#1507 Installing Loyalists: The Multi-Pronged Destruction of Our Democracy Already in Progress
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 8/16/2022
Today, we take a look at the strategies underway to systematically dismantle democracy in the United States including installing Big-Lie™ believers in elected and poll-working positions, preventing state-level Supreme Courts from holding GOP-dominated state legislators to the state constitutions, and wiping out tens of thousands of career civil servants from the federal government to be replaced by right-wing extremists.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Republicans Caught Planning MASSIVE Voter Fraud - David Pakman Show - Air Date 6-2-22
A mindblowing new report from Politico
Now, reporting by POLITICO details GOP efforts on the local level to challenge and potentially overturn elections. Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine and the author of "Cheap Speech" joins William Brangham to discuss.
Trump’s top allies are prepping a plan to purge the federal government. They want to remove thousands of key decision-makers and replace them with MAGA loyalists, all through an Executive Order called "Schedule F."
Many of the possible 2024 Republican contenders have told Axios that they support the plan being put together by Trump's allies to purge career government workers and replace them with their own loyalists.
Ch. 5: Fake Electors, Real Crimes and Much More - The Bradcast - Air Date 7-26-22
Explaining the plan to elect 2020 election deniers into positions of power to influence the 2024 election.
Across the country, dark money is pouring into Secretary of State races to promote election-denying candidates.
Carolyn Shapiro says a ruling in favor of North Carolina Republicans would be "extremely problematic from the perspective of democracy."
Ch. 8: The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend U.S. Elections - All In w/ Chris Hayes - Air Date 7-5-22
"I always counsel against assuming that any one court decision is going to dramatically change the landscape. But this case is different," says Marc Elias on the Supreme Court taking up a case on state legislatures' authority over elections.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: Fake Electors, Real Crimes and Much More Part 2 - The Bradcast - Air Date 7-26-22
Previously undisclosed emails between top associates and aides of Donald Trump expose how they coordinated their plot to present 'fake' electors in seven states to steal the 2020 election.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Power is the ability to act - Pat from Chicago
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on building movement power
Become a Poll/Election Worker:
How to Be A Poll Worker Where you Live (US Election Assistance Commission)
WorkElections.org (Fair Elections Center)
Defeat MAGA Secretaries of State in Midterms:
Help People Get Voter IDs:
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: A voter crouches by a folding table, his head is obscured by the white voter privacy box decorated with an American flag on each side. Other tables and privacy boxes can be seen in the large building foyer. Glass entrance doors can be seen in the distance.
Credit: “Election Day 2020” by Phil Roeder, Flickr | License: CC by 2.0 | Changes: Cropped
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.2 | a look at the strategies underway to systematically dismantle democracy in the United States, |
| 0:12.8 | including installing big-ly believers in elected and poll working positions, preventing state |
| 0:19.1 | level Supreme courts from holding GOP-dominated state legislators to the state constitutions, |
| 0:25.2 | and the plan to wipe out tens of thousands of career civil servants in the federal government |
| 0:30.6 | to be replaced by right-wing extremists loyal to the Republican Party. |
| 0:35.6 | Clips today are from the David Pakman show, the PBS NewsHour, Beyond Politics, Ring of |
| 0:41.0 | Fire, the Bradcast, Democracy Now, and all in with Chris Hayes with an additional members |
| 0:46.8 | on the clip from the Bradcast for political. |
| 0:57.4 | Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide |
| 1:02.2 | an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in |
| 1:07.6 | democratic precincts. |
| 1:08.9 | They're targeting the democratic precincts. |
| 1:11.8 | All trained recruits as regular poll workers and put them in direct contact with party attorneys. |
| 1:18.1 | The plan is outlined by a Republican National Committee staffer in Michigan includes utilizing |
| 1:23.1 | rules designed to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained |
| 1:28.3 | volunteers prepared to challenge voters as democratic majority polling places at democratic |
| 1:34.1 | majority polling places, developing a website to connect workers to local lawyers and |
| 1:39.1 | establishing a network of party-friendly DAs who could intervene to block vote counts |
| 1:44.3 | at certain precincts. |
| 1:45.3 | So here's the strategy. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay. |
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