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Identified himself. and he said leave your business card. we'll see if she calls you back. >> reporter: a few days later she posted my business card on her facebook page, writing, i will not be intimidated. but she never did call me. >> we are seeing a coordinated effort by extreme republicans to undo american democracy. and part of that effort is to win these key swing state, secretary of state seats. >> colorado secretary of state is chair of the association of secretaries of state. democrats raised $4.5 million last year for secretaries of state races, a record for the group. >> the stakes ...

Lies and, you know, white christian utopia because both of them know that the gop, you know, can't win the popular vote. it needs to use trickery to have minority rule because it won't accept what we are in america, which is a multiracial democracy, something to be proud of. instead, it creates this universe full of, you know, fantasies and lies. and so donald trump, you know, they use each other. this was what happens with autocrats and their parties. it's like a mutual using. and one of the rules is once the party is domesticated at the beginning by the autocrat, they stick with him to the b...

Lot of -- some of the fraud allegations have been driving a lot of the threats that election officials around the country have been receiving, and so that's one of the other things we talked about in my interview with the deputy attorney general, something she's very, very concerned with, because obviously we have elections coming up, and states are saying they're having a hard time recruiting workers that are a key part of our functioning democracy. kate? >> evan perez, thank you for bringing that to us. jamie raskin is a member of the house committee investigating the january 6 insurrectio...

As we close another night reflecting on the state of democracy and how it's going to be saved, one thing is clear. it's going to take all of us, everyone on the left and the right, to reach solutions. but how do we do that in the age of toxic tribalism and the big lie? perhaps it's a matter of realizing the dangers of illiberalism. john avlon, that is a concept that he's going to break down for us in tonight's "reality check." john, it's an important topic. >> it sure is. it goes to the heart of what we're death with right now. because jim, the core o'problem in our politics is this poisonous ...

And that makes it so we're in an ir rational society and democracy just can't function. so, if we have a replay, if this continues, it's going to hurt everybody. it's going to hurt republicans. it's going to hurt all journalists, all commentators. it really needs to stop if we want to preserve the country that we have. >> and what about these lines being blurred between those in trump media and trump government? you know, he enlisted fox news anchors as his advisers, hannity, ingram and so on. he hired a former fox exec bill shine to run his communication shop at the white house, had robert el...