The voter suppression going on in Texas is just the tip of the iceberg.

The clock is literally ticking on Congress to act to protect voters in Texas and all across the country.

Right.

We put everything on the line.

The entire legislative branch of the Texas government has been zeroed out.

Our budget has been zeroed out in an act of tyranny because we refused to pass a bill like they wanted to force through.

A toxic piece of legislation.

Now, lives of thousands of Texas public servants

and the freedoms of millions of Texas voters are on the line.

Now, I know this. We're here to fight.

We just hope we're not alone. Because democracy itself sits at one minute to midnight. And we need immediate federal action to turn back the author of the best-selling books, The View from Fly of Our Country and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's

genocide famine in Ukraine. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United

States and rising autocracy around the world. And so what you heard at the beginning of our show

was a member of the Texas Democrats who have left Texas to head to

D.C. to fight for our right to vote. And this is one of the most high stakes battles that we have

seen in this ongoing multi-decade effort of the Republicans to take away the right to vote and the

refusal of the Democratic Party to meaningfully fight back. And so we applaud these Texas Democrats.

We are very grateful to them. This is how it's done. It is such a bleak, dark time, and I'll warn you,

this will probably be somewhat of a bleak episode and points, but here is a ray of light.

Here are people taking a stand, making a sacrifice, standing up not just for their state,

but for the country as a whole. And so just

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