Daily Take: Democracy Undone: The Texas Placebo Ballot Plot
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
They must go to court to take away your gun, but they can take away your vote without even informing you...
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listeners, have you heard? You can listen to your favorite podcast, Ad Free. |
| 0:06.0 | Good news. With Amazon Music, you have access to the largest catalogue of Ad Free Top Podcast podcasts included with your Prime membership. |
| 0:14.0 | To start listening, download the Amazon Music app for free. |
| 0:18.0 | Or go to Amazon. co. |
| 0:20.0 | UK slash ad-free podcasts. |
| 0:22.0 | That's Amazon dot co |
| 0:24.4 | dot UK slash ad free podcasts to catch up on the latest episodes |
| 0:29.3 | without the ads. Democracy undone the Texas placebo ballot plot. the and former Secretary of State Brian Kemp and current Secretary of State Brad Raffson |
| 0:44.5 | perger have been actively purging millions of Georgians, particularly black |
| 0:48.8 | voters from rolls, voter rolls for years. How Kemp purged over 100,000 Georgia voters and then beat |
| 0:55.5 | Stacey Abrams by about 50,000. A similar scheme has been underway in Ohio |
| 1:00.1 | since republic ever since Republicans took over that state and also operates in most other |
| 1:04.2 | red states that have large blue cities. The purges that started in a big way |
| 1:08.4 | under Republicans in Ohio gained both notoriety and lawsuits, one going all the way to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:14.6 | They did, however, produce a significant blowback. |
| 1:18.2 | People got pissed off when they showed up to vote and were told that they'd been removed |
| 1:22.0 | from the voting rolls by the |
| 1:23.1 | Republican administration of their state. So Republicans in Texas have come up with a |
| 1:27.8 | new twist that's designed to avoid directly confronting and angering |
| 1:31.2 | voters. You could call it passive aggressive vote |
| 1:33.9 | suppression. Instead of purging people off the rolls entirely, they're putting |
| 1:37.7 | voters they consider suspicious on what they call a suspense list. As of |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Thom Hartmann, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Thom Hartmann and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

