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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 08-20-2025-225433

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0

I want you to take a look at this, the scene inside the Texas Capitol today.

0:04.6

Protesters flooding the chamber to oppose a Trump-back plan to rig Texas's congressional maps

0:10.0

in order to keep national Democrats from winning back the U.S. House of Representatives.

0:14.9

For the past week, everyday citizens of the Lone Star State have been showing up to make it clear to their legislators

0:20.7

and to the

0:21.5

rest of this country that they do not support what Texas Republicans are doing. And those Texans

0:26.9

are standing up for a broader nationwide coalition of people who oppose this Trump Act plan.

0:32.7

Polling from Yuga found that across the country, Americans opposed Texas's map rigging plan by a 19-point margin.

0:40.6

But Texas Republicans don't seem to be concerned with the opposition to what it is that they're

0:44.9

doing or how history will remember them or this fight for our democracy.

0:49.6

No, they're concerned with one thing, giving Donald Trump what he has demanded.

0:53.9

And if the march toward autocracy required a more vibrant They're concerned with one thing, giving Donald Trump what he has demanded.

1:03.1

And if the march toward autocracy required a more vibrant illustration than the National Guard dispatched to Washington, D.C., Texas Republicans today offered us this, taking actual political prisoners.

1:09.2

For three days now, State Representative Nicole Collier has been locked inside the Texas State House Chamber.

1:14.6

She is there because she has refused Republicans demand that she be under 24-hour police surveillance.

1:21.6

During that time, she's been communicating with the outside world as we do in the modern age via video calls. But today, Texas Republicans decided even that.

1:31.3

It was just, it was too much freedom for the duly elected representative.

1:35.3

I want you to watch what happened when Representative Collier joined a Zoom call

1:39.3

with the National Democratic Party from the restroom of the building where she is imprisoned.

1:46.1

I've been really buoyed by the conversations I've had with Democratic governors throughout this

1:51.4

country and all of our Democratic elected officials.

1:54.1

Sorry, I have to leave. They said it's a felony for me to do this. Apparently, I can't be on the

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