altered how our democracy functions can be stopped can even be outed here to talk about is peace and what progress is can do to counter the right's new weapon is leaf boarding fellow with the investigative fund at the nation institute and author of the book the machine a field guide to the resurgent right we fought welcome back nice to see you tom great to have you here in the studio with me here so give us the the elevator speech here on this article the summary of the of the article well when president obama elevated voters out of it president obama to the white house in two thousand and eight conservative planners had a freak out moment and they started concentrating their resources their political investments in the states this group the state policy network coordinates conservative think tanks in all fifty states they now have fifty nine affiliates and they're basically a p.r. firm for alec so the very fact the american legislative exchange council where the lobby is republican...