Congressman Ted Lieu is one of the bright rising stars of the Democratic Party, and he joins Nicole Sandler today to talk about being a progressive in DCCC leadership, and where we stand 26 days out from election day. Then Greg Palast drops by to give us an update on the voter purges in Georgia and Indiana. Find the purge lists at GregPalast.com.
With the nation's focus on small children being ripped from their parents arms at the border, the world keeps turning and news continues being made. Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins in to tell us about the latest setbacks to Kansas' Kris Kobach's heinous voter-suppressing Crosscheck program. And BuzzFeed Senior Reporter Jason Leopold returns to shine more light on the Trump Russia probe and the general insanity of our time.
Nicole talks about the president's plan to issue an executive order on immigration with New Republic's Danny Vinik, who puts it in historical perspective for us. Greg Palast tells how the Crosscheck voter purge system gamed the election. And Amy Simon joins in to talk about what's sexy and what isn't ... and more!
It's election-eve, and Nicole discusses the state of the vote with Down with Tyranny & Blue America's Howie Klein. Plus Greg Palast gives the details of his latest investigation for Al Jazeera on a massive multi-state voter purge.
Listen to this episode: {play }http://traffic.libsyn.com/radioornot/20120531_Nicole_Sandler_Show__Floriduh.mp3 {/play} Podcast: Play in new window Oh Floriduh, you break my heart. First, you screw things up so terribly you give the presidency to a loser (in more ways than one) in 2000. then, in 2010, you elect Volermort to the Governor's office, and put a war criminal - Allen West - into Congress. It's bad enough that you continuing punishing felons long after they've paid their debt to society by denying them their right to vote, but now you want to, almost arbitrarily, take away the vote from citizens just because their name [...]
