How the Right is Shredding the Vote
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Populism is the theme when America’s #1 populist, Jim Hightower, joins Ralph to outline the six ways the right is trying to shred our vote this November. Also, we learn how the Trump Administration’s policies have really affected Iowa’s farming community from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-editor of the Progressive Populist, Art Cullen.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
| 0:07.0 | You've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning. How are you doing today? I'm doing fantastic. We got a great show. We do we do and also we had the man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello Ralph. Hi everybody. We have great show today and we're going to talk about elections because the November election is quickly approaching and although we maybe we should call it the October election after all they say mail-in ballot should be sent in at least 14 days in advance to be sure to be counted in time |
| 0:46.4 | And we're going to talk about the election today with our first guest America's number one popular as Jim High Tower |
| 0:52.0 | Jim is going to clue us in on the six ways the America's number one popular as Jim High Tower. |
| 0:52.6 | Jim is going to clue us in on the six ways |
| 0:54.8 | the right is shredding the vote, which include purging, |
| 0:58.1 | suing, and downright thuggery. |
| 1:00.6 | And we're also going to talk a little bit |
| 1:02.0 | about how Trump's policies affect farmers, which is a perfect segue into the second part of our show, |
| 1:08.0 | where we're going to journey to the heartland and welcome back Art Cullen, journalist and founder of the Storm Lake Times and Storm Lake Iowa. |
| 1:15.0 | President Trump is always telling us about how much he loves the farmers. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, Art is going to let us know exactly how Trump's policies really affect Iowa's farmers. |
| 1:23.6 | And more specifically, how Trump's trade wars, bad environmental policies, and |
| 1:28.0 | ethanol waivers have actually harmed them. In between, as always, we will take |
| 1:32.2 | some time to check in with our corporate crime reporter Russell Mokieber. |
| 1:35.6 | But let's start by talking about the six ways the right is shredding the vote. |
| 1:40.0 | David? |
| 1:41.0 | Jim Hightower is a syndicated columnist National Radio commentator at America's number one |
| 1:46.7 | populist is written many books including Swim Against the Current. |
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