Plan to add five Republican seats to the Texas congressional map is on hold as state house Democrats keep their walk out going. For the eighth day, the Texas chamber failed to reach a quorum. They need 100.Today, they only had 97. That means Republicans do not have the votes they need to get those seats. But this isn't just happening in Texas.Republicans across the country are trying to redraw congressional maps to their advantage. In Missouri, Republicans are pushing to split the district of Emanuel Clever ...

If Ukraine begins to resemble the corrupt, autocratic system it once sought to escape, then Western politicians will find it harder to argue that the cause is worth defending https://t.co/E2X4PD20hD ...

If Ukraine begins to resemble the corrupt, autocratic system it once sought to escape, then Western politicians will find it harder to argue that the cause is worth defending https://t.co/Xq9lzLplE6 ...

If Ukraine begins to resemble the corrupt, autocratic system it once sought to escape, then Western politicians will find it harder to argue that the cause is worth defending https://t.co/MEDsoNrIv0 ...

If Ukraine begins to resemble the corrupt, autocratic system it once sought to escape, then Western politicians will find it harder to argue that the cause is worth defending https://t.co/oV5fH80mdi ...

And one of the key push backs against autocracy is protest. Because the way autocracy works, it convinces you to be silent because you're afraid of losing something. You're afraid of the consequences of lifting your voice.You're afraid that if you point out what's happening, it could come for you next. Protest is the counternarrative. It says that I see what you're doing and I believe I have not only the right but the responsibility to point out that what you are doing is. ...

NBC News obtained excerpts of remarks by former President Barack Obama to Democrats at a private DNC fundraiser that was held over the weekend. He told the group this, "I think it's going to require a little bit less naval gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions, and it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up. " Obama went on to say that he was not surprised by what President Trump has done, but that he has been surprised by Democrats who, in his words, stood for all kinds of s ...

The second season of The Atlantic's podcast entitled Autocracy in America is out now and it features discussions about what its editors describe as quote society's complacency with liberal values and how this carelessness has fueled a democratic retreat and a new belligerance among dictators. Chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative and former world chess champion, Gary Kasparov has taken the reigns from an Applebound as the new host of the program and he joins us now. It's great to have you on the show.U ...

A senator handcuffed, people snatched off the streets by masked agents, judges threatened, and the military deployed on US citizens. This is the new normal right here in the United States, even if there's nothing normal about it. It has spurred talks about the state of our democracy and where the country is headed. Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson was asked this week at an Indianapolis Bar Association event about what keeps her up at night, and here's what she said. I would say the state of our d ...

Creeping autocracy doesn't just roll onto Main Street with tanks. Though under President Donald Trump, one might argue we're closer to that sort of thing than we'd like to admit. More often, autocracy starts with a list, a government list, then more lists, then bigger lists, and the names on those lists begin to face the full force of the state with blatant disregard for the rule of law and for basic constitutional rights.If you followed our coverage, you know the warning. Autocrats don't go after the avera ...