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Trajectory were going to see if the administration and democrats in congress cannot establish a nationwide floor of voting rights. it is pretty clear that in the coming years were going to see the biggest retro regression of those rights and the biggest diversion in how the rights are available since the voting acts in 1965. there is no question about where were watching a conspiracy being organized in plain sight with trump consolidating his control over the republican party and moving to put p...

Is scheduled to vote for tomorrow afternoon on a bill that would set national standards for voting acts. today, he acknowledged democrats still need ten republican votes to cross over and move this forward. >> democrats are ready to work with republicans in good faith. if they vote to begin a debate on voting rights. >> and dont stop us if youve heard some version of this before. late today, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell predicted that the ten votes from his party were unlikely to cro...

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Padilla, whos been integral to this bill in the freedom to vote act. who said that, you know, he didnt express much optimism, i would probably describe it as milquetoast optimism. but he called it the final straw and he thinks that it should be viewed as the final straw for his colleagues and hes been spending time reminding his democratic colleagues that the republicans didnt support the for the people act, they didnt support creating a select commission to investigate the january 6th insurrect...

Biden, the statement to begin this program this program was very powerful. i do believe that pelosi has a backup plan if that happens. and we might come back with something that we talked about earlier in the week. if what they want is a stand-alone vote on just that one narrower package, bring it up with just one small change so that if they vote against that a second time, they really are looking like nothing but people going for extortion and being obstructionists, but if you do that, there i...

Not done that. and now more breaking news from president biden, he is going to deliver a long awaited speech on voting rights. he has been pressured to use the presidential power to counter restricting the vote. they will try to do it again in texas. there a special session there called by the governor to consider more voting acts there. and it is a fight that the texas won, and the republicans lost back in may when the state democrats managed to delay the bill by stagesing a dramatic walk-on....

Made of the laws. that said, none of this should take the burden off of the senate to pass the john lewis voting rights act and restore the voting acts right. >> and of course republicans across the country are emboldened by the big lie, now traveling to arizona garland called the abnormal methods popping up to review the 2020 election. what can the doj do to look at that arizona audit? >> so earlier, during the audit, a letter was actually written bay doj pam carland and pointed out that they m...

The people act. to, the john lewis voting acts, three the justice and policing act. we have three significant civil rights bill which i believe are significant as those that were enacted by the congress in 1968. as we derrick mentioned, it took president johnson with his political skill and ability, and a movement of people in the streets, all across america, a popular movement, to break that senate filibuster in 1964, 1965. we have to break that filibuster, because democracy is on trial. we hav...

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