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Times up on voting rights legislation, least for now, after democrats failed to change the filibuster rules and pass two comprehensive bills this week. that's a problem in many ways, but particularly because those bills were safety nets for democracy in peril, and now republican states can continue their deliberate pursuit to undermine democracy on a state by state basis. without those partisan senate bills, gerrymandering, voter intimidation, and intense voter suppression can persist, so much so that former attorney general under president obama eric holder told the reporter ari berman that t...

Democracy, and there are a number of things that can be done. steve bannon, who is not me, has increasing face strategy and advocates should emulate that as much as possible. number two, i think there is an outside litigation strategy. ali, you is talked to mark elias who have had success in this area and they should continue along those lines and it's an important dimension of this. there's a corporate development, perhaps and republicans in state levels are not paying attention, but they might pay attention to big business and the more pressure that they apply in this debate, the better. i d...

Democracy. the freedom to vote act would have gone a long way to stop these efforts. doesn't seem like these are going to pass now. we need a different strategy, and it starts with defending democracy at the state and local level where republicans are taking it aim. >> doesn't that start with citizens understanding and internalizing this threat. we've got a few problems, one is republicans are saying this is a power grab, they're actually saying the opposite of what ari is saying. the democrats are trying to federalize and grab power in elections. there's a mantra that we have to keep our elec...