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Want the senate to hear us, and weea want them to act, and we nd them to pass the for the people act to preserve democracy in this country. f >> do you and your colleagues have any expectations in terms of how long you are going to have to stay outside of texas? obviously you are there to make your case that we need federal f voting rights as you just said to pass the for the people act but you are also there as part of a tactical maneuver to blockr republicans from passing what they are otherwi...

Would get rid ofil all the innovations that happened in the last year or two to try to increase texas turnout because texas republicans didnt like what they saw when more texans turned out to vote. this weekend on saturday both the house and senate held hearings on the voter restriction bill that is now up and it wasnt just democrats giving forceful speeches against the bill.inbi forceful speeches that would go on to gather dust on the shelves of the public record. it was texas democrats but als...

>> thank you, rachel. >> thank you. democratic texas state representative trey martinez fischer i will get you on the union roster for that little bir of camera work there. thank you. i appreciate it my friend. fascinating. texas democrats, again, more than 50 of them, have left the n state of texas tonight. it is a tactic that, listen, texas democrats did this in 2003 ahead of a radical partisan redistricting of the state of texas.ctmo they left the state and as i said, governor at the time sen...

To a month left on the clock, and according to texas house rules, lawmakers, at least theoretically, can be compelled to come backre to the state capitol if they are not present during the session. in other words, republicans maybe can sic the state capitol public safety office on them to track them down and round them all back up and, what, force them back to austin? in 2003 when texas democrats staged a similar protest out of state the texas governor ordered state troopers to go find the democ...

Can be fixed. if there is a federal voting rights backstop at the federal level, then states will not have the option to bring their voting rights down below a floor set at the federal level. it doesnt mean the federal government will run elections or that every state will run them exactly the same way. it will just mean there is a te floor below which voter lo suppression will not be allowed to sink. that is why the texas democrats are in washington. not just because they needed to get out of t...

Personal circumstances might manifest as sort of signs of strain in the former presidents public pronouncements. but for whatever reason, while these signs of strain are very evident in him, as he is getting more unhinged and definitely more radical in his claims both about the country and his proposed prescriptions for what the country ought to do about the things he says are wrong, i mean, he is demanding that the republican party purge those who betrayed him. he demanded today that michigan r...

Because those are the home states of two conservative democratic senators, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, in whose hands the fate of a national voting rights bill effectively sits. texas democrats hope that might pressure those two u.s. senators to change their minds about passing voting rights at the federal level.thde af bipehe because without federal protections, texas republicans are going to do what theyre going to do here. ultimately apparently the texasa democrats felt like that might be...

Democratic amendments were voted down by all of the republicans. republicans did not listen to the arguments against the bill, to what most of their constituents were telling them. in both the texas house and the senate the republican bill that will make it harder to vote in texas was voted out of committee on pure party lines. a full vote in the house and the senate will be scheduled sometime later this week and will then be sent to the governor for his signature.tu bo and so democrats are tryi...