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It's these maneuvers and others that threaten the Democrats' hold on the House in the midterms and what is fueling this awful wave of authoritarian legislation nationwide.

A senior reporter for Mother Jones, Berman has broken some of the most important and frightening stories related to voter suppression.

He is the author of the best-selling book, Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and a recipient of the prestigious Sidney Hillman Foundation Award in Journalism for his reporting on the dark money behind the GOP's voter suppression efforts.

So let's listen now to that conversation.

unpopular policies like abortion bans and permitless carry with no accountability.

That's why it's so important for Democrats to use their power to pass federal legislation protecting voting rights.

In your article for Mother Jones on the topic, you describe their hold on power in Texas as anti-democratic.

Can you unpack for my listeners what's happening in Texas with this fury and flurry of legislation, 666 bills, I believe, and how they maintain their super majority despite the fact that Texas is growing more purple every single year?

That's true.

CNN National Security Analyst Alex Plitsis joins us along with David Corn, who's the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Mother Jones.

David is the author of a brand new book.

It's called How Russia Won.

And we should note that along with all of that, um...

And by the way, uh, David Corn of Mother Jones magazine, who wrote a book some years ago called Russian Roulette about all of this, has a new book just out on the Russian connections and what we know has been longtime collusion with Russia-

And I will, I will, I will-

... across many avenues.