Let's talk about upcoming elections and about generational shift. I'm sure you saw there was some new reporting in the New York Times about President Trump weighing the possibility of getting involved in the New York City mayoral. Um he has uh according to this reporting had a conversation with Cuomo.Does any of that change your thinking about endorsing in this race. The president to keep his hands off the New York City elections. I don't know whether conversations happened or not.People are saying differen ...

New York Governor Kathy Hulkcom, who hosted Texas Democrats in Albany this week, writes in the Houston Chronicle, quote, "What Texas Republicans are doing under Trump's direction is nothing short of a legal insurrection on our capital. But using a legal system doesn't make it legitimate. It's a hijacking of democracy and it must be stopped." Governor Kathy Hulcom of New York joins us now. Yeah. So, Governor, just to underscore something Michael said that there is no federal crime that all of a sudden these ...

So, Governor, you've now you've waited into a national gerrymandering fight, a partisan political battle at a pitched fever level. What do you see when it comes to New York. You can't actually do anything to redistrict until 2028.So, is your role in this more symbolic and fighting with Democrats since nothing can really come of it for several years unless something happens at the state house. I mean to not engage in this fight. If we don't fight for our democracy, we're doomed to lose it.That's how high the ...

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And joining us now is the Democratic State Representative Matt Pierce of Indiana. Representative, we mentioned how the vice president is planning to come to Indiana to try to talk about redistricting there in your state. What's your reaction to the Trump administration's focus on your state next.Could this be a Texas take two. Well, I understand the vice president's in the state house right now trying to convince our governor to call special session. And I think it just shows that President Trump is despera ...

You're writing here in a new piece 60 years after the Voting Rights Act. You say our voices are eroded looking at the attacks on democracy around the country. Tell us about this.When we look at the fact that everything that was fought for out of the 60s from the voting rights bill which is the anniversary today of when Lyndon Johnson as president signed it to where there's been not only a retrenchment but hostility on LGBTQ rights which I talked about there in that presidential democratic primary de debate ...

Eddie, it feels fitting that we're having this conversation on this anniversary against the backdrop of what's happening in Texas. I wonder if you can layer those two topics on top of each other and talk about your reaction, your thoughts on this anniversary as you look at the way maps are being changed midstreams, which really comes down to how are people's votes counted, how are their voices heard. >> Well, good morning, Ally.I think it's it's actually striking and ironic. Here we are uh 250 years as a re ...

Y'all, 60 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law by a great Texan, President Lyndon Baines Johnson. A landmark of civil rights achievement forged in the fire of protest and sacrifice. It was meant to protect every American citizen's right to vote, no matter their color, their zip code, or their party.But that promise is once again under attack. Instead of honoring the Bar's legacy, Texas Republicans are erasing it one district, one voter, one community at a time. We came to Boston to rem ...

Listen, I think that the struggle is good because it means that you still have a moral compass. Unfortunately, in the government that we are um enduring at this moment, there is no morality. There is nothing but lawlessness um and there is nothing but power grabs at the expense of so many innocent people.And if we are going to preserve our democracy in this moment, this is the way that we have to engage in this fight. Now, once we get control back, listen, Democrats, I need y'all to listen to me clearly. Wh ...

Let's bring in Ken Martin. He is the chair of the Democratic National Committee. He's been in Illinois with the Texas lawmakers who fled the state.Chairman Martin, good to have you here. We keep seeing escalations, moves to get the FBI involved, the Texas governor going to the state supreme court trying to ou the top Democrat in the Texas state house. Did you expect it to come to this.>> Well, sure. I mean, you know, the reality is is these Republicans will stoop to any single level they can to cheat and to ...