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To participate in the electoral process is critical. and why the recent supreme court decision and allen versus milligan is another monumental development. that we must discuss. ten years after the supreme court gutted the voting rights act in shelby county v. holder, section to the voting rights act which forbids election structures that result in discrimination on the basis of race. it is the last defense voting rights advocates have. wow, despite the firing at regulations and despite what we all the assumptions folks had, the court supreme court found that alabama's voting disenfranchised b...

Representation, a fair representation. and this decision will reverberate around the nation when it comes to making sure that minority voters, african american voters in the case of alabama, that their power is not diluted. that they have an opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. that state legislators cannot redraw maps such that the candidates that are available for them to vote on our candidates that would not represent their best interests. i think this has huge implications for this nation, and like i said, it's not about me, it's not about alabama, alone and it's not about repu...

One congressional district. that is the blue portion you see on your screen. diminishing their voting power. a standing lock -- unconstitutional maps. this ruling was a surprise. why? because nearly ten -- about ten years ago, the supreme court, it was not shy about its willingness to get the voting rights act. getting section five, the section that talked about preclearance. i.e., the section that said that if states wanted to make changes to their voting laws, they needed to check in with the federal government, to make sure they weren't doing anything discriminatory. to be clear, the voting...

Of dead white guys, am i right? like washington, jefferson, lincoln. well, guess what. latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latin-tinged music] in fact, latinx heroes have fought in every war for the united states for centuries. this goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. american forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by a young venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. and then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. almost half of them were mexican-american, and that was only 13...