The Plot to End Voting Rights with Rick Hasen

Factually! with Adam Conover

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We consider democracy a fundamental American value, but the reality is that we haven't been truly democratic for as long as our country has existed. Not only is the right to vote not constitutionally protected, but it also faces constant attacks from anti-democratic campaigns funded by billionaires, aiming to make voting more difficult. This week, Adam is joined by Rick Hasen, a UCLA professor of law, to uncover the genuine threats to elections and explore potential solutions. Find Rick's book at factually.com/books

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:04.6	Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connover, thank you so much for joining
0:29.6	me once again as I talk to an incredible expert about all the amazing things that they know
0:34.0	that I don't know and that you might not know.
0:36.7	If you're listening on YouTube, go check us out in your favorite podcast player.
0:39.8	If you're listening on your favorite podcast player, hey, check us out on YouTube if you
0:42.6	want to see this episode in video form.
0:45.2	Now on this show, we're going to be talking about something that's going to sound like a conspiracy
0:49.7	theory.
0:50.7	It's going to sound like I've been hanging out on the wrong reddit forums, but this is one
0:54.7	of those conspiracies that's actually just true.
0:58.7	American democracy is under attack right now.
1:02.2	Literally powerful people in our society are trying to make our country less democratic
1:07.0	so they can call the shot, which is nuts because you know, in school, we were all taught
1:11.0	that, you know, democracy is a fundamental American value, but the truth is America hasn't
1:16.6	been truly democratic for almost its entire history.
1:20.0	In the 1960s, the system of social and political exclusion known as Jim Crow, America's very
1:25.6	own apartheid system severely curtailed black voting rights in the South.
1:30.5	Black people were a full 20% of the Southern population, but the white population called
1:35.4	all of the shots and it took massive and heroic resistance of the civil rights era to bring
1:40.3	Jim Crow to an end.
1:41.7	This required legal victories and iconic legislation, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act,
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