":"a-committee-protecting-u-s-elections-is-under-threat","published_at":"2026-05-04T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/a-committee-protecting-u-s-elections-is-under-threat","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8898773","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/arttrk.com/p/CRMDA/mgln.ai/e/284/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8898773.mp3?modified=1777867506&sid=5166630&source=rss","summary":"Last week's Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is big news. But there are tons of other ways that the Trump Administration and the GOP are trying to make it harder for you to vote. Take the Technical Guidelines Development Committee, or TGDC. It's supposed to be a nonpartisan federal committee that determines the standards for voting equipment used in elections across the country. But back in April, a group of election officials sounded the alarm . The Trump Administration has been blocking new appointees to the TGDC and won’t say why — which is a big, big concern with midterm elections just a few months away. So to explain what’s going on with our nation’s voting apparatus, we spoke to Jacob Knutson, a reporter at Democracy Docket. And in headlines, Trump tells Congress that the war in Iran is currently not a war , Tucker Carlson gives a long and winding interview to the New York Times, and we send a bittersweet goodbye to Spirit Airlines . Show Notes: Check out Jacob's piece – https://tinyurl.com/4rjytz3b Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday","meta_description":"Last week's Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is big news. But there are tons of other ways that the Trump Administration and the GOP a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1098,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-a-day-96811/episodes/a-committee-protecting-u-s-elections-is-under-threat/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/a-committee-protecting-u-s-elections-is-under-threat.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}