Sinema thinks Democrats overhyped the threat to voting rights. She's wrong.

It's not just that Sinema is wrong about the filibuster, Hayes Brown writes, it's that she is now so smugly wrong, and in a way that glosses over the biggest problems this country is facing. [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news [VIEW IN BROWSER]( MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news Jan. 19, 2023 THE LATEST [Alternate text] [Kyrsten Sinema is still very, very wrong about the filibuster]( by Hayes Brown Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., defended the filibuster onstage during a panel in Davos. Speaking to the world's elites, the newly independent Sinema dismissed concerns that, maybe, restoring and enhancing voting rights was more important than the mistake of history that is the Senate's de facto 60 vote threshold. For me, only recently returned from vacation, that dozen or so words — "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., defended the filibuster onstage during a panel in Davos" — was enough to pierce through whatever chill I had accumulated during my time off. Because it's not just that Sinema is wrong about the filibuster, which is a point that I've made many times over the last two years. It's that she is now so smugly wrong, and in a way that glosses over the biggest problems this country is facing. This is a preview of Hayes Brown's latest article. [Read their full column here.](     TOP STORIES [Alternate text] [RYAN COOPER]( [Why a platinum coin is Biden's best weapon against default]( It would be just as illegal to obey the debt ceiling as it would be to ignore it. [Read more.](//link.msnbc.com/click/30294614.58025/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXNuYmMuY29tL3RoZS1yZWlkb3V0L3JlaWRvdXQtYmxvZy9iYW5uaW5nLXRpa3Rvay1ub3QtZ29vZC11c2UtYmlkZW4tcmVwdWJsaWNhbi10aW1lLXJjbmE2MzczMT9jaWQ9ZW1sX21kYV8yMDIzMDExOSZ1c2VyX2VtYWlsPWQ3ZGM3NDUxNzI5N2IzOTcxYWExNGQ2ZjMzMTEzNWEwODc4ZjhmNjQwZmExYTEwMTlmMTU3YjY1YzFiNWRkMWQ/58292da26e4adc7b0b8b4914B78afb17d [NOAH ROTHMAN]( [Republicans have good reason to call out Biden right now — and it has nothing to do with documents]( The Covid "emergency" has become self-justifying. [Read more.]( [STEVE BENEN]( Marjorie Taylor Greene collects her reward for McCarthy support]( A lot can happen in two years. Read more.]( [JA'HAN JONES]( [The Jan. 6 committee made an unconscionable decision with its final report]( Omitting the memo's key findings in detail was a tremendous gift to Big Tech. [Read more.]( TOP VIDEOS [Alternate text] [ALL IN]( [Veteran accuses George Santos of taking $3K from his dying dog's GoFundMe]( [THE REIDOUT]( [Joy Reid: GOP extremist House committee appointments 'the completion of the insurrection']( [HALLIE JACKSON]( [Trump wants to return to Facebook. Why this is matters for 2024.]( [ALEX WAGNER TONIGHT]( [DeSantis' culture war on U.S. history threatens to backfire on Florida higher education](     MORE FROM MSNBC [Alternate text] This week, in a bonus episode of "Into America," Trymaine Lee learns about the history of the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, and how the community is fighting to save it, as part of MSNBC's Racial Healing Town Hall. [Listen now](, wherever you get your podcasts.   The history of lotteries spans over four millennia. The modern version of them arose out of a need for a form of more state funding that wouldn't raise taxes. Jackpots have reached record levels in the past few years — and, "Americans now spend more on lottery tickets every year than on cigarettes, coffee or smartphones," writes historian and author Jonathan Cohen. Cohen is author of "For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America," a comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession. In the book, he points out that lotteries are much less profitable for states than some proponents say, but on the other hand, they are extremely lucrative for private companies that manufacture tickets. [Cohen joins WITHpod]( to discuss the evolution of lotteries, changes he thinks should be made to the way they are run, public misconceptions about the revenue generated by games and why he says state run lotteries shouldn't exist.     [Image] [Image] 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily) [PRIVACY]( | [CONTACT]( | [UNSUBSCRIBE](listvar=sub_daily)