The seventh-generation Texan is roaming the state in her van, registering voters and digging into her family's history in the long struggle for voting rights.
Texas' SB 1 led to a massive rejection of mail ballots during the state's primary elections earlier this year. It's leading to the voter suppression experts warned it would.
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