Democracy Happy Hour — February 1, 2023

Democracy Happy Hour, February 1, 2023 - Meeting Recordings & Chat File:

• Speaker View Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/r832KW76TAHVxJfKyO69ctf-QFE4wDL6U4JgjemM8_oNQA7wXs-ZpAUBdzn3JgOVhaiCKEGg_9n5Dzci.M4W84eBSm77YLWD2

• Gallery View Recording:  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/3Xa5WAxGAywCqr_H02unIvZ8owDs1NmLqOaSCayrOdzlOSUDpUdRXjS1gRe5NRFsLmUhzfS_Cxvl5dw.H_Ayiz88n4fvM56L

• Chat File (Link will download a text file to your computer):  https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/sdownload/WvUxDSEUtqcA32PfbSOku_hNWEI0Dxsdwtk8j4uGu85TT7JcLgwCrO4-5MBFMDzhmDiEs8v4prbWfpKj.bvN5AllCJL2vZhEX
  

Fix Democracy First Links:

• Fix Democracy First – Legislation Page - https://www.fixdemocracyfirst.org/legislation
  
• Website & past event recordings: fixdemocracyfirst.org
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Democracy Happy Hour Upcoming Topics/Schedule:

• Feb 8^th – CANCELED: Democracy Lobby Week programs this week instead - Register here:  https://lwvwa.org/event-4701721

• 5:00 pm: People Powered Elections: Expanding Democracy Vouchers Statewide
• 6:30 pm: Multi-member Districts: Using Proportional Ranked Choice Voting for Better Representation

• Feb 15th - Fighting Political Gridlock: How States Shape Our Nation And Our Lives w/ David Toscano
• Feb 22nd - Alaska for Better Elections: Impact of New Reforms w/ Jason Grenn
• Mar 1st - Conspiracy Theories & Their Impact on Democracy

ACTIONS & EVENTS:

Democracy Lobby Week 2023 – Feb 6-10 - https://lwvwa.org/event-4701721

ACTION NEEDED:

• SB 5626 - Expanding and enhancing media literacy and digital citizenship in K-12 education. Public hearing on Monday, Feb 6th. Please sign in PRO @ https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=Senate&mId=30694&aId=150892&caId=21077&tId=3
  
• SB 5102 - Concerning school library information and technology programs - PLEASE CONTACT members of the Senate Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education and ask them to move this bill out of committee.

• Civic learning week - March 6-10, 2023 - https://civiclearningweek.org/

• Citizen Connect - https://citizenconnect.us/

Media Literacy Links:

Media Literacy & Digital Citizenship, Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) - https://www.k12.wa.us/policy-funding/school-technology/media-literacy-digital-citizenship

Action 4 Media Education - https://action4mediaeducation.org/

How Finland is fighting fake news - in the classroom - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/how-finland-is-fighting-fake-news-in-the-classroom/

Center for Media Literacy - https://www.medialit.org/

Center for News Literacy - http://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/

The Journal of Media Literacy - https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:a105a5d6-e00b-4ae2-8874-316d03a4ef4d

Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship, Education Commission of the States - https://www.ecs.org/media-literacy-and-digital-citizenship/

Linking Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship in the public policy realm - https://medialiteracynow.org/linking-media-literacy-and-digital-citizenship-in-the-public-policy-realm/

Digital Citizenship, Media Literacy, and the ACTS Framework - https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2120

Media Literacy Now - https://medialiteracynow.org/

What is Media Literacy? - https://medialiteracynow.org/what-is-media-literacy/

What is Digital Citizenship? - https://mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-literacy/general-information/digital-media-literacy-fundamentals/what-digital-citizenship

Democracy in the News Links:

February - Black History Month - https://blackhistorymonth.gov/

GOP report shows plan to ramp up focus on disproven election fraud claims - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/31/republican-report-election-fraud/

Republicans who deny 2020 election results lead key oversight committees - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/republicans-who-deny-2020-election-results-lead-key-oversight-committees

Republican House Oversight Committee disbands Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties - https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3837893-republican-house-oversight-committee-disbands-subcommittee-on-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties/

Revealed: Trump secretly donated $1m to discredited Arizona election ‘audit’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/27/trump-secretly-donated-1m-arizona-election-audit

Election losses only deepen Arizona Republicans’ insistence on fraud - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/27/arizona-republicans-division/

Republican election bills based on conspiracy theories, political grudges, advance - https://www.azmirror.com/2023/01/26/republican-election-bills-based-on-conspiracy-theories-political-grudges-advance/

‘The temperature has gone down a little bit’: Colorado’s clerks hope they’ve turned a corner on election disinformation - https://www.cpr.org/2023/01/28/colorado-election-disinformation-post-2022/

Florida election supervisors balk at implementing new ID provisions in vote-by-mail ballots - https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/01/30/florida-election-supervisors-balk-at-implementing-new-id-provisions-in-vote-by-mail-ballots/

Florida secretary of state proposes more money for election crimes office - https://www.wlrn.org/elections-coverage/2023-01-26/florida-secretary-of-state-proposes-more-money-for-election-crimes-office

Idaho Republicans push another new bill to outlaw the use of student IDs in elections - https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/01/30/idaho-republicans-push-another-new-bill-to-outlaw-the-use-of-student-ids-in-elections/

Voter fraud legislation to see significant air time in 2023 session - https://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/state_news/voter-fraud-legislation-to-see-significant-air-time-in-2023-session/article_531bf6ca-9d8e-11ed-9225-1bd1fbd24884.html

With an eye on 2024, some states consider new protections for election workers - https://19thnews.org/2023/01/states-consider-election-worker-protections-threats-voting/

State Courts Stepped up in 2022 To Protect Our Freedoms - https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/state-courts-stepped-up-in-2022-to-protect-our-freedoms/

Redistricting lawsuits could shape the 2024 battle for House control - https://rollcall.com/2023/01/30/redistricting-lawsuits-could-shape-the-2024-battle-for-house-control/

2020 Redistricting Cycle Report: How Maps Were Challenged in Court - https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/2020-redistricting-cycle-report-how-maps-were-challenged-in-court/

U.S. Supreme Court Set to Hear Five Major Cases This Term - https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a4eece35-094e-4e5a-918e-340856d73159

The Supreme Court Takes Up Section 230 - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2023/01/31/the-supreme-court-takes-up-section-230/

The Supreme Court’s student loans case is about more than student loans - https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/politics/student-loan-supreme-court-standing/index.html

Supreme Court did not disclose financial relationship with expert brought in to review leak probe - https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/supreme-court-chertoff-leak-investigation/index.html

At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sullivan-roberts.html

Two years in, Biden has prioritized nominating women of color as judges - https://19thnews.org/2023/01/biden-reshaping-federal-judiciary-appointments/

As capital gains tax goes to WA Supreme Court, a push to ‘microtarget’ justices - https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/as-capital-gains-tax-goes-to-wa-supreme-court-a-push-to-microtarget-justices/

CENTRIST DEMOCRATIC PAC’S SOLE FUNDER IS A REPUBLICAN MEGADONOR - https://theintercept.com/2023/01/25/jeff-yass-megadonor-moderate-pac/

New York’s Top 200 Political Donors Outweigh Bottom 206,000 - https://www.governing.com/finance/new-yorks-top-200-political-donors-outweigh-bottom-206-000

Trump’s Abuse of Recount Funds Shows the Need for Clear Regulations - https://campaignlegal.org/update/trumps-abuse-recount-funds-shows-need-clear-regulations

Federal lobbying spending reaches $4.1 billion in 2022 — the highest since 2010 - https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/01/federal-lobbying-spending-reaches-4-1-billion-in-2022-the-highest-since-2010/

Meet the top House recipients of oil and gas money - https://www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-top-house-recipients-of-oil-and-gas-money/

Utilities use customer dollars to pay for their lobbying. Here’s how lawmakers can stop it. - https://grist.org/regulation/utilities-lobbying-corruption-climate-change-report/

This group is sharpening the GOP attack on ‘woke’ Wall Street - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/30/climate-change-sustainable-investing/

Billionaire’s Lawsuit Against O’Rourke May Stifle Criticism of Money in Politics - https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-lawsuit-against-orourke-may-stifle-criticism-of-money-in-politics/

Justice Dept. eyes criminal probe of Santos’ campaign finances - https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/01/28/justice-dept-eyes-criminal-probe-of-santos-campaign-finances/

We Tried to Call the Top Donors to George Santos’ 2020 Campaign. Many Don’t Seem to Exist. - https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/

It’s Time To Talk About Electoral Reform - https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-time-to-talk-about-electoral-reform/

DOJ’s Google case helps explain local news death spiral - https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dojs-google-case-helps-explain-local-news-death-spiral