'When we fight for the right to vote, we can expand democracy to include everyone. But when we give up without a fight, we can lose democracy itself,' writes Beto O'Rourke for CNNOpinion
Beto O'Rourke is an El Paso native, the former US Congressman for the community and a former Democratic candidate for President of the United States. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
There have been three critical moments where Texas has proved decisive for democracy and voting rights in this country. The first two, in 1890 and 1965, afford us key insights into how we can make the most of the third one -- taking place right now. After Reconstruction, states throughout the South were rife with White supremacist terrorism, racial injustice and attacks on Black voting rights — and by the late 19th century, Texas was among the most brutal. Whites-only Democratic clubs and their armed militias had"purified" the ballot box in one Texas county after another. Political violence, assassinations and lynchings enforced White rule throughout much of the state at the expense of Black lives and Black voting rights.
Toobin: Voting Rights Act close to being irrelevant 02:50As long as the law stood, states would be forced to tear down barriers to the ballot box and guarantee equal voting access to every eligible American. But it turned out that the law could not stand forever. When the US Supreme Court stripped critical protections from the Voting Rights Act in its 2013 Shelby County v.
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