'BradCast' 11/4/2021 (Keeping Up With the Wars For and Against Democracy)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 More results from the 2021 election - - Tucson, AZ voters approved an initiative to raise the city's minimum wage to $15, a rebuke to their AZ Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who voted it down in the Senate after promising voters during her campaign that she would support it.\\xa0 In New York State, voters rejected three ballot propositions expanding voting rights, while a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to a healthy environment passed. The differences between the two major parties could not be starker, as Democrats are trying to protect voting rights for all voters, while Republicans are undermining those most basic of American rights around the country:\\xa0 Senate Republicans again filibustered a vote to allow debate to begin on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act defending voting rights. New report warns that the Democrats' big money donors are getting restless, whining that Joe Biden isn't giving them enough attention (good!), but also concerned that the party seems unable to adopt critical voting rights legislation being blocked by Republicans and by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sinema, who are refusing to allow filibuster reform for democracy legislation. Voting machine company Smartmatic has filed two new lawsuits against right-wing U.S. television 'news' networks One America News (OAN) and Newsmax. Some rightwing nuts are finally getting fed up with their brain-addled cohorts who are still peddling false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. In Arizona, Republicans state lawmakers are turning on the 'Cyber Ninjas' firm for failing to turn over public documents related to their phony audit. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"