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The GOP Is Winning by Rigging the System--Shouldn't Democrats Do the Same? - Thom Hartmann [View all]
Democrats are finally talking about “fighting fire with fire.” Still, Republicans have been going after Democratic voters with flame throwers for two decades and now have the support of the Republicans on the Supreme Court, along with Trump’s efforts to involve the federal government in even worse voter suppression.
Democrats, in addition to gerrymandering, should start caging operations and challenging Republican voters the way the GOP has been doing against Democratic communities for decades. The resulting squeals that will come from Republican operatives and officials might provoke a change in the law outlawing caging and gerrymandering.
If the Democrats’ goal is to prevent the 2026 and 2028 elections from looking like those in Hungary and Russia, they need to be raising absolute hell and get on the ball quickly. Time’s a-wasting… - Aired on 08/12/2025.
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