succeeded yeltsin and showed what kind of ruler he would be, nemsov became a vociferous critic of putin. in 2015 he was planning owe opposition march to protest against the regime. it was two days before that march when nemtsov was shot, four times in the back while he was walking across the bridge. press reports at the time called it the highest profile assassination since the stalin era. he wasn't the only target. days before nemtsov was assassinated, russian authorities had thrown one of his allies in jail. another vocal putin critic. his friend was put in jail for 15 days for the high crime of handing out leaflets inviting people to join the opposition march, the one that got nemtsov killed. the guy who was put in jail just for handing out leaflet about the march, his name was alexei navalny. here he is leaving jail after boris nemtsov's death. he left jail that day, went home, took a shower and went straight to visit boris nemtsov's grave. he said of his assassination, there will be no letup in our efforts. we will give up nothing. this act of terror has not achieved its goal. he meant it. he became the biggest, loudest, most charismatic, pushiest opposition leader in russia. he vowed to run for president himself to unseat putin. navalny built up an irreverent, creative, forward thinking, nimble, opposition movement that among other things kept coming up with other ways to expose the putin government, to keep poking his finger in putin's eye. navalny's group flew drones with cameras over huge luxurious properties that somehow ended up in the hands of officials who on means had no way of acquiring mansions and yachts. they tracked the secret mistresses and secret second families of high ranking putin officials linking them to organizized crime figures and yet more unexplained wealth. they explained putin's secret palaces that had never been exposed to the russian people and to which there was no public accounting to build these monstrosities. the last alexei navalny putin's palace video was the most watched video of the year in 2021 in russia, according to youtube. the putin government has not appreciated any of it, as you might imagine. and so a series of increasingly unfortunate events started to befall alexei navalny. you'll remember nemtsov was kill in the 2015. in 2017 navalny was opening up a new headquarters for his opposition group. somebody approached him to come up and shake his hand. when he obliged, the assailant doused him with a chemical that died his hands and whole face bright green. that did not stop him. he didn't wait for the die to wear off. he said he was going to embrace it. he said it made him look like a superhero. he took lots of selfies, recorded videos. his supporters started painting their faces green in solidarity with him. just a month later, another assailant attacked alexei navalny with more green dye, and this time alexei navalny said it, quote, hurt like hell. he thinks the second go around they mixed the thing with some caustic chemical, and as you can see in this picture, the green stuff got inside his eyeball. navalny started losing sight in that eye after the second attack. he needed to surgery to save his eye from a specialist in spain. since he picked up that mantel as russia's most effective opposition leader, alexei navalny has been threatened, arrested, jailed. he's been dyed green twice. he's been almost blinded. and of course he was ultimately quite seriously poisoned. he was poisoned with the russian made novichok last year. it almost killed him. put him in a coma, almost killed him. he recovered in germany, and then against the advice of everybody who loves him, he said he'd return to russia. he did. he returned to russia this year. he was immediately arrested and almost just as immediately, convicted on phoney charges, sentenced to two and a half years in a russian penal colony. this year russia labeled navalny's opposition organization an extremist group, and technically that's the same designation russia gives to isis and al qaeda. not only has he banned navalny from standing as a candidate, he's banned his whole anti-corruption group from operating inside russia at all. literally they're considered to have a terrorist you can threat, like al qaeda is. many of navalny's associates and colleagues have had to flee the country for fear of what russia did to navalny it will next be done to them. what putin appears to be doing here is that he appears to be learning from what happened after the boris nemtsov assassination in 2015. he's maing it so this time there's no next man new york next leader, no navalny wait in the wings to pick up the mantel. with navalny, puten is pull up his entire opposition by the root. at least he's trying to. but there's another element putin hasn't accounted for. this was moscow in january of this year. a few days after navalny had returned to russia and got arrested, thousands of russian people took to the streets to protest against navalny being arrested, to protest against putin's corruption, his authoritarian regime. and it wasn't just in moscow that this happened. russia is a gigantic place. physically it's the largest country in the world. it spans 11 different time zones. there were protests in pockets all over russia and it created this wave effect all day long of people pouring into the streets. they gathered as far north at siberia, one sub arctic village where it was minus 60 degrees, people turned out in considerable numbers. i bring this up now, almost a full year after these demonstrations in russia, because this happened at the beginning of the year, and this ended up being kind of an appropriate first course for the year that we have had since. this has been a hard year. it has been a scary year at times. stuff we've covered just here on this show over the last 12 months has only very rarely been good news. but what we've also been able to cover this year is people standing up in remarkable numbers in remarkable ways against remarkable adversity. people standing up for what they think is right. people standing up for democracy. people standing up against tyrants and abuse and violence by the state, violence by police. and we saw it certainly in very dramatic form in russia. but we haven't just seen knit russia against putin. we've really seen it everywhere. over the course of the last year, it it remains one of the most undercovered things about the politics at this moment on this earth. there has been an explosion of peaceful, dramatic, direction action from all kinds of people, all kinds of places on all kinds of issues, calling on people consciences. sometimes it happens with big groups of people standing together, finding safety in numbers but sometimes it happens in ones and twos, people standing up really all alone. >> my name's hannah, and i am here at the site of the world's largest coal port. i'm here with my friend deanna, and we are stopping this coal terminal from loading all coal into ships and from unloading all coal from coal trains. this is part of the largest coal port in the world, and we're here with blockade australia stopping the operation. this is humans trying to survive. this is humans trying to overcome the system that is killing us, that is enslaving us, and we're trying to induce the social tipping points which will give us a chance at another generation. what a wild thing to want. >> what a wild thing to want. those two young women in australia, they rappelled off this giant piece of machinery at the largest coal port in the world this year. they were protesting australia's use of coal, its role as a major coal exporter. and that port specifically, it's distributing coal all over the world. they strung themselves up by those harnesses. they thing there for hours and it did halt the export of coal for at least a little while. eventually they were brought down and they were arrested. this was glasgow scotland this year during the big worldwide climate summit. 100,000 people demonstrating urging world leaders to take action on climate change, including these scientist who is chained themselves together and refused to move off this bridge. there were of course dramatic climate protests here at home this year as well. the sunrise movement, the national campaign of young activists dedicated to pushing for solutions to the climate crisis. ever since president biden proposed bold action in the build back better agenda, they have just been dogged in their pressure to try to get congress to actually do it, to see it through. for 14 days young activists staged a hunger strike, first outside the white house, then outside the capitol. by then they had to be carted out in wheelchairs because their bodies were so weak. several were hospitalized for not eating anything for that whole stretch of time. that action by these young members of the sunrise movement was just one part of a much larger series of protests and demonstrations that we saw this year urging lawmakers to pass president biden's agenda, this build back better bill. when conservative democrat joe manchin, the senator, is in washington, he lives on a yacht he likes to call his houseboat. in september of this year, you might remember a group of activists from his home state of west virginia, they paddled up to senator manchin's yacht on their own kayaks. they called themselves kayaktivists. they caused enough of a stir they got senator manchin to come it and talk to them from the economic of his yacht and listen to their concerns and debate the bill with them and debate its costs and credit to him for being withling to talk directly, for not hiding out below decks when they showed up. right around that same time, congress held its annual congressional baseball game, this nice tradition from republicans and democrats suit up and play against each other. this year during the game, folks dropped banners over the bleachers at the stadium that said things like, our lives are not a game. pass 3.5 t, as in $3.5 trillion, which at the time was the price for the bill. they also cut to the point -- dems don't eff this up. the disability rights group adapt staged a protest outside the hart office building where senator manchin and senator sinema have offices. they were trying to move those two conservative democrats to agree to pass build back better. 15 of the protesters from adapt were arrested that day. by the next day, several of the same activists were at another action outside the capitol. they did 24 hours straight, camped outside the capitol and talked about why so many lives depend on congress passing build back better. they're trying to direct attention -- i think they were successful in this -- directing attention to an important and previously overlooked part of build back better, which is its support for elderly people and disabled people getting home based care and community based care. that is huge for the lives and the dignity of elderly people and disabled people and their families, and that's in the build back better bill. they went out there for 24 straight hours to put a spotlight on it. at one point in the night, they held up this illuminated sign -- care can't wait. that phrase has been a rallying cry among people who have been trying to get president biden's agenda passed. a few weeks later in yet another direction health-care activist held a rally outside a building. they set up chairs to make it look like they were in a doctor's waiting room, they blocked access to the building for a while while they told stories about loved ones they had lost, loved ones who had died because they lacked proper access to health-care. it was a similar event a few weeks ago them group gathered outside the capitol to increase global access to vaccines. half of those protesters walked to the steps and held card board tombstones with the loves once of those who died and spread their loved ones' ashes on the steps. chanting here, bringing your dead to the door. we won't take it anymore. >> hey, stop that. >> reporter: this summer, three black members of congress, three african american members of congress were arrested and hauled away by police. demonstrations in d.c. on the issue of voting rights. they were calling on members of the senate to change the filibuster rules so voting rights legislation could be passed. it was also this summer that democratic legislators from the texas state senate fled the state of texas and came to washington, d.c., so that texas republicans couldn't have a quorum back home. those democrats barnstormed the hill, pled with u.s. senators to pass federal legislation to protect the right to vote in every state, even those controlled by republicans. they delayed the passage of that voter suppression bill in texas by weeks and weeks by fleeing themselves across the country to take that stand. these are students all over the state of oklahoma this fall participating in a surprisingly large and sustained series of high school student walkouts to protest the scheduled execution of a man named julius jones. he had been on death row in oklahoma for nearly 20 years for a murder he says he did not commit. serious questions have been raised about the fairness of his trial and whether or not he's truly guilty of the crime for which he's been sentenced to death. lots and lots of people in oklahoma mobilized this year to try to move the governor to please not kill this man, please kill off the execution. in the end, it worked. hours before the execution was scheduled, hundreds of people gathered at the oklahoma state capitol building. and with just a few hours left on the clock, it happened. the governor did commute julius jones' sentence. he was spared from the death chamber. you can listen to the reaction at the capitol when they learned. [ cheers and applause ] all those people who had been organizing to try to save julius jones' life finally getting the last-minute news it was worth it what they had done, he would be spared. he was direction action of yet another kind. this is glynn county georgia last month outside the trial of three men accused of killing an unarmed black man named ahmaud arbery. the defense attorney attempted to have prominent african american pastors thrown out of the courtroom over the course of that trial. the defense attorney kept saying that their presence was intimidating. he said it was black pastors specifically who were intimidating. just the black ones. didn't have any trouble with other pastors. in response, more than 100 black pastors showed up outside the courthouse to establish themselves as a peaceful, powerful, prayerful presence at the trial and to pray with mr. arbery's family. if you're looking for one indelible image from this year. if you're looking to sort of quantify or nail down one of the propulsive currents in the news this year, even if it didn't get credit from anybody else, to my mind, this was it -- creative, nonviolent, conscious calling direction action. all over the place this year. all over the country. and in many ways all over the world. and we're going to cover some of that tonight over the course of this hour. and you know, direct action doesn't always work. alexei navalny is still in prison, voting rights act didn't work, the world is still warming. but the world is never just one thing, just one direction, and people aren't helplessly tossed by the currents that we swim? . part of what this year has been has been a real master class in humans trying to change the course of human events. people being brave in the face of authoritarianism, people being unwavering in their convictions. that we must do what's right, not in spite but in support of. unsung song of 2021. much more on that tonight. stay with us. t tonight. stay with us he right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it... and see what's possible. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, tam-tam! i was thinking maybe... your mom's car? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ merry christmas, dad. want video content to engage your audience? fiverr gives you direct access to specialty freelancer skills, like video editing, with great value at any price point. head to fiverr.com today and get something started. when you have xfinity, you have entertainment built in. which is kind of nice. ah, what is happening. binge-watching is in the bag, when you find all your apps, all in one place. find live sports faster just by using your voice... sports on now. touchdown irish! 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abortion law. she was talking about the near total abortion effect going on in poland. it is against the law to terminate a pregnancy at any stage of the pregnancy because of a fetal about normality like in isabella's case. so when isabella went to the hospital, even though they were sure the fee would not survive, she would only be treated when her fetus didn't have a heart beat. by that point it was too late. being forced to carry the pregnancy killed that woman while doctors stood by and let it happen. protests erupted around poland at the news of her death. outrage at a law that forced this woman to stay pregnant until it killed her. people carried her portrait through the streets, they had signs that said, you have blood on your hands. red lightning bolts became the symbol. people carried them through the streets. isabella's story is an upsetting one at many levels. it's also a policy story. it's a dystopian -- of what can happen when women are forced to stay pregnant against their will. here in the united states, our supreme court heard oral arguments at a ban pass in the mississippi specifically to get roe vs. wade overturned, to rerace the legal protections women have that allow them to get abortions in this country. access to abortion is widely supported in the public. support for abortion cuts across all sorts of ideological and demographic lines. on the day of the oral arguments on this case, there were demonstrations at the court and across the country urging the court not to end roe vs. wade, but in the end that day, the headlines were essentially unanimous in papers all across the country. the republican appointed superconservative anti-majority super majority on the supreme court, anti-abortion supermajority on the supreme court appeared ready outright gut roe vs. wade or overturn it. the oral arguments reason about threw hours. if you have a long drive ahead of you, it's worth listening to the whole three hours. it's really engaging. but if you want to catch just one exchange, listen to this one. brett kavanaugh appears poised to gut abortion rights. this is justice kavanaugh during the oral arguments characterizing that prospect as the court simply becoming neutral on the issue of abortion, no longer playing a role in the issue, which makes it sound like there won't be a rule on abortion either way. what it actually means is all republican controlled states will be free to make boshs a crime. and the lawyer who answers him here is julie rickleman from the center for reproductive rights. >> i think the other side would say that the core problem here is that the court has been forced by the position you're taking and by the cases to pick sides on the most contentious social debate in american life, and to do so in a situation where they say that the constitution is neutral on the question of abortion, the text and history, that the constitution's neither pro-life nor pro-choice on the question of abortion. and they would say, therefore, it should be left to the people, to the states, or to congress. and i think they also then continue, because the constitution is neutral, that this court should be scrupulously neutral on the question of abortion. neither pro-choice nor pro-life. but because they say the constitution doesn't give us the authority, we should leave it to the states and we should be scrupulously neutral on the question, and that they are saying here, i think, that we should return to a position of neutrality on that contentious social issue rather than continuing to pick sides on that issue. so i think that's, at a big picture level, their argument. want to give you a chance to respond to that. >> yes, a few points if i may. first, of course those very same arguments were made in kc and the court rejected them, saying that philosophical disagreements can't be revolve in the a way a woman has no choice in the matter and second i don't think it would be a neutral position. the constitution provides a guarantee of liberty. the could you repeat interpreted that liberty to make decisions to child bearing, marriage, and family. women have an equal right to liberty under the constitution, your honor, and if they're not able to make this decision, if states can take control of women's bodies and force them to endure months of pregnancy and childbirth, then they will never have equal status under the constitution. >> if states with take controls of women's bodies and force them to endure months of pregnancy and force them to endure childbirth against their will, then they will never have equal status under the constitution. the day of those oral arguments earlier this month, we talked with our friend, senior editor at slate.com. this was the headline on her article that dame out on what kind of ruling we could expect. it says as you see there, scotus will gaslight us until the end. this court will overturn roe and they'll insist on their own reasonableness the entire time. dalia explained to us what he shored that day that gave us the basis for that take. listen. >> i think going into arguments today, there was a narrative that went, this isn't really a 6-3 court. it's a 3-3 court that amy coney barrett and brett kavanaugh and the chief justice are instrumentalists. they care what people think. there was no reason to believe, other than the chief justice trying to figure out a middle way not to overturn roe, maybe we could move the viability line -- there was no reason to believe, rachel, that he had a single other person on the court with him in that project. i think anyone who could count counted all the conservative justices except for roberts gunning for roe. >> you said today in your piece that just posted, dalia, perhaps it would be refreshing if the conservatives on the u.s. supreme court no longer felt the need to lie to us. the lying, after all, is becoming nearly entenable, especially for an institution that relies on public confidence. after confirmation hearings that roe vs. wade was a clear precedent of the court and law of the land, there's something soothing about knowing the lying to our faces could soon be over. they were all six installed to put an end to roe vs. wade after all, and that is exactly what they intend to do. i wonder if you feel like this moment does mean the lying and artifice around this issue is over. under president trump when he talked about supreme court nominations, he essentially dropped the guys and said, yeah, whoever i put on this and going to overturn roe. are we at a new layer, a new place where it's just essentially open combat on the issue and we're no longer couching it? >> yes and. no let's be grateful that all the fancy law professors and susan collins' and people who told us these folks meant roe was precedent when they said that, okay, that artifice is gone. the artifice i worry about -- you played that kavanaugh clip -- is the artifice of saying, let's be neutral. we're not going to ban abortion, kavanaugh, that's not on the table. we're just going to not say there's a right, and that middle place, the neutral place is to let states decide. amy coney barrett insisted because there were safe haven laws, it's not a problem for women to be forced to carry to term, because they can just give their babies up. so i think for me, the artifice of we're being neutral, we're being reasoned, this is just a tiny little tweak around the margins, nothing earth shaking happening here. not to worry about other precedents when we are gunning for roe, just roe, that's the artifice that rankled today for me the pretense that this is a big nothing burger and everybody's worked up. >> dalia, as always, thank you for your clarity. >> all right, we got much more ahead tonight. stay with us. stay with us ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance so they only pay for what they need. 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"the washington post" was first to break the news. quote, president biden announced plans to nominate two new officials to the postal service's board, replacing key allies of postmaster louis dejoy. the move was a surprise to postal officials and members of congress. it potentially gives the panel two crucial votes to oust the postal chief, who can be removed only by the board. joining us now is illinois congressman raja krishnamoorthi. he's on the committee. he's been calling on the postal service board of governors to fire mr. dejoy for months now. he's also been calling on president biden to replace members of post of the postal service board so the board could replace mr. dejoy. he also introduced a bill called the delivering envelopes judiciously on time year round act, which spells out dejoy. it's dejoy act to fix things he has deliberately broken. thank you for being here. >> thanks, rachel. >> from the dejoy act to your involvement in the oversight committees, oversight of this matter, to your direct pleas to president biden to please replace members of the board of governors so dejoy can be gotten rid of, you have been really, really focused on this, perhaps more than anybody else in government. did you know president biden was going to do what he did today? >> i didn't. but my pleas really came from my constituents, rachel. we've received more complaints -- thousands of complaints about slower mail delivery and raised prices than perhaps any other issue that we talk about in government, and now we're on the verge of the holidays and the unfortunately the postmaster general is taking de joy out of the holidays too. it's time to call for his removal and once mr. blume refused by plea to remove mr. dejoy, i asked that the president remove whether blume as the chair of governors, which he announced today. >> what sort of time line do you think people should expect here? your constituents have been giving you more feedback on this than any other issues. a lot of americans -- people who run small businesses, people who use the mail for normal bill paying and correspondence -- a lot of americans, millions of americans have been really mad about how bad the postal service has been urn his leadership. it is apparently by design, it's what he's set out to do and has done. if you could speak directly to americans who have been mad about this, what would you expect in term of a time line of getting rid of him and starting to process of undoing what he's done? >> in the new year, i'm hoping that the new chair of the board of governors conducts a vote with regard to mr. dejoy and relieves him of his duties. i'm very hopeful that happens sooner rather than later in the new year. >> illinois congressman raj krishnamoorthi who's been playing point on the issue of louis dejoy, leftover from the trump years, helming the postal service, doing a job that's infuriating and inconveniencing millions of americans of every stripe looks like he's on his way out, something the congressman has been calling for. it's been a huge day. thank you for helping us taught about it understand it at the end of this long day. >> thank you, rachel. much more ahead tonight. stay with us. ahead tonight. stay with us with rybelsus®. the majority of people taking rybelsus® lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking rybelsus® with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration, which may worsen kidney problems. wake up to the possibility of lower a1c with rybelsus®. you may pay as little as $10 for up to a 3-month prescription. ask your healthcare provider about rybelsus® today. the raid happened at dawn. 500 police officers entered this office in hong kong on a june morning this past summer. the office belonged to a newspaper called "apple daily." they riffled through computers and notebooks. they disconnect their computers and then frog marched them out the front doors. it was an independent, pro-democracy newspaper in hong kong and became the only pro-democracy publication still operating in hong kong following escalating crackdowns on independent journalism by the pro-chinese government. after that dawn raid, authorities froze the assets of the paper. and so "apple daily" the last remaining pro-democracy publication in all of hong kong, they announced this summer that they would shut down. no assets to access, no way to pay people or fund their operations, their employees being thrown in jail. how were they supposed to keep going? they announced they were shutting down the paper right away. but then look what happened. this was outside the apple daily offices on their final night of publication. all these people gathered outside in the rain to show their support to the journalists inside for doing the hard dogged work of the free and fair press. they held up their cell phone flashlights in the air and waved at journalists inside. the staff of "apple daily" waved back. others went to the balcony and shined their lights too, a back and forth. it was from that vast majority point someone photographed the front page. hong kongers bid a painful farewell in the rain, the headline. we support "apple daily." this was the queue the next morning to buy the "apple daily." on a normal day that paper would print 80,000 copies, but for their final issue they printed 1 million. and by 8:00, they were all sold out. the shutdown of "apple daily" will end up being a footnote when the history books are written about this time, about rising authoritarianism in the 21st century, but for right now in the parts of the world where it remains a scary time for freedom of the press, it's also a story of hope, of people at least even in that context being willing to use their voices, use their bodies, use their wallets to stand up for independent journalism at a time when, of course, we need a fair and free press more than ever. we'll be right back. with a revolutionary, rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it... and see what's possible. mom, hurry, our show's gonna start soon. won't be too long. i'm leaving work now. ♪ people around ♪ ♪ christmas ♪ oh no. seriously? oh, don't worry. mommy'll be back soon. besides, we can record the show for her. it's not the same if she's not here. ♪ christmas ♪ ♪ the snow's coming down ♪ what the? oh my goodness. don't worry, i'm a nurse. we're on in 30 seconds. i don't suppose you can sing, can you? ♪ deck the halls ♪ ♪ but it's not like christmas at all ♪ mommy? that's mommy. whoa. ♪ and all the fun we had last year ♪ ♪ pretty lights on the tree ♪ ♪ i'm watching them shine ♪ watch the full story at xfinity.com/sing2 so the thing about this show is there is just one person's name on it, which is convenient, i know, but it's also ridiculous. because besides me, this show is stacked with incredibly talented producers and editors and production assistants and artists and archivists. we have a whole team tammy of archivists here. how else could we find that cool, old tape. without those folks, this would not be a "the rachel maddow show." it would be a woman not making much sense show. it's more efficient for it to be "the rachel maddow show," but it couldn't be this show without everybody who works so hard to make it possible. without further ado, a major thank you to everybody who works on this show who makes me, oh, so better at this job. please behold. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ good evening and welcome to a special holiday edition of "the last word." 2022 will be the year of the all-important midterm congressional campaigns. mitch mcconnell has already said republicans won't be running on any issue. here's the headline. mcconnell: no legislative agenda for 2022 midterms. joe biden and kamala harris won more votes than any other presidential

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