'BradCast' 1/26/2021: (Guest: FairVote's David Daley on new state GOP efforts to undermine elections)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 The tsunami of disinformation pushed by Republicans and Donald Trump to steal the presidential election with false allegations of 'voter fraud' ultimately failed, but it's now being used to advance new voter suppression laws in GOP-controlled state legislatures, while GOP obstruction deepens in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate. DAVID DALEY, Senior Fellow at FairVote and author of 'Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy,' explains new efforts by GOP state lawmakers to create 'an epidemic of Republican minority rule in this country' -- exploiting Trump's absurdly false claims about 'voter fraud' in the 2020 election to justify erecting new restrictions to voting, and game the Electoral College vote.\xa0 Daley also discusses the ridiculously undemocratic Senate, where, due to 'the original gerrymander' as he describes it, Democratic senators represent forty million more voters than Republicans but are barely able to win 50 percent of the seats. Daley suggests actions that voters and elected Democrats can take to counter the undemocratic filibuster in the already wildly undemocratic Senate.\xa0 Also today:\xa0 President Biden signed another flurry of executive orders addressing racial equity, and calls to end privately-run federal prison facilities. More Biden cabinet nominees were sworn in, including Janet Yellin, the first female Treasure Secretary. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell finally agreed to a power-sharing arrangement with Democrats in the closely-divided Senate.\xa0 Formal procedures began in the Senate for Trump's historic second impeachment trial on charges of inciting the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, while disturbing new revelations suggest the seditionists pre-planned and coordinated their attack with real-time assistance from someone on the inside. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'