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Disclosure. here s the hypocrisy. no one is questioning the rights. if they wane to say we are for pollution, we are for disinformation and we are lying to the american public, he has a right to do that. they re acting as if they re for green energy. right. they have had an election where they re sustainable. people who believe in sustainability on their board of directors. i think change is coming. this is a home we re going to hold them accountable. and even if they killed the planet, they just want their cash. i d sad and it s wicked. before we go to break. we have an update on the crisis in haiti. six people were arrested in connection with the president. several media outfits siting media reported that one of them was an american citizen. the state department couldn t confirm that yet. seven other individuals were killed in a gunshot with police. ....
Restricting the rights of texans voting rights in particular. greg abbott laid out 11 issues he wants to prioritize. among them, so-called election integrity, aka voter suppression. border security. addressing alleged social media censorship, and you guessed it, critical race theory. also, bail reform, restrictions on abortion drugs, and banning transgender athletes from competing in high school sports because that s a top priority for texas. notably not included in the right-wing red meat dinner plate, doing anything whatsoever about the power grid, the one that failed millions of texans during a freak winter storm, and then texans were asked to conserve electricity during a heat wave last month, butnic about that. at a news conference with activists from black voters matter, the chair of the caucus spelled out what s really on greg abbott s agenda. we have a problem keeping the lights on in the state, we learned this year. that s what greg abbott ought to ....
Conference after you met with the president, but give us a review for those who didn t see it. what came out of that meeting, what were the demands and the action plan that came out? well, the president met with eight of us of the national civil rights organizations, and it was scheduled for an hour. we met an hour and 40 minutes. basically, to tell him that after the supreme court decision of last week, that we are returning back to a state s rights kind of election system. where in effect it would be arizona s decision in supreme court gate, they re saying states had the right to decide on what election process they were going to use as long as people could vote even if it caused people a little inconvenience, they could vote anyhow. and we intended to fight to make sure senate bill 1 and the john lewis bill passed and we were going to do it by building a movement from the ground. ....
The demands they took in. they told the white house folks are frustrated. do you understand why they seem to so calmly be walking into this? they too will not be able i don t know inthey get they cannot win re-election if they re banned from winning re-election. even if they get the numbers, they ll say no, we erase this off the books. do you think they get it? what do you want to see them do differently? not only do i think it s getting arth black voters. i think there s a larger question here. will we have a real democracy? will democracy be real in this nation when we re talking about voting rights. are we going to protect the rights of citizens to vote for whomever they please. i would like to see, one, an immediate end to the filibuster. we knout what it s holding up, legislation. we know that has been a tool that has been used traditionally to stop civil rights legislation. two, i would like to see the administration do everything in its power to pass for the people act. we n ....
Country that folks are frustrated and they want to see a good fight. and i think they heard us on that, and whatever way they can fight from the white house, they need to do that. and it didn t just start. activism, we have been pushing this, now, the reverend talked about last week, it just took it to a whole other level. for black women who are the secret sauce to democrats winning anything in this country, we re coming together. with all of our civil rights colleagues and allies and others for a whole week of action next week. we re going on capitol hill next week. when they come back, those ten republicans who voted to not even allow for there to be even a discussion sent us a message, and it was really clear. what are you going to do about it? so what we re going to do about it is do what our ancestors have taught us and what we do every day, not just us, but many others. we re going to take it to the streets and keep pushing in congress and make sure that we get the voting rights ....