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After Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker vows to protect Texas House Democrats in Colbert interview, bomb threat received at hotel
Gov. JB Pritzker vowed on late-night television to protect Texas House Democrats who fled to Illinois to try and stop the ...
60 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed, Black voters are still fighting for access: ‘So much is at stake’
In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil ...
Opinion - ‘Trumpmandering’ — a nationwide scheme to undermine Black and Hispanic voters
Abbott called a special session of the legislature to adopt a new map unveiled last Wednesday, which redraws congressional ...
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RADIO: On The Texas Fleebaggers Decamping For Illinois
On Monday, Dan Proft had me on his Morning Answer show at AM 560 in Chicago, owing to a column I’d written last week at The American Spectator talking about the Texas Democrat “fleebagger” caucus who ...
Black People Driving Texas Growth. Redistricting Will Stop Representation, PAC Leader Says
Currently, Republicans hold 25 of Texas's 38 House seats compared to the Democrats' 13. The proposed map could help ...
Protections of the Voting Rights Act are under threat as the law marks its 60th anniversary
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...
How the MAGA gerrymander in Texas resurrects Jim Crow’s racist playbook for voter suppression
The redistricting campaign by lawmakers in the Lone Star State, orchestrated at the behest of President Donald Trump, is yet ...
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Texas leaders issue arrest warrants for Erin Zwiener, other House Democrats
Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows issued civil arrest warrants for House Democrats who were not present when the ...