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On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Rush Limbaugh may be dead, but his toxic legacy lives on in virtually every element of the nation's poisoned body politic. The consequences are all too apparent today amid the deadly winter storm that has knocked out power across Texas, and the avalanche of new voter suppression laws being pushed by Republicans following their loss of the White House in 2020. Limbaugh used his considerable skills to brainwash his gullible listeners over the nation's public airwaves with far-right, racist, misogynistic, extremist propaganda and lies. His influence echoes throughout the power outage crisis in Texas where, thanks to deregulation of the power grid by GOP lawmakers who put corporate profit above the general welfare of their own residents, millions are suffering power and water shutoffs due to an historic storm. To deflect responsibility, Texas Republicans and propagandists like Fox 'News' have unleashed a tsunami of disinformation in an attempt to falsely blame wind energy for the outages, omitting the fact that the state's natural gas, coal and nuclear sources are the primary sources of failure, due to lack of winterization thanks to deregulation. It may be very difficult for voters to vote out these dishonest, corporate-socialists \u2013 at least in GOP-controlled states, where lawmakers are introducing an avalanche of new voter suppression laws.\xa0 Voting rights journalist and author ARI BERMAN of Mother Jones explains the new GOP wave of efforts attempting to weaponize bogus fraud claims from the 2020 election in order to restrict voting access in battleground states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and more. Berman also discusses the necessity of Congress passing democracy reform and filibuster reform on the federal level, to protect voters from the new GOP onslaught and ensure equal and fair voting rights to all Americans.