they blocked it. that was what happened in may of this year. right away the republican governor of texas promised he would haul the legislature right on back.r. he said he would call a special legislative session specifically so republicans could put their w voter restriction bill back on the docket, and this time they d get it to the governor s desk so he could sign it. that is the session we are in right now. it is the special session. and minus a few small changes, the bill republicans put forward in this new session, for all intents and purposes, is the same bill they tried to pass this spring even though they were foiled by that late tactical maneuver by the democrats. this bill they re moving to pass right now in texas would ban drive through voting. it would ban voting in the overnight hours. it would restrict voting by mail. it would restrict absentee voting, things that would make it harder for working people and the disabled among others to vote. texas already has very low vo
personal circumstances might manifest as sort of signs of strain in the former president s public pronouncements. but for whatever reason, while these signs of strain are very evident in him, as he is getting more unhinged and definitely more radical in his claims both about the country and his proposed prescriptions for what the country ought to do about the things he says are wrong, i mean, he is demanding that the republican party purge those who betrayed him. he demanded today that michigan republican state senators who debunked the lies about the michigan election being stolen, those michigan republicans must all be primaried out of office as he praises the january 6th capitol attackers and each new day makes up whole new, brand-new lies about the election that he can t even keep straight while he is saying them. as he is going around the bend a little bit right now for
because those are the home states of two conservative democratic senators, kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, in whose hands the fate of a national voting rights bill effectively sits. texas democrats hope that might pressure those two u.s. senators to change their minds about passing voting rights at the federal level.thde af bipehe because without federal protections, texas republicans are going to do what they re going to do here. ultimately apparently the texasa democrats felt like that might be too risky going to arizona or west virginia, given that both of those states have republican governors. r they worried that those red state governors might somehow help texas republicans force the democrats back into texas to re-establish the quorum. that is the drama we re dealing
democratic amendments were voted down by all of the republicans. republicans did not listen to the arguments against the bill, to what most of their constituents were telling them. in both the texas house and the senate the republican bill that will make it harder to vote in texas was voted out of committee on pure party lines. a full vote in the house and the senate will be scheduled sometime later this week and will then be sent to the governor for his signature.tu bo and so democrats are trying onef more thing. that s where the planes to washington, d.c., tonight come in. those 50 plus democrats have bolted from texas as an effort to once again deny republicans a quorum, deny them the luro opportunity to pass this voter suppression bill, by basically pulling out the last stop that they have. now, this is a little different than we saw back in may. last time democrats staged that walkout two hours before the end of a legislative session. there wasn t any time to round them up and for