In 2016, what we saw was the culmination of what Walker and Republicans did in all those years, which is to rig the state to break our democracy. They gerrymandered the living daylights out of our legislative districts. They [Republicans in Wisconsin] suppressed voting rights, they smashed unions, they defunded public education and public services. They used every tool they could to try to undermine the basis of worker power and of people power and of an educated citizenry and all the things that allow what the public wants to be expressed through their votes and turn into public policy. (01:02–17:23)
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Asserts that Republicans in Wisconsin suppressed voting rights, weakened unions, and defunded public education and services.
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