As the Texas legislature enters the final week of its special session, state Democrats are bringing in reinforcements from around the country to Washington, DC, in a final push to pressure federal lawmakers to pass voting rights legislation.
Beginning Monday, more than 100 Democratic state legislators will fly into the nation's capital as part of a planned"week of action" centered on convincing US senators to forgo their August recess until the upper chamber passes the For the People Act, the sweeping Democratic voting and election bill shot down by Senate Republicans earlier this year.
"We made, I think, a really valiant effort to try to stop these really awful bills at the legislative level here in Arizona and in Texas and in Georgia," said the Tucson Democrat, who explained voting rights is what got him into state politics more than a decade ago in Arizona.
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