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All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail ....
Souls, they do not trust their own message enough to appeal to a majority of americans in a high turnout election. mitch mcconnell even called it a power grab. later today the senate will vote on whether to advance democrats transparentally plan to tilt every election permanently in their favor. by now the rotten inner workings of this power grab have been thoroughly exposed to the like. it s a recipe for undermining confidence in our elections, remaking our entire system of government to suit the preferences of one far end of the political spectrum. obviously laughable bit of projection. what mcconnell claims democrats are doing is exactly precisely what has happened in state after state controlled by republicans. earlier this year in georgia, sweeping voter restriction law passed with just republican votes, transparentally partisan, you might say, in the state house and in the senate signed ....