prize-winning journalist, founder of futuro media, which has helped produce the documentary along with the texas tribunemay 30 titled "after uvalde: guns, grief & texas politics." coming up, as florida governor ron desantis prepares a run for the white house, we will look at florida's right turn on immigration, a fierce into immigrant law that is now going into effect under desantis. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "mesas redonda" by hermanos gutierrez. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we look at the sweeping anti-immigrant crackdown in florida led by republican governor ron desantis, expected this week announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential race. the aclu monday filed a lawsuit against florida over in a property law signed by desantis that restricts immigrants from buying homes in the state if they are born in china and also targets those from cuba, venezuela, syria, iran, russia, and north korea. the aclu said the law "harkens back to the anti-asian land laws of the past century. those laws violated the fundamental right to equal prote

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conversation roxanna asgarian is texas based journalist who writes about courts and the for the texas tribune. she now lives in dallas. her work has appeared. the washington post, new york and texas, among other publications. she received a 2022 jay anthony lucas work in progress award for we were once a family. ladies and gentlemen, roxanna asgarian roxanna asgarian. they there are so many places i want to go in this book. i want to go with this book. but i also to make sure that we have time for questions. this is a searing indictment of texas foster care system. but there's so much else in there. and i just want you to to lay out the story about what happened on march 26, 2018, and what led that. okay. can you all hear me good. so when the crash happened, it it initially looked like an accident because it was on the pacific coast highway and it was at a like a turnout point. places like that are kind of known for these types of accidents, like losing control of stuff like that. but investigators quickly noticed that the that there were no break marks on the road and the family was living w

matthew watkins, managing editor for news and politics at the texas tribune. ate senator roland gutierrez, his district includes uvalde, the site of the horrific school shooting almost one year ago. gentlemen, it is never good news when the three of you are here. but let's try to make some sort of sense of what happened and where we go from here. senator, this latest shooting comes almost exactly a year since uvalde. what are people in texas saying tonight? >> they're saying enough is enough. i mean, we've had this over and over, just days prior to this, we saw what happened in san jacinto county, when five other people were killed in a mass shooting. this senseless killing needs to stop what unfortunately, the republicans and power won't do anything about it. you ask how we are feeling, and how people are doing, people across the state are crying and weeping. we lost those two little girls. they're never coming home. that family, this poor child is gonna be an orphaned. this whole family, gone. everybody that lost their lives, none of this makes any sense. but

patrick svitek joins us, he's a political reporter at the texas tribune, and jason rosenbaum, producerblic radio. take us to texas. because the suspect believed to have fatally shot five of his neighbors, including a nine -year-old-boy has potentially been arrested after a multi-day manhunt. what can you tell us? >> yeah, thank you for having me. this has been a tragedy that has really consumed the state these past few days. and it's obviously touched on politically-charged debates that we've been having for a long time in texas around immigration. we have seen republican leadership in the state commenting critically on the immigration status, real or perceived, of the victims, and there have also been reports that the suspect in this case was in the country eagerly illegally and have been deported several times. a really horrific circumstance. and touchdown some of the political debates that have been running hot in texas for a long time now. >> will it stay on immigration because we are expecting a migrant surge again starting next week. and the governor there, greg abbott said yeste

and the texas tribune reports that texas senator ted cruz is expected to face a challenge from colinre on capitol hill. with me is jennifer palmeri. what are you hearing about who may want to run for senator cardin's seat? >> reporter: the news is still fresh, but on a capitol hill a number of names are being talked about. the one getting the most attention is congressman jamie raskin. he represents a district in the d.c. suburbs of maryland. he's a rising star in the democratic party. served as a trump impeachment manager after january 6th. served on the january 6th select committee. he's now the ranking democrat on the oversight committee. these are the kinds of notes that help in a deep blue state like maryland. he's also a very prolific fund raiser, raising more than half a million dollars just in the first few months of this year. that's highly unusual for a house member. another name being floated is congressman david trone. he served a few terms. serves in a swing district that stretches through the northern parts of maryland. he's independently wealthy and shown a willingness

. >> i'm joined now by zach despard, politics reporter for the texas tribune.ut these allegations that are being made back and forth between these two republicans and how it escalated to this point, to the point where someone -- is being accused of being drunk while performing his job. >> sure. it's been a strange 24 hours in texas politics. i'll take you back to yesterday. really, out of the blue, attorney ken paxton put out a statement in which he called house speaker dade phelan to -- he allege that the speaker was drunk while presiding over late night session of the house a couple weeks ago. there is some video in which the speaker is slurring his words at a couple points. the speaker says he was simply tired. we are not sure what the bottom of that -- it turns out a couple hours after the attorney general had made that claim -- an investigative committee in the house -- between -- that attorney general paxton had been investigating him in secret since march. that committee met again this morning. it heard testimony from for investigators it had hired. thre

and as robert down and writes in the texas tribune, apparently it is their strategy to quote unquoteg use, suicide, and other societal ills by returning god to classrooms. what do you make of this? >> i find it extremely concerning. if they really cared about solving some of these problems, they would put their money where their mouth is. just yesterday, a bill died that would have given teachers pay raises. we are about to end this legislative session without raising teacher pay. and we know we have a shortage of mental health counselors, of teachers, we have a gun violence crisis. and if they wanted to solve those problems, they could. and we also see bills like this one, as the republican party continues to erode the separation of church and state. and i think it's no coincidence that they are doing this under this new more conservative supreme court. these are the latest attempts for traction in this legislative session. >> i want to play for you some sound we have a texas state representative -- confronting the author of this bill, cole haffner. and then i want you to react to t

joining me now is a politics reporter from the texas tribune. thanks for being here.these allegations, some of them date back for years. what took so long for accountability to come knocking for ken paxton? >> yeah, well, attorney general paxton has faced scandals and ethical questions pretty much the entire time he's been in office, since 2015. like you mentioned in the lead-up here, what the legislature saw as their way in to investigate this case is he had asked as a part of a settlement proposal with these whistleblowers for $3.3 million in taxpayer money to settle that case. now, the legislators were concerned about that because, one, having the settlement approved would eliminate the need for a trial, so some of these evidence would not become public, and also they were concerned with, hey, are we being essentially asked to participate in this alleged corruption by approving this taxpayer money. they launched this committee investigation in secret in march. it's only a week ago, crazy to think it's only been seven days we first learned the committee was investig

texas tribune reports that in a new account. this is quite certainly and quite obviously how we live in america now. but is it how we choose to live? no, and i want to walk you through that before i bring in our experts on a story that is important, as i tell you could be our top story just about any night of the year. i say no because not if by choose we mean the chosen preferences of the majority or even the majority of votes in congress where majorities have repeatedly supported at least some gun safety measures only to see a largely republican minority block them in the senate. that was the outcome after one of the deadliest school shootings ever back in newtown. it's the choice people make when asked. people choose stronger safety laws. nine out of ten people want stronger universal background checks. eight out of ten want to raise the age for buying a gun to 21. a super majority backs extending the waiting period to at least a month. that reduces the risk people go out and buy new guns for anger or vengeance, which is not

joining me now is texas tribune political reporter, patrick. thank you very much for being with us.august, when do you expect this trial to begin? >> yesterday, the senate here agreed to start this trial no later than august 28th but they also agreed to hear recommendation on rules of procedure for the trial on june 20th and so that leaves us with a likely time frame of somewhere between june 20th and august 28th. the lieutenant governor will pick a date to begin his trial. that's more of a narrow time frame. obviously you've got the middle of the sumner there so that's what we're looking at right now. >> so his wife is a state senator, angela paxton. this gets tricky because they are obviously still together but a lot of the allegations or some surrounding him have to do with an alleged affair. that he was having on his wife. how complicated does this get for her and do we have any idea of whether or not she might recuse herself? >> yes, as you noted on the face of it, it seems very complicated and obvious it's a conflict of interest for her to participate in this trial. so far, sh

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the texas tribune identified him as the state's election denier in chief. texas, but in georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. you get the gist, right? the challenge by the way that the supreme court tossed out quickly. it brings us to this week's events in texas. in a statement, ken paxton alleges corrupted politicians are using reports to overturn the results of a free and fair election. that statement has to do with this, a texas house committee voting unanimously this week to recommend that paxton be impeached. in the last two hours, we learned the historic final vote on his impeachment is set tomorrow. from nbc news -- >> joining our coverage is the founder of democracy docket, mark alice. and matt dowd is back. matt dowd, as a texan, you get to go first here. >> you know what's amazing about this is that this is all -- much of this is known for years in the course of this, which is why republicans tried to unseat him in the primary in 2022. they weren't successful, even though they laid out a bunch of the information and the republican primary

the texas tribune they reported and hundreds of bills filed in the texas legislature over the last 60 at least two dozen measures would have prevented people from legally obtaining weapons including assault rifles and large capacity magazines used in search of texas' mass shootings. at least five bills would have required that people seeking to obtain a gun undergo background checks so that would have kept the man involved in 2019 shooting spree in midland odesa -- he was deemed to to mental illness. seven bills would have banned the sale or possession of the semiautomatic rifle that a shooter used to kim dozens of people at an el paso walmart. and at least two bills would have raised the legal ages to own or purchase an assault weapon from 18 to 21 years old which would have made it illegal for the uvalde shooting. whose blood do they have on their hands? >> you can connect the dots between laws that never made it to a governor's desk or got unsigned by the governor and actual death. it's fixable. these things are fixable. let's look at alan, texas, and the mall. this is a guy nbc ne

the texas tribune reports.in 2018 while under indictment on state securities fraud charges without a single republican challenger in his primary. he won reelection for a third time after he wears, quote, sued in 2020 by four of his former aides who allege he fired them for reporting him to local law enforcement for accepting bribes and using his office for a campaign contributors. so much for law or order. this is the states chief law enforcement officer. those silent republicans are gonna go on the record about ken paxton on whether on when they vote to impeach him. let's talk about what's going on in harris county. joining us now is the texas state representative jolanda jones, she represents parts of harris county. representative jones, good to see you. thank you for joining us. >> hey, ali. how you doing. thanks for having me. >> i'm always confused. during covid where there were counties voting harris county that wanted to put some restrictions in place about keeping people safe, texas, the home of home ro

lawmakers this weekend did indeed impeach one attorney general ken paxton, liar in chief to quote the texas tribuned for his removal. in the state senate that's made up of 19 republicans and 12 democrats, and without even a hint of irony, donald trump and his support for paxton called the scandal, wait for it, election interference. go figure. we'll keep up with this one for you. in the meantime, another break for us, we'll be right back. 'll. and now she's got myplan. the game changing new plan that lets her pick exactly what she wants, and save on every perk. sadie's getting her plan ready for a big trip. travel pass, on. nice iphone 14 pro! cute couple. trips don't last forever. neither does summer love. so, sadie's moving on. apple music? check. introducing myplan. the first and only unlimited plan to give you exactly what you want, so you only pay for what you need. and get iphone 14 pro on us when you switch. it's your verizon. power e*trade's easy-to-use tools make complex trading less complicated. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities, while an earnings tool helps you plan yo