Before midnight on Friday, August 22, the insects flew bright lights outside the Capitol building in the state of Texas, and the ghosts were watered. Inside, the legislators assembled the Senate Chamber as it threatened a long day to be for a long time.
A few weeks ago, at the request of President Donald Trump, the Republicans in Texas submitted a bill to redistract the circles in the middle of the decade, and the Congress map was re -drawn to give the party the possibility of five additional seats in the US House of Representatives. Without the proposed changes, the Republicans were in a “severe danger” of the home loss, said Ken King, a representative from Texas, Banhandel and the author of the draft law. The draft law was a fan of the Legislative Commission, which is dominated by Republicans. To protest this, a group of more than fifty democratics fled at the Texas house of the state, which delayed the vote and put forward the national interest. After two weeks in Illinois and other places, they returned to Texas, where the Republican majority soon passed the bill. However, Democrats claimed a kind of victory. Jane Woo, Speaker of the Democratic House of Representatives, said: “Do you talk about the re -division of circles, about racial discrimination, about racial discrimination, about trying to deceive the audience if we do not do this?” Now the plan to re -divide the circles was forced to remove the Senate from the state, as the majority of the Great Republican made a similar half -break. Instead, Carol Alvarado, a member of the Houston, prepared a last effort to depict the bill.
Texas has strict rules regarding filibuster: There are no periods of eating, drinking or bathroom; He does not sit or tilted on an office; No speech outside the subject. The most prominent of the most prominent modern era in Texas is one of the women. Alvarado told me: “Texas women are difficult.” “We had to be difficult.” In 2013, Senator Wendi Davis talked about nearly thirteen hours, in an attempt to delay the approval of the bound abortion bill. In 2021, Alvarado himself, more than fifteen hours, a government record, to protest against a draft law imposing new restrictions on voting. (Both laws ended in passing.) This time, it was aimed at breaking its record. In order to do this, she prepared “mentally and physically”, she said: A good night sleep, a hot yoga category, a large meal of barbecue. She was wearing a catheter under her loose embossed dress, and the same sneakers she wore four years ago.
Twelve years ago, Davis started at noon on Tuesday in late June. She spoke to crowded Senate exhibition, with crowds leaking to Capitol Rotonda; A direct flow on YouTube, hosted by Texas platformHe attracted nearly two hundred thousand viewers at its peak, just as they were watching MSNBC at the time. Davis’s attention attention to national fame. Her pink shoes for running for a period of time became the best -selling women’s shoes in Amazon, and she raised nearly a million dollars of campaign funds, most of which are young donors. Republicans in Texas seem to have learned their lesson. In 2021, most of the Alvarado virus was conducted in the night of the night, due to the procedural delay. because of Corona virus disease The restrictions, the general exhibition was closed to the spectators. “There is not a lot of noise, and many people chant,” she said. “But as soon as you go, you come out of adrenaline, especially in the middle of the night.”
In August, when Alvarado was preparing for its Philipops, the ruling Lieutenant Dan Patrick called for a three -hour dinner break. Farado felt immediately that something. She said, “We all thought, well, this is strange. What is this really? Because it certainly does not eat.” When the lawmakers, instead of inviting Alvarado, Patrick admitted that Charles Perry, a fans of Lubok, who put a doubtful objection in Alvarado-philosophy, sent an email to raise funds in the afternoon. He said: “It is not respected, and he violates Daknah Senate, and personally, I felt insulting from that,” then I moved to the immediate vote on the draft law to redress the circles. He passed through the party lines. There will be a filibuster that night. The spectators scattered at the exhibition seemed shocked by the speed at which the planned protest was circumvented. “The fascists! Fascism came to Texas!” A man shouted. State soldiers gathered around him. Later, it was removed from the Capitol in the handcuffs.
He said that Aaron Madison, Uber’s driver in Austin, chose to spend Friday night in Capitol, because he “wanted to see the Democrats doing something” about the re -division of circles. “I knew that perhaps it wouldn’t be stopped, but at least to see them fight and delay. I was proud that they were going to support.” A dead protest found “depression”, he told me after that. “I have made a lot of volunteering, I have worked in the elections for five years, I volunteered with the Beto Group,” he said, referring to a former Democratic Congress and presidential candidate Beto Ourork. “For example, you want to do something to make a change, but it seems, regardless of what you are doing, Republicans find a way to reach their path.”
In 1975, the political column of the political column Molly Evens wrote: “The finest free entertainment in Texas.” IVINS swared legislators in the sections of legislators, payment matches, the names call, and the dual attachment. But she also discovered the spirit of mutual loyalty. She wrote: “There is a legislative tradition in Texas that allows them to publicly respect, and yes, even love, these misfortunes, the country who always strike them.”
Few of this colleagues in the evidence of these days. Republicans in Texas, who went to the maximum extent to expanding the arrival of weapons and prohibiting abortion, have turned directly to the Democrats. Earlier this year, the Texas house prevented the minority members of the body from being able to preside and end a long -term tradition. “The atmosphere has become” more exciting, “Alvarado said in the state. “I think everything is driven by national policy.” For more than half a century, Texas monthly An annual list of the best and worst legislators has been published; This year, editors Declare This, in a political context dominated by “the small horizon and focusing on punishment and coercion”, were unable to do so.
The Democrats in Texas enjoy a few structural power – “their number has exceeded and excelled,” said Alvarado – and their counterparts across the corridor hate working with them, so they have increasingly focused on fighting in a different square. “You have to resort to things that you will not usually do,” Alvarado said about her colleagues in breaking the quorum. “If they took place in his situation and they have a hot debate, juice and vital, he will not get a national attention.” Within two weeks of legislators, Gavin New Off announced that California will start a map of the re -division of their party circles (although it should be approved first by voters). The drama has been increased more by the calls of Republican leaders in Texas to track, shoot or arrest Kawakor. Once the Democratic lawmakers returned to Texas, they were tail by the state forces, to ensure that they are not left again. Actress Nicole Koller, from Dallas, refused to accompany the police, and instead she spent two nights sleeping in her office, as they wandered into an audience, sometimes, competing for Davis’s competition for 2013. Democrats may have lost the vote, but they gained a ground in the war for attention.