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Call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. when we talk about texas as a bright red state we should put an asterisk on that. texas has not always been bright red or red at all for all that long. it was only 2002 when texas republicans got control of the legislature. they've been out of power in the statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of '02, they had the legislature and this guy. republican congressman tom delay who would like it if you'd call him the hammer. tom delay would leaf con...

Maps, right, of the 2000 census. just two years later, in 2002, once republicans were in charge, tom delay decided he wanted to redraw the maps again. they'd only done them two years before but he wanted new maps drawn by the new republican majority. that would make all their seats safe, the new republican majority a permanent majority. because republicans were in the majority and democrats were in the minority, the texas democrats could not stop this surprise redistricting by tom delay and the texas republicans. at least they could not stop it in the usual way. watch what they did, though. th...

Statehouse since the end of the civil war. since reconstruction. in 2002, texas republicans took over. they already have the governorship, but as of '02, they had the legislature and this guy. republican congressman tom delay who would like it if you'd call him the hammer. tom delay would leaf congress and get convicted for money laundering. before all that, back a decade ago in texas, he was still swinging the hammer. like the rest of the country, texas had drawn up new election maps, right, of the 2000 census. just two years later, in 2002, once republicans were in charge, tom delay decided ...

Twice as unlikely to be able to cast a ballot. but then this week the law that allowed the feds to block those moves in texas, that law was gutted by the conservative majority of the supreme court. in gutting the voting rights act this week the supreme court also threw out both of those rulings about texas. so now texas is good to go with its voter i.d. law that was blocked for being too racist, and with its new election maps that were blocked for being too racist. what the republicans were doing to elections in texas before, what they were trying to do was too obviously racist to be legal. un...

Cast a ballot. but then this week the law that allowed the feds to block those moves in texas, that law was gutted by the conservative majority of the supreme court. in gutting the voting rights act this week the supreme court also threw out both of those rulings about texas. so now texas is good to go with its voter i.d. law that was blocked for being too racist, and with its new election maps that were blocked for being too racist. what the republicans were doing to elections in texas before, what they were trying to do was too obviously racist to be legal. until this week. but now it's lega...