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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) continue to dismantle the long-overdue, extremely popular social safety net and climate agenda of President Biden and the rest of the Democrats. Manchin and Sinema have flip-flopped, now opposing tiny tax increases on corporations and the wealthy, including a potential wealth tax on billionaires. New data shows that, during the pandemic, U.S. billionaires increased in number from 614 to 745, and saw their wealth grow 70 percent between March 2020 and September 2021. The money they made during the pandemic alone would fully cover the cost of Biden's 10-year budget plans in the Build Back Better Act. A different analysis finds that the wealthiest 400 families in the US paid an average federal income tax of just 8.2 percent, a far lower percentage than the vast majority of working Americans. Voters in several states are heading to the polls for off-year elections on Tuesday, deciding contentious races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey. In New York, voters face several important state constitutional measures directly affecting elections in the state and potentially democracy across the nation. DR. VIRGINA MARTIN, former Democratic Election Commissioner of the Columbia County, NY Board of Elections and ALLEGRA DENGLER, longtime election security advocate with Citizens for Voting Integrity NY, explain the statewide ballot propositions that could fundamentally expand access to the ballot box in a state with some of the most restrictive voting policies in the nation. Interestingly, they do not agree on how voters should proceed, and each offers well-informed and nuanced opinions on the issues at stake...