What Heather Cox Richardson has said about Voting Rights Act of 1965
1 quote · 1 episode · Jun 21, 2026
Heather Cox Richardson, American historian and author of the Substack newsletter Letters from an American, has been quoted on Voting Rights Act of 1965 once in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on June 21, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Richardson nominates the Voting Rights Act for celebration because for the first time everyone got a say in government, which she says the radical right has worked to dismantle.
“For the first time, everybody gets a say in the government. And that, of course, has been what the radical right has been working to dismantle ever since”
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Episodes
Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s 250th CelebrationsPod Save America · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Historian Heather Cox Richardson and Alex Wagner discuss Trump's 250th-anniversary celebrations, his Washington building projects, patriotism, and JD Vance's blood-and-soil nationalism.
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