We're in a moment right now where not just gerrymandering, but efforts at voter suppression, efforts at questioning the results of elections, efforts at uh the executive branch unilaterally doing things that uh bypass Congress and and the people's representatives, militarization of cities, politization of our justice departments and uh our military. Those are trend lines that remind us that this precious democracy that we've got is not a given. It's not self-executing.It requires us to fight for it. It requ ...

The Texas Democrats who left the state to prevent Republicans from passing a rigged congressional map are now facing threats. This morning, those Democrats along with 400 others were evacuated from their Chicago hotel due to a bomb threat. Y'all have heard me say before that history is unbroken continuity and the push from Republicans to dilute the will of voters in Texas and other states is escalating on a very crucial anniversary.60 years ago today, another famous Texan, President Lyndon B. Johnson, signe ...

Why can't What is Why is it so hard for people to not get that this is all bull crap? That this is just just another pile of BS they're laying on top of all the other BS that's come out of this administration. Um fermented by conspiracies, fermented by uh a lot of ignorant people uh who are wholly incompetent in their government jobs to begin with. um who have nothing better to do than to seize on storylines that have been disproven. Tell me, sir, what substantive charges could possibly come out of this? We ...

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 ...

But this isn't the first time Democratic lawmakers in the Lone Star State have left in protest of their Republican opposition in the state house. In 2021, they fled to Washington DC to deny Republicans the quorum needed to pass restrictive new laws on voting. Among those Democrats who helped in organizing the walk out was a young firstterm Democratic state representative named Jasmine Crockett.The civil rights lawyer went on to win a seat in Congress and has been one of the most prominent national voices ag ...