“On the legal front and the voting rights front what I’m worried about is that the left has in many quarters decided to move on from the threats to democracy but it is the central organizing thesis of the Republican party….In Republican states you have legislature after legislature passing new voter suppression laws and election subversion laws.  In some instances these are the second or the third law on top of each other and you get some picture of what the conservative and republican playbook is which is they know they can’t win through a majoritarian election so their goal is to change the rules of voting to disincentivize or to dissuade or to suppress or subvert the votes of black, brown and young voters. And that’s their strategy and they are doggedly at it.. they are doggedly at it and I worry that on our side there is kind of a generalized concern that these things are happening but they are not nearly as closely paid attention to.” = Marc Elias

“Pretty much every Republican state passed new restrictions on voting since the 2020 election and many states have passed multiple new restrictions on voting and this will be the first presidential election that the new restrictions will be in effect. I think there’s a feeling that because Democrats fared pretty well in 2022 that we don’t have a crisis in democracy anymore.” – Ari Berman

They also cover a lot of ground on other topics including when Al Franken became the 60th senator that allowed Democrats to get the Affordable Care Act passed.