Okay, so I know you've probably heard the phrase history repeats itself.

Well, it's happening right now. I'm talking about recent history, and it's happening in broad daylight. We're going to talk about that throughout the show tonight with many of the people who would know best.

Former Trump aide Sarah Matthews was at the White House on January 6, 2021.

She saw political violence in the lead up to it up close.

She saw how Donald Trump incited it, and we're seeing that again.

And Voting Rights Attorney Mark Elias is very familiar with Republican efforts to delegitimize elections,

which, you guessed it, is happening again also.

And on that note, I want to start tonight by diving into a story out of Arizona,

where last month, a meeting of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors erupted into total chaos. A group of people swarmed the meeting, shouting that the members of the

board were illegitimate because of voter fraud. The co-founder of a pro-Trump group even commandeered a podium

to announce, this is an act of insurrection. One county official

even described the events as a coordinated attack, and, and this stuck with me, a dress

rehearsal for the election. So yes, when a bunch of election deniers lost back in 2022, including

many of them in Arizona, it may have felt like we were putting

this all behind us. It's important to remember in this moment that we really haven't.

Election Denier-Carrie Lake is running for Senate in Arizona. Mark Fincham, the Oath Keepers

member who was at the Capitol on January 6th, is trying to return to the state Senate.

And this resurgence of the big lie isn't just happening in Arizona. Right now, the new Trumpy RNC has been taken over by

election deniers, too, and they're zeroing in on what they're calling an election integrity

strategy. That strategy is, of course, and I'm sure you're tracking this, not about

protecting your vote at all. It's about voter suppression and about sowing doubt in the outcome

of the election come November. That's what they're focused on. This is all a sign of history

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