Politics Brief

Florida Restores Voting Rights For 1.5 Million Ex-Felons

Devin Coleman has been out of prison for 12 years. Thanks to the passage of Amendment 4 in Florida, he will now be eligible to vote once more.Steve Bousquet [https://twitter.com/stevebousquet]of the Tampa Bay Times joins the Takeaway to discuss the implications of the amendment.

Election Results In New Jersey And Beyond

Nancy Solomon [https://www.wnyc.org/people/nancy-solomon/], managing editor ofNew Jersey Public Radio [https://www.wnyc.org/people/nancy-solomon/], talks about election results in New Jersey. Joining her areKai Wright [https://www.wnyc.org/people/kai-wright/], editor and host of WNYC’s narrative unit, andGabriel Debenedett, [https://www.wnyc.org/people/gabriel-debenedett/]New York Magazine [http://nymag.com/author/Gabriel%20Debenedetti/]national political correspondent, to take a look at other races around the country.

Get Out The Vote

It's Election Day on The Brian Lehrer Show.Scott Bland [https://www.wnyc.org/people/scott-bland/], editor of Campaign Pro for Politico, and TIME National CorrespondentCharlotte Alter [https://www.wnyc.org/people/charlotte-alter/]discuss how both parties have worked to get out the vote in the run-up to the midterm election. And later, listeners share their stories of voting for different candidates than their loved ones.

Texas' Secret Resistance

A group of progressive Texas women who are organizing in secret, out of fear of retaliation from neighbors, friends, and even family. Now, as WNYC'sAmanda Aroncyzk [https://www.wnycstudios.org/people/amanda-aronczyk] reports, some are ready to speak out.

Anger, Identity and Polarization

Lilliana Mason [https://twitter.com/LilyMasonPhD]is professor of government and politics at theUniversity of Maryland [https://gvpt.umd.edu/facultyprofile/mason/lilliana]and author ofUncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity [https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo27527354.html]. She joins On The Media [https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm]'s Bob Garfield to discuss how anger and tribal identity have gotten us to the current political moment, and how we might move past it.