clarion call? that is the beautiful story in this film shouting down midnight, ali, it s not the story of not of me, it s a story of young women who got activated that day and have gone on to do incredible things. and they are just a microcosm, the young women across our state and across this country who have seized their power, owned their voices and begun to move into the policy arena in a really profound way. and the film at the end of the day is really a story of hope, a really a story of what can happen, the ripple effects that we can make when we stand up and fight against an injustice and what those ripple effects can do moving forward. and i am certainly encouraged by what i see from young women across our state and across this country today, and i m
overturning accused constitutional right that existed for almost 50 years was a shock to many, perhaps not to people who live in red states. they ve endured republican pushing extremist jen is four years, watch extremism seep into the republican agenda for years. for example, a decade ago, texas democrats led by state senator wendy davis in her famous filibuster or fighting an onslaught of anti-abortion bills by texas republicans. at the, time it was perhaps viewed in the national media, well everything is crazier in texas especially conservative politics. well, tonight we know that what was happening then in texas was a canary in a coal mine. new nbc film, shutting down midnight, revisits the 2013 fighting its abortion, culminating in senator wendy davis s filibuster in a post-roe world. have a look. when i was elected to the
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Trevor Noah wants to make the filibuster and the disruption of legislative proceedings great again. Now that he is set to leave The Daily Show, Noah has signed on to be the executive producer of a series of MSNBC documentaries entitled The Turning Point, the first of which is about former Texas State Senator Wendy Davis called Shouting Down Midnight and on Thursday, Noah was on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote it.