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President pro tem. then, the majority leader, chuck schumer, can call for -- or someone can call for an appeal of the chair. that vote can be done by 51 votes. if we win, that means that the filibuster is gone. and it can be gone, temporarily, because it can be put back. senator manchin should think about that procedure, and wonder whether or not, because of the prices of the fundamental right to vote. by the way, its a constitutional right under the 15th amendment and it goes to everyone. and h...

We walked ourselves all the way to d.c. we need this reform. if they would pass a bill next week i promise you well come home and let them pass their intentionally discriminatory bill and guess what. well finally have federal oversight. texas does not know how to police itself, and thats the problem. the problem is that we dont have lawmakers that actually want to do whats right for the people. they say they love the constitution, but they only love the constitution if they are talking about the...

Officials around the country who are engaged in a concerted effort to try to keep members of the population, citizens, from voting. and particularly black and brown citizens. i know we all talk about this as partisan, i know we talk about democrats and republicans. but who are the voters being targeted? the voters being targeted are black voters, brown voters, elderly voters, disabled voters. thats what we see happening. and that conduct is illegal. it violates federal law. but its happening at ...

Legislation, what is your fear these laws, what they will do, and what is your remedy? >> okay. so number one, the fear is take whats happening -- so number one, its like a modern-day scopes trial. its like the modern-day version of stopping us from teaching biology and evolution. what the fear is is that teachers will be so bullied and so disparaged, weve seen that already, and threatened, that theyll stop teaching about the civil war, the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment, anything to do with the iss...

That the arc of the moral universe has, actually, bent towards justice. and that, whereas the founders actually were slaveholders, we went through a civil war. we went through the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. weve just got to celebrating juneteenth. and so, you see that, through the struggle of america, we create more opportunity, more freedom. what i dont get is that thats a great story for fox tv. thats a great story for all americans. and whats happening, now, is that in this push to try t...

Constitutional democracies. but it wasnt a multiethnic democracy. the founders basically were very focused on making sure that white men of certain ways had a vote. but this is whats great about america and what we teach in history. that the arc of the moral universe has actually bent toward justice. and that whereas the founders actually were slaveholders we went through a civil war, we went through the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. we just got to celebrating juneteenth. and so you see that t...

Biology and evolution. what its -- what the fear is, is that teachers will be so bullied and so disparaged. weve seen that, already, and threatened. that theyll stop teaching about the civil war. the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment, anything to do with the -- you know, the issues around race, discrimination, bigotry, and thin things like that. and that will be terrible for kid kids to not understand history and how we actually move to be a more perfect union. >> whats the remedy? >> the remedy is tha...

Some more money in and were going to fight to defend every one of our members who teach honest history. but the other remedy is this. were going to the courts. like take the texas law. it basically says -- i dont have the exact language. but it basically says that you can only teach slavery as if it was a deviation from the founders. no, thats completely the opposite of our professional responsibility and our standards that says we have to teach honest history. so in texas were going to go to th...

Voting booth. why throw that to the wayside? they understand how the system works. get them involved because access to the voting booth is one of the view things that americans across the stripes agree with. >> its true. >> well, recently, right? weve had -- we had 100 years of straight up ignoring the 15th amendment. >> if we have to be recent to recognize that majority of americans believe it. and that is a starting point. >> right. >> that is communicating that opportunity. >> well, and the w...

Expand access to the ballot. here youve got the majority of the supreme court, six justices saying you gotta read it more narrowly, and effectively undoing much more of what the provision is about. >> final question, where do you look as a remedy if we can agree that anything less than making sure all barriers are cleared, making sure all americans can vote, where do you look for a remedy to all the state laws being passed? >> how our founders basically put congress in the driver seat. it could ...