What happens in Texas fortunately doesn’t stay in Texas. The world is watching. What happens and how this all plays out will no doubt be an important determination of how America responds to the Republican War On Women. Since President Obama was re-elected, Republicans have doubled down on their full-out assault on women. From equal […]
You might recall the efforts by Texas Republicans to falsify the vote count on the controversial abortion bill earlier this week. Of particular note are the following two screenshots taken from the Texas Legislature Online site. At 12:54 a.m. Wednesday morning the site showed SB-5 as having been passed on “6-26-13″ or after the legislative […]
On Wednesday, Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a veteran of the Iraq War, dramatically chastised a federal contractor who claimed that a high school sports injury had rendered him a service-disabled veteran. Speaking during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Duckworth vividly described to a committee witness, Braulio Castillo, how she lives […]
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis had the eyes of the nation during her long filibuster of an anti-abortion bill. Davis tells Chris Hayes about the details of her test of will and endurance. She also said she’d be lying if she told us she didn’t have aspirations to run for a state-wide office in Texas. […]
Texas State Senator Wendy Davis talked with Rachel Maddow about the firebomb attack on her offices and the necessity of standing up to the radical right-wing agenda sweeping through state legislatures across the country. The segment was first aired on March 21, 2012. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy