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Transcripts For MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20240710

In areas with low vaccination rates. I m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Let us begin tonight with two stories that say a lot about who we are as a country and where we might be going. In charlottesville, virginia, crews removed three statues today. Among them were monuments to confederate generals robert e. Lee and stonewall jackson. Charlottesville had planned to remove them nearly four years ago. White supremacists and neonazis marched in protest and that led to violent clashes that turned deadly. It was one of america s first looks at extremism during donald trump s presidency. Meanwhile in austin, texas, we re monitoring a special session of the state legislature that began this morning and continues into the night. It s happening right now. It is the next phase in the republican party s push for new rules on voting. Texas has become a battleground state in the fight for voting rights. According to the brennan center for justice, nearly every state has introduced restrictive

Transcripts For MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20240710

To violent clashes that turned deadly. It was one of america s first looks at extremism during donald trump s presidency. Meanwhile in austin, texas, we re monitoring a special session of the state legislature that began this morning and continues into the night. It s happening right now. It is the next phase in the republican party s push for new rules on voting. Texas has become a battleground state in the fight for voting rights. According to the brennan center for justice, nearly every state has introduced restrictive bills. More than 380 bills in all across the country. This is largely driven by the former president s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Those claims led to another outburst of extremist violence at the capitol on january 6th. The bills under consideration tonight in texas are house bill 3 and senate bill 1. They re similar to legislation that got blocked in may. Democrats staged a latenight walkout forcing the legislature to adjourn before the bills could pa

Transcripts For MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson 20240710

The chairman of san francisco s leathermen s discussion group joins us live. And lgbtq history goes back a lot further than you might think. Our producer brings us the latest research on people like alexander the great and william shakespeare. From nbc news in washington, i m joshua johnson, welcome to the week. This week brought some big developments in the fight over voting rights. Yesterday, the doj announced that it is suing the state of georgia over restrictive new voting laws passed there. This as the biden administration s first major move against numerous republicansupported laws. Critics say they re designed to make it harder to vote. The lawsuit comes just days after democrats in congress failed to advance the for the people act. Attorney general merrick garland called on congress to do more. Our complaint alleges that recent changes to georgia s election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging black georgians to vote on account of their race or color. We a

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Remembering Southeast Texas Olympic athletes

The Sports Legends Gallery at the Museum of the Gulf Coast features more than 75 area athletes.