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The Hartmann Report

Are “Election Police” & Black People in Shackles Coming to All Red States Everywhere?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Without free and fair elections and widespread voter participation, you can’t have a functioning democratic republic. Republicans know this: that’s why they’re trying to end free and fair elections. Also a black man was elected mayor in rural Alabama, but the white town leaders REFUSE to let him serve…WTF??

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So the Democrats, specifically Amy Klobuchar, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer,

0:55.9

John Sarbanes have reintroduced the legislation that this is the freedom to vote act.

1:03.0

This is sort of a variation or it was part of, I guess, originally a package that was for the

1:09.6

People Act 2022. Passed the House of Representatives and passed the Senate. It got 51 votes in the

1:16.0

Senate. The problem was it encounters Senate filibuster and it would have been easy to simply

1:21.2

change the rules to allow for the vote. But Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema taking big money

1:27.6

from Republican donors chose to say no, we're going to continue to make it hard to vote in red

1:33.7

states, particularly for people who live in blue cities and red states. This is the ground zero

1:40.8

in red states all across the United States. This is why, for example, Texas just took over Houston's

1:45.6

voting systems. Houston is an absolutely solid blue pearl in the ocean of red of Texas.

1:53.6

But it is also one-sixth of the entire population of Texas.

2:00.0

These blue cities in these red states are substantial and they have large populations. They

2:05.5

and they have a lot of people in them who vote and the red state governors have been doing

2:11.1

everything they possibly can, particularly since 2018, five years ago when the Supreme Court legalized

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