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Republican priorities. like recur requiring voter i.d.. but still not a single republican senator voted for this democracy want to one kind of stuff. which we shouldnt lose the ability to be shocked by them, even if it is no longer surprising. let that said, there is one person who must be surprised by todays outcome. one person who may be in fact be flabbergasted by todays tally, for all i know. that persons west virginias conservative democratic senator joe manchin. i dont know if there is a f...

The first bush was elected in 1988, there have been eight presidential elections. the democrats have won seven of the eight. the american people have gone to the polls seven out of the eight last times and said we want these guys, these women. >> popular vote. >> in power. yes. other people in other countries laugh at us having to put an adjective before the vote. it is the majority of americans want the democrats. they want the progressive way. theyre tired of the old way. >> so, michael, on th...

I was elected in 1988 there have been eight presidential elections. the democrats have won seven of the eight. the american people have gone to the polls seven out of the eight last times and said we want these guys, these women. >> popular vote. >> in power. yes. other people in other countries laugh at us having to put an adjective before the vote. it is the majority of americans want the democrats. they want the progressive way. theyre tired of the old way. >> so, michael, on that note of vot...

Calling on congress to pass the people act john lewis voting rights act. the house passed both of those. theyre both currently stalled by republicans in the senate, with an assist from conservative democratic senator joe manchin. the signs you might have seen in d.c. that said the boy from troy sent us, those are attributed to some of the white activists who was warned in alabama. it wasnt just d.c. this weekend though -- in places like atlanta and phoenix, there were hundreds of people who gath...

As that sort of desperate future gets closer and closer, and as the normal paths around it seem to be coming to dead ends, we are now seeing the phase in this fight where the people who care the most about it and are willing to do the most about it are trying to create brand-new paths to make progress possible. and theyre using direct action to do it. were seeing that at scale with the democrats from the texas legislature all walking out of the state capitol in austin and flying to washington th...

This issue and what is needed to help turn it around. for example, next week a group of black african american women will be leading a week of action in d.c. that they hope will help give voice to the concerns of african american women and will help propel this issue to the front of peoples agenda. oples>> a summer of direct act. he was speaking one week ago today here on the show, talking of a summer of direct action led by, he said last week, next week, a group of african-american women leadin...

Democrats who met with conservative democratic senator joe manchin today. fascinating the confrontation between him being the man who is stopping progress on voting rights in america, and the texas democrats who have left their homes and their jobs and come to washington to beg for his help. he came out of that meeting with the texas democrats today saying it was a good meeting, informative. he said they were all in complete agreement that action must be taken in washington to protect voting rig...

Legal protections for voting, even for voting restrictions that admittedly only go after minority voters. the courts effectively closing themselves off to hearing voting rights cases or vindicating people who had been victimized by restrictions on their voting rights. unified republican opposition in washington to passing anything to bolster voting rights at all, and democrats who cant figure out a way to pass voting rights protections without republicans. even though a little unity and a single...

As that desperate future gets closer, and closer, and as the normal paths around it seem to be coming to dead ends, we are now seeing the face, in this fight, where the people who care the most about it are willing to do the most about it, are creating brand-new paths to make progress possible. theyre using direct action to do it. were seeing that at scale with the democrats from the texas legislature all walking out and flying to washington this week. theyre gonna be in washington for weeks, aw...

Wade henderson from the leadership conference on civil and human rights. i asked mr. henderson basically, why he didnt feel more despair about voting rights right now. i mean, republicans succeeding with all these new anti-voting rights restrictions all across the country. the courts with the conservative majority in the u.s. supreme court leading the way, stripping legal protections for voting, even for voting restrictions that admittedly only go after minority voters. the courts effectively cl...