>> that is absolutely right. you won't have a democratic nominee win the presidency in future years if the voter compression laws pass. in addition to maketing harder for people to vote and clear harder for black americans to vote, in texas for those with disabilities, for those who live in big cities. they are also now reserving the right to overturn elections. there goes your opportunity to win texas, to win georgia again, win arizona. to win iowa. this is literally happening across the country. and just what gets me, lawrence, is that the republicans are so focused on getting this done and it sometimes feels like democrats are, you know, blindly seeking some kind of compromise from a party that hoisted this insurrection upon us in the first place, trying to suppress the vote across the country, and is really dragging down democracy with it. we've got to stand for something. if as americans we don't stand for this democracy, that men and