James Talarico: “My colleagues and I in the state House, we broke quorum last…”

“… have seen the most aggressive power since Jim Crow just over the last 12 months with these court rulings, with these racist redistricting maps in states like Texas. You know, My colleagues and I in the state House, we broke quorum last summer to shine a national spotlight on this, this redistricting power grab in our state. that is systematically diluting the voting power of black and brown Texans. And so this is a, this is a, an emergency. Our, our constitutional rights at the ballot box are God given.” (12:43–12:54)

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