For you on the left, can you counter it . Contrived Culture Wars with a Side Dish of election Fraud Farce. Democrats better be watching. The Trumper Governor there, greg abbott, called a special Session Today to push this agenda. And it is very campaignish. A revised voter restriction bill. Its revised because if youll remember state democrats blocked the gops initial attempt. Remember they staged a walkout, said were not going to be part of this attempt to suppress the vote. It happened back in may. Just a few minutes before a house deadline. But it was kind of the only bullet they had to stop it. They dont have the votes. Will another walkout work, or is it just delaying the inevitable . The real question, though, is why the governor is now saying, now, that he must fix something that he admitted in the past was not broken. Listen. Right now i dont know how many or if any elections in the state of texas in 2020 were altered because of voter fraud. So he didnt know. He suggested there
Bill. Its revised because, if youll remember, state democrats blocked the gops initial attempt. Remember, they staged a walkout . Said were not going to be part of this attempt to suppress the vote. It happened back in may. Just a few minutes before a house deadline. But it was kind of the only bullet they had, to stop it. They dont have the votes. Will another Walkout Work . Or is it just delaying the inevitable . The real question, though, is why the governor is now saying, now, that he must fix something that he admitted, in the past, was not broken. Listen. Right now, i dont know how many, or if any, elections in the state of texas in 2020 were altered because of voter fraud. So, he didnt know. He suggested there may be none. No proof to bolster any sense that there was fraud, ever, came thereafter. Nor, does he offer any. Yet now, there is something he must fix. It is the game. But again, the Democrat Walkout may not work, completely, but it did soften the suck that they now face
Bipartisan support of the congress. I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another. And heres what he mentioned there. The Juneteenth Bill passed with unanimous support in the u. S. Senate. Well have more on the new holiday just ahead. Today the president also something of an assist from the conservative majority supreme court. Upheld the affordable Care Act for a third time. President obamas Signature Legislation has been the target of republican efforts to repeal it. In this latest ruling the court decided 72 A Group of republican Attorneys General lacked the standing to sue to strike it down. 11 years have now passed since it became the law of the land. The fortunatelier president issued a Statement Today that red in part, quote this ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true, the affordable Care Act is here to stay. For the biden administration the supreme Court Ruling removes the possibility of millions of fellow citizens losing the insurance
Republicans to commemorate this day with an overwhelming bipartisan support from congress. I hope this is the beginning of a change in the way we deal with one another. Heres what he mentioned there. The Juneteenth Bill passed with unanimous support in the u. S. Senate. One is the last time that happened . Near unanimous support in the house. We will have more on the new holiday just ahead. Today, the president also got something of an assist from an unlikely source, the Conservative Majority Supreme Court upheld the affordable Care Act for a third time. President obamas Signature Legislation has been the target of relentless republican efforts to repeal it. In this latest ruling, the court decided 7 to 2 that a group of republican Attorneys General lacked the standing to strike it down. 11 years have now passed since it became the law of the land. The former president issued a Statement Today that read in part, quote, this ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true. The affor
Good evening from New York im chris hayes. The point of propaganda is to shape reality, the propagandist and The Machine exist so that wet is actually happening in the world can be ignored or overwritten, so that when you see before your eyes, what you see before your eyes can be waived away as an apparition. The point of journalism, in a free society is to see things clearly, to reflect reality. And lets be clear, we all bring our biases to story, we choose which stories to tell and which stories we do not tell. Reality itself is complicated with 1 Million stories out there just like history itself, and so the line between good Faith Journalism and bought faith propaganda, that line can be obscured or faint. But believe me it is there. What we are seeing in this country is a sustained effort of concerted propaganda, to destroy the specific terrain necessary to hold up democracy. Here is what that looks like. In the wake of the January Insurrection when we all watched a mob overtake th