1. The defeat of the Texas' voter suppression bill, which continued to get worse throughout the legislative process, did not happen on its own. It's due to the relentless work of activists. A few:
The legislature has LESS THAN 5 HOURS to pass its voter suppression bill
House Dems have some procedural moves that give them a shot to kill the bill by blocking a vote until midnight
I'll keep this thread updated the best I can
House Republicans in Texas are apparently trying to convince Democrats to allow them to pass the bill tonight because the gov could call a special session later and make the bill worse
But the bill is already very bad and Dems say they aren't buying it
3. Republicans appointed an all-white conference committee to negotiate the differences between the House and Senate bills and the committee added a provision, not considered in either chamber, to ban voting on Sundays until 1PM
The top donor to UNC's journalism argued against tenure for @nhannahjones because her writing "denigrates the courageous efforts of many white Americans"
@nhannahjones "Long before Nikole Hannah Jones won her Pulitzer Prize, courageous white southerners risking their lives standing up for the rights of blacks were winning Pulitzer prizes, too,” Hussman Jr wrote to school officials
These statements were made by Hussman Jr. in private emails but he refuses to discuss them publicly because he "considers himself a working journalist" and "I don’t believe I ought to speak out as a journalist on a matter of public controversy,"
1. Texas Republicans just released the text of its voter suppression bill, SB7
Votes will be held before midnight Sunday
The bill includes a NEW PROVISION that allows judges to OVERTURN AN ELECTION "WITHOUT DETERMINING HOW INDIVIDUAL VOTERS VOTED"
Follow along if interested
2. This section appears to validate Trump's claims that he won various states because a certain number of people voted "illegally" without any other details
Now people like Guiliani can take these absurd allegations to court and, with a sympathetic judge, OVERTURN AN ELECTION
3. Texas is poised to adopt this unprecedented and radical legal provision without ANY DEBATE IN EITHER CHAMBER
It was negotiated in a secret conference committee and released on a Saturday of a holiday weekend
And there is plenty of other bad stuff in this bill