Fact is it is happening. And if its happening anywhere in this country, that should alarm you. A new report from the Brennan Center For Justice reveals that 18 states have enacted at least 30 laws this year that make it harder to vote. And its only july. Republicans in texas are actively trying their hardest to adages even more restrictive Voter Laws to the list. But for the moment theyve been held off by a brave group of democratic state legislators. Theyve been in washington, d. C. Nearly two weeks trying to foil the republicanled Legislatures Effort to pass a bill making it harder for potentially millions of texans to vote. The Governor Greg Abbott threatens to airports the lawmakers upon return, arrest them for fighting for Voting Rights, every one of them with whom ive spoken are willing to face arrest because thats the new Civil Disobedience in america were at a Turning Point and now is not the time to stand by while Republicans Attempt to kill democracy by A Thousand cuts. The t
Complicated because they see suppressing the vote as the only way to stay in power, the only way to stop that is with direct action. and that means pulling out all the stops. at the federal level it means president biden changing his tune on the filibuster. it s no secret that the antiquated senate rule is standing in the way of passing the john lewis voting rights act and the for the people act. two pieces of federal legislation that would supercede most oppressive state voting laws. but it s going to take action, not just talk, from biden, lawmaker attention, from me, you, all americans to keep the country moving in the right direction on this. it s on us. to make sure that america lives up to its promise outlined in the constitution. with me now is the reverend dr. william barber, the co-chairman of the poor people s campaign. the president and the senior lecturer for repairers of the breach. and he too was arrested a few weeks ago during a capitol hill protest over voting rights an
Anti-vax conspiracy theories. to be clear, the blame for vaccine disinformation does not fall squarely on the shoulders of certain cable tv hosts or network. fischer is a legitimate breeding ground for this stuff. the white house accused facebook and other social media platforms of not doing enough though stop the spread of disinformation resulting in the deaths of many. facebook defended itself say going removed millions of pieces of information. but experts say the tech giant has still failed to address the root cause. joining me now, brand za grossny pb, the senior reporter specializing in internet platforms. and the adviser to stop hate for profit, the author of zuked. you published an article this morning where you say biden has to play hard ball with internet platforms. and you say if biden forces internet platforms to recognize
The trick in the very short run is that the damage, you know, is just going on in realtime. as brandy points out, and brandy is by far the best person on this stuff, it s so bad that biden needs to play hardball in order to get internet platforms to pay attention. right now they re just sitting there and doing the bare minimum to diffuse political pressure. and at the same time, the core business model is just making the problem worse and worse, and that s true not just in democracy, not just in public health, but frankly, it has to do with the whole way the economy works. and so i believe that biden needs to use his newly announced head of the antitrust division of the justice department to take up the texas price fixing case against google and facebook. that is the fastest way to get their attention because price fixing is the biggest antitrust crime, and it is punishable by prison sentences for the executives of the affected
All right as i mentioned before the break, despite 15 months passing since george floyd s murder and a massive movement that took hold across the country, one of the biggest since the civil rights movement, congress still hasn t been able to get a police reform bill to president biden. joining me is democratic congresswoman barbara lee, a former chair of the congressional black caucus, a senior member of the house apprehensions committee. good to see you. good morning. thank you for being with us. let s talk about the bill. i recall several weeks ago hearing they were close, stuck on a couple of things but getting movement. and they were getting close. and then nothing happened. thank you for that question, ali. good morning. let me tell you, this is a bill that has to move forward. our negotiators, senator booker, congresswoman bass, snorp scott