Civics, Y'all!

Show Notes

Noonie Man Batiste 

Antigravity and DSA Voting Guides 

provisional ballot in Louisiana 

voter suppression in 2021 

Who Gets to Vote at NOPL 

duties of the Secretary of the State 

10th Amendment of the Constitution 

The Embattled Vote in America 

learning in school that the South didn't lose the Civil War 

Uncivil podcast 

Brian Kemp running for governor as SOS 

Georgia's recent bill surpassing voting rights 

food trucks in the 2020 election 

Rev./Senator Raphael Warnock's first Senate speech 

Atlanta spa shootings 

increasing police presence in Asian communities 

Deacon Blues' tweet about gun vs. voting laws 

Constitution Article 1 Section 4 

pre-clearance provision of the Voting Rights Act 

Ruth Bader Ginsberg quote about removing pre-clearance 

I misspoke - Brian Kemp was SOS of GA, now governor, not Perdue 

Here is the second part of our conversation, recorded on January 6th, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol insurrection.

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Show Notes

quote about living in interesting times

Trump's "I love you" speech

Ilhan Omar's impeachment articles

Nathan Hale 

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We're trying something a little different - more "live" episodes, like we did around the Election. The episode is lightly edited, in line with our "live" episodes.

This episode was recorded on January 5th before we knew the final results of the Georgia Senate races. We recorded again on January 6th in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol insurrection.

As always, patrons have access to episodes early and there's patron-only content at: https://www.patreon.com/emiliestaatstrong

Show Notes

victory gardens 

Emilie's source: History of the United States Congress 

Jadi's source: Not Every Presidential Election Has Been Decided on Election Day 

Jim Crow era and laws 

A history of treason in the U.S. 

The judgement of Solomon 

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Here is Part II of Noel's Christmas episode - where she tells Emilie the story of Christmas in America and the surprising connections to propaganda posters and advertising.

Show Notes

Rep. Jim Jordan's tweet

The War on Christmas - Snopes

The War on Christmas - Business Insider

Christmas in Puritan New England

When Americans Banned Christmas

How Washington Irving Shaped Christmas in America

St. Nicholas Day

The History of Christmas Traditions

A Visit from St. Nicholas / The Night Before Christmas - Clement Moore

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Gene Roddenberry

Thomas Nast - Santa Claus as Union propaganda

White House Christmas tree

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Alf Christmas episode

Christmas During the Great Depression

WPA Christmas toys

Pappy O'Daniel - The Cohen Brothers

Christmas Traditions from WWII

"White Christmas" and WWII

NORAD tracks Santa Claus

Noel's been working on this episode for weeks and we had so much material we decided to split it into the two parts. Jadi and I mostly ceded the podcast to Noel for this two-part episode, fittingly, since it's the Noel season.

Part I starts with one of Noel's letters - this one is addressed to her dad and features a very special Christmas memory. And then, a conversation between Noel and Megan Romer, one of our early guests on the show.

Show Notes

Star Trek IV Main Theme

Megan's first episode was Episode 2

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Hallmark Christmas movies

George C. Scott A Christmas Carol

Muppet Christmas Carol

Pauline Christianity

Prosperity Gospel/Joel Osteen

property supremacist

small government big church

the Anointing of Jesus (nard)

Disney World Christmas processional

Battlestar Galactica

the Amazon wishlist link for the family of Laura evacuees

Hurricane Laura

Cajun Navy

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Show Notes

governor's race in Georgia in 2018

unplugging from the Matrix

Decolonized Walks of Bulbancha

Tricentennial of New Orleans

the history of New Orleans before colonization

Canada's relationship with Indigenous Peoples

colonial founding myth

the game of telephone

oral traditions in Native American communities

Thanksgiving in the United States

Louisiana parish government structure

Indigenous Action Network podcast

community care and mutual aid

Pandemic Solidarity Pluto Press

"English" schools in Louisiana

passe blanc

History Smashers: The Mayflower

Tribal sovereignty in the United States

ritual of feasts and meal sharing

Emilie interviews poet and educator Donney Rose about his project The American Audit, among other topics.

Show Notes

The American Audit by Donney Rose

The North Star 

Kennedy Center Fellowship 

1995 Louisiana gubernatorial election 

Cleo Fields and Mike Foster 

2000 Presidential election 

Jill Stein and the Green Party 

how political parties get federal funding 

political pendulum 

John Bel Edwards and "Blue Lives Matter" 

the shooting of Alton Sterling 

Eddie Rispone 

"vote for the crook, it's important" 

Hillary Clinton 

Joe Biden and Democratic complacency  

Ruth Bader Ginsberg is the first woman to lie in state 

slavery and Capitalism 

400 years marker of slaves' arrival in Jamestown 

Emilie talks with Franziska of Glass Half Full NOLA, a grassroots glass recycling organization.

Show Notes

Glass Half Full

Glass Half Full's GoFundMe

This "live" episode features Emilie and Jadi talking with Maurice Carlos Ruffin about the results of the 2020 election. We waited till Friday and the race was called, but who knows what will happen next.

Our show's production schedule is going from weekly to monthly. There will be occasional bonus episodes, but look for Episode 9 on November 24th.

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Emilie and Jadi talk with Alex (Episode 6) and Maurice Carlos Ruffin about the early returns and how to stay hopeful.