america and florida voting rights activist desmond meade on how republican governor ron desantis is attempting to scare former felons away from voting by using his newly formed election police force to arrest people on trumped up voter fraud charges. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. russian president vladimir putin said thursday the world faces the most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the end of world war ii, even as he insisted that the war in ukraine was going according to plan. over the course of a four-hour appearance at a foreign policy conference in moscow, putin said russia stands ready for a negotiated end to the conflict in ukraine, but insisted ukraine and its allies are not willing to engage in diplomacy. he also railed against western powers, comparing them to nazi germany. >> the disintegration of the soviet unit destroyed the balance of geopolitical powers. the west felt it the victor. now this historic period of western dominance in world affairs end is coming to an end. amy: in ky

joining me now, desmond mead.ration coalition and offer of let my people vote. he was also very instrumental in passing amendment four. back with me is latosha browned, she is the chair of the black voters fund. this man, i want to start with you, because you were instrumental in getting that passed in florida. yet that was half the battle. what recourse do the people being arrested have? have you've been in touch with any of them? first and foremost, we want to know. are they okay? >> well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on this morning. and yes, we, now we're looking at that again. it gets me infuriated. it gets me just angry. but here's the deal, right? the florida rights registration coalition has made a commitment from the time that fast forward to walk every step of the way with the 1.4 million people who should be enjoying the benefits of it. and what we're seeing here made us react in such a way where we are now, we have -- got a legal defense funds in order to bail people out who are gettin