The Democrats have taken the House, the Senate, and the Presidency – yet they are still claiming that they can’t pass the policies Americans desperately need. What’s stopping them? The filibuster – a weapon of white supremacy used by Southern states to block progress on civil rights. Sound familiar? In this interview, Adam Jentleson — an expert on Senate procedure and the author of the book Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy — explains what the filibuster is, how the Senate is using it to hold Americans down, and how to get rid of it.

This post was originally published on Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior.