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US politics & elections is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 187 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 291 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

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US politics & elections Videos Recommended on Hacker News (187)

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George Lakoff: Moral Politics

Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

Republic, Lost | Lawrence Lessig | Talks at Google

Antonin Scalia - On American Exceptionalism

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy

The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren

We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim | Lawrence Lessig

Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

The Voting System That Should Replace Every Election

The Voting System That's Actually Too Good for Politicians to Allow

Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea - Computerphile

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965)

Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile

The Voting System That Gives You Two Votes

Animated Voting Methods

Mark Blyth ─ Global Trumpism

The Alt-Right Playbook: Control the Conversation

Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won | The Ezra Klein Show

Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change

Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 14: Politics of Eternity, Politics of Inevitability

How our voting system (and IRV) betrays your favourite candidate

The Daily Show - Burn Noticed

Can We Pull Back From The Brink? (Episode #207)

Jim Jefferies -- Gun Control (Part 1) from BARE -- Netflix Special

Republic, Lost (my favorite version)

Lecture 1: Introduction to Power and Politics in Today’s World

President Trump: How & Why...

Senate hearing on National Security Space Launch Programs with Elon Musk

Milton Friedman - Why Tax Reform Is Impossible

Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

The Alt-Right Playbook: Always a Bigger Fish

The Power of Big Data and Psychographics | 2016 Concordia Annual Summit

Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory