, free, free, free, free the tennessee free you are fascists! you banned books, you banne rag, kids are still in bod bags [crowd chanting] you banned books, you banned, rag kids are still in body bags that was the scene at th tennessee capitol earlie today. republicans in the state legislator voted to expel tw democratic representatives fro the tennessee house. they voted to kick to democrat out of office. it was an unprecedented and it was a drastic move and it al started last week. that is when hundreds of schoo students came to the tennessee capital to call for new gu safety measures after a shoote opened fire at an elementary school in nashville. killing three 9 year old students and three adults. during that protests, a handfu of democratic law minister before the house chamber they had megaphones and they weren t shy about standing i solidarity with the protesters outside which was apparently a violation of the rules of th chamber. republicans pounced. they didn
of the last seven years or so of coverage but we are glad to have you in the seat. thank you to all of you for joining us here at home. this is what it sounded like at the chamber of the tennessee house of representatives you ban books, you ban drag, kids are still in body bags. that was the scene at the tennessee capitol earlier today. republicans in the state legislature voted to expel two democratic house of representatives from the tennessee house. they voted to kick two democrats out of office. it was an unprecedented, and it was a drastic move, and it all started last week. that is when hundreds of school students came to the tennessee capitol to call for new gun safety measures after a shooting opened fire at an elementary school in nashville killing three 9-year-old students and three adults during that protest, a handful of democratic lawmakers stood before the house chamber they had megaphones and they were not shy about standing in solidarity with the protester
country people who believe i justice. and a quality to take it back. i watch that, and i think that there is a lot of peopl in this country who will fee incensed, impassioned, angry and motivated. if the point of all of this wa to silence the man of color, the women of color, bu progressives, the equity folks who dare raise their hand an hold the megaphone they have another thing coming to them. it really feels like this is a inflection point a signal moment for people who care, not just about gun safety, not just about representatives democracy, but about the big future of the american project this is a big deal, and to try and pretend it s anythin otherwise, or that people ar paying attention is foolish. completely foolish but agai
safety, the representative democracy, but sort of the big future of the american project, right? this is a big deal, and to try to pretend it s anything otherwise or people aren t paying attention to this is foolish. completely foolish, but, again, they have nothing else to go to. the only thing they can do is try to kick people out of the legislature because they have power. this is why in 2024 in states across the country in the federal level and house we have to vote these people out of office any candidate republican or democrat who doesn t want to do something on gun violence and something big like banning assault weapons, expanded background checks, training, whatever it is, we ve got to go big on this. they have to be voted out of office i want to say one more quick thing. i want to see the memphis grazelies grazelies grisly refuse to play an nba game because of what happened today