Good morning. It is Saturday, July the 24th. I'm Ali Velshi, and right now the United States is in a continued moment of crisis.

My right, your right, and the fundamental right of every American to vote is in peril.

The poet T.S. Eliot famously wrote, quote, this is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper. Well, this is the way democracy dies, not with a bang, but with a

slow and steady erosion of constitutional rights. And the only hope we have is if we all act

as a community now. Democratic state lawmakers from Texas have been in D.C. for nearly two weeks now,

as they try to thwart their Republican-led legislature's effort to pass bills that would

disenfranchise potentially millions of Texans, making it harder for them to vote.

For now, Democratic tactics are working, but time is running out. Several other

red states have already successfully approved laws restricting access to the ballot box. A new

report from the Brennan Center for Justice reveals that 18 states have enacted at least 30

laws that make it harder to vote this year alone, and it's only July.

Republicans are doing this under the guise of election security.

But newsflash, American elections are secure.

To date, there has been zero evidence of large organized schemes to commit voter fraud.

That notion is the basis for the partisan sham cyber

ninja audit in Arizona that is somehow still ongoing. But here are the facts about voting in

Arizona. The Associated Press reviewed more than three million ballots cast in Arizona in the 2020

election and found just 82, I'm sorry,

182 cases of possible fraud. 182 out of 3 million. Not likely fraud, possible fraud. That's

less than a tenth of a percent of those 182. Only four people have been charged. Two are registered Democrats,

two are registered Republicans, four people. No one's been convicted. No votes in Arizona were

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