Breaking the Deadlock: How to Fix an Election — Open
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Panelists face a dramatic hypothetical scenario against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary.
In BREAKING the DEADLOCK: How to Fix an Election, moderator Aaron Tang leads nine panelists through a dramatic hypothetical scenario around election issues and civic integrity, against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary.
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Funding for this program was provided in part by grants from The Rosalind P. Walter Foundation and by a grant from Anne Ray Foundation and by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you. Location furnished by The New York Historical.
Breaking the Deadlock: How to Fix an Election — Open
Clip: 7/7/2026 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
In BREAKING the DEADLOCK: How to Fix an Election, moderator Aaron Tang leads nine panelists through a dramatic hypothetical scenario around election issues and civic integrity, against the backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary.
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In the middle of it.
The president's party is trying to keep control.
10,000 troops.
I don't like it.
It feels like A misuse of the military, but that's not the way it works, sir, If he costs lives by playing these kinds of games, we're gonna hold 'em accountable.
People are gonna die.
Fix this.
How many stress tests does a country need before it all falls apart?
Voting is too precious.
We're not gonna cancel the election.
It's not assured that every vote will count.
This is about silencing dissent.
You guys want to make it seem like our country's just destroyed.
I'm not saying I don't wanna protect democracy.
It's what is the path to do that.
If democracy dies in the darkness, then protest is telling the truth out loud in public.
It brings the light.
Disagreeing without war.
That's the whole point.
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