The GOP’s War on Wokeness + A Conversation with Tara Setmayer
THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Michael breaks down the GOP’s Senate blockade of the Voter Rights Bill. Next, the GOP’s war on wokeness and obsession with critical race theory. Then the news that Trump sought to shutdown SNL for his portrayal. Finally, Tara Setmayer from Lincoln Project’s The Breakdown joins Mea Culpa.
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| 0:47.1 | Republicans on Tuesday blocked the most ambitious voting rights legislation to come before Congress in a generation, dealing a blow to Democrats |
| 0:56.0 | attempt to counter a wave of state-level ballot restrictions that President Biden and numerous |
| 1:01.8 | progressive figures have referred to as 21st century Jim Crow. |
| 1:06.4 | The motion is not agreed to. |
| 1:09.3 | Madam President. |
| 1:10.8 | Mr. Majority Leader. |
| 1:12.8 | Madam President, I want to be clear about what just happened on the Senate floor. |
| 1:18.6 | Every single Senate Republican just voted against starting debate, starting debate, |
| 1:24.9 | on legislation to protect Americans' voting rights. |
| 1:29.3 | Once again, the Senate Republican minority has launched a partisan blockade of a pressing |
| 1:35.0 | issue here in the United States Senate. |
| 1:37.9 | The bitter defeat went down party lines and has supercharged Democrats' desire to nuke |
| 1:43.5 | the filibuster rather than attempt reconciliation with a party that has turned both insane and autocratic. |
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