WILL AMERICA LOOK THE OTHER WAY ON THE GOP'S NEW ELECTION POLICE?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
National Progressive Townhall Meeting with Congressman Mark Pocan. Professor Richard Wolff answers the question: How will American economics be affected If Trump or someone like him takes the White House and ends what's left of democracy? Will America look the other way on the GOPs new election police? Voter fraud isn't real, but election fraud is very much real and alive & that's exactly what DeSantis and the Texas GOP are proposing -- right out in the open.
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| 0:42.7 | This is the Tom Hartman program and greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy truth and |
| 0:50.4 | justice believers and peace freedom in the American way. |
| 0:54.4 | In just a moment, we are going to kick off a national progressive town hall meeting with |
| 0:58.6 | congressman Mark Bocan. I just wanted to fill you in on what's coming up on the rest of the show here. |
| 1:02.9 | Professor Richard Wolff will be with us. How will American economics, he's a professor of economics, of course. |
| 1:08.3 | How will American economics change if Donald Trump or someone like him takes the White House and |
| 1:13.9 | basically ends what's left of democracy? How do fascist economies work? What happens first, second, third? |
| 1:19.1 | We'll get into that. Also, will America look the other way on the GOP's new election police? |
| 1:24.4 | In 1964, they rolled out Operation Eagle Eye as a major voter suppression effort nationwide. |
| 1:30.8 | William Renquist was a leader of this in Arizona, the guy who later gave George Bush the White House in |
| 1:36.7 | 2000. They are rebooting it. Ron DeSantis is bringing this back to Florida. Texas is doing the same. |
| 1:42.8 | It's amazing. I'll tell you all about that. Also, the plan is to close all but one polling place in |
| 1:48.4 | a rural Georgia county. Six out of seven, they're going to close so you're going to have to travel 20 |
| 1:53.3 | miles to vote. Do Democrats have a plan B strategy to circumvent the voting rights filibuster? We'll get |
| 1:58.4 | into that. But first, Congressman Mark Bocan is with us. Congressman Bocan represents the |
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