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b"On today's 'BradCast': The fight to preserve democracy now continues on a state-by-state, court case-by-court case level. Congressional Democratic leadership will bring up two crucial voting rights bills next week, putting all senators on record so voters can attempt to hold them accountable. The bills will likely fail, unable to overcome a GOP filibuster, thanks to the two obstructionist Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) who refuse to defend voting rights and free and fair elections. In Wisconsin, a Republican circuit court judge has suddenly decided that the state's secure ballot drop boxes and other longtime secure methods of absentee voting are unlawful, despite years of use. Ohio's state Supreme Court struck down new redistricting maps that egregiously violate a voter-approved state law requiring that maps reflect the general partisan makeup of the evenly divided state, but Republicans drew maps giving themselves a 12-3 advantage. MARCY WHEELER, independent investigative national security journalist at Emptywheel.net, explains the serious new charges of 'seditious conspiracy' against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and ten of his henchmen for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection, which was key to Donald Trump's effort to steal the 2020 election. Wheeler discusses what the new charges mean as the Dept. of Justice moves up the chain of command in their investigation of the insurrection. Also today: 150 former EPA officials urge Virginia's Dem-controlled state senate to reject Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin's nomination of Trump EPA chief Andrew Wheeler for the state's top environmental post."