Topics Discussed:

• Biden Sexual Assault Accusation (3:01)
• Easter Weekend Severe Weather (20:23)
• CARES Act Update (21:19)
• Celebrating Local Leaders (23:25)
• Wisconsin Election (29:17)
• 2020 Election Ramifications (23:26)
• Voting By Mail (34:32)
• Outside of Politics (49:15)

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Episode Resources:

• biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html"> Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden (The New York Times)
• Sexual assault allegation by former Biden Senate aide emerges in campaign, draws denial (The Washington Post)
• The Pandemic's First Wave (The Washington Post)
• Closing poem by Allison Gill

Celebrating Local Leaders:

• Meet the doctor who ordered the Bay Area’s coronavirus lockdown, the first in the U.S. (The Mercury News)
• Federal policy says students must pick up school meals in person. (The Washington Post)
• Del. Roem Advocates for Increased Access to School Meals (Bristow Beat)
• Virginia Stapleton - City Council Candidate

Voting By Mail and the 2020 Election

• postponed-canceled.html"> Could the 2020 Election Be Postponed? Only With Great Difficulty. Here’s Why. (The New York Times)
• The Resilient Elections During Quarantines and Natural Disasters Act of 2020
• Absentee Voting Rules (Rock the Vote)
• Time to Prepare for Voting by Mail (George Mason University)
• Wisconsin shows the need for nationwide preparations to vote by mail in November (AEI)
• fraud.html">All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None (The New York Times)
• in-voting-explained.html?searchResultPosition=1"> Trump Is Pushing a False Argument on Vote-by-Mail Fraud. Here Are the Facts. (The New York Times)
• vote-by-mail.html"> Why Republicans Are So Afraid of Vote-by-Mail (The New York Times) 
• Trump’s wild claims of voter fraud blow back on campaign aide (Politico)
• Trump’s case against mail-in voting has become increasingly desperate. His latest briefing showed it. (Vox)