passage of a restrictive voting law there. also joining us jacqueline benson. she has been on the front lines of protecting our democracy and has received the citizens medal from president joe biden for her role in defending against efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in her state. also joining us, the founder of democracy docket marc elias. he led the legal effort to protect voting flights the wake of the 2020 election. mark, you inspired this segment, and you inspired us to start with it today. we do what i described there, right. we cover the whac-a-mole that is the legal piece of this, your efforts to sue voter restrictions and voter suppression laws. but it is inadequate on our part, right, to cover it as piecemeal. so we wanted to have a more holistic conversation. why don t you start us off. yeah, i think that you ve gotten it exactly right, which is that it is too easy to look at what republicans are doing in georgia and say, well, that s republicans in georg
sandbags against the rising tide of demographic change, but no one should underestimate how powerful those sandbags are i mean, this demographic change is real. a majority of people turning 18 and many of these states every year, our kids of color, but the gerrymandering, the voter restrictions and other barriers that are being put in place means that this coalition that is now running these states can remain in power, potentially for a very long time, even as they do things that most of the state opposes. like six week. abortion bans permit, let s carry and denying red flag loss. all right. we ll have to leave it there for now, gentlemen, bakari sellers ron desantis. there are so many resonating things that came from pearson and jones yesterday one in particular from jones, saying, we asked for a ban on assault weapons and you respond with assault on democracy. those messages resonating today. thank you so much, gentlemen. alright we re also following this breaking news right now ther
As Ohio s primary approaches, a strict new photo ID requirement is stirring concerns for military veterans and out-of-state college students, in Amish communities and among older voters. Other Republican-led states are moving in the same direction.
plus another example that vote fraud this isn t a thing, this doesn t happen at least not in the way of republicaness who continue to push voter restrictions and voter suppression laws make it out to be, but it does serve as another incentive for pro-democracy democrats to fight back aggressively. what they re doing on that front later in the hour. and ukraine s president zelenskyy pleading with western allies to send more military aid, why ukraine s citizens continue to need more humanitarian aid as the war nears the one-year mark. our dear friend dr. redliner is back from ukraine and tell us what he saw and what they need. deadline white house is back after a quick break. don t go anywhere. s back after a quick break. don t go anywhere. [ tires squeal, crash ] when owning a small business gets real, progressive gets you right back to living the dream. now, where were we? [ cheering ]
but instead of doing this common sense thing, they have ground the house to a complete standstill unless we also agree to voter i.d.. unless we also agree to put the auditor general in charge of auditing all future elections. zephyr auditor general, he s not sure, ayman, if the last election was free and fair. he thinks his election was for unfair but if he s not sure about joe biden donald trump. and they would put this profile encouraged in charge of auditing of future elections and they re holding hostage when justice for victims and year of this. but i want to say that this connects to what we were talking about on this entire segment. this is why you see voter restrictions that you see. this is why they can t let go of the voter denialism. because understand these are not winning issues. these are issues that they only advance if they can shut up as many voters as possible. i can tell, you and pennsylvania, you know it. we had historic victories up