What Happens to a Lie Empowered?

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio reflect on the state of our democracy with Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, and Ese Olumhense, reporter for Reveal. They discuss the takeaways from the 2022 midterm elections, including the increase in voter suppression tactics since 2020. They also look ahead to the 2024 presidential election and talk about what it will take to protect voting rights.

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Andrew Marantz writes about our increasingly reactionary Supreme Court being a major source of anti-democracy in our country, in this article for The New Yorker.

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0:00.0	There's an epidemic of selfishness and greed combined with racism and anti-symmetism and
0:12.5	anti-democratic and fascist forces, so folk are going to have to make a choice, either
0:17.6	you for democracy or you're not.
0:21.4	Prof. Maria NPRX, it's in the thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture.
0:26.7	I'm Maria Hinojosa, and I'm Julio Ricalo-Varela.
0:29.5	Joining us from Harlem, New York City is essay O'Lume essay, a reporter for Reveal who covers
0:35.4	democracy and gender rights, essay Welcome to the Show, and we're like a stone stroke
0:39.8	because we're right here in Harlem too.
0:41.4	Yes, thank you for inviting me.
0:43.1	Great to have you.
0:44.3	And joining us from Princeton, New Jersey, the sister state of New Jersey is Dr. Eddie
0:48.8	Claude Jr. He's the James S. McDonald Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University,
0:55.2	Hermano Eddie, welcome back to the show.
0:58.0	Such a delight to be with you.
0:59.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:00.8	All right, so 2022 was a hell of a year, and we're really glad to have the both of you
1:05.8	on to make sense of what's happening in our country and in our democracy, from attacks
1:11.0	on reproductive rights, to voter suppression and redistricting, to lies and misinformation
1:16.4	about elections.
1:18.1	And we're witnessing how our democracy has been clearly under threat.
1:21.9	Many of us have been saying this for years.
1:24.0	And we're going to get into the state of things, but first we want to get into your
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