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The danger especially when it comes to the issue of voting rights is if you allow this voter suppression, this point-shaving out there in state after state, including my home state of Texas, then the Joe Manchins are not going to be there…
If you`re going to come to Texas, I wish that you were coming to Texas to listen to so many people who either have been or will be impacted by these types of voter suppression bills that Republicans are putting through because there`s so…
What they`re trying to do is to make it as hard as possible for especially black and brown communities and also people with disabilities, for instance, many senior citizens as well to vote.
they see that Texas is changing. It`s the fear of the future. The demographic change... They`re afraid especially of black and brown communities voting at record levels.
That 1975 extension to language minorities was groundbreaking. And what it meant was much greater participation, particularly in Mexican-American community, Latino community there in Texas, greater election of first choice candidates from…
It makes sense to try to do things that help expand our voting privileges, our voting rights, rather than to diminish them.
Texas has a very strong, clear, consistent pattern of enacting laws that disenfranchise particularly voters of color.
Closing 750 polling locations that tended to be in areas where there are concentrations of Black and Brown voters; requiring photo ID.
Since the Shelby decision in 2013, the State has cut more polling locations than any State in the Nation.
In my home State of Texas today, there is an all-out assault on the right to vote.