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Go backwards just in this last week? just in senate hearings? we never really had a true democracy. we never had a true democracy until the 1960s. a multiracial democracy where everyone was equal until the 1960s. we talked about the history of american democracy. i feel like multiracial democracy goes backwards in the country right now. can we be a democracy if we are not a multiracial democracy? >> right. to echo your point we have become a multiracial democracy and the passage of the voting rights act of 1965. we know immediately we were forced to organize to undo it so 16 years later reagan...

Turn out. these suggestions are the lowest hanging fruit. republicans have attempted to use it as a means to keeping certain voters out or retaining power for later in closed, contested elections. democrats have proposed legislation rights over the past year. we covered it frequently on the show. there's a piece of legislation called the john lewis voting rights advancement act named for the late, great john lewis re-authorizes the key provisions of the original voting rights