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At the filibuster as a vehicle that actually stops progressive legislation. a filibuster that is actually standing in the way of voting rights. so there is a solution. we need the senate to act now. i don't know why they went on recess right when people -- we don't have our voting rights secured right now in the state of georgia. there are 100,000 of voters that have just been dropped from the voting rolls. we're seeing people get kicked off. election officials in fulton count where the republican secretary of state is threatening to take over fulton county, the largest county in the state of ...

For the people in the john lewis voter advancement act, because we're seeing this kind of ongoing effort to remove black voters, voters of color and democratic-leaning voters from the voting rolls in georgia. >> i've lost my confidence in congress. i don't know if we're going to get the for the people act passed in a stringent enough way that it affects this level of voter suppression. so you led a campaign going after the private sector. is that something that could be revisited? and for the folks sitting at home who are so frustrated by this, what is something that we can collectively do to ...

I have a feeling they look like you and me. >> you know, it is a consistent concerted effort to get people of color off the ballot. when you look at this list of 185,000 people, 44% of those folks are folks of color. when you look at the black folks actually in the state of georgia, we're 32% of the population, but year overrepresented, 44%, overrepresented in the purge list. so this is a tactic that is specifically designed to be able to marginalize and take black voters off the list. when we're talking about why we need voting rights legislation right now, it's because not just for the futur...

They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they don't like what the opposition says, they don't like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people their voting rights. what we are doing as you pointed out. we are making sure we remove dead peopl...

They get paid by the taxpayer. and for a regular hard working person in texas, the so-called leaders just leave when things get tough or they don't like what the opposition says, they don't like that. i agree with you, they will pay for that. have you heard any specific objection from the fleeing democrats that say in this bill this does x, y or z to restrict voting? >> they have no specific objection. they make the same objection you orparticular hated in your opening statement. it denies people their voting rights. what we are doing as you pointed out. we are making sure we remove dead peopl...