{"id":475118,"date":"2022-01-19T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d9063b9b7b5568513cca19538bd89af7"},"modified":"2022-01-19T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:10:00","slug":"karen-of-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/19\/karen-of-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen of the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema\u2019s questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also discuss how unless Congress passes voting rights protections, it doesn\u2019t matter who runs in 2024, because the election will be determined not by candidate popularity but by the most extreme voter suppression laws since the era before the VRA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/gaslitnation.libsyn.com\/the-karen-of-the-senate\">Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we examine what drove Koched-up Karen of the Senate Kyrsten Sinema to destroy voting rights on Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. We dig into Sinema\u2019s questionable past and shady backers and debate rumors about her political future. We also dis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475119,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475118\/revisions\/475119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}