fight because this is -- this is really the cornerstone of our republic and we can't let it be chipped away for political gain. >> i was talking to somebody the other day about the kind of things that are changing for people and why they're undemocratic. they said, why would any of these things be racist, none of them are actually targeting people of color or black people. i was talking to dr. hildago the other day. you are in a different county, but in harris county there are examples of places of people of color who live in a particular area and there's no voting around them. they've reduced the number of polling stations, so they now have to travel some distance to vote in another part of the district, sometimes some distance away in a situation where they may be working, there are maybe now longer hours because there are fewer places to vote. these are things tacitly meant to discourage or make harder on the ability to vote. on the surface, nobody is