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Senators said now that the headache has been removed and based on that they passed the worst voter suppression law and the worst gerrymandering we had seen, it took us four years, 1200 arrests to beat them. they spent $6 million of state money to try to defend retrogression. this is very serious business and it's easy to do particularly because we don't have preclearance. the house has to stand strong and say no infrastructure bill until we protect the infrastructure of our democracy, which is voting rights, and the infrastructure of our daily lives, which is living wages and progressives, whi...

District lines before the 2022 midterm elections even take place. joining me now is jasmine crockett of texas, and reverend dr. william barber, cochair of the people's campaign and the president of the repairers of the breach. thank you so much both for joining me today. i want to start with you, reverend barber. because one of the challenges that we've had is that there seems to be a stalemate right now in passing the for the people's act, but this can have dire consequence if we allow republican-controlled statehouses to draw up a lot of these district lines as i mentioned before. can you sp...

But as you mentioned, there's a profound need to pass and modernize voting rights and enforcement. the voting right acts, one of the greatest achievements in history by republican party and by the supreme court of both section five which provided for preclearance and section two, which enabled the courts to attend voting rights. history tells us that preclearance is the most powerful tool we have for protecting voting rights. from 1965 to 2006, the government prevented 1200 voting restrictions from taking effect. >> thank you for joining us. next, after two decades of progress in afghanistan, ...

Provision in the 2013 ruling, it could take lawsuits in years to force redrawingal districts, diluting voting power of minority communities. aaron haines suggestion i read, no the all of it, some voting rights act. you know, this -- this -- plank or pillar of it that preclearance ensured oversight of stats with history of discrimination made me wonder if we need a new voting rights act for state with a history of disinformation? where you have republicans admitting to passing laws to enhance competence in the vote when there was no fraud. maybe take all the state that passed voter restrictions...

Be paying attention to? and she had that's almost impossible one because of redistricting. and two, once the districts are redrawn democrats stand to lose ten seats in the house before a vote is even cast. so how do you go up against those two twin tidal waves? >> well, you know, first of all let me just say we've got to put the guardrails back up on the voting rights act. i don't think there's any question about that. i'm from a state that was under section 5 that was under preclearance, and it's one of the reasons why the democrats have the amount of seats that they have in texas right now. ...