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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

    08:26
  • SC Senator Mia McLeod on abortion ban fight: 'all we’re asking for is a choice'

    06:49
  • Rep. Gottheimer on debt ceiling negotiations: “We’ve got to get out of this cycle of insanity”

    06:28
  • Sen. Sanders: 'Nobody is happy about the 14th Amendment…but it beats where we're at right now'

    00:20
  • Velshi: This single SCOTUS case could upend our entire regulatory system

    06:21
  • Sen. Stabenow: 14th Amendment, discharge petition are 'viable' options to avoid default

    02:10
  • 'The world in general is not that hateful – it’s just lawmakers'

    04:57
  • Fmr. Amb. to Ukraine Yovanovitch: 'If Ukraine does not prevail, Russia will keep going'

    01:52
  • Sen. Coons: 'The single worst thing we could do is default'

    02:13
  • Velshi: It’s up to us to bring down the temperature (literally)

    04:31
  •  #VelshiBannedBookClub: Resisting Book Bans with Lawsuits

    03:49
  • The Florida Department of Education is erasing history from textbooks

    04:42
  • The Constitutional Sheriffs movement subverts democracy

    05:54
  • The strategic roots of the attack on trans rights

    05:02
  • Sen. Tuberville’s verbal gymnastics when asked about white nationalism 

    04:42
  • Gov. Cooper needs just one Republican to help him save abortion rights in NC

    06:16
  • Caitlin Dickerson: Focusing on migrant numbers alone is misleading 

    07:57
  • Browder: Vladimir Kara-Murza 'may be the visionary that’s right in this whole thing'

    05:12
  • #VelshiBannedBookClub: George Takei’s ‘They Called Us Enemy’

    10:15
  • TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Elected officials offer prayers instead of policy solutions

    06:22

Menendez: The NRA’s enduring lies have seeped into the American psyche

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For decades, the NRA has led the political campaign that altered America’s perception of gun rights and the Second Amendment. And it does so by weaponizing myths and propaganda. Many of the arguments in favor of gun rights originated from the NRA: the gun lobby’s most effective messenger. Most of those arguments are false or misleading. The National Rifle Association, though teetering on financial distress and internal turmoil, is still powerful. Partly because of the enduring lies and misinformation it has pumped into the American psyche.