The Republican Party's Election Integrity Initiative

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In the 1964 election, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey were up against something that really worried them. The Republican Party had launched what they were calling an election integrity effort. Unofficially, it appeared to be a comprehensive strategy to intimidate people into not voting. Rachel Maddow: If we have done this before, almost this exact thing before, would knowing that help us understand where this all might be heading?

Republicans claim the election was stolen. They use those claims to justify suppressing people’s right to vote. All of it happening amid a national reckoning on race. Rachel Maddow and Isaac-Davy Aronson tell the story of a time uncannily similar to our own – in the early 1960s. And how it’s both a parallel to our present moment and the origin of conflicts playing out today.

Featuring Guests:

Rick Perlstein, historian, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

Sherrilyn Ifill, Vernon Jordan Endowed Chair in Civil Rights at Howard University and former President and Director-Counsel of LDF.

Jim Brosnahan, lawyer and author of Justice At Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases