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wisconsin, and last week they secured a supermajority in the senate, and only narrowly missed out on super majority in the house as well, by 2499 votes, according to wisconsin democratic party chair barren when claire. according to a market university study, democrats would now have to wait in two thirds of the statewide votes to get half the seats in the legislature, so serious question. if wisconsin were a foreign country, would you even still complete our democracy? after the break i will speak to wisconsin democratic chair ben wikler about that health of democracy in the badger state. acy in the badger state. led mess? try downy wrinkle guard fabric softener! wrinkle guard penetrates deep into fibers, leaving clothes so soft, wrinkles don't want to stick around. make mornings smoother with downy wrinkle guard fabric softener. ♪ from holiday hills, illinois to rudolph, wisconsin.

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a good margin. >> it's crazy! and it's true, to understand why you have to go back to 2010, that year the tea party movement got scott walker elected wisconsin's first republican governor in eight years. and the gop also got control of the legislature for the first time, in over a decade. the following year, that republican government re-drew the states maps in secret, and in 2012 the map worked brilliantly, republicans won six out of 1990 seats in the state, and held -- even though they got less than 50% of all the votes. and much less in 2018, went airy berman notes, that your democrats in all five state races who had won 53% of votes cast, but the party retained just 36% of seats in the state legislature. republicans have figured out how to make elections voter proof. it's not just through gerrymandering either. in 2018, when wisconsin

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they're counted, and how they're cast, they can break the system so that they can never lose power, that if we have someone who believes in our constitutional guarantee that voters who have equal rights in our state, when the supreme supreme court race in april 20th, 2023. that person will be the deciding vote on welling to strike down that gerrymandered maps, and wisconsin could become lake michigan where they had fair maps in the election, and the year when democrats win in the statewide races. they also win at the trifecta, in the legislative. level and be able to write the values of the public into the law. the extreme maga minority, so this is really a race for all of the marbles, in the democratic party of wisconsin, we are keeping dozens of staff on our payroll, on our team to make sure that we are ready for state supreme court fight that we're gonna have to prosecute by a state run national stakes very important election. >> i think it's bizarre that judges are elected, but that's a discussion for another day, let me ask you this ben. in michigan you mentioned they just flipped all the chambers,

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majorities of the vote, joining me now ben wangler chair of that democratic party, then there has been a lot of celebrating this week in democratic circles, liberal circles about not just fending off a red wave but saving democracy in america, a lot of elections deniers got defeated, and i worry that it is a rightful focusing on election deniers, we forget about gerrymandering which is another piece of this puzzle, andrew wisconsin seems to be ground zero for it. >> it really, deeply, profoundly is and by some measures, wisconsin is the most gerrymandered state in the united states of america. and the reality is that we had one or two wheels off to the side of the cliff, and were able to swerve barely away from the cliffside, if republicans had gotten super majorities in both chambers of our state legislature, they could've renewed election laws to ensure that is the republican candidate for governor here said, they never lose another election in wisconsin. but we managed to stop them by

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has held a life of pristine character, holding to high moral integrity, and they have swept up all of herschel walker's missteps under the rug until there is a lump in the carpet, but character and mobile fighter are without question. >> pastoral jamal by, and we will have to leave it there, thank you so much, we appreciate. it >> i'm grateful. >> still ahead, we'll take a look at the redistricting in wisconsin, and how gerrymandering led to the gop taking the house in this year's election there. stay with us! stay with us a date, a day off, or a double shift. make your move and get out in front of eczema with steroid-free cibinqo. not an injection, cibinqo is a once-daily pill for adults who didn't respond to previous treatments. and it's proven to help provide clearer skin and relieve itch fast. cibinqo continuously treats eczema whether you're flaring or not. cibinqo can lower your ability to fight infections,

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completely grateful. >> yeah, interventions and game ban, tony stark found a way to travel through time, i would challenge tony start to find a way around these wisconsin maps of yours, that would be a challenge for any genius, let me ask you this though band before we run out of time, there's no question that these are ridiculous, they hurt your party. but that's not your only issue in wisconsin. mandela barnes ran statewide, you can't blame his defeat on gerrymandering, why did he go down to someone like ron johnson? elections and i. or anti-vaxxer. please be bad for the people in wisconsin. >> it's very, very painful especially because he came closer to the feeding run chances that anyone has. this was the closest senate race in 100 years in wisconsin, a democrat hasn't defeated as sitting republican senator since 1962. 60 years ago. and in that year we had a president with a 70% approval rate, the mandela barnes did extraordinarily well. the most people thing with that ron johnson's biggest legislative achievement was given a big tax cut to the biggest -- of the conservative movement.

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the first time since 1982. they have the trifecta now in michigan, under fair, independent maps. these weren't gerrymandered maps by the democrats, this is let's run out of fair map and see who went to the democrats run. it's also threw a petition about initiative the last time around, that got this independent, redistricting committee. is that for wisconsin ago out down that world? >> i wish it were, under wisconsin's constitution a bill has the pass, a constitutional amendment has to pass through two successive sessions of the state legislator before it goes in front of voters, so there is no path to direct democracy here, to fix the maps, and governor evers proposed creating a referendum process. and of course our gerrymandered legislatures struck in the town. they gaveled, in gaveled out of the session in less than a minute. so the one path, it's like the avengers movies when there's only one path to defeat that knows. the one path is to win the majority on our state supreme court, strike down the gerrymandered maps. i should say, if anyone wants to support them, they can go to with them thought or it slash donate, and we would be

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consequential speaker of our lifetimes. more on her massive legacy. both good and bad in just a moment. also, gerrymandering didn't just cost democrats the house, some multiple state legislatures. we'll take you to wisconsin, where some small data is -- also, viral pastor doctor jamal bryan's has a double standard against black churches engaging in politics. that's coming up! solid start the show. welcome to the show. i'm mehdi hasan. on thursday, a major era ended in american politics. after the democratic party in particular. >> and with great confidence, in our caucus i. will not seek reelection to democratic leadership in the next congress. for me, the hours come from a new generation to lead the democratic caucus. that i so deeply respect. >> after a standing ovation

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reverted ousted governor and elected tony very, state republicans just held up a lame duck up legislature session to skip ever's of political powers, because if you are a republican -- and they also shorted early voting for all subsequent elections. but wait there's more. thanks to the conservative state supreme court, republican appointees have been allowed to stay in certain roles to this day, even though their terms expired, and the democratic governor should be able to appoint new ones. wisconsin's gerrymandered maps were also held in 2019 by a hard right u.s. supreme court which later said it wouldn't get involved in partisan gerrymandering anymore, wisconsin's maps remain even more pro republican by the gop legislature then redistricting last year, and they were upheld by the republican dominated supreme court. so that now, despite singing statewide defeats in 2018, 20, 20 and 2022, republicans are still calling the shots in

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2499 votes into state legislature districts, that's how closely became but we did stop them and that meant that there was a threat of hope about what is possible in the future here. >> so, next april i believe there's gonna be a election to replace retiring conservative on the wisconsin state court which this year alone approved that aggressive map, pence morals absentee mail boxes and things are getting worse not better, and i wonder, at a national level, i've criticize the democratic party for not prioritizing winning court seats or appointing judges at the federal level, or electing judges at the state level, in wisconsin that's gonna be a big campaign free was it not? >> this is gonna be a massive election it's really second of importance only to the governor's race and the supermajority fight in our state elections. in terms of the significance, not just for the next couple of years. but really for the next decade or the rest of my life. if republicans can't unilateral power to control the rules over which votes are counted and how

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