passing similar kind of bills all at the same time, things like voting rights restrictions, changing polling locations or hours of balloting methods which disenfranchise voters or critical race theory bans that outlaw phrases or books or concepts in schools, and part of this is due to the, you know, natural ebb and flow of political movements, things become hot issues, but then there's this centralized organization called alec, the american legislative exchange council where legislators get together, craft legislation, and pass it around to consider introducing in their own states n. an amazing new turn chronicled in the new republic, the next frontier for this group is taking language of the critical race theory bans as well as the model of very constitutionally dubious laws passed to stop private entities from any boycotts of israel, mix them together and turn the legislation against any company to move away from fossil fuels,