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This issue and what is needed to help turn it around. for example, next week a group of black african american women will be leading a week of action in d.c. that they hope will help give voice to the concerns of african american women and will help propel this issue to the front of people's agenda. ople's>> a summer of direct act. he was speaking one week ago today here on the show, talking of a summer of direct action led by, he said last week, next week, a group of african-american women leading a week of action in d.c.. the courts are increasingly closed to the american public on this issu...

Democrats who met with conservative democratic senator joe manchin today. fascinating the confrontation between him being the man who is stopping progress on voting rights in america, and the texas democrats who have left their homes and their jobs and come to washington to beg for his help. he came out of that meeting with the texas democrats today saying it was a good meeting, informative. he said they were all in complete agreement that action must be taken in washington to protect voting rights. he then said that every senator, democrat and republican should vote. should vote for voting ri...

Legal protections for voting, even for voting restrictions that admittedly only go after minority voters. the courts effectively closing themselves off to hearing voting rights cases or vindicating people who had been victimized by restrictions on their voting rights. unified republican opposition in washington to passing anything to bolster voting rights at all, and democrats who can't figure out a way to pass voting rights protections without republicans. even though a little unity and a single change in the senate rules is all democrats would need to be able to do it. so i said to wade hend...

As that desperate future gets closer, and closer, and as the normal paths around it seem to be coming to dead ends, we are now seeing the face, in this fight, where the people who care the most about it are willing to do the most about it, are creating brand-new paths to make progress possible. they're using direct action to do it. we're seeing that at scale with the democrats from the texas legislature all walking out and flying to washington this week. they're gonna be in washington for weeks, away from their homes, from their families. all to deny a quorum back home to slow down with the re...

Wade henderson from the leadership conference on civil and human rights. i asked mr. henderson basically, why he didn't feel more despair about voting rights right now. i mean, republicans succeeding with all these new anti-voting rights restrictions all across the country. the courts with the conservative majority in the u.s. supreme court leading the way, stripping legal protections for voting, even for voting restrictions that admittedly only go after minority voters. the courts effectively closing themselves off to hearing voting rights cases or vindicating people who had been victimized b...