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Voting bill. what can you do? it sounds as though the governor and the state republicans are going to get this done. democrats in texas broke quorum by walking out the last time this came up, but they can only do that so many times. sounds like the majority wants these restrictive voting measures. what can you do? >> black freedom factory will continue to amplify the vois of organizations on the ground that have been fighting this fight. the governors principles and priorities arent straight.

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So theyve been working behind the scenes and talking to demo democrats, theyre coming back to austin ready to fight and when the house dropped that bill last night, i saw an energy when i was speaking to some of the them to keep that fight going. now to talk about that bill, there were a lot of similarities to the one from the regular session that got killed, sb-7, by the democrats walking out thus denying quorum at the very last minute. the new bill that was dropped by the house, house bill 3 c...

The floor and denying quorum back at the end of the regular session. if you take it house bill, for example, were talking about banning 24-hour drive-thru voting, adding new crime to the process. for example, making it a felony to send out an unsolicited ballot application and makes more voter i.d. necessities for voting by mail. theres some key differences, though, from both of the bills that were introduced this new special session. and they dont include some of the more controversial measures...

>> reporter: boris, theyre trying to achieve what they couldnt achieve during the regular session because democrats did that dramatic walk-out in the final hours of the regular session. and denied quorum thus preventing them from passing any kind of election legislation that would add new restrictions. that is essentially why the governor said he was calling this special session, that should be getting underway any moment now. the house republicans dropped a bill last night. it is hb-3, that has...

Horrendous policy, texas republicans have declared it a total mystery, who inserted what they now call their words, horrendous policy in their own election law legislation that democrats managed to block by staing a walkout of the texas house of representatives and denying a quorum necessary to pass the bill. the houston chronicle reports that texas state representative travis clarty and brian hughes now claim they have absolutely no idea how the provisions about overturning elections ever got a...

Theres not a lot of republicans who have stepped forward and said they want to join this committee, other than, of course, representative liz cheney, who speaker nancy pelosi chose. so we are still watching. but the reality is that democrats on this committee have already started their work. theyre planning to hire staff this week and do the background that is needed to get this under way. they have a quorum, so they can run this committee without mccarthys picks. so its going to be mccarthy, a ...

Political counterweight to that? >> the counterweight is to have the eyes of the nation on texas. they tried to sneak the bill through in the middle of the night with provisions they havent reviewed. it was rushed so badly we were really forced to break quorum and kill the bill. if they want to write an elections bill together, great. i suspect theyre not going to want to do that. so, you know, the reason were even having this debate is because of the big lie that you have reported on extensi...

Want to pull up what the bill would actually do because when you see it listed out it is kind of mind blowing. back 24-hour voting. ban drive-through voting, ban voting on sundays before 1:00 p.m. add restrictions to vote by mail. this one, which i think is perhaps the most astounding, lower evidence standard for overturning an election based on fraud. i mean is there any sense on the part of your republican colleagues that perhaps they have gone too far? >> well, absolutely. they will not even ...

On. it is great to be with you on this 4th of july weekend. look, we dont know what will be on the call, but all you need to do is look at whatever ron desantis is doing and then our governor is going to try to out crazy him. it has been the m.o. really during the worst-kept secret in austin, which is that our governor is running for president and he is trying to curry favor with the trump right wing of the party. we figure that denial of the freedom to vote is going to be on the call along with...