We Have an Issue: Ding-Dong, Another Brutal Legislative Session Is Behind Us
Cover photo by John Anderson The quiet, coordinated walkout of Texas House Democrats on Sunday night may have lacked the theatricality of Sen. Wendy Davis' 13-hour filibuster or the cloak-and-dagger panache of the Killer Bees' and Killer D's flights from the Texas Capitol. Nonetheless, it marked a heroic and meaningful thwarting of Gov. Greg Abbott and his Republican toadies' efforts to restrict voting access across the state. Why are these Trump acolytes, here and across the nation, going to such extremes to whittle away at voting rights, one of the founding tenets of our d...
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