Sister District was joined by David Daley for a conversation about his new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections. The conversation was moderated by Gaby Goldstein, Co-Founder of Sister District.
Investigative reporter David Daley reveals the urgent story of the fifty-year Republican plot to end the Voting Rights Act and encourage minority rule in their party’s favor. From the bowels of Reagan’s DOJ to the walls of the conservative Federalist Society to the moneyed Republican resources bankrolling restrictive voting laws today, Daley reveals a hidden history as sweeping as it is troubling. Through careful research and exhaustive reporting, he connects Shelby to a well-funded, highly-coordinated right-wing effort to erode the power of minority voters and Democrats at the ballot box—an effort that has grown stronger with each election cycle. In the process Roberts and his conservative allies have enabled fringe conservative theories about our elections with the potential to shape the 2024 election and topple the foundations of our democracy. Timely and alarming, Daley offers a powerful message that, while Shelby was the misguided end of the Voting Rights Act, it was also the beginning of something far darker.
Sister District hosted this event in partnership with: Broadway Postcarders, Coastside United for Action, Herndon-Reston Indivisible, Red Wine & Blue, Sister District CA Peninsula, Sister District DC Metro Area, Sister District Eugene, Sister District Greater Chicago, Sister District Massachusetts-Rhode Island, Sister District Portland, Sister District Sacramento, Southern VT Sister District, Swing Left Tri-Valley, The Indigo Project, Virginia Grassroots Coalition, Volunteer Blue, Wallingford Indivisible
Sister District was joined by Ari Berman for a conversation about his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People — And the Fight to Resist It. The conversation was moderated by Gaby Goldstein, Co-Founder of Sister District.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. However, this crisis did not begin or end with Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history – so much of which happens at the state level – reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of massive demographic and political shifts. Journalist Ari Berman charts all of these efforts and the grassroots movement that’s fighting back in his new book.
Sister District hosted this event in partnership with: DemCast USA, Run for Something, Swing Left, Red Wine & Blue, Volunteer Blue, Mothering Justice, Coastside United for Action, Chop Wood, Carry Water, Letters for Democracy, Indivisible HoCoMD, Virginia Grassroots Coalition, Bay Area Coalition, Herndon-Reston Indivisible, Swing Left Tri-Valley, Sister District Massachusetts-Rhode Island, Sister District Sacramento, Sister District CA Peninsula, Sister District Greater Chicago, Sister District San Francisco, Sister District Yolo, Sister District South Bay, Southern VT Sister District, Sister District DC Metro Area, Sister District NYC, Sister District Sonoma West County, Sister District EUG
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