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Votes\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch1 class=\u0022title\u0022\u003EThis Texas Democrat Doesn\u2019t Want Proud Boys Standing Over His Grandmother as She Votes\u003C\/h1\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0027subtitle\u0027\u003ERepresentative James Talarico is a rising star thanks to his adept pushback on Trump\u2019s Big Lie and the Texas GOP\u2019s anti\u2013voting rights agenda.\u003C\/h2\u003E\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022byline\u0022 data-nosnippet\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Ch2 class=\u0022author_name\u0022\u003EBy \u003Ca class=\u0022author\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/joan-walsh\/\u0022\u003EJoan Walsh\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca class=\u0022author-twitter\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/@joanwalsh\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETwitter\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch4 class=\u0022time is_date article_pub_time\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYesterday 2:26 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He challenged him: \u201cTell your voters right now that Donald Trump lost the election.\u201d Hegseth sputtered; Talarico went viral.\n\u003Cp\u003ESince then, he\u2019s been on MSNBC with Joy Reid and Jonathan Capehart and joined CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta; I\u2019m sure I\u2019m missing someone. Monday night the whole Texas delegation is doing an MSNBC voting rights town hall. Meanwhile, he\u2019s been meeting with congressional leaders and voting rights icons to try to push congressional Democrats to work harder to pass a voting rights bill that will make the rollback planned by the Texas GOP impossible.\u003Cdiv id=\u0022ConnatixPlaceholder\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s hard work, whether in \u003Ca href=\u0022\u200b\u200bhttps:\/\/statisticalatlas.com\/state-lower-legislative-district\/Texas\/State-House-District-52\/Race-and-Ethnicity\u0022\u003Ehis diverse House District 52\u003C\/a\u003E, the Austin Capitol, or Washington, D.C., where Democrats nominally run all three branches but President Joe Manchin\u2014oops, I mean West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin\u2014seems to have the last word on what\u2019s possible. 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But one of my colleagues, Representative Senfronia Thompson, who is the longest-serving woman and African American in Texas history\u2014she\u2019s an icon\u2014she met with Senator Manchin, and she shared how her parents in Houston had to save up money to pay the poll tax. An incredibly powerful story, to hear how previous generations struggled so mightily to access the franchise.\n\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-top: 37px;\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYet he still says he won\u2019t support a so-called \u201ccarve-out\u201d of the 60-vote rule to pass a voting rights bill. What do you think is going on there\u2014what did you hear from your colleagues?\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOur colleagues walked away from the meeting feeling optimistic about what would be possible with Senator Manchin. He\u2019s obviously a big supporter of voting rights. H was a secretary of state and he wants to be a leader on the issue, which is a great place to start from\u2014we can\u2019t say that for every senator, especially not on the Republican side of the aisle. He\u2019s also, obviously, been very committed to the filibuster, which I disagree with. It\u2019s a Jim Crow relic that needs to be done away with if we\u2019re going to let our democracy function. But it seems that there may be an opportunity to pass some core voting rights provisions\u2014something like the John Lewis Voting Rights Act\u2014which Senator Manchin believes could get significant Republican support. Now, whether or not that\u2019s true is something that\u2019s above my pay grade. But we in Texas are desperate for anything that could prevent this bill from becoming law in Texas.\n\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-top: 37px;\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManchin did float a compromise voting rights proposal that was pretty good, even endorsed by Stacey Abrams, which \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/stacey-abrams-manchin-voting-rights\/\u0022\u003EMcConnell trashed\u003C\/a\u003E as the Stacey Abrams \u201ccompromise,\u201d and you know what that means. But infrastructure seems like everybody\u2019s priority right now. What are you hearing?\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat we were told at the meetings\u2014the Senator Manchin meeting and the Senator Schumer meeting\u2014is that they want to get past infrastructure before they go to voting rights. But they also said our presence here has put a lot of pressure on them to get to voting rights as quickly as possible. Which was our goal. 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