Texas GOP moving fast to protect political power of White Conservatives

After the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republican majorities and politicians in many Southern states quickly went to work to revive segregationist  Jim Crow voting laws.

And then there’s Texas, where Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Gregg Abbott, is leading the most brazenly racist  effort of all.

But his latest legal filing asserts the Texas GOP’s rights to keep their state as a bastion of white Republican power.

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