The show notes for Episode 47 are at http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/08/episode-47-a-wetter-hotter-white-supremacy-with-special-guest-ari-berman.html

Before we get started today, I learned after recording this podcast episode that Dawn and Mike Wagner have likely lost their home to flooding from Hurricane Harvey. Mike is the composer of "Unclaimed", our intro music into the Flint Water Crisis update each week. Please keep them in your thoughts and send prayers and other positive mental energy.

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Ari Berman gets a new job!: Mother Jones Announces Newsroom Expansion

Follow Ari Berman's work at Mother Jones HERE.

Ari Berman at The Nation: Congressional Democrats Introduce Ambitious New Bill to Restore the Voting Rights Act

H.R.2978 - Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2017

National Voter Registration Day - September 27th - info HERE.

Glenn Thrush and Julie Hirschfeld Davis at the New York Times: Trump Eyed ‘Far Higher’ Ratings in Pardoning Joe Arpaio as Hurricane Hit

Angela Helm at The Root: 10 Disgusting Things Joe Arpaio Did as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

Michael Lacy at the Phoenix New Times: Prisoners Hang Themselves in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Jails at a Rate That Dwarfs Other County Lockups

John Dougherty at the Phoenix New Times: Dog Day Afternoon

Mark Joseph Stern at Slate: The Arpaio Pardon Is a Bad Sign for the Mueller Investigation

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/901456510269698048

LOLGOP at Eclectablog: This is what we’re up against in 2018

Jimmy Tobias at The Nation: Michigan Suffers From Some of the Most Extreme Gerrymandering in the Country

LOLGOP at Eclectablog: Trump’s presidency depends on his tax breaks for the rich

https://twitter.com/MichaelSLinden/status/902619061070200832

Kendra Pierre-Louis at Popular Science: The invisible engine that made Hurricane Harvey worse

Matt McGrath at the BBC: