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Republican lawmakers who lost their legislative majorities in the November midterm elections are in a desperate scramble to pass laws in lame duck legislative sessions to rob power from incoming Democrats before they can be seated. In Michigan, GOPers are jamming through last-minute legislation to block the reforms voters had adopted to expand voting rights. In North Carolina, the GOP-controlled legislature is hypocritically ramming through new Photo ID voting restrictions, even with the state in the midst of a massive GOP absentee ballot election fraud scandal in the state's 9th Congressional district. But it is in Wisconsin where the GOP is pushing the most audacious power grab in the nation, to usurp the powers of the incoming Democratic governor, Tony Evers and Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul on a litany of issues before they can be sworn in. Despite Democrats having won every statewide contest on the ballot, and receiving 54 percent of the votes for the State Assembly, Republicans retained control of 63 percent of the seats in the wildly gerrymandered state house, and they are using that ill-gotten legislative muscle. The unprecedented Republican power grab has led to protests at the state capital in Madison. OneWisconsinNow's ANALIESE EICHER -- a plaintiff in the 2016 federal case that struck down WI GOP's previous attempt to curtail early voting -- details the multiple outrageous and unprecedented moves that the #WIGOPPowerGrab is strong-arming through the state legislature. Eicher says Republicans "want to stay in power, no matter what the cost." Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report', with a look at the late George H.W. Bush's environmental legacy, and a warning for the world issued this week as the annual U.N. climate summit opened this week in Poland...