Reply All: IDs, Pushback, and Power #43
From Kansas ID rollbacks to the State of the Union, co-hosts Mattie Bynum, Melodie KG, Daniel WK Lee, and Shane Lukas discuss how power uses narrative, bureaucracy, and selective “exceptions” to justify broader harm. The co-hosts unpack how “freedom” gets framed as individual impunity rather than collective safety—and how that framing fuels policies like the SAVE Act’s documentation requirements. They connect these moves to older strategies of disenfranchisement, arguing that reducing participation is the point, not a side effect. The episode also explores how protest becomes criminalized…
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