it for weeks, it suspended fda approval of mifepristone, th drug that, as you know, ha been safely used for more than 20 years, has become the mos common method for terminatin pregnancies in this country. within an hour, another federa judge in washington state, contradicted that ruling ordering the fda to keep the drug available at 17 states in d.c. president biden last night condemning the texas route calling it, quote, the next bi step before the national ban o abortion by republican elected officials have vowed to make a lot america. vice president kamala harris committed to fighting back there is no question, president and i are gonna stan with the women of america, and do everything we can to ensure that women have the ability to make decisions about their health care, their reproductiv health care, in a manner tha is what they need, and the decide that, not their government the drug will continue to b available for now, since the texas judge gave the fda seven days
saying they want gun safet legislation enacted. here s the thing, i think yo can look at all of these polic issues and they all time back to th bigger questions of democrac and reform, includin gerrymandering, which yo referenced, you wouldn t b sitting here having this conversation in the same way if there were not these larger forces at play, making sur that the voices of a minorit appeared as a voice of the majority and i wonder, for you, a someone who does the work of both understanding thi electorate, but also engagin this electorate, such that the don t decide hey, i m gonna si this one out because that s always th concern. if people come to the plac where they feel disenfranchise from their democracy, if the feel ignored, that then, instead of showing up twice as hard, they begin to slink away i wonder how you think about that complicated push and pull well, we re looking at it i relationship to two differen factors. one, factor, how is it tha
for the journals tennessee state representative, justin jones defending his decision to join his constituents in protesting gun violence this week the republican-controlled hous leader expelled jones, representative justin pearson, for participating. states gop did not just kick t people out of the chamber. they disenfranchised more than 130,000 tennessean s, who pu jones and pierson in office. the white house calls th tennessee gop s move undemocratic they understood the importance, these three. of standing, to say that peopl will not be silenced to say that a democracy, hears the cries, here is the police, hears the demands, of it people who say that children should b able to live and be safe and g to school and not be in fear
underscore to our 4 millio members, and activists acros the country, eight out of te americans were with us o abortion rights, now more than ever is the time to ge organized. we are on the ground we are mobilizing activists. we are doing information trainings on medicatio abortion right now, across the country, as we speak we think that s gonna be tremendously mobilizing, alicia, because we know medication abortion is actually mor popular than even abortion even 49% of republicans ar supportive of giving medicatio abortion legal the republican party, folk like ron desantis, they better wake up to that. we re not counting on them t wake up on, it we re countin on our members to mobilize and get out the vote next year and this year. mini timmaraju, as always thank you so much for bein with us. next, days after public and le state legislature expelled t young black democrats, we look at the five alarm fire for democracy that is happening in tennessee. and our next hour, californi congre
to change the laws after a major, and very painful, schoo shooting occurred in their community. all three of those legislators have the experience of havin lost someone or having been caught up in situation of a school shooting at the expense of their safety and quite frankly, i can say for sure, across the country the sentiments are growing, gu control needs to be addressed. but they re also growing, that democracy is deteriorating before our eyes. from the disenfranchisement of black voters in particular across the nation, and certainly here in tennessee, t just black voters deeply feeling like we show up, w participate, and our voices ar not being heard. this is something very important for us to be takin into account absolutely, i would pull up some polling from th organization it shows that gun violence is top issue for black voters across this country, with 44