Texas Democrats see walkout as the way out of party slump
PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press
July 18, 2021
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1of6FILE - In this July 13, 2021, file photo Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson, dean of the Texas House of Representatives, speaks as Democratic members of the Texas legislature hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. Texas Democrats are starting a second week of holing up in Washington to block new voting laws back home. More than 50 Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives had plans Monday to continue on a media blitz in the nation s capital and pressure Congress to act on federal voting rights.J. Scott Applewhite/APShow MoreShow Less
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The Battle Over State Voting Rights Is About the Future of Texas
The current skirmish is the latest in a tug of war being waged between the state’s increasingly Democratic cities and its deeply conservative rural areas.
Protesters supported voting rights outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Tuesday.Credit.Eric Gay/Associated Press
July 14, 2021
HOUSTON The flight of Texas Democrats to Washington, a last-ditch effort this week to stop Republicans from passing new statewide voting rules, is perhaps the most dramatic illustration of a broad national fight over access to the ballot.
But it is something more than that in Texas. The battle over voting rights is also the latest in a tug of war over the future of what it means to be Texan, one being waged between the state’s rapidly diversifying and increasingly Democratic cities and its deeply conservative rural areas, which wield overwhelming power in the State Capitol.