were part of a republican sweep of the elizabethtown, pennsylvania area school board because that is the republican party strategy, right? school boards are no longer the sleepy hope of budget meetings and how many snow days. they are the fiery front line of fights over book banning and the teaching of america s true racial past and what is science anyway? masks in a pandemic? who needs them? the gop is using school boards to rile up their base. that isn t everything. steven lindemuth even got elected to the normally noncontroversial, nonpartisan position of judge of elections in mount joy township, pennsylvania. a local office that administers polling on election day. sounds obscure and trivial. but every little bit helps when you are trying to steal an election. pennsylvania has a critical senate race on the 2022 calendar. could steven and danielle lindemuth be part of the republican party s plan to win in pennsylvania by any means necessary? anyone on the right it seems has a role t
the other part of the big picture is a major political party is setting up to install that man a second time as president after he loses an elek. that is the big story. media coverage should be organized around that. everything else are basically footnotes to support that big story. we know that s the big story. it s as clear as day. tim snyder, many thanks. appreciate your analysis as ever. ahead, just when you thought it couldn t get any worse, gop extremism reaching a new low with fresh comments on covid from out of touch senator ron johnson. my 60-second rant on that coming up. first how do you navigate a country so consumed with erasing our history? pulitzer prize winning journalist and creator of the 1619 project nikole hannah-jones joins me right after the break. first, steve romo is here with the headlines. hey, steven. many thanks. let s get you caught up. desperate search and rescue efforts are under way this evening as a catastrophic chain of tornadoes swept through
slow to respond has been a matter of much controversy. we ll have much more on that report ahead of tomorrow night s crucial vote. but first, when donald trump addressed a crowd of thousands of supporters in washington, d.c. on january 6th before many in that crowd marched to the capitol and, you know, attacked it, among those in the crowd were a married couple from central pennsylvania. they said the election was stolen. but they claimed not to have breached the capitol. they said they just went there to hear the speeches as you do. and then when they went home they ran for the local school board. both of them. having never run for anything in their lives. they received the backing of the right wing family values group acing the questionnaire. no teaching of critical race theory. check. excluding trans kids from sports. check. and from bathrooms. another check. they also received the support of the local republican party and they won. steven and danielle lindmouth