Filling in for Joan Esposito is joined by Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent at Mother Jones and author of the books “Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It” and “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.”

His most recent articles for Mother Jones are "The Trump Administration’s Latest Power Grab: Your Voter Data" and "Project 2026: Trump’s Plan to Rig the Next Election."

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