I often say that Donald Trump wants to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat.

Look, making voting more difficult involves voter suppression and more restrictive voting rules.

You know all about that.

But what about the part about making it easier for him to cheat?

That's a lot more complicated.

Look, it may involve seizing ballots or putting election deniers in charge of the counting.

Perhaps he'll seek to prevent election certification. Or, as we saw on January 6th, go so far as to

encourage vigilantes to resort to violence. At the heart of all of this is something we don't

talk enough about, the propaganda that he uses to confuse and mislead voters

and his own supporters. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through how Trump uses propaganda

and lying to try to steal elections and also what we can all do to fight back. Look, this is going to be a

journey. So grab yourself a drink,

sit back, and enjoy the ride. But before we get into it, Democracy Docket is made possible by

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Lots of pundits and historians

and experts on authoritarianism

turn to historical analogies

to try to describe

the current era in which we live.

Some point back to past

dictators, some even point

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