Podcast / Start Making Sense / Jun 24, 2026

Norm Eisen: Fighting Trump’s Threats to Voting— Plus Protest Success Stories

On this episode of Start Making Sense, the attorney who founded Democracy Defenders
talks about election protection, and John Nichols reports on this week’s Republican defeats.

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Norm Eisen: Fighting Trump’s Threats to Voting; plus Protest Success Stories / Start Making Sense
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Election protection: defending Ohio’s biggest voter registration group, and blocking Trump’s attacks on voting by mail: Norm Eisen, co-counsel on the first Trump impeachment, comments.

Also: how protest pushed ICE to abandon most of its warehouse detention center plans, and pressured Georgia Republicans to abandon their redistricting plans – John Nichols explains.

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On this episode of Start Making Sense, the attorney who founded Democracy Defenders talks about election protection, and John Nichols reports on this week’s Republican defeats.

Election protection: defending Ohio’s biggest voter registration group, and blocking Trump’s attacks on voting by mail: Norm Eisen, co-counsel on the first Trump impeachment, comments.

Also: how protest pushed ICE to abandon most of its warehouse detention center plans, and pressured Georgia Republicans to abandon their redistricting plans—John Nichols explains.

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Norm Eisen: Fighting Trump’s Threats to Voting; plus Protest Success Stories / Start Making Sense
byThe Nation Magazine

Election protection: defending Ohio’s biggest voter registration group, and blocking Trump’s attacks on voting by mail: Norm Eisen, co-counsel on the first Trump impeachment, comments.

Also: how protest pushed ICE to abandon most of its warehouse detention center plans, and pressured Georgia Republicans to abandon their redistricting plans – John Nichols explains.

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