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At the filibuster as a vehicle that actually stops progressive legislation. a filibuster that is actually standing in the way of voting rights. so there is a solution. we need the senate to act now. i dont know why they went on recess right when people -- we dont have our voting rights secured right now in the state of georgia. there are 100,000 of voters that have just been dropped from the voting rolls. were seeing people get kicked off. election officials in fulton count where the republican ...

For the people in the john lewis voter advancement act, because were seeing this kind of ongoing effort to remove black voters, voters of color and democratic-leaning voters from the voting rolls in georgia. >> ive lost my confidence in congress. i dont know if were going to get the for the people act passed in a stringent enough way that it affects this level of voter suppression. so you led a campaign going after the private sector. is that something that could be revisited? and for the folks ...

I have a feeling they look like you and me. >> you know, it is a consistent concerted effort to get people of color off the ballot. when you look at this list of 185,000 people, 44% of those folks are folks of color. when you look at the black folks actually in the state of georgia, were 32% of the population, but year overrepresented, 44%, overrepresented in the purge list. so this is a tactic that is specifically designed to be able to marginalize and take black voters off the list. when were ...

They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they dont like what the opposition says, they dont like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people ...

They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they dont like what the opposition says, they dont like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people ...

They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they dont like what the opposition says, they dont like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people ...

Them got off with basically a slap on the wrist for their crimes. the dude in forty fort pennsylvania prosecutors dropped the most serious charges against him. the guy who voted for his dozens years dead mother swearing she was alive, he got five years probation. the local republican elected official in ohio who voted for his dead father, he got jail time. he got three days in jail and a $500 fine. and it is worth keeping that context in mind when you also remember the case of crystal mason. we ...

Off of voting rolls and to in many ways orchestrate a way to go back to states rights on voting, which the supreme court decision led to doing. >> the roberts court several years ago said the civil rights laws needed to be updated and congress needed to update those laws. jon lewis drafted a bill, right now hr-4, much more likely to pass than hr-1, which many democrats said will never pass in its current form and i know theres negotiating going on to figure out what version of that bill can pass...

On friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the wile in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters. in addition to that, this saturday, today, there are several members on the local election boards that are being taken off the boards for no...

Impactful as some of its critics had claimed. what have you seen in the last few months? >> let me say what weve seen even in the last week. on friday, the republican secretary of state announced that he was going to purge over 100,000 voters from the voting rolls in georgia, which is one of the things that we have been talking about all the while in the last few months, in the last few years. that has been just an overly egregious way to purge the list and to minimize the impact on black voters...