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Vote. it is the most sacred responsibility that we have to express our views during times of voting. and the only remedy to that is to enact hr-1, s-1, and things standing in the way of that is the fill with filibuster. the irony that it will be used to crush the most pro democracy piece of legislation is cruel irony. but whatever way they do it, the senate has to move forward to protect voting rights across this country. and i think that you can easily carve out an area of democracy voting righ...

And so eddie, you tweeted something july 21 that is alls of, ive been thinking about the various assaults on american democracy and i keep back on seriousness. stupidity abounds. covering us all in its stench. stupid but it is affecting democracy. >> absolutely. i mean, when we think about this with regards to voting and the so-called stop the steal and we think about what is going on with coronavirus and the folks refusing to get vaccinated, what we see is that there is a sense in which the ame...

Rights of america. and so it is important for all of us to continue to tell the truth about democracy and the threat to democracy that is currently under way in this country. >> so how do you translate that, eddie? i think errin put that well. people are in survival mode or people who dont have some attachment to the idea that voting is actually not just a right, but a right that people died for, went to jail for, still getting arrested for. and yet it is important what is going on in arizona, g...

These laws will impact poor voter, low well the voters, young voters, it will impact our democracy broadly. so in some ways we have to make the argument that heather mcgee makes in her book that the effort to limit and constrict voting rights for a particular population will have an impact on all of us. and so that will have to involve progressive organizations getting out there and doing this work. and not just simply outsourcing to civil rights organizations. we have a history in this country ...

Force people to act and people of all creeds and colors regardless of whether or not they had to stand in a long line, regardless or not whether their ballot was brought under question. voter participation in this country is still among the lowest among western countries in this world and we know that, you know, while almost 80% of african-americans view voting rights as voting as a right, you have still in the 60% range asian-americans, hispanic americans, who believe that. and as i said, only ...

Are continuing to pass these voter suppress laws. were up to 18. but in the last election, almost 80 million americans did not vote and you referenced that pew research center poll that showed had nearly half of white americans think that voting is a privilege instead of a right. and so this is something that does not impact people directly, voter suppress, so they may not care about it. and so you see president biden and vice president harris using their bully pulpit to talk to people about the...

Then there are also more than a dozen states that are currently trying to make it impossible to teach about systemic bias or topics of race in classrooms and come up today, too, as people say we celebrate but what about the areas where people cant talk about it in schools so thats what i mean when i say this is about as much about the future as the past. yasmin? >> it really is incredible. you picked up on that so well. the fact that i was just talking about the voting restrictions put in place ...

Columbia, missouri, thank you. were approaching the top of the hour and youre watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. hi, everybody. im yasmin vossoughian. for those of you still with us, thank you for sticking around. if youre just joining, welcome. new details this hour on the gop war on voting. fresh reporting today from "the new york times" revealing just how far republicans have gone to keep people away from the ballot box in the states that they control. it comes after there wa...

Controls on the media. that remains to be seen in the coming months. >> thank you. coming up, we are following that new reporting on the republican efforts to curtail voting in states across the country where theyre in control. but up next meet miss juneteenth. were going to talk to this remarkable young woman on what the crown means to her on this historic holiday. o) i saw them out of the corner of my eye. just a blur when they jumped the median. there was nothing i could do. (daughter) dadd...

Talking about the-mile-per-hour system of election administration and i want to give a pretty amazing statistic. voter turnout. we lose sight on election day theres about 40 or 50 million people who arent even registered who are eligible when voting happens. the u.s. ranked next to last among g8 nations. we come in 120th out of 169 and next to the last of the g8s. one interesting and important thing i would note is voter turnout does not mean you have a great functioning democracy as demonstrate...