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forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy a...

night that the president and first lady will head to puerto rico last night which was rocked by hurricane fiona -- 25 deaths in puerto rico have been connected to the storms. reuters reports that as of friday, 230,000 homes and businesses remain without power. fiona bore down five days after the anniversary of hurricane maria, which wreaked major havoc on the island before moving up the east coast. after puerto rico, the first couple will head to florida to examine the damage caused by...

Alabama. its called melvin mill again. it also concerned, allegedly, gerrymandered maps. it involves the voting rights app and whether or not this app can -- have their votes deliberately diluted in congressional map drawing. tell me how these are connected and the influence you think theyll have. >> well the voting rights cases very important. as you say, the question is whether, an alabama court will have -- alabama had to draw a second majority district in which african americans voted the ma...

Hochul and other legislative leaders will appeal this, right, jonathan? >> thats right. whats really interesting is that the new york voters earlier said they didnt want anymore gerrymandering. they created a commission so they could have a non-political, fair district map. the democratic legislature essentially rigged that process as well guaranteeing it would fail and the map drawing would come back to them. so this is the frustration of new york voters to say they dont want any more of this. ...

The once-in-a-decade redistricting cycle is in full swing, and wilder than ever. The maps that emerge in the coming months will shape the balance of power in Washington for years to come.

Gains in the state. barack obama won the state yes but state is generally speaking but republican state, including two wins for donald trump. already we have seen some impact from this map drawing. gk butterfield who will is a democratic member of congress said hes not running again because hi district went from safely democratic to a toss up. wo well see what other decisions get made there. two states to look at. two big ones. one is florida. this is state that republicans control all the mecha...

Lancaster County’s legislators have said that election integrity is a top priority because their voters express concern over the election process. Election integrity begins with ending partisan gerrymandering and instituting more clear-cut and enforceable criteria on how the redistricting maps are drawn. Fair Districts PA volunteer Tim Brixius made this point: “Current discussions about election reform in the House State Government Committee should not put redistricting reform on the ...

Conquer strategy. pitting one group of americans against another. making white americans think that these hispanic voters are coming in and somehow diminishing their votesors egalitarianism in our country. its this divide and conquer strategy that has pushed our politics into this horrible state were in. the truth is that the solution to all of this is to reform our immigration laws. then it doesnt really matter whether you put a citizenship question on the censor not. but clearly a lot of peopl...

Lets not forget, syrias an artificial creation of the british/french deal back in the 1990s, right after world war i to create a piece of real estate that the french would have while the british took control most of the middle east. and that is coming unstuck. look at the composition, the religious composition of the place. and all of these differences are getting aggravated. >> see, mr. prime minister, we blame the british for all the map drawing. >> in the middle east. >> by the way, in the fa...

If you take ohio out of the republican column, john heilemann, no republicans ever won the white house without winning ohio. things become much more difficult. if you lose ohio as mitt romney, youve got to win virginia, new hampshire, colorado, youve got to win nevada. youve got to run the board, basically. >> well, remember, go back to what karl rove said at the beginning of the general election, which was this 3, 2, 1 concept, that romney had to win back big states that obama had won. he had t...