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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will bring up the Freedom to Vote Act for a cloture vote next week, to allow debate to begin on the bill that is critical for protecting voting rights and preventing extreme partisan gerrymandering, plus a lot of other desperately needed provisions that would benefit all voters and the survival of American democracy itself. The bill is supported by all 50 Democratic Senators, but won't achieve a 60-vote super-majority required to overcome a Republicans filibuster, even as heavily gerrymandered, GOP-controlled states adopt new voting restrictions that also make it easier for Republicans to overturn legitimate election results. DAVID DALEY of FairVote.org, who literally wrote the book on partisan gerrymanders, details the horrors to come from the GOP extreme gerrymandered maps coming in the next few weeks and months, after the GOP's stolen and packed U.S. Supreme Court ruled that that federal courts may not intercede to stop partisan gerrymanders in any way. If the Freedom to Vote Act is not adopted, should Democrats in control of state legislatures also do the same thing to answer the GOP assault on democracy? Daley discusses likely paths forward for addressing Republicans' asymmetrical redistricting warfare, and the pros and cons of different actions that Congressional Democrats could take as the American democratic experiment teeters ever closer to unstoppable authoritarianism. As always, we welcome your thoughts, and hope to discuss this pivotal moment in American history more in the days ahead. Also today: A super-Trumpy Republican Virginia state assembly candidate has some wildly idiotic ideas about rising sea levels that should scare the hell out of Virginians..."