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Environment where the crazies continue to drive the train in a state that used to be known for having a little bit of common sense. and its embarrassing and disappointing as a response. >> it is, but i think at some point you have to deal with the country that youve got, and the country youve got is a country addicted to disinformation because the alternatives on the other side just arent more appealing. and you know, disinformation, if you consume it, must be like porn. maybe you dont tell othe...

At the 202 bill in georgia that is now law, and it being duplicated around the country, we can only stop this with federal law. thats the only way it was dealt with in 1965 when the voting rights act originally happened. the senate must move now. our democracys at stake, and theyve got to understand that we are already late. it will be too late in a minute, and we cannot let the filibuster stand in the way. weve got to find a way around it, through it, or under it, but we have to get to a majori...

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Almost 5 million american children live in homes with loaded, unsecured weapons, so it doesnt surprise anyone when these shootings happen, and in this case, i know the facts are so egregious. i mean, there was information about the risk that seemed like both school officials and the parents were aware that this young man presented a very imminent threat, and in the case of the parents, knew that he had access to a gun. so, you know, the instinct to want to blame someone, to want to place the bla...

Levels. this is a subversive campaign to destroy our democracy, to roll back the right to vote and to nullify the votes themselves, even if democrats can put the bolder on their wall, crying through all the obstacles and cast a vote anyway. what the republicans are engineering is, maybe it will count, maybe it wont. what needs to happen on the other side isnt despair and hand-wringing and a once every four month speech about the importance of voting rights and, oh, please, contemplate getting ri...

People that are to the right or to the fringe or maybe its up and down of bill barr and chris krebs, lifelong republicans. theyre now in charge of elections in georgia. >> right. and that axios story, i think, is the one that really set off the alarm bells, that you are replacing all of the republicans who might have served as guardrails or bulwarks against stealing the election the first time around and replacing them with true believers in the conspiracy theories, and look, as you point out, t...

Of bill through the congress, at least on the electoral count act. >> whats amazing, rev, and im not joking, i mean, maybe the problem is that lacking bureaus in georgia, not having a correspondent in spalding county means that we have this story and we cant see the people. we cant see their faces, but its happening now. so, whenever they turn to it, its already too late. republicans have spent every day since last november pushing back against our democracy, straining it, distorting it, pervert...

Liz cheney understands that. >> two more things on liz cheney. all the things you said were right. two more things. she understands -- as dan just said, she understands the implications of it, the stakes. >> right. >> in a profound way. you can hear it in everything she says, in the not even just a fight about trump or trumpism. it is a fight about the future of american democracy. it is a fight about the soul of the country, whether the country stays what we all were raised to believe it is. >>...

>> right. i agree with you that i think this sort of snuck up on people, that a year ago, last december, i wrote, before january 6th, that donald trump was going to have to try to break the republican party. it was sort of, you know, something he had to do for his ego or his numerous pathologies but what i didnt realize, that when the big lie was a litmus test, that it actually was going to become an organizing principle. its now -- it doesnt just energize the base. it is the one issue they talk...

Cast. and when we say we cant imagine this happening, well, blacks of a certain generation in georgia can imagine it, because it was in the lifetime of my parents generation where they couldnt vote at all, which is why you see a reaction on -- among older blacks in georgia, because they are seeing the return to a reality that they saw when they were young. and now i think for the first time, whites, republican and democrat, are seeing people that will manipulate the system to disempower them and...