THE FIGHT TO VOTE BROKEN DOWN
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
How American democracy itself will be on the ballot in coming years, as Republicans embrace Trump’s Big Lie, and politicians like Stacey Abrams make the fight for voting rights central to their political strategy. Thom is joined by Michael Waldman, author of The Fight to Vote and member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. Radio Host Dean Obeidallah - Biden Is Shedding the Support of His Base and That Could Be Bad for Democracy.
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| 0:46.3 | And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and peace |
| 0:51.9 | freedom in the American way. A lot to talk about today. We're monitoring the Senate to see if |
| 0:57.3 | a debate is going to happen or begin or whatever, you know, around the civil rights legislation |
| 1:03.2 | that is before us. And weather mansion and cinema are going to continue hanging out with the |
| 1:08.0 | Republicans to suppress the right of, principally, people of color to vote, but, you know, the |
| 1:14.2 | Republicans are also targeting college students and people over 65. All of these groups, you know, |
| 1:21.4 | people who have, you know, college students are concerned about student debt, people over 65 are |
| 1:26.0 | concerned about Medicare, the Republicans are working to prevent any fix on student debt and |
| 1:31.6 | they've already privatized half of Medicare. So, anyhow, we will keep up on that. If anything |
| 1:37.8 | happens of consequence, I'll, you know, we will pipe it right into the show, let's say. |
| 1:42.0 | And Dino Madala is going to drop by my colleague on Sirius XM Biden is shedding the support of his |
| 1:47.2 | base and that could be a bad thing with the election coming up this year. We're going to discuss |
| 1:51.5 | that, but right wingers on the Supreme Court might not like this mandate, but there are others |
| 1:57.6 | they like a lot. I'll get to that. And also kind of a geeky science. Why did 25 million years ago, |
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