TX Dems leave State to Protest

Texas Democrats are taking risks to protect our freedom.

The voting restrictions ready to be passed directly harm our disabled and BIPOC communities.

This is the allyship and example needed.

Whether or not it will work depends on other so-called allies…

“Texas state lawmakers, enacting an intricately plotted escape, left their posts and the Lone Star state itself and took flight to Washington on Monday on an extraordinary mission to halt Republican restrictive voting bills built on former President Donald Trump's fraud lies.

The spectacle is the latest stunning example of how the US political system is on the edge of meltdown as a result of turmoil triggered by Trump's false claims of a stolen election, which are now taken as fact by millions of Republican voters. The move also represents the growing desperation of Democrats who believe that their chances of winning future elections, including in 2022 and 2024, are being undermined by orchestrated assaults on the voting system by the GOP.

In effect, the fleeing Texas House Democrats are denying Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a quorumin a special session he called partly to pass a new measure that critics say severely curtails access to voting, especially for Democratic and Black voters. The dramatic gambit is the ultimate act of civil disobedience by the Texas lawmakers. It is intended to provide a stark contrast with federal Democrats -- like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin -- who are unwilling to break their own conventions to overturn the Senate filibuster.

The lawmakers hope that they can hold off the passage of the Texas law to give them time to somehow convince senators to pass new federal measures that would supersede their state's legislation, which is likely to eventually pass.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/07/12/politics/texas-democrats-washington-voting-rights/index.html