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40: Marc Elias & Ari Berman on the GOP’s Assault on Democracy

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The Debate Over Voting Rights Is a Part of the Fight to Overthrow American Democracy

The fight over voting rights is an extension of the fight to overthrow american democracy. The people who shut up on january sixth thought wrongly, but they thought that if they could stop the senate and the house from certifying the election on that day it wouldn't count. When that failed, they simply turned their attention to the next election which is 20 22 and 20 24. We can't just say, well, ses, they didn't do it, so now let's give up our democracy. I'm not optimistic, but that's the fight we have in front of us.

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