time talking about during our election coverage in 2020 are also moving bills that are similarly restrictive and sweeping. places like michigan, pennsylvania, arizona, all of those places are now trying to look at what worked for democrats in 2020 and then trying to target and restrict that. a lot of this, too, and it has to be mentioned, is steeped in the nationalization of politics when it comes to how former president trump lied out right about what was happening on the ground, alleging fraud that did not exist. and now republicans and legislatures across the country are saying we need to shore up an election system that was secure in 2020, but they re continuing to lay the seeds of doubt about. nbc s ali vitali, thank you very much for your reporting on this tonight and for joining us. really appreciate it. yeah. and let s take a look at what state representative jessica gonzalez said about this. it is a sweeping piece of
nor the house version, complete new language i believe given to the conferrees that might at midnight. we did not have an opportunity to even have a public hearing on it in committee. it s really going around the process. but that really shows the intent by them adding that provision, it basically allows to you overturn an election without having to prove evidence of fraud. so again, that shows their clear intent behind what they re trying to accomplish. it s all based around the big lie. democratic texas state representative jessica gonzalez, thank you very much for joining us tonight, really appreciate it. thank you for having me. joining now, latosha brown, cofounder of the black voters matter fund and 0 copresident of vote latino, msnbc contributor. we see it again, manage to come
spoke in front of a baptist church in austin. one of the last-minute additions to the bill would be to allow early voting sundays only from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. democratic texas state congresswoman gonzalez vice chair of the elections committee said this. when this bill came to the floor we thought we were going to have a serious, real conversation. because this bill affects every single person in state of texas, including republicans. and we were told time and time again the secretary of state that elections were safe and secure. so this is just a witch hunt. aimed at people of color. we re going back centuries. leading off our discussion this hour, democratic state representative jessica gonzalez, whose district includes parts of
legislation that we that was negotiated behind closed doors from the get-go as being a member on the elections committee, we were silent, as especially the democratic women on the committee, we were silenced, witnesses were silenced. there has been dishonest broker in the entire process. representative gonzalez will join us later in the program. joining us now is elizabeth drew. her latest piece in project is titled the big lie and its consequences. and elizabeth, i just want to read this passage to the audience to set up this discussion. you write in this article, by demonstrating craven loyalty to donald trump despite his lies about the 2020 election, the republican party is no longer simply playing for the base, by questioning the very integrity of america s electoral system it now represents an open threat to
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