Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?
Jessica Montoya Coggins
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State Senator Royce West urges the crowd to contact Republican members and Senators in Texas against these maps. Also says this is a 12-round fight, and Democrats won round 1. “But we must work together as a coalition to win this fight.”
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We are now hearing from Friendship West pastor Frederick Haynes. Says we are standing in solidarity with the Texas House members who did not flee Texas, “they stood on business.”
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I want to shout out this very good boy or girl behaving very well as Dallas city council member Casey Thomas speaks. Says this is “our civil rights movement” and it’s time to fight. Also leads a chant of “flood relief first.”
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Here outside Friendship West church in Dallas for a Fight the Trump Takeover Rally. Speakers vowing to continue to fight against “unfair maps” and for more fair representation.
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She answered a question about increasing turnout and said that work starts now. And notes that demographically our state looks more like California than Mississippi. And Texas is after all the state that gave us Ann Richards, LBJ and Barbara Jordan.
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Now @crockett.house.gov is giving a very full-throated defense of protecting the trans community. Says she is not going to turn her back on any one community
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There is a heckler who is being escorted out now after she tried to interrupt. But that was shot down quick! Encourages the crowd to come together because in the last election, “we lost because they divided us.”
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Now @crockett.house.gov is telling the crowd that even when Texas had a high turnout in 2018, it was still just 17 percent, says it’s time to “roll up our sleeves to get to work” in this next year
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