Ballot box in texas. Women! isn t that a great flier? look at that. Women, the eyes of texas are upon you. Have you paid that poll tax? poll taxes were still a thing back then. And, again, this was for voting in a primary, not in a general election, but this was texas in 1918, and texas for all intents and purposes was a oneparty state. It was controlled by the southern democrats, a very different party from the democratic party as we know it today. The southern democrats basically won all the elections in texas back then, so voting in the primary was basically like voting in the general. Whoever won the southern democrats primary was basically guaranteed to win the general election too. So it was a big deal. When texas, ahead of the united states as a whole, texas welcomed women to the ballot box in 1918 to vote in state primaries. Except there was a hitch, a really, really big hitch. This is christyia adair. Back in 1918, christyia adair was 25 years old. She was a young suffragist l
The ballots boxes in texas. Women, the eyes of texas are upon you, have you paid that pull tax? pull taxes were so thin back then. Again, this was for voting in a primary, not in a general election, but this was texas in 1919. And texas was a one party state, it was controlled by the southern democrats, very different party from the democratic party we know today. The southern democrats won all of the elections in texas back then. Voting in the primary was basically like voting in the general, whoever won the southern democrats primary was basically guaranteed to win the general election to, so it was a big deal. When texas, ahead of the united states as a hold, texas welcome women to the ballot box in 1918 to vote in primaries. Except there was a hitch, a really big hitch. This is chrystia era, back in 1980 she was 25 years old, she was a young suffragist living in texas when the state granted women the right to vote, and so the day that first primary, when texas women could turn in a
covid response team and state governors and the president acknowledged that the administration has not done enough to make covid tests available. we re going to have a lot more on all of that tonight. also, we re going to have a few bits of good news for the white house as this year winds down. plus, we even have some news from outer space. yeah, outer space. but we begin tonight with the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol and what is shaping up to be a very busy start to the new year for the congressional committee that is actually carrying it out. now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio. leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 20
call between his white house covid response team and state governors and the president acknowledged that the administration has not done enough to make covid tests available. we re going to have a lot more on all of that tonight. also, we re going to have a few bits of good news for the white house as this year winds down. plus, we even have some news from outer space. yeah, outer space. but we begin tonight with the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol and what is shaping up to be a very busy start to the new year for the congressional committee that is actually carrying it out. now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio. leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved
now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow ts members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio.anbl leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and, in fact, keep president trump in power. now, we also learned just before christmas that the committee had subpoenaed the bank records of at least one trump campaign official.soma the bank subpoena was actually b revealed in a desperate christmas eve lawsuit filed by donald trump s spokesman trying to block the committee from getting his financial records. that lawsuit also revealed that trump s spokesman has been cooperating with the investigation, handing over in 1,700 pages of documents and testifying for four hours.ge but the committee says it