The days of old Jim Crow style voter suppression, poll taxes, literacy tests, guessing how many

jelly beans are in a jar might feel like a relic of America's ugly past, like a chapter

in our history that many believed was closed 56 years ago this week, with the signing

of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Just months earlier, President Lyndon Johnson described the fight for voting rights as being

bigger than politics.

But today, a little more than a half century later, it still feels like we're fighting

that same old Jim Crow.

Donald Trump's defeat and the big lie that the election was stolen from him has sparked

a brand new wave of voter suppression efforts.

Breaking news tonight out of Georgia, where Republican governor Brian Kemp just signed into

law a sweeping bill restricting voting access.

Tonight, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signing the latest controversial state voting law

that he says will make elections more secure.

For Republican little-aged slages, all across the country have passed a slew of election

laws that have made it harder for black, poor, and marginalized people to vote.

The new law zeroes in on voting by mail.

The law also cuts down on early voting and runoff elections, since the start of 2021 alone.

Republicans in 18 states have passed at least 30 new laws that restrict voting.

There are few places where this modern fight for and against voting rights is being waged

more aggressively than in Texas.

Where Republican governor Greg Abbott called a special session of the state legislature

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