Squash The Vote: The GOP Plan to Thwart Democracy.
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🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Investigative reporter Greg Palast (GregPalast.com) details the hard work that won elections in Georgia for Biden, Warnock and Ossoff. And the GOP plans to keep that from happening again. There and in other parts of the country. Plus new reporting in how the January 6th rally in DC became the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.
The Brennan Center for Justice (BrennanCenter.org) just released a report on unprecedented efforts to restrict voting rights at the state level. From the report: "Thirty-three states have introduced, prefiled, or carried over 165 restrictive bills this year." Eliza Sweren-Becker serves as counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice and she breaks down this assault on voting rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, to our regular listeners, welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:12.3 | And to those of you joining us for the first time, a very special welcome. |
| 0:16.5 | We hope you subscribe to the Bill Press pod and join us again and again. |
| 0:22.2 | You know, we'll be studying the significance of the November 2020 election for years, but this much is certain. |
| 0:29.4 | More people voted for president than ever before. |
| 0:32.8 | Joe Biden racked up more votes than any winning candidate for president ever, and Donald Trump for any |
| 0:40.6 | losing candidate ever. So what are Republicans going to do about it? Celebrate high voter turnout |
| 0:48.3 | while convincing more people to vote for Republicans? Hell no. Just the opposite. Egged on by Donald Trump, |
| 0:58.0 | they've launched a nationwide campaign of voter suppression, trying to depress voter turnout |
| 1:04.1 | by making it harder, not easier to vote. It's a frightening, ultimately anti-American crusade we look into today with two experts. |
| 1:15.2 | First, investigative journalist and leading author Greg Pallis to tell us what he discovered in Georgia, |
| 1:22.3 | where it all started. And then a state-by-state review of what's going on from Eliza Swerin-Becker, who is counsel for the Democracy Program at the Great Brennan Center for Justice. First, Greg Palist. Greg Palist, good to talk to you. Thanks so much for joining us here on the Bill Press pod. Glad to be back with you. So, Greg, I want to talk to you about voter suppression. |
| 1:45.2 | You've been writing a lot about that. |
| 1:46.5 | You spent a lot of time down in Georgia. |
| 1:48.1 | But before we do, let me ask you, we're just now all recovering from the impeachment trial last week. |
| 1:58.5 | I know you followed it. |
| 1:59.8 | You've written about some of it. Generally, what was your |
| 2:03.4 | take? Did the Democrats accomplish their mission, or did Republicans and Donald Trump walk free? |
| 2:10.8 | Well, the question is, did he accomplish our mission as American citizens? Did the Democrats and |
| 2:16.5 | Republicans, what did they do? Obviously, the Republicans |
| 2:19.0 | punted, despite Mitch McConnell's, he's guilty, he's guilty, but I voted not guilty. Okay, all right. |
| 2:25.6 | You know, what else did you say? But the one thing we didn't get, and I'm not bitching about |
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