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#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection

#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection

Update: 2024-09-17
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Air Date 9/17/2024

It's not just the threat of the electoral college handing the presidency to the loser of the popular vote, nor the specter of a repeat of a January 6th-like event hanging over the election - there's also copious lies and disinformation including a new and improved nazi-to-Republican-talking-point-pipeline, and fresh new intimidation and voter suppression tactic experiments underway in the laboratories of democracy.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Ignore your lying eyes: Republicans attempt to overwrite living memory to rewrite history - Alex Wagner Tonight - Air Date 8-14-24

KP 2: Trump Admits He Lost 2020 Election?!? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-5-24

KP 3: How Pro-Trump Election Officials Could Refuse To Certify The 2024 Election - Democracy Docket - Air Date 8-15-24

KP 4: What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore? - The Political Scene Podcast - Air Date 9-4-24

KP 5: Subvert the Election, But Make It Legal - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Air Dat 9-7-24

KP 6: ‘Intimidation’: MAGA Texas AG orders raids on homes of Latino Democrats - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 8-29-24

KP 7: Republicans caught in BOMBSHELL lie - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 9-9-24

KP 8: This is also ominous foreboding for what these people will do in office - Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 9-13-24


(49:26 ) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On what puts democracies at risk


DEEPER DIVES

(1:01:09 ) SECTION A: INTIMIDATION


(1:15:27 ) SECTION B: INTERFERENCE


(1:54:14 ) SECTION C: LIES


(2:08:49 ) SECTION D: ELECTION INTEGRITY


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Description: Photo of a woman holding a sign above her head that says “Voting Rights are Human Rights”. She is wearing a bucket hat that says “Good Trouble.”

Credit: “210828 - voting rights-6” by Johnny Silvercloud | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped

 

 

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#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection

#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection