#1521 The election of a lifetime for this year
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 10/26/2022
Today, we take a look at the 2022 election and the political dynamics at play as the GOP continues on its path of ideological anti-democracy and Democrats work to register new voters and get out the vote.
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SHOW NOTES
We speak to law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw and civil rights attorney Barbara Arnwine, who are on an Arc of Voter Justice bus tour of 26 cities across the country to increase Black voter turnout at critical midterm elections in November.
Ch. 2: Battling the Big Liars with Dan Pfeiffer - How We Win - Air Date 10-19-22
Biden is making it clear that abortion rights are on the ballot, as early voting kicks off in many states. New polls are worrying Democrats, but don’t worry… keep working!
Democrats need a strategy to win the upcoming midterm election and Senator Bernie Sanders has a strategy to win.
Ch. 4: Battling the Big Liars with Dan Pfeiffer Part 2 - How We Win - Air Date 10-19-22
Ch. 5: Senate Races That Could Tip The Balance - Deconstructed - Air Date 10-14-22
Journalists Jon Ralston and George Chidi join Ryan Grim to discuss two potentially pivotal states, Nevada and Georgia, where tight races for the Senate are underway.
Ch. 7: How We Vote! with Andrea Hailey - How We Win - Air Date 9-21-22
A conversation with the woman who is leading the charge for the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan voting registration and get-out-the-vote technology platform in America, the CEO of Vote.org, Andrea Hailey!
Ch. 8: Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms - CounterSpin - Air Date 10-21-22
This midterm is a big-picture election.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: How Midterm Campaigns are Framing Crime - The Takeaway - Air Date 10-20-22
We're joined by Rena Karefa-Johnson, Director of National programming at FWD.us, and Ames Grawert, Senior Counsel at the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.
Ch. 10: Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on 2022 Midterms Part 2 - CounterSpin - Air Date 10-21-22
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: The prolonged fight - V from Central New York
Ch. 11: Doing the work - Wendy
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on doing the work to normalize all humans
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MIDTERMS MINUTE 2022:
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- Secretary of State Races: MoveOn.org's "America for All" midterm election campaign
- Senate Races: SwingLeft Hold the Senate Fund, or SwingLeft Immediate Impact Fund (Senate & House)
- House races: SwingLeft Hold the House Fund, or the SwingLeft Immediate Impact Fund (House & Senate)
- Governors: SwingLeft Governor Fund
- State Legislative Races: SwingLeft Legislative Fund
MIDTERMS MINUTE Segments: Installment #1 , Installment #2 , Installment #3
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Transcript
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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 2022 election and the political dynamics at play as the GOP continues on |
| 0:13.0 | its path of ideological, anti-democracy and Democrats work to register new voters and |
| 0:19.1 | get out the vote. |
| 0:20.5 | Clips today are from Democracy Now, How We Win, the Tom Hartman program, deconstructed |
| 0:26.5 | and counter-span with an additional members only clips from The Takeaway and Counter-Span, |
| 0:33.0 | and stay tuned to the end for the listener who explained in a paragraph what it took me |
| 0:37.6 | 20 minutes to describe in my comments in episode 1520. |
| 0:47.8 | The midterm elections less than three weeks away will determine the balance of power in |
| 0:52.2 | Congress, and black voters could play a key role. |
| 0:56.4 | Black voters help Democrats flip two Senate seats that gave them control of the Senate |
| 1:01.9 | in Georgia's 2020 special runoff election. |
| 1:05.8 | Democratic Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock of Georgia now faces Republican challenger |
| 1:11.3 | Herschel Walker. |
| 1:12.4 | This comes as Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp is fighting for re-election against |
| 1:18.3 | Democrat and voting rights advocates Stacey Abrams in a rematch after he signed into law |
| 1:24.3 | new restrictions that disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. |
| 1:31.5 | It was one of many voter suppression efforts in Republican-led states and Florida Republican |
| 1:36.4 | Governor Ron DeSantis' election police unit, that's right, he has set up an election police |
| 1:42.3 | unit, has arrested people for voting. |
| 1:45.5 | Florida law allows formerly incarcerated people to vote unless they were convicted of |
| 1:48.9 | murder or felony sex offenses. |
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