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SUMMARY:At Issue: The Campaign to Undermine the 2026 Midterm Elections with David Becker\, Executive Director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research\, Democracy Docket Senior Reporter Matt Cohen\, and New York Times Reporter\, Nick Corasaniti
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series\, At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today.\n\nFact: voter fraud almost never happens in the United States. In ramping up election attacks\, will the Trump administration throw the midterms into disarray? David Becker notes that “this administration has gone out hunting for fraud with all of the tools of the federal government over the last year and they have found virtually none.” Yet\, as Matt Cohen reports. “The signs that Trump will try to intervene are too many and too big to ignore: the FBI raiding an election hub for 2020 ballots in a key Georgia county; an unprecedented effort by the U.S. Department of Justice to obtain private voter data from every state\, and the GOP’s all-in push to pass new voter suppression laws. Perhaps most worryingly: Trump has openly said the federal government out to wrest control of elections from the states and take control of voting.” And Nick Corasaniti has recently reported that “Facing the possibility of big losses for Republicans in the midterm elections\, President Trump has reiterated his unfounded assertions of electoral fraud. He has also begun speaking of the need to “nationalize” elections\, and for Republican officials to “take over” voting procedures in parts of the country. This rhetoric is often vague\, coming across as a hint of plan\, rather than an actual one. But a map of potential targets may be coming into focus and includes the swing states Michigan\, Georgia\, North Carolina and Arizona. Voting experts\, government officials and others have identified a host of conditions that could make those places ripe for meddling from the Trump administration or its allies.”\n\nSteps to limit potential interference in the 2026 midterms by the Trump administration are focusing on legal challenges\, state-level protective legislation\, and contingency planning by local election officials.\n\n\n \nDavid Becker is the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research\, a nonpartisan nonprofit supporting election officials and bolstering trust in election systems. He has more than 25 years of experience in elections\, having served as a senior attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Voting Section in both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Before founding CEIR\, David also led the elections team at The Pew Charitable Trusts. In his role as executive director\, David oversees the Election Official Legal Defense Network\, and he is co-author of ‘The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie.’ \n\n\n\n\nMatt Cohen is a Senior Reporter at Democracy Docket where he covers voting rights\, right-wing extremism\, and threats to democracy. He previously covered these beats as an investigative reporter at Mother Jones and The American Independent. Before that\, Matt covered local politics\, social issues\, and arts at the Washington City Paper and DCist.\n\n\n  \n\n  \n  \n\nNick Corasaniti covers voting\, democracy and other election-related issues. for The New York Times. He also focuses on local races in state legislatures\, cities and county boards\, the kind of elections deeply connected to the functioning of American democracy. He has been covering elections — presidential\, congressional\, gubernatorial\, mayoral\, legislative and local campaigns — for The Times since 2011.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-campaign-to-undermine-the-2026-midterm-elections-with-david-becker-executive-director-of-the-center-for-election-innovation-research-democracy-dockets-matt-cohen-and-new-york-time/
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SUMMARY:DC Ward 6 Council Candidate Forum
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register Here\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on Tuesday\, May 11\, 2026 from 7-9 pm at Hill Center for a candidate forum with the Democratic candidates for the Ward 6 Council race. \nSubmit your questions in advance to debate@hillrag.com. \nThis event is co-hosted by the DC Democrats\, the Ward 6 Democrats\, Capital Community News (the Hill Rag\, East of the River News\, and Midcity DC News)\, Spotlight DC\, Transmission\, and the Hill Center. \nDue to space constraints\, we will be capping registration at 140 people\, but the forum will also be live broadcast on the Hill Center’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hillcenter. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP here!
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/dc-ward-6-council-candidate-forum/
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SUMMARY:Ron Charles\, Former Washington Post Book Critic: A Tipping Point in US Books & Letters
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereThis conversation is a part of Hill Center’s Life of a Poet series. Ron Charles will be in conversation with poet\, editor\, and Life of a Poet curator and moderator\, Kyle Dargan. \nA recent New York Times article mourned the end of the Washington Post’s Book World as a major blow to literary journalism and an inflection point in America’s literature. The current state of books and letters has been marked by increased federal intervention\, including attempts to cut library funding and accelerated removal of books on gender and diversity from school libraries. Federal efforts have targeted library funding\, though court challenges have temporarily blocked some initiatives. Meanwhile\, a push for “patriotic education” and removal of certain materials in school libraries on military bases has occurred. \nThere is a perfect symmetry to this conversation between Ron and Kyle. On  April 10\, 2013 Hill Center launched its Life of a Poet series in partnership with the Library of Congress and The Washington Post. Ron was our first moderator and his first guest was poet Elizabeth Alexander. Following the COVID-19 pandemic\, Hill Center resurrected the series on September 14\, 2023 with Kyle Dargan moderating and curating the series. Elizabeth Alexander was his first guest. \nRon Charles has been a book critic for three decades. He began his career as editor of the book section at The Christian Science Monitor. In 2005\, he moved to The Washington Post\, where he served as the paper’s book section editor and a book reviewer. For six years\, he created “The Book Report” for CBS Sunday Morning. \nIn 2009\, he won the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He also won first place for Arts & Entertainment commentary from the Society for Features Journalism and served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. \nFor years\, Charles has interviewed many of the nation’s leading poets in a series co-sponsored by Hill Center and the Library of Congress. \nHe now writes about books and literary culture on Substack at RonCharles.substack.com  \nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and longlisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-esteemed-book-critic-ron-charles-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan-the-state-of-books-letters/
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