Pitfalls for the future of Voting Rights when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. All right. We are officially two weeks from the end of voting in the 2020 election. We dont say election day anymore because voters across the country are already mailing in ballots and heading to the polls. Today was the first day of inperson early voting in the battleground state of wisconsin. You could tell from that footage it was chilly, and yet we saw long lines at busy polling places. Were also just 48 hours from the final big set piece event of the campaign, the last president ial debate, which will go on with a rule change. The candidates microphones will be muted while their opponent gives an initial twominute answer to each topic. Of course they made that necessary change because the president is so compulsively antisocial that he cannot abide by just the normal give and take of conversation in debate. The debate this thursday is hugely important for President T
and prayers. i know a lot of white people are watching the show like, that was a great segment, but i don t know if i m quite ready to get a gun and go toe to toe with neo-nazis. lucky for you, she brought a coconspor for with her, george gail. to be clear, you re only here because of her. i know that. i don t mean that in a bad way. she was like, you need to book george. okay, okay. you know how we do. i know that, yeah. his organization is taking a lead on dealing with our country s deep-rooted social and economic issues by organizing america s working class, often targeted by the white supremacist movement. start off, tell me about your organization. people s action is a multi-rational, working-class, people s organization. we ve got hundreds of thousands of members. we re doing, for better or worse, the biggest rural organizing program in the u.s. the only one that s bigger is the alt-right. we community organize.
largest mortgage servicer. they re demanding relief for the 11 million homeowners currently under water. our next guest has been on the front lines of this fight and just 24 hours ago was arrested for participating in a sit-in. joining us, george gail. how much does this spring rise that we re seeing in some of these shareholder meetings foretell of increasing engagement from sort of the occupation 2.0 or maybe even that s the wrong word to use, forget the occupation, just ideas of justice regardless of your group identity becoming more a present? i think this is the year we ll see takeoff. last time i was on your show, it was right after the jpmorgan shareholder meeting last year in columbus, ohio. and that was one of maybe four or five demonstrations at corporate shareholder meetings that spring. this year, there are
this is encouraging not from the partisan politics, but from the fact that there is debate as we know, a major factor in winning any election or auction is money. 94% of the winning candidates had who are cash than their opponents in 2008. a fact. why i call it an auction. there s also that new found super pac money to consider. less than 200 people, this is a big thing, less than 200 people, 196 people to be precise, pay the bill for nearly 80%, four out of five dollars urks for all individual contributions toefr super pac for every issue in 2011. 196 people. there are 311 billion of us. meanwhile $110 million which is more than half of all the money that super pacs raised since the start of 2011 came from 46 human beings, businesses or organizations. there are 311 million of uses, 46 of them provide the money. a new poll shows that 69% of americans say that this this unlimited secret money will lead to corruption. you don t say. and that means, and this is the tragedy, this
business and state. our podcast with george gail, head of the people s action group, that at dylanrat dan.com this afternoon. still ahead on the dr show, the cost and craziness of getting your kid into college. but first, filling budget gaps with back taxes from pot clinics. we are back after this. delicious gourmet of gravy. and she agrees. with fancy fest gravy lovers, your cat can enjoy the delicious, satisfying taste of gourmet gravy every day. fancy feast, the best ingredient is love.