we don t know how long it will go. we talked to her before the filibuster started. she said, this is a tool we have at our disposal and i m going to use it. house democrats are doing their part. everyone is doing their part. this is my contribution. joining us now, trey martinez-fisher, who led the effort in d.c. in an attempt to stop the bill. he s still in d.c. this evening. thank you for being with us. thank you, rachel. so, we re watching all these moving parts. we ve seen a handful of democrats leave d.c. and go back to texas. we ve seen these arrest warrants sworn out by the republican house speaker, renouncing this effort. a dramatic effort to slow down the bill in the senate. give us the lay of the land and tell us how you re doing, and
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even bring some republicans to the table. democrats say they expect a deal within days that could setup another vote before the summer recess next week. meanwhile more than 100 state legislatures from across the country are in the nation s capitol. they re joining texas democrats who spent the last three weeks in d.c. pushing members of congress to pass federal voting rights would stay out of texas until the end of the special legislative session there to block republicans from passing texas s restrictive voting bill. that session ends tomorrow. today texas governor abbott called a second special session with new agenda items starting the very next day. joining us now is texas state representative trey martinez fisher. thank you so much for spending time with us tonight. first, i want to get to the u.s. senate and the legislation there. it seems like you have really helped focus and narrow that. i want to ask you what is
washington, d.c. because just by chance if we came together we would not only get the senate to hear us, we would also get to me act. we will get them to act. that was texas state representative trey martinez fisher, today addressing a rally gathered outside the united states capitol urging congress to passion the for the people bill. the bill remains stuck in the senate. martinez-fisher is one of the democratic legislatures from texas who fled to d.c. last month in a bid to deny republicans there the quorum they need to pass the states voting restrictions laws. in today s rally in d.c., they were joined by more than 100 state legislators who traveled
they just need something. is that has that focused efforts in the senate? yes. and your first speaker you featured was trey, who i consider a friend from texas. those legislators and really legislates from across the country have come to washington, just as they did actually in the 1960s, asking for salvation. they can t get this done in their states because as reverend warnock pointed out in the clip you featured, some people don t want some people to vote. and that is really, really put in stark focus in georgia where their laws literally say the runoff period where warnock and ossoff won and republic sistered 70,000 people, they changed the law just a few months ago and said you can t register people. you can t vote on weekends during the runoff, and you can t give water from non-partisan
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