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Despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. then there's the climate crisis. 2021 tied for sixth hottest year ever in the hottest seven years on record all happened in the last seven years. climate change also leads to more extreme weather events. in the last year, the united states had 20 separate disasters, it cost nearly 700 lives and cost $145 billion in damage. our next guest says you can't fight climate change without standing up for our democracy. i want to begin with a column you wrote for "the hill." our inability to make progress on securing our right to vote is directly tied to o...

We wouldn't have climate action without a functioning democracy. we have to tackle both, or else we have neither. tell me more. >> no, you are exactly right, alicia. the reality is that right now, we are seeing so many obstacles to our right to vote and seeing people being able to gain access to the ballot. and those exact communities that are the most impacted by the climate crisis -- black people, brown people, indigenous people, and young people -- are the same exact communities that are targeted by voter suppression efforts. and so, what we are seeing is this sort of dual function of peopl...