heritage foundation. here is how it works. the heritage foundation writes the policy and the heritage foundation action fund is sent out like a door to door salesperson selling the legislation to state legislators, a bill in a box. don t just take my word for it. mother jones has receipts. earlier this year it report in a private meeting with big money donors and a group boasted her outfit crafted the new voter suppression laws in georgia and was doing the same thing with similar bills for republican state legislators across the country. in some cases, quote, we actually draft the bill for them she said or we have seminole on our behalf that gives legislation so it feels grass roots from the bottom up. they funded the insurrection on january 6th to show doubt in the electoral system. right after the rioters, cnbc
he doesn t have to declare the money he s raising. i m afraid the answer might be yes and the reason is because republicans are setting things up so that it s possible if he does run he can t lose. i think that s one of the reasons we re seeing so many hundreds of voter suppression legislation being passed or trying to be passed through state legislators. he s a coward. the only way he would run is if he knew he couldn t lose and he has a lot at stake here. he needs the powers and protections of the oval office to keep him out of legal and criminal trouble. how about another potential trump presidential run? how would that affect given your book our nation s healing? and the fact he keeps teasing it, does that impact our ability to heal? it does. the best thing would be for him
the democracy itself is the framework in which all of the arguments about climate change, about health care, about taxes takes place. and in fact, congressman o rourke, that was exactly the point that bishop barber was making a moment ago, wasn t it? absolutely. and i ve got to tell you, i don t know that there will be a we get voting rights legislation passed in 2021, because you simply will not have free and fair elections in georgia or florida or texas, or more than a dozen other states that have already passed voter suppression legislation. so for the sake of our democracy, more than for any one party, we need to get this passed. and we need the president, to bishop barber s point, to make this his number one, undying, unyielding focus. it s the only way lbj got five voting rights act. it s exactly how president biden will get through the 2021 for the people act.
vote is 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. and for the first time they were able to to do it in 2020. the voter suppression legislation would cancel 24-hour voting, drive-through voting, it would make it harder to vote by mail and it would intimate voters at the polling place because watchers would be given free rein to do that. republicans, democrats as well are trying to get us back to one person, one vote, the bedrock, fundamental principle of our democracy. alicia, yes, it is urgent in texas. this is front lines in the fight. it is harder to vote here in texas than in any other state in the union. and so if we re going to get the right to vote back, let us lead it here in texas better than any other place. and again, thanks to reverend harris and bishop barper and the poor people s pain and centering it on the impact of people who will be telling their stories
yes. i mean from the very beginning during the regular session when it started in january i mean it became clear to me and many of my fellow colleagues in the texas house republican leadership would attempt to pass some sort of harmful voter suppression legislation. that was based on the big lie, that somehow donald trump actually won the election in 2020. and when we spoke up about it we were dismissed, we were disrespected. and they re not even denying their intention here anymore. texas republicans are pushing this narrative even further. also they can get an endorsement from the former disgraced president for their primary races. so this is all what it is. they re putting politics over the people. it s very strange, representative johnson, because the things that they are imposing, the things you have all left to prevent from being passed, again, are problems that were not problems in the election. so when we talk about 24-hour