Karen of the Senate
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema's questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also discuss how unless Congress passes voting rights protections, it doesn't matter who runs in 2024, because the election will be determined not by candidate popularity but by the most extreme voter suppression laws since the era before the VRA.
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| 0:00.0 | It's very clear what the Republican Party is up to. |
| 0:04.0 | They are trying to make it harder for some people to vote and easier to cheat. |
| 0:10.0 | We're trying to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached. |
| 0:28.4 | And I take great umbrage when members of this body would use old trite states rights arguments. |
| 0:40.3 | The same kinds of states rights arguments that were used against Dr. King back then |
| 0:45.3 | to push against reasonable access to the ballot right now. |
| 0:52.3 | And many of these same politicians will stand up in just a few days and they will give |
| 0:59.3 | lip service to Martin Luther King, Jr. Well, you cannot remember Dr. King and dismember his |
| 1:08.1 | legacy at the same time. |
| 1:13.3 | The John Lewis Voting Rights Act, |
| 1:16.6 | the Freedom to Vote Act is the legacy of Dr. King, |
| 1:18.9 | and if you would give lip service to his name, |
| 1:22.6 | you need to find yourself on the right side of history, |
| 1:25.7 | pushing to get these bills done. |
| 1:30.1 | And so I urge my colleagues to do the right thing. |
| 1:34.1 | If those on the other side refuse to it to do it, |
| 1:38.9 | the Democrats will have to act alone. |
| 1:43.5 | But by all means, we have to act. Dr. King's words are as true now as they were back then. |
| 1:49.0 | Justice delayed is justice denied. Time is running out. Let's get the job done. |
| 2:15.2 | I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country, and hiding in plain sight, and of the upcoming book they knew out this September. |
| 2:19.7 | I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. |
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