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Commitment of many state legislatures to attacking the foundations of our democracy appears to have deepened. the trend towards threatening election administrators with criminal penalties as more pronounced and aggressive, and attempts by legislators to perform core election functions is grown more brazen. many election officials are on the country have faced death threats. an email sent to election officials in georgia said, quote, no one of these places will be spared unless and until trump is guaranteed to be potus again. many election officials are quoting there now dangerous jobs. the soc...

Potentially most dangerous legislatures are giving themselves the right to interfere in vote counting and election disputes while tying the hands of secretaries of state to rule impartially or even in some cases to see legal advice. bill is giving legislators with oversight of elections allowing them to interfere in the running of elections and otherwise injecting the partisanship in the process of already passed arc and saw, georgia, idaho, indiana kansas north dakota oklahoma tennessee and texas. this is the most important story about american government in our lifetimes. republicans are try...

Results. many of the people seeking those jobs now do not believe in democracy. dissociative press reports the local election jobs are being vacated as trump's false claims of fraud persist within the gop and provide a platform for his loyalists to launch campaigns to become top election officials in several swing states. that report from voting right group says that 2021 state legislative season ultimately proved to be a turning point in the history of america's democracy. these are the ingredients for a democracy crisis. leading off our discussion of that crisis tonight is ari berman, senior...

Election fund. and let me begin with you jim a tonight because the naacp legal defense fund has been fighting these battles as long as the naacp legal defense fund has existed. this chapter that we've arrived at now where we are dealing with the aftermath of voting, with secretary of states will be allowed to do or not be allowed to do, those changes in these election laws are things we've never seen before. >> that's right. until the acp defense fund has been around for 81 years and we've been fighting attacks on our democracy and attacks that have used black voters as a vehicle to undermine ...

Long-standing democracy starts to erode. it begins by undermining how people feel, not about the democracy that they have but about the administration of that democracy. >> janai nelson i know when marshall was running your legal shop at the naacp legal defense fund, he was accustomed to when he would gain some yardage and have some wins in this kind of arena. he was accustomed to the opposition finding a new way. finding some other way to block people from voting that always adjusting to whatever progress he was trying to make. and here we are this year with such a sharp and quick reaction to...