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Eastern Standard: September 24th, 2026

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Exercising the right to vote.
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Exercising the right to vote.

This week on Eastern Standard:

Episode 32 of our series, Democracy Optimist, takes the temperature of a challenged American democracy with only weeks to go before a highly consequential midterm election.

Host Joshua Douglas, a research professor of election law and voting rights at the University of Kentucky welcomes Professor Steven Levitsky, Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a Professor of Government at Harvard University, and League of Women Voters CEO, Celina Stewart.

Tom Martin hosts Eastern Standard, a weekly radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places, and things happening in the Commonwealth.
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