Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York where Donald Trump wants he usually posts about on Truth Social at odd hours. From his demands that states gerrymander their congressional maps to keep him in office, to compelling his Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies.Now amid flashing red warning signs that his party will lose the midterm elections by large margins due to both historical trends and his soaring unpopularity. Donald Trump is demanding an election ELECTION INTEGRITY EFFORT EL ...

political power in the south is playing out in Alabama Democrats are fighting Republican efforts to eliminate a black majority district a move black voters fear will erase their voice they have until this afternoon to make their argument clear to the U s Supreme Court but the stakes are intensifying because we're just eight days away from that state's primary elections joining us now Rebecca Peercy a Democratic strategist and former political director and senior advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren's preside ...

And joining me are two incredible contemporary scholars and authors Imani Perry, professor of African-American studies at Harvard University and the author of many important books, including Black in Blues, How a Color Tells the Story of My people and south to America, a journey below the Mason Dixon to understand the soul of a nation. And Eddie Glaude is a distinguished professor of African-American studies at Princeton University and author of many important books, including the forthcoming America USA, H ...

We begin this hour with a lo at Tennessee and a warning about where American democracy may be headed after the Supreme court's recent rollback of key voting rights acts protections. In a matter of days, Tennessee Republicans pushed through a new congressional map that dismantles the state's last Democratic DEMOCRATIC HELD DISTRICT. THE MAP SPLITS THE CITY OF MEMPHIS, WHICH IS MORE THAN 60 % BLACK INTO THREE DISTRICTS.A MOVE CRITIC SAY DILUTES BLACK VOTING POWER AND LOCKS IN GOP CONTROL OF ALL NINE CONGRESSI ...

fundamentally altered the architecture of American elections and setting the clock on democracy back by six decades. First, the U .S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement in a case brought by a January 6th participant.And yesterday, the Virginia Supreme Court threw out a voter-approved redistricting referendum that was meant to counter aggressive Republican gerrymandering elsewhere in the country. Together, these two decisions have turbocharged racist redi ...

justice correspondenand columnist for The Nation. He's an Alfred Nobler fellow at the Type Media Center and author of multiple books including Bad Law, 10 Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. Ellie, good morning to you.Thank you for being with us. I'm trying not to overstate this. I'm trying not to have viewers look at me and say, dude, why is your hair on fire.This is crazy. It's really not. This is a PERNICIOUS, ACROSS-THE-BOARD ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY.AN ATTACK ON BLACK PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY. A LOT OF TIMES ...

>> GOOD MORNING. IT IS SATURDAY, MAY THE 9TH. I'M ALI VELSHI, AND THERE'S A STORY UNFOLDING RIGHT NOW IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH THAT MIGHT NOT BE AT THE TOP OF YOUR NEWS FEED, BUT I HAPPEN TO THINK IT'S THE MOST URGENT PROBLEM FACING EVERY ONE OF US TODAY, NO MATTER WHERE IN THE COUNTRY WE LIVE.THE STORY YOU MIGHT EVEN THINK YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT STARTED LIKE SO MANY SECOND TERM TRUMP EMERGENCIES. LOOKING LIKE A SHAMELESS POWER GRAB BY A WANNABE. DICTATOR FACING THE ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES OF HIS DEEPLY.UNPOPULAR ...

DECISION TO BLOCK THE STATE'S NEWLY DRAWN AND VOTER APPROVED CONGRESSIONAL MAP, THE DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER, HOUSE MINORITY LEADER, HAKIM JEFFREY SAYS, QUOTE, OVER 3 MILLION VIRGINIA CITIZENS CAST THEIR VOTES IN A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION YET THE STATE SUPREME COURT HAS CHOSEN TO INVALIDATE THEIR VOICE, DISENFRANCHISE THEM AND VIOLATE THEIR DUE PROCESS RIGHTS. THE DECISION TO OVERTURN AN ENTIRE ELECTION IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND UNDEMOCRATIC ACTION THAT CANNOT STAND MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE ADOPTED VOTER SUPPRESSI ...

What, what, what is it you're, you're trying to drive to. Because I think a lot of people think this is kind of like, oh, done. Well, it has been a perilous week in American democracy, right, as we witness the fallout of the Supreme Court's decision.Lawmakers across the South are moving at lightning speed and intentionally targeting black voters, dismantling majority black districts, seeking to silence black voters, seeking to strip power away from black elected officials. I'm somebody who has been a lifelo ...

THE MOST DRAMATIC THING A JUDG OR JUDGES CAN DO IN A DEMOCRACY IS TO JUST THROW OUT THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION. THAT'S AS SERIOUS AS IT GETS, RIGHT. ESSENTIALLY UNHEARD OF outside of really rare cases of fraud, right.Otherwise, you don't get to just throw out an election. I mean, the idea of one person or a small handful of people setting aside the will of the citizens, tens of thousands, hundreds, THOUSANDS, EVEN MILLIONS OF CITIZENS, THAT'S PRETTY ALIEN TO OUR DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS. IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN ...