Receipts for Liberty: When Citizens Audit Power

When a citizen asks, “Show me the books,” and the system answers with a smear, the republic is already sliding into a managed life. Peter Vazquez sits with Marly Hornik educator, strategist, and champion of individual liberty, and with Gary Stout in studio, to pull election reform out of slogans and into receipts: voter rolls, statutory compliance, chain of custody, and the black box that turns public trust into blind faith.

Marly, an inspiration to thousands of volunteers working to improve and reform our elections, lays out why accountability so often requires courts, why New York’s own records matter, and why transparency is treated as a threat. Then the stakes widen: a federal lawsuit challenging retaliation by state power, and the warning that elections do not need to be hacked to be controlled, they only need to become unauditable. Preserve the record, get punished. Demand oversight, get branded. This is the oldest American argument: do officials answer to the people, or do the people answer to the system.