#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection

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Air Date 9/17/2024

It's not just the threat of the electoral college handing the presidency to the loser of the popular vote, nor the specter of a repeat of a January 6th-like event hanging over the election - there's also copious lies and disinformation including a new and improved nazi-to-Republican-talking-point-pipeline, and fresh new intimidation and voter suppression tactic experiments underway in the laboratories of democracy.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: Ignore your lying eyes: Republicans attempt to overwrite living memory to rewrite history - Alex Wagner Tonight - Air Date 8-14-24

KP 2: Trump Admits He Lost 2020 Election?!? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-5-24

KP 3: How Pro-Trump Election Officials Could Refuse To Certify The 2024 Election - Democracy Docket - Air Date 8-15-24

KP 4: What Does “Election Interference” Even Mean Anymore? - The Political Scene Podcast - Air Date 9-4-24

KP 5: Subvert the Election, But Make It Legal - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Air Dat 9-7-24

KP 6: ‘Intimidation’: MAGA Texas AG orders raids on homes of Latino Democrats - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date 8-29-24

KP 7: Republicans caught in BOMBSHELL lie - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 9-9-24

KP 8: This is also ominous foreboding for what these people will do in office - Jamelle Bouie - Air Date 9-13-24

(49:26) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On what puts democracies at risk

DEEPER DIVES

(1:01:09) SECTION A: INTIMIDATION

(1:15:27) SECTION B: INTERFERENCE

(1:54:14) SECTION C: LIES

(2:08:49) SECTION D: ELECTION INTEGRITY

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