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Democrats Need to Stop GOP Voter Suppression Attempts Before It’s Too Late
Forget bipartisan politics, it’s time for Biden to get real about preventing the return of Jim Crow
When a political party has made a coup d’état its sole policy objective, the opposing party should respond in kind. This concept has seemingly been a notion difficult for Democrats, known on a national level, to retain. Thankfully, there are the braver, bolder, more creative local state officials in places like Texas providing a blueprint on how to not merely pontificate about the importance of democracy on cable television, but actually fight in support of it.
On Monday, Democratic lawmakers in the Texas legislature left the state in what is undoubtedly their final attempt to prevent Republicans from passing new restrictive voting measures.
“Our democracy is on the line,” Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer explained to NBC News. “It became very clear to us that this weekend that any attempts to negotiate some Democratic concessions were cut off, making it very clear that Republicans were hell-bent on having it their way.”
This sentiment is what led some 58 officials to reportedly fly out of Austin on chartered flights to Washington, D.C. with additional members announcing…
