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science guy coming up. and also making "the beat" debut is one of the few live witnesses from the january 6th committee hearings, an expert who stuck to the fact about donald trump's lies and found telling the truth can become something of an act in the maga universe. all of that is coming up here but our top story right now is about democracy, and i'd like to clearly tell you what we're trying to do around here. so let me tell you up front right now this is a little different than our typical start to this news program "the beat." right now i'm going to try to walk through the broad...

Party has been doing, a concerted effort in georgia and other states to roll back voting. slavish devotion to filibuster that bears no relationship to the filibuster our founders knew that's totally empowering of a small minority. a party that's scared to have people vote in washington, d.c., and puerto rico. a party that's hell bent on getting nominees to supreme court to strike down legislation they don't like that's passed by majority of people. this is antimajority party in the end and collapsed party that's lost its moral ground. like the ussr in the cold war, yes, they have bluster and s...

State gets two senators even a state like new jersey. you only get two. so we become more and more anti-majority and we see a tyranny of the minority. we are seeing that not only do we have the electoral college, the senate but now we have the filibuster. so again and again and again you don't have the will of the people being carried out by the congress. and you see that the things that are really bipartisan, not just a majority of the people in the country but very bipartisan in the districts are not bipartisan on the hill. it really has become something that you see again and again and agai...

Overwhelmingly republican and massively gerrymandered gets to pick the governor. so why would the framers have done this? luckily they were extremely explicit about their intentions at the time. in 1889, senator james george was predicting that african-americans would soon outnumber white voters in the state 2-1 so he called for a new constitution that would ensure home government under the control of the white people of the state. one of the framers of that new constitution was a man named james k.vardaman who would go on to be a u.s. senator and governor of mississippi. there is no use to eq...

Put into place explicitly white supremacist anti-majority governing structures to preserve white control of the state at all costs. that included poll taxes and literary tests which have since been struck down. despite the fact that the gubernatorial voting system is pretty clearly unconstitutional, it has not been struck down. it is still the law 129 years later. now, it turns out there's another place where one person, one vote doesn't apply in u.s. elections and winning a majority of the vote if too heavily concentrated in certain areas doesn't mean you win the election and there are some n...