the senate, 421-3 in the house. so something has happened to the republican party in which they now consider voting an evil and preclearance, you know, which is designed to facilitate voting, an evil as well. >> the virginia result with republican turnout what it was, with voting rights expanded in the state, you would think in the logical fact-based world it might create some pause, but we don't live in a logical fact-based world. i want to ask you about texas. justice department is involved, obviously, in suing texas over the near total ban on abortion. now they've sued over their voting access, voting restriction violations. what do you think inside -- i mean, how much sort of space does texas take up inside doj? >> well, it's, you know, everything's bigger in texas. it has an outsized, you know, hold over the justice department right now. i don't think the justice department has anything in for texas or anything like that. it's just texas is making a bunch of really crazy decisions right now, and i think the