'BradCast' 6/12/2020 (Guest: Voting rights journalist Ari Berman on how Republicans are working to undermine 2020 election)

On today's 'BradCast':  In Florida, the Democratic minority leader of the state's House of Representative is sounding an "urgent" alarm and calling for measures to protect voters' rights, with concerns that the Trump Administration could interfere with the November election through various means, including using the U.S. Postal Service to slow down the return of ballots so that they don't arrive in time to be counted.  A Trump Campaign spokesperson dismissed those concerns as "an absolutely bogus conspiracy theory by Democrats." Of course, Republican willingness to commit fraud, especially in Florida elections, is anything but a "conspiracy theory," with Donald Trump and other Republicans repeatedly committing absentee ballot voter fraud in that state.  Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden is similarly worried about what the current President and his party may do to undermine the 2020 contest. The critical general election will be anything but a cakewalk -- the disastrous Georgia primary election is just one example of how Republicans are able to disenfranchise voters. Voting rights journalist and author ARI BERMAN discusses his latest article for Mother Jones, headlined "How the Coronavirus Handed the GOP New Ways to Squash the Vote," and details some of the extraordinary measures that Republicans around the country are launching to suppress the vote in 2020. Berman warns that time is running out for all states to prepare for a tsunami of Vote-By-Mail requests and ballots and in-person voting during a pandemic, or else "we're looking at a possible and likely disaster in November."  We also cover what YOU can do to help ensure the 2020 elections -- our last firewall against full-on authoritarianism – don't become the nation's latest nightmare...