'Now is the time': Texas Democrats implore Congress to act on voting rights

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“Now is the time,” Texas State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer says to maddow about the need to pass federal voting rights legislation amid GOP-led state legislatures pushing voting restrictions.

 

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maddow NormanJCohen2 please PressSec maddowfans must tweet faster!!!

maddow States have rights !!! But the federal government should always be there for us when states go rogue and try to screw their own citizens for a political agenda !!!!!

maddow SpeakerPelosi Now is the time to take out the terrorist leaders in the house and senate, while forcing out their operatives like Abbott in the various states. You can't have free and fair elections with the GQP around any more than the Weimar Republic could after 1932.

maddow The number of Democrats who think the country is moving in the right direction has plummeted from 83 per cent in April to 51 per cent now

maddow The approval rating for Congress, where Democrats control both chambers has fallen from 35 per cent in April to just 21 per cent now

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