THE FIGHT FOR VOTING RIGHTS IS JUST GETTING STARTED
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Can we prevent criminals like Donald Trump from making us into an autocratic, mafia-like state? It's a low bar, but can we at least be as functional as the National Football League? Plus- thoughts on Biden's recent public comments.
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| 0:46.9 | President Biden gave quite a speech. I want to give you a little summary of my take on it. |
| 0:51.6 | I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Voting rights went down and flamed |
| 0:55.6 | Joe Madison, our friend and colleague over on the SiriusXM Urban View channel, |
| 0:59.8 | announced on his show that he is ending his fast for voting rights because for the moment, |
| 1:07.0 | the cause is lost. Long term, the cause is definitely not lost. |
| 1:11.0 | There's a lot of fight left in a long way to go and there's a very good chance that in the 2022 election, |
| 1:16.3 | we will pick up a couple more Democratic senators and we can try this again if we can hang on to the |
| 1:21.4 | house. We'll see. And Joe, in fact, in addition to sending me a note overnight on |
| 1:28.1 | as a text message that he was pulling his fast today and we wish him the best. |
| 1:33.1 | I mean, even stopping a fast after this long period of time can be a challenge to your body. |
| 1:38.3 | Also sent me a note from Media Matters, which I thought was brilliant by Eric Cleefeld |
| 1:43.7 | about how CNN is covering voting rights as Democratic infighting rather than focusing on what a |
| 1:49.9 | threat Trump's big lie to democracy is brilliant. It's so solid. So I want to get into that. |
| 1:55.6 | The GOP apparently, at least Mitch McConnell wants you to believe that Black voters are not |
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