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For Democrats of color, walkout on Texas voting bill was rooted in the long fight for equal voting rights

from News from The Texas Tribune · host Texas Tribune

All they could get was a temporary win. But the lawmakers said taking the extraordinary measure of breaking quorum was justified by the harm they felt their mostly Black and Hispanic constituents would face under the GOP's voting bill.

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