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In the country and democrats say this was just the latest attempt at voter suppression. >> we used all the tools in our toolbox to fight this. tonight we pulled out that last one. and wes you'd -- we used what the rulebook allows. we are no longer going stand and allow them to continue to push measures that disenfranchise our voters. >> these men and women behind us, the democratic members not here, they're in with this fight day in and day out that have shown incredible resolve and have never blinked in our elect opposition to the harmful vote suppression measures that texas republicans conti...

They don't want you to know how they don't want to see you at the polls. they don't want you to know you have rights. >> now the measure would have made mail in voting harolder in texas. it also would have banned the after hours and drive through options that black and latino voters used to cast ballots in 2020 and ended early voting on sundays before 1:00 p.m., limiting the afterchurch get out the vote efforts popular with black congregations there. a source tells cnn house democratic caucus chairman sent a text to all members that read, devote, "take your key and leave the chamber discreetly...

About it. we're going to stop trying to pass vote suppression measures based upon a lie. and clearly, the governors in other states have been unable to do that. maybe governor abbott would reach that realization here in texas. if he doesn't and he calls a special session to pass the vote suppression legislation, we're going to fight him every step of the way, we're going to fight republicans every step of the way and do whatever it takes to continue to stop, slow down, and mitigate this legislation. >> representative, some experts on voting rights and civil rights say that the assault on votin...

Part of you that wished you were on stage because you had experience with this issue? >> thank you, reverend al, first of all, for having me and for the question. i was proud of senator klobuchar for raising this issue. you know, it's beginning to appear that republicans don't think they can win anything without cheating. you look at the vote suppression, you look at the purging purging, you look at the effort to undo the voting rights act and their success at that in the supreme court. you look at the way they are awash in dark money and how they've used -- how they've used that. and now we h...

Called who counts. this is a project that you're asking readers to support, to look at who is underrepresented when it comes to voting. what are you all trying to explore? >> i think that we're just responding to the fact that we and other media entities try to do the thing where we wait until the week before an election to say, oh, wow, polling places are shutting? what's going on? vote suppression is happening? folks can't get their i.d.s? we want to start a year out and ask readers to help us understand, gerrymandering, vote suppression, the census case. all the ways in which -- again, you ...