Voting Rights Now, Not Later with LaTosha Brown
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Atlanta, Georgia yesterday to make a stand for voting rights. Absent from the audience to Biden’s speech were several Georgia voting rights groups that refused to attend. Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown joins us to discuss why activists like her sat this one out and what they’re concerned about ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 12th. I'm Gideon Resinc. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Josie DeFurace. And this is What A Day. Where we're searching for a cure to |
| 0:13.5 | our intrusive thoughts about the New York Times COVID curve. |
| 0:16.9 | Yes, obviously, let's deal with the curve itself first, but if there is a treatment for |
| 0:21.0 | thoughts about said curve, that would be helpful too. |
| 0:24.0 | To be clear, I'm looking for the fastest shortcut. |
| 0:26.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:30.5 | On today's show, Chicago students will head back to school today, plus Amazon workers |
| 0:35.4 | in Alabama can officially redo their union vote starting early next month. |
| 0:39.8 | But first, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to my city at |
| 0:44.2 | Lanna, Georgia yesterday to make a stand for voting rights and to push Congress to pass |
| 0:48.0 | two pieces of legislation meant to combat ever-mountain Republican-led efforts to restrict |
| 0:53.0 | voting access and his speech delivered after he visited the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King |
| 0:57.5 | Jr. President Biden said this. |
| 0:59.6 | The United States Supreme Court in recent years is weak in the Voting Rights Act. |
| 1:05.1 | And now, the defeated former president and supporters used a big lie about the 2020 election |
| 1:12.9 | to fuel torment and anti-voting laws, new laws designed to suppress your vote to subvert |
| 1:20.0 | our elections. |
| 1:21.2 | Those two congressional bills to protect voting rights have been stuck for months because |
| 1:24.6 | nearly all but one and only sometimes one, sometimes zero, Senate Republicans have been |
| 1:30.0 | against them, plus the White House prioritized passing the infrastructure and the social |
| 1:33.9 | spending packages. |
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