TX Dem invokes grandmother's poll tax in voting rights push

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“We’re Americans like everybody else and we should have the same privileges as everyone to go and cast our votes,” Texas state Rep. Thompson says on the provision allowing partisan poll watchers to have “free reign” to intimidate Black and brown voters.

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Intimidate them back. Might need a bunch of black & Brown folks with free rein in white districts. Just making sure everything is fair dont'cha know.

I can only imagine the excitement on this woman’s face when she’s told that she can, in fact, go and cast her vote like everyone else…

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