Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid out in apocalyptic terms the gravity of the threat to American democracy from Republican efforts to reform and rewrite state election laws. We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War. The Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on Jan. 6.
Biden is inviting a comparison of what he faces with what Abraham Lincoln faced when he took office in 1861 with seven Southern states having voted to secede and Fort Sumter a month away.
The Republican threat to our democracy, implied Biden, is mortal.
Texas House Speaker says he ll charter a plane back to Austin for Democrats who fled to Washington to stop Republicans passing election legislation
Dade Phelan, the Speaker of the House in Texas, will keep a charter plane on standby in Washington, DC on Saturday so Democrats can return home
Phelan on Wednesday demanded that the runaway Democrats forfeit their $221-a-day allowance
The 58 representatives and nine senators now in Washington are receiving a total of $14,807 per day
Chris Turner, one of the 58 representatives, said he expects most of his colleagues to turn down the cash when it is processed at the end of the month
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Ohio Capital Journal
A witness testifies Monday in the Texas Senate Chamber against a bill limiting transgender participation in school sports. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and other Republicans are sending state troopers to the Texas border as Texas is roiled by extreme partisanship. Experts say there s no evidence of increased criminal activity by undocumented immigrants in Texas.
-Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal
AUSTIN Texas’s mammoth Capitol seemed particularly cavernous this past Monday.
After a series of bitter all-night hearings over the hottest political issues, the bustle of a heated special session had been replaced within 24 hours by small groups of tourists ambling through the pink granite building which, in true Texas fashion, stands 15 feet taller than the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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