With Section 5 out of the way, when it comes to voter suppression, everything is possible

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Texas at this moment is solidly Republican. Let’s say that Wendy Davis runs for governor and loses, but she comes scary close, as far as the Texas GOP is concerned, (47-48%). She has coattails and the GOP majority in The Lege shrinks. There’s an upsurge in turnout of Democratic leaning voters and Texas is beginning to look like a true battleground state.

To see what might happen in a scenario like this all we have to do is look at what’s going on in North Carolina. North Carolina went for Obama in 2008 and Romney in 2012. A true battleground state, that is now solidly in GOP hands. And they’re going to do everything possible, legal or not, to make sure it stays in GOP hands. Here’s an intro to what’s happening from Rachel Maddow.

They’re also working to dismantle public education too. It’s not hard to see that happening in Texas in 2015 if Greg Abbott is elected Governor.

North Carolina Republicans clearly think they’re going to get away with this. For the record, it is blatantly illegal. Blatantly unconstitutional. It has been since the 1970s. Since 1979 when this U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students, in fact, have the constitutional right to register to vote and to vote where they go to school. That case began at another historically black college at Prairie View A&M in Texas. The county didn’t want to let the black students vote there either. The Supreme Court intervened and said Texas had to let them vote. This is not a subtle gray areas in the law kind of thing. This is as clear as it gets. Republicans in North Carolina are doing it anyway. Right now. This week. Until somebody stops North Carolina Republicans from what they are doing, it is 1979 all over again. Or i guess 1964 all over again? Maybe earlier. The Republican governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory has his approval ratings in the toilet. He’s paying the price for the whiplash radical turn the state has taken under his Republican leadership. But it is not one man it’s clear now. It’s a statewide plan and statewide effort. The more you look at what Republicans are doing in North Carolina right now, the more it makes sense why Democrats and African-American voters have been getting arrested by the dozens, by the hundreds, week after week trying to get rest of the country to notice the kind of radicalism that is going on there now.

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