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No business leader can deny the Texas GOPs plan to restrict access to the polls.

One of the top Republican negotiators behind a failed Texas voting bill said it would...

Texas Gov. Threatens Paychecks After Democrats Walk Out to Block Voter Suppression Bill If passed, the new Texas election laws would severely restrict access to the ballot Peter Wade, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In a last-ditch effort to prevent a restrictive voting bill from being passed in the state legislature, Texas Democrats walked out of the statehouse around midnight Sunday night before a final vote could be held. By walking out on the vote on Senate Bill 7 (S.B. 7), Democrats prevented a quorum, which is required before calling a vote. If passed, S.B. 7 would severely suppress t...

How Republican stalling helped Democrats defeat the Texas voting bill FacebookTwitterEmail House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, emerges from a closed-door meeting with Democratic members of the Texas House before the start of the debate of Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol on Sunday May 30, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)Jay Janner, MBR / Associated Press While Texas Democrats killed the GOP’s massive election bill in a dramatic midnight flurry, Republicans helped sow the seeds of their own defeat days — e...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of...