>> it's north texas. >> north texas. has been with us today. you are recognized for your five minutes of questioning. >> mr. chairman, thank you for much. i am not on the committee. i appreciate the chairman allowing me the opportunity. i represent fort worth and dallas. nicole collier, she is my neighbor, and my state representative and i appreciate her presence here today. i just want to really think my colleagues -- thank my colleagues and my friends, current state legislators, for really being courageous to take the time to be here. i know all of you are from different districts and have all sorts of political challenges. the fact that you took the time to come here to stand up for voting rights in this country really means a lot. that was one of the reasons why i started the congressional voting rights caucus. i am the chair of the congressional voting rights caucus in the house of representatives and started because i knew that we were going to have some trouble to time just because of a lot of the pretty blatant voter suppression attempt

we disagree in texas. we think anyone that comes to vote should be free of partisan poll workers engaged in an election site. we believe that texas democrats understand these bills because many of the people, several of the people here today, sought amendment to those amendments and they were accepted in the bills and the process that is have gone on. one member has been a member of the legislature for a number of years and no doubt knows that the laws of texas that are updated every two years are done in the best interest of all texans. but rather than continuing the debate, they broke quorum and they are trying to paralyze this progress that would be made on behalf of all texans. mr. chairman, i hope today that the testimony that we are going to offer today from a state representative clarity in particular will allow those elected representatives who are republicans in texas a chance to set the record straight about not only what is in these bills, but the need to make sure that texas works together and

sort of chauvinism about texas as a state you see white texas and black texas. someone was asking me the other day who told me they celebrate emancipation day on a different day, january 1. the people in virginia who do something in april. they say why is this texas? they have their day of celebrating emancipation become a federal holiday? it's because of the tenacity and chauvinism of black texans who kept celebrating this holiday from 1866 up until today. and then when they left texas then go to other states and say there is this holiday we celebrate and you should celebrate it too. they insist people celebrate holidays the celebrate back in south c carolina. it's this mythology about texas. there is no question when i was growing up we were raised to think we werein special people. because we were from texas. i think many black people took that seriously and white people have taken that .eriously i don't think it's any coincidence we end up with juneteenth as a holiday because black texans kept it alive and were very insistent it meant something and it does.

it was regarding the brand of texas. what is texas in brand and what is san antonio brand question always been the alamo city. when i dug a little deeper i realized they were about to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to revitalize the alamo. there's this whole debate about what story that revitalized, renovated, with the new museum. what story was it going to tell? it seemed to bring this whole thing back to the surface again. i wrote in a column a fight at the alamo had more to do slavery and liberty. that triggered a firestorm and a big conversation. >> richard brought the idea to us went to breakfast south congress one monday morning. jason and i, at some point he starts going on about all that you don't know about the alamo. all that you think you know is wrong. and especially what a burden the anglo dominant narrative has been. and at some point we kind of jerked up and said what do you say? after about another hour he does nothing but his homework i said somebody ought to write a book about that. until years l

or to live outside of texas. most of myhe families in texas. when they left those little towns to go somewhere they went to houston, they went to dallas or san antonio. they did not come to new york. they did not go to l.a. the roots go deep and most of my family was still there. >> back to your book on juneteenth, page 101 quote in 1967 there is a rerelease of the 1960 film the alamo. i was taken to see it with my best friend, he tells about that? >> it was an exciting thing. it was a big deal to go to the movies in those days and to go to houston connor was a little town 40 miles north of houston. hisce potentially applying force between the two places. course now houston has breached out and encroached upon all of us in that area. this was an exciting thing to treat to go see this movie about people we already knew about, jim buie, travis, davy crockett, these were names known to us. my best friend he was a boy was really into both characters but i knew who they were thought jim buie was almostmo this semi- godlike person the had this specia

sort of chauvinism about texas as a state you see white texas and black texas. someone was asking me the other day who told me they celebrate emancipation day on a different day, january 1. the people in virginia who do something in april. they say why is this texas? they have their day of celebrating emancipation become a federal holiday? it's because of the tenacity and chauvinism of black texans who kept celebrating this holiday from 1866 up until today. and then when they left texas then go to other states and say there is this holiday we celebrate and you should celebrate it too. they insist people celebrate holidays the celebrate back in south c carolina. it's this mythology about texas. there is no question when i was growing up we were raised to think we werein special people. because we were from texas. i think many black people took that seriously and white people have taken that .eriously i don't think it's any coincidence we end up with juneteenth as a holiday because black texans kept it alive and were very insistent it meant something and it does.

texas does not bring people to texas to become cattle ranchers. he brings people to texas they're going to bring enslaved people and they would be protected and texas would take its place as part of the cotton empire. so the foundational aspectas of texas we don't think about much. it was clear that was the intention when the texans break away from mexico. it declared slavery illegal. they were never really secure about that. that was one of the reasons they decided to leave mexico. when they do they set up a constitution that has divisions that expressly protect slavery which prevent people of african descent from immigrating there without permission. saying they could never become citizens. not thinking about texas of a slave society after being a slave society. the questions i get, people are confused about certain things they hear coming out of texas. they think what about racial problems talking about race what i it. this is a place full of cowboys a quiet space it's not a space of african-american, people who have anything to do with what we

in texas, we can only buy time.e can do there. >> texas state representative gina hinojosa, congresswoman nikema williams, from georgia, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. coming, up it's been a year since we lost the honorable john lewis, but he is still teaching the next generation of students and activists how to get into good trouble. get into good trouble. ♪♪ [john legend's i can see clearly now] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ make your reunion happen with vrbo. your together awaits. vrbo ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google, turn up the heat. ♪ ♪ ♪ your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire feeling sluggish or weighed down? matching your job description. it could be a sign that your digestive system isn't working at it's best taking metamucil everyday can help. metamucil psyllium fiber, gels to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. it also hel

book about texas. this will take a career for me to do all three of these things, and that's -- those are the next things down the pipe. >> host: john in laurel, new york. you are on the air with annette gordon reed. john, before we begin, turn down the volume on your tv, otherwise we get an echo. all right? >> caller: yes. >> host: go ahead. john is gone. let's try evelyn in philadelphia. evelyn? you're on the air. please go ahead. >> caller: hello? >> host: hi, evelyn. >> caller: yes, i have a question. i want to make two comments. my husband james and i have been doing genology research all of our life, and my husband, his grand father was killed by the union troops for stealing horse cord. that made national attention. i'm going to stick a pin in that. what my concern is and what i'm looking at is the fact that -- we're both in our 80s, we have a story to tell, and we tell it every chance we get. we sit the kids down and tell them a story about our ancestors. but i found through dna testing that my

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don't mess with texas. i say don't mess with texas democrats.'t have the numbers doesn't mean we have to roll over and let them do whatever they want. this filibuster was meant to put the brakes on this and to shine a national spotlight. and it worked. because we are getting calls from all over the country. while i was filibustering, we were getting stories from people on how this bill would suppress them. mainly from the disabled community and seniors. >> in terms of how this is going to go from here, the other really dramatic news that happened in the wake of the filibuster today was this ruling by the texas supreme court judge that effectively clears the way for your colleagues in the house to get arrested. it was thought that a lower court might have been able to block those arrest warrants for them. the supreme court seems to have cleared the way for them to be arrested. how does that affect you and your colleagues thinking about it? what the options are and what the stakes are personally? >> sometimes we think it is like the wild west here

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last night and into this morning, a texas state senator stored for 15 straight hours, in the texas senate try to stop republicans in that state from passing the latest motion version of their voting rights bill. she did not drink water, she did not drink water, go to the bathroom, she was not allowed to lean on anything. about halfway through the whole thing, she did put on a back brace, put a back brace on her waist to help her stay on her feet. she started shortly before 6 pm texas time, last night, and she wrapped up shortly before 9 am this morning. her democratic colleagues gave her a standing ovation for slowing down the republican effort. but in the end, even 15 straight hours of standing on her feet, that wasn't enough, because literally minutes after she left the floor, the republican senators, on a party line vote, pass their bill to make it harder for texas people to vote in elections. on the other side, numbers on the house have been mounting their own delay tactics for weeks, dozens of texas democrats from the house left the state entirely to deny the house a quorum. so that

are not designed to solve all the problems of texas healthcare. that is literally a task. some of the issues of the time and uninsured residents in the country spending hospital care ranked 41st in the united states, emergency rooms and trauma centers in texas were chronically underfunded and understaffed texas is another parameter in the bottom ten states for immunization of children and seniors. but what the tort reforms are designed to do was to reduce the cost of claims and ultimately to reduce the number of fruitless claims and were they successful, extraordinarily successful physician insurance premiums have fallen by more than 50% after the reforms and much of the decline came within two years of the reforms. they were profoundly successful, three of the critical specialties that i alluded to earlier ob, neurosurgery and orthopedics attracted hundreds of new doctors to the states in those specialties in 2003 the year at the reforms passed after falling for several years prior to 2003. in 2006 there were 4000 applications for new medical lic

these bills would be written in texas, and also across the country. and this is a national issue and what is happening in texas is really a cautionary tale. i will follow up on something that my colleague said, he raised the issue and said that it was horrifying to him and heartbreaking to hear about the past. i witnesses here w are talking about the past and they're talking about the present, they are talking about what is being done to suppress the texas today pretty and is still happening in the mayay not be as our beloved colleague john lewis told us requiring people to have jellybeans in the jar but our witnesses are telling us what is happening now. and we need to listen to them up we need to understand how we respond to this and federal level and have a couple of quick followow questions. ms. thompson, representative asked you several questions about what you mean in texas, when he would need a 94 and she has a litany of questions. but there's questions that she didn't ask which was does texas require you to have 90 to vote predict i believe th

next we'll hear from nicole collier, texas state representative and part of the texas black caucus. and we'll hear from travis clardy, who is a representative in the texas legislature and diego bernal, member of the mexican american legislative conference. the witnesses will please rise, be unmuted, be so we can swear them all in wherever you are, please raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give us is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> i do. mr. raskin: let the record demonstrate all witnesses answered in the affirmative. representative thompson, you are now recognized for your testimony. before you begin, i want to recognize, also, the presence of our distinguished colleague from texas, mrs. lizzie fletcher from houston. representative thompson, you're recognized. ms. thompson: thank you, chairman raskin and ranking

because we were from texas.many black people who took that seriously manyan my people took that seriously. and i don't think there's any coincidence that we end up as juneteenth is a holiday because black texans kept us alive were very insistent that this meant something and i think it does. a main obviously i think it does mean something to the country as a whole. my hope is that juneteenth will be an umbrella holiday of the of emancipation and other places as well. but i think you are right, there is a texas chauvinism those shows itself pretty clearly. peter: linden san francisco, you are on with the author annette gordon-reed. guest: is a great program cspan and doctor annette gordon-reed, you're an american treasure that's all isu have to say. you mentioned earlier, the passage of juneteenth has a federal holiday. i wanted to know to think that this was maybe a way to appease black people. and it may be kind of quiet the narrative about preparations or the asian hate crime bill that was passed unanimously,

they were from texas. as i mentioned before, they grew up in texas and segregated and my father went into the army as an 18 -year-old after he graduated from high school to help his sisters rather than to go to school and of his younger sister's and his mother had died when he was 11. in his father was an invalid. so he came out of the army and had a series of businesses when i was growing up. and her mother was a high school english teacher. she went to college and tsu for graduate school. boone and they got married and they had known each other and my mother had gone away for time but she came back and in some ways they had been childhood sweethearts and they got married and when i was about six months old, i was born in livingston, they moved to connor texas and that is the time that i write about on juneteenth. peter: also say that you said your mother was a high school teacher and you write the effects of immigration on schoolchildren, black and white received a great amount of attention overd the yea

thirteen companies close to their shop in texas because they could not basically found texas medicine to be uninsurable. the big discussion about what the other benefits of reforms are in the question about whether brings more doctors into the area read and again, we know the crisis, that many areas have limited access to particularly highly impacted i risk specialties such as orthopedics specialist so what happened before and after. let's look at the outcomes. the last question, the authors as the question, does all the the problem, of course they can't solve all of the problems of texas healthcare and indeed, they were designed to solve all the problems of texas healthcare. dennis literally herculean task, highest rate of uninsured residents in the country spending on hospital care ranked 41st in the united states emergency rooms and promised centers in texas were chronically underfunded and understaffed and texas was in the bottom ten states for immunization of children and seniors. with the court reforms were designed to do was to reduce the cost of claims and ultimately to reduce

that really put texas on the map and started the texas gusher age. that then would of course culminated in many ways in the east texas strike of the 1930s. the story does not end there, of course, it goes to west texas and elsewhere as you all know. but i would like to pause now and just, again, flush out what this wildcat christianity look like on the ground. i have talked at length about the executives and the managerial class, but i want to just give you a brief sense of what i think are four constitutive of facets of wildcat christianity entity. as they appeared in east texas in the 1930s. i know we have at least one person here from east texas and the audience somewhere. so how did wildcat religion come to define the western oil patch in such a potent and lasting form? well, let's take a look at this briefly. how did it start first of all? well, it started with daisy bradford, a christian woman who recruited wild cat columbus to find oil on her form. a self made profit from alabama who's only education came from the moore alight -- memory easing

century and south texas. starting the texas gusher age and would culminate in many ways of the east texas strike in the eastern 30s. the story goes to west texas and elsewhere. i'd like to pause and flesh out what does this wildcat christianity look like on the ground. i talked at length about the executives and managerial class but want to give you a brief sense what i think are four facets of wildcat chrisianity as they appeared in east texas in the 1930s. we have one person here from east texas in the audience. how did wildcat religion come to define the western oil patch in such potent and lasting form. how did it start, first of all, it started with daisy bradford christian woman who recruited wildcat columbus dad joiner to find oil on her farm. self-made profit from alabama whose only education was memorizing the old test a. ment. he was certain that god would guide him to crude. with word of something brewing people dressed in their sunday best would make their way to bradford's farm to watch the magic

the last time. _ welcome in texas? yes, it depends. the last time. i— welcome in texas?ts are all bad stuff. we had a bad reaction from our governor at that time we told our faith—based groups they would not be welcome in texas. we haven't had that kind of a comment as of yet. so i'm hopeful in my hometown is an out plaza where fort bliss is located and i know those people to have a big heart and very patriotic and i do believe for the most part they will be welcome and hope to integrate them into our society and be grateful for what they did for our country. i society and be grateful for what they did for our country.- society and be grateful for what they did for our country. i want to come to the _ they did for our country. i want to come to the other _ they did for our country. i want to come to the other issues - they did for our country. i want to come to the other issues that - they did for our country. i want to come to the other issues that you come to the other issues that you come to the other issues that you come to talk about in a second. we are talking to b

in 197 #, texas voter registration. texas was one of the first states to in advance of election day and locations otherp the polling place. before 1987, texans only voted on election day. in 1991, before congress passed it, texas passed that voter and in 1997, texas ensured that voting machines be accessible and vote. the point that i make to you that texas has resued its policy over time patrioticking changes and updates as needed. s.b.1 cons this process. >> and importantly by noted previously in the first and second kawlgd session during key hearings, it contains language by democrats and republicans and it demonstrates that all the points are being considered regardless of party to draft policy. before i yield for any questions, i will highlight on page two, the intent that we have in the bill. it is the intent of the legislature that the kct of electrics be uniform and be consistent throughout the state to reduce fraud and protect the secrecy and ensure that ballots are conduct so texans can remain confident. i hav

of texas.ost of my familiess in texas ad when they left the town to go somewhere they went to dallas or san antonio and they didn't come to new york or go to l.a.. most of my family still there. >> host: back to your book "on juneteenth" on page 101 quote in 19 sick -- 1967 the movie the alamo, i was taken to save by my best friend. >> guest: was an exciting thing. conroe is little town outside of houston and now of course ahouston has reached out but it was an exciting time to go see this movie about people that we knew about, travis and davy crockett. these were names that were knowd to us and my friend really was into those characters. i thought of him as a godlike gerson and the booing knife became famous because of that. it's a very heroic portrayal of the alamo as you would expect it and there was nothing in there to surprise me. there were things that made me comfortable. they had a character who is a slave and was portrayed not in t the way that made me uncomfortablee that was in it bt

that doesn't surprise anyone in texas or who has been to texas. these numbers are preliminary, and we're going to have to dig into the really big picture, how much of this push to restrict voting has to do with the numbers that i just laid out. >> you made a direct correlation. we would contend that because of the demographic growth, because of the changes -- the legislative changes that are proposed, they do affect people of color, more than they do anybody else. it's our people working at the samsung plant, pulling those third shifts so we are growing. we are diverse, we are proud of that diversity. and there is a direct connection between tamping down the links and people of color having less access to voting. >> all right. representatives wu, and israel, we're going to continue to follow this story. i'm sure we're going to be seeing the lot of both of you, thank you so much. >>> john letterman breaks down the u.n.'s climate change report which reveals the dire state of our planet and the dire stakes of doing nothing. >>> and later, politics ov

essence texas, this mythology down in texas.re is no question that when i was growing up, we were raised to think that we were special people. because we were from texas. and think of any black people took that figuratively and then white people have taken that seriously and i don't think there's any coincident that we end up with juneteenth is a holiday because in black texans kept this alive and were very insistent of this month something and i think that it doesn't obviously think it does mean something to the country as a whole. my hope is that juneteenth will be sort of an umbrella holiday for the celebrations of emancipation among other places as u well. but there is a chauvinism that shows itself clearly. host: london san francisco, you are on with author annette gordon-reed and think of holding up rated. guest: thank you thinking thank you is a great program c-span and doctor annette gordon-reed fewer and american that is all i have to say. and you mentioned earlier you're surprised that the passage of juneteenth is a fe

putting texas on the map and starting the texas gusher age. then it would of course culminate in many ways in the east texas strike of the 1930s. the story doesn't end there. it goes to west texas and elsewhere. i'd like to pause now and just flesh out what does this wildcat christianity look like on the ground. i've talked about the executives and managerial class but i want to give you a sense of what i think are four facets of wildcat christianity as they appeared in east texas in the 1930s. i know we have at least one person here from east texas somewhere in the audience. how did wildcat religion come to define the western oil patch in potent and lasting form? well, let's take a look at this briefly. how did it start, first of all. it started with davie bradford, a christian woman who recruited to find oil on her farm. a self-made prophet from alabama, joiner would only work shallow pools. he was certain god would guide him to crude. with word of something brewing, people dressed in their sunday best would make their way to bradford's farm

and texas another parameter, texas is in the bottom 10 states for immunization of children and seniorsrms were designed to do was to reduce the cost of claims and ultimately to reduce the number of fruitless claims and were they successful? extraordinarily successful. physician insured premiums have fallen by more than 50% after the reforms. and much of that design came within two years of the reforms. they were profoundly ea successful. three of the critical specialties that i alluded to earlier, neurosurgery and orthoortho, attracted hundreds of new doctors to the states in those specialties 2003, the year the reforms passed. after falling for several years prior to 2003. and in 2006 there were 4,000 applications for new medical licenses, 30% more than the greatest growth year in history. in the interest of time, i won't go through some of the technical issues, but with the technical issues with analysis about you certainly i would be glad to discuss them in the and answer. so my conclusion is that the reforms did exactly what they were intend today do. they reduce rates and they inc

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thirteen companies close to their shop in texas because they basically found the texas medicine to beable. there's a big discussion about what the other benefits of the reforms are and the question aboute whether it brings more doctors into the area and again we know in the crisis many areas have limited access to particularly highly impacted by risk specialties. they can solve all problems of s of texas healthcare and indeed the design to solve all the problems of texas healthcare that is literally a herculean task the highest rate in the country spending on hospital care ranked 41st in the united states emergency rooms and trauma centers in texas were chronically underfunded and understaffed. with the tort reformers were designed to do is reduce the cost of claims to reduce the number of food lists claims and want to be successful, extraordinarily successful. insurance premiums have fallen by more than 50% after the reforms and much of that decline came within two years of the reforms. they were profoundly successful. it attracted hundreds of new doctors to the states in those speci

it is not indicative of wider texas.'ve been most struck by his from all shades of political opinion, even the most conservative rublicans, is the warm welcome for the afghan refugees. nobody wants to welcome a terrorist. everyone wants to welcome people who have literally wrapped themselves in the american flag, rushed to the airport and kabul, to be airlifted to come here in search of a better life. and that is really the essence of america. that striving for a better life. and what i've been struck by is how everyone here is really responding to that. >> fascinating to hear those voices. and i think we will continue following this about that next ep as they arrive, and how they resettle, and also how the next episode in afghanistan plays out. laura trevelyan, thank you so much. you can find more of all of the day's news on our website. plus to see what we are working not -- working on, check us out on twitter. thank you so much for watching "world news america," with laura narrator: funding for this presentati of this

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>> presently in the state of texas, texas requires that you provide some form of i had nicks and we heardcussion about what that is and that includes a texas drivers' license or the last four digits of your social security number. this legislation applies those requirements to the process of mail-in ballots. if you apply to vote by mail, you are required to identify part of that as part of that process. >> you are saying for mail-in ballots, driver's license. >> or a statement that thech been not issued a number. they can provide a personal personal identification card and that will have a number on it as well. >> if they don't have a driver's license and they can make a statement as such? >> that is correct and that is krurnt law and that are legislation would provide the same for voting by mail. that is not available. texas law has eligibility requirements. >> can you. >> you must have be 65 years or older and be out of the county and/or be confined in jail. >> are there certain cases where a individual can use an expired driver's license. >> that is correct. >> in summary, because we h

so i tell people texas is not a red state. texas is a non-voting disenfranchised state. until we change that -- >> yep. yep. and by the way, black and brown texans, hello. your lieutenant governor has just told you you don't have to listen to the lies when they try to say they care. now, you have heard that loud and clear, not from me but from them. thank you for all that you are doing. >>> up next on the raed out. new details tonight on the evacuation effort in kabul and the fight by republicans to keep afghan refugees out. of the united states. >>> plus, the author of a new book joins me on who the january 6th insurrectionists really were. not disenfranchised people with legitimate gripes. no, no, but bored, nar cystic, and often affluent people who are the ultimate sore losers with the emphasis on losers. >>> plus, why democrats cannot get complacent about next month's california recall election. take a look at texas and florida. that's you, california, if gavin newsom loses. "the reidout" continues after this. continues after this if you have this... consider adding

we can only hold the line so long in texas. we're the minority party. and we need congress to act now. >> well, thank you for all that you've done, texas state democrats are showing us how it's done. thank you, texas state representative gina hinojosa. that's tonight's "reidout." "all in" starts now. >> tonight on "all in" -- >> donald trump's pattern has been to use acolytes and sick fants whether in the white house or in the congress. >> the widening investigation into trump's effort to subvert democracy and the role his chief of staff played in it. >> mark meadows, everybody. >>> then just one day after the bipartisan infrastructure vote, republicans are back to their old obstructionist ways. >> republicans refusing to support anything on voting rights is not an excuse for democrats to do nothing. >> and as they cry freedom over masks and vaccines -- >> we don't have to accept the mandates. >> they do not respect your liberty. >> i trust them to know their circumstances better than government. >> what actual libertarian legal scholars say that's ridi

win at mealtime. >>> texas democrats managed to delay this moment for six weeks, but tonight the texasill to restrict voting rights in texas after enough democrats returned to establish a quorum. the bill would ban drive-through voting, ban overnight voting, restrict vote by mail, add new requirements to people who assist voters, impose criminal penalties on workers and give more power to partisan poll watchers, among other things. any action by the texas legislature could in effect be overruled by congress with the passage of the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act. on saturday thousands are expected to march on the national mall in washington for the anniversary of dr. martin luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech there. organized groups are organizing similar marches across the country, including texas. all marches will be in support of federal voting rights legislation. joining us now is congressman collin allred of texas. he is a voting attorney. thank you for joining us as an expert and member of congress. i think we can assume, unless there is

texas democrats managed to delay this moment for six weeks, but tonight the texas house of representativescan bill to restrict voting rights in texas, after enough democrats return to the house of representatives to establish a quorum. the bill would ban drive-through voting and overnight voting, add new requirements on people who assist voters, impose criminal penalties on people who assist voters and give more power to partisan poll watchers, among other things. the house's actions could be overruled by congress, with the passage of the john lewis writes voting advancement act. there is a march on the anniversary of martin luther king king juniors i have a dream speech. they are similar marches being organized around the country, including florida and texas. the marchers will be in support of federal voting rights legislation. joining us now is colin allred of texas. he is a voting rights attorney. thank you for joining us in your dual capacities. as an election law expert and member of congress. i think we can assume, that the republicans are going to pass something. and the question wi

. >> the bill now goes to the texas house. and you may recall dozens of texas house democrats left home and risked arrest in their efforts to stop the election overhaul. our next guest is one of those legislators. representative jasmine crockett who is back in texas now. and joins us from dallas. representative crockett, thank you for sharing part of your morning with us. you're one of more than 50 texas democrats who has a warrant out for your arrest. it's largely symbolic, you likely won't face serious legal trouble. i still want to get your reaction from this tweet in

two texas house democrats, state representative gene wu, and the texas supreme court blocked an order protecting texas democrats from civil arrest. what happens next? >> so look, we were never surprised that the cards were stacked against us. we knew that the supreme court justices were hand picked by governor abbott, this is a corrupt system. we were never surprised about this. the fact that they would be so bold about it, was kind of surprising. we're here. we're going to be fighting forward on keeping republicans from rigging the system, from politicians from rigging the system for themselves, and we're going to fight this every step of the way. we're going to use every method, every tool we have available. >> representative israel, the texas senate passed its version of an elections bill this week, despite the 15-hour filibuster that i was talking about from one of our democratic colleagues. looking at this legislation as a whole, how does it add barriers to ballot access? >> well, it adds barriers

texas enacted tort reform effective for cases filed in 2003 and later but texas is also one of the statescomprehensive database of medical malpractice claims, and so we use that to study all of the issues you can see described. we then in part to look at what happened in texas after tort reform was enacted, and then in part three obviously texas is a big state full of people who are proud of it but it's only one state and the obvious question is, is a representative? we use national data from primarily the practitioner data bank to study some of the same questions that we studied in part two and then finally part four is our summary and conclusions. let me start by flagging the real issues physicians are concerned with, which aree medical malpractice marked by dramatic increases in the malpractice premiums. percentage increase every major medical practice ensure at the beginning of the latest malpractice crisis. and you can see a dramatic increase talking 100 percent increase over a relatively short period of time and that causes real problems and then they go up by 100 percent so this is