Then just one day after the bipartisan infrastructure vote, republicans are back to their old obstructionist ways. Republicans refusing to support anything on Voting Rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. And as they cry freedom over masks and vaccines we dont have to accept the mandates. They do not respect your liberty. I trust them to know their circumstances better than government. What actual libertarian legal scholars say thats ridiculous. Thats when All In starts right now. Good evening from washington, dds d. C. , im meddymeddyh me hassan. Trump said i have long known and worked with mark and the relationship is a very good one. Perhaps thats because the two of them have a lot in common. Both men made a fortune as real estate developers. A Founding Member of the ultra conservative freedom caucus, meadows, like trump, also hated obamacare and they both promoted the racist Birther Conspiracy Theory which says Barack Obama was not born here in the United States. Its
They marched with torches chanting jews will not replace us as they paraded tHrough the campus of the university of virginia. It was eerily reminiscent of the Torch Light rallies held At Nuremberg during the third reich. The following day they carried confederate flags and symbols of Nazi Genocide as they vowed to protect the statue of a treasonous confederate general and openly embraced Donald Trump as one of their own. In fact just months earlier, an organizer of the Unite The Right shouted hail trump, hail our people, and was greeted with nazi salutes and applause add a pro Trump Campaign rally. Another organizer was a member of the proud boys which would later lead the siege of the u. S. Capitol on January 6th. In other words, charlottesville, four years ago tonight, was a Tinder Box just waiting to ignite. Inevitably, it did. In fact we witnessed some of the violence live on this very network when one of our guests, reverend tracy blackman, was whisked away for her own safety. I w
Fighting, petitioning the u. S. Senate to eliminate the Filibuster Threat that continues to block any federal voting Rights Legislation. And because of the senates inaction, they have to face the threat of arrest issued by their own governor. As leaders of the congressional black Caucus And Voting rights activists have already been arrested for protest in solidarity. In a larger national sense, it dramatizes the point we who have lived under threat have always made, which is that without the teeth of federal legislative action, minority voters are at the mercy of conservative State Lawmakers. So it fits that Deep Red Texas is now at the center of this upheaval in which the states black and brown democrats literally had to leave in order to protect the definitive right of our democracy. That was on my mind during president Bidens Speech this week as he condemned this flood of Voter Restrictions as unamerican. But to the frustration of myself and others in the fight, he said nothing abou
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