And joining us now is Democratic Congressman Greg Casar of Texas. His district in Austin would be merged with another in this new GOP plan for Texas if it gets approved. Congressman, the president says the GOP is entitled to five more seats in your state.You say the new map violates the Voting Rights Act. So explain which Texans are most at risk of losing the power of their vote. When the Voting Rights Act was signed by LBJ, a Texas president, that law from 1965 was passed in order to ban maps like the one ...

What will be different this time. In effecting outcomes, I realize you're trying to shine a light on what's happening here in Texas, but I believe it was After five weeks in 2021, Democrats ended up trickling back into the state and the process continued. Is that how this ends as well.It's like, Thank you for having me. Yeah. Look, you know, a quorum break is an extraordinary measure to take.And, you know, quorum breaks do not generally alter the the ultimate outcome of the legislation. We all know that. Bu ...

Now, former Attorney General Eric Holder, he is the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and co-author of our unfinished march, the violent past, an imperiled future of the vote, a history, a crisis, a plan. >> General, that that book is aptly titled uh the march continues for sure. And you know, I'm looking at this moment and would love to get your assessment um uh at the ground level because my attitude is right now, to be honest, Democrats, the more the marrier.I'd be breaking out ...

Wednesday will mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the landmark legislation securing democratic rights for non-white Americans after nearly two centuries of discrimination. In recent decades, the Voting Rights Act has become a shadow of its former self, gutted by the John Roberts Supreme Court with the Shelby County versus Holder decision in 2013 and further chipped away at ever since by Republicans at every level of government. Joining me now is the holder in the Shelby County versu ...

Joining me now is Congressman Lloyd Dogget, Democrat of Texas. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Starting the night in Texas, where, as expected, just hours ago, the Texas House Redistricting Committee approved a new congressional district map drawn up by Republican lawmakers that targets Democratic held districts around three major cities.And in the southern part of the state, the map is Texas Republicans attempt to satisfy the president's desire to pick uh pick up five more GOP seats in Congress in n ...

[Applause] I'm here to say hell no to Trump taking over Texas. >> Democratic Congressman Greg Kazar was at the Texas state capital. You just saw him in that video where Republican state lawmakers began the process of approving new congressional maps demanded by President Trump.Trump appears to be worried, understandably, that his deeply unpopular policies will spark a Democratic wave in next year's midterm elections, which could swamp the Republicans narrow majority in the US House. So, even though Texas wa ...

Today, House Democratic leaderh Jeff is in Austin, Texas, helping state Democrats make a plan to combat Republican-led redistricting efforts there. Republicans believe it could help the party pick up as many as five seats in next year's race for control of the House, leaving Democrats weighing their own protest options, including leaving the state altogether as a way to block the vote. This is what leader Jeff said just last hour.Republican politicians want to choose their voters. That is wrong. There is an ...

From @WSJopinion: Texas Republicans are exploiting a Democratic lawsuit and the Voting Rights Act to pad their chances of retaining their House majority in 2026 https://t.co/3CWmW1Akgq ...

They are specifically deciding to splinter the communities of common interest as well as just blatantly say we are going to dilute minority voices. So we know that the courts ever since we've had a voting rights act have always found this state to be intentionally discriminatory. That is what they are going to do.So, I need people of color to understand that the scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices so that they can go ahead and have an oversized um say in th ...