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The Hartmann Report

WILL SINEMA & MANCHIN CAUSE THE COMING GOP COUP?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why are Democrats blocking legislation that most Americans want? Is the billionaire Koch Machine behind it?

And Thom checks in with Joe Madison as his hunger strike continues for the voting right bill.


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Our cinema and mansion going to cause the GOP coup,

0:50.9

are they going to help bring about the end of democracy, specifically by blowing up voting rights

0:57.2

and certainly the end of any kind of democratic rule in the United States,

1:02.0

but blowing up build back better, which will then be a failure for President Biden,

1:07.6

literally will echo through the 2022 and 2024 elections.

1:12.9

And who are the people behind them?

1:15.6

Is this the right-wing billionaire machine that the Koch brothers created back in the day,

1:19.7

and now has metastasized way beyond that?

1:23.1

There are now state policy networks right-wing think tanks in every single state in the union

1:29.6

that are churning out op-eds on a daily basis that are writing pieces and court briefs for

1:35.6

state supreme courts in support of legislation.

1:38.5

You've got the American Legislative Exchange Council, Alec, that means twice a year,

1:42.6

where Republican legislators get together one-on-one with individual lobbyists for over a hundred

1:48.9

different companies and industries, and those lobbyists provide the Republican legislators

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