Steve Behnen News Today

Beyond efforts to suppression democratic influence. fueled by the big lie this effort picks up where last years insurrection left off by systematically taking over every aspect of the voting process end quote. ari berman joins me now, a senior reporter for the mother jones and the author of "give us the ballot the modern struggle for voting rights in america", and steve, the editor of the maddow blog, and the author of the impos tors, how republicans quit governing and seized american politics. ...

Feel the erosion of certain other rights. >> i think youre right and thats borne out in polls. we see it in all kinds of survey data that americans dont recognize the degree to which the democracy is in peril that the threats are very real and its incumbent upon public officials and us as journalists to let them know, look, this is a serious crisis. our democracy cannot be taken for granted. if were not vigilant it will go away and it will be very difficult to recover for the next generation. >>...

Thats before 19 states that passed 33 laws that made it harder for americans to vote. americans arent yet fully prepared for this situation, this antidemocracy dynamic, but in the coming months as they prepare to participate in early voting, and prepare to try and register to vote, those hurdles will get in their way and theyll feel it in a meaningful way. >> lets play that out. people go, we just talked to juaquin castro about the fact that theyre making it hard to register to vote in texas for...