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...