TX Dem invokes grandmother's poll tax in voting rights push
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Texas State Rep. Senfronia Thompson recalls how her grandmother bought poll taxes in order to vote and talks about the “chilling effect” that the GOP provision allowing partisan poll watchers to have “free reign” to intimidate Black and brown voters: “We’re Americans like everybody else and we should have the same privileges as everyone to go and cast our votes.”July 20, 2021
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