Our Chances for Restoring Our Democracy are Hanging by a Thread

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The SAVE Act is the next assault on democracy by this administration — and it might just be the biggest yet. Trump and his cronies are focusing on pulling out all the stops to get this voter suppression bill passed including calls to end the filibuster. Norm Ornstein and David Rothkopf are back to break down the cataclysmic effects this bill would have on our democracy and the mounting danger that threatens to pass the point of no return. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.5	9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.
1:00.5	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other
1:12.6	undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
1:18.4	Hello and welcome to DSR's Words Matter. I'm David Rothkoff, joined this week as every week
1:24.7	by Norm Ornstein's dogs in the background.
1:29.3	How are you doing, Norm?
1:32.6	About as well as could be expected, David.
1:35.5	Every week it's the same.
1:37.3	Well, it is every week.
1:38.0	It's the same. But one of these weeks, we're going to expect you to be doing better.
1:43.6	Let me pick up with a story that's the lead story right now in the Washington Post site.
1:51.0	The Washington Post used to be a newspaper in New York.
1:54.2	In D.C., it's now a penny saver run by a billionaire.
1:58.6	But every once in a while there's a story, and today there's a story
2:01.5	that says that there is a 17-page memo circulating, created by some right-wing nut jobs
2:09.3	that is supposed to serve as a kind of a framework for the White House for an executive order, which would assert
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