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Listeners of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast have mobilized to take over the GOP from the ground up. Convinced the 2020 election was stolen, many far-right Republicans are moving to run elections themselves as precinct officers. 

Guest: Isaac Arnsdorf, national politics reporter for ProPublica.

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