yeah, keep yelling!
This is what you call a People's Filibuster.
5 minutes....the vote cannot start or the clock is suspended..
Ok, so wait. What were the results he named right before midnight alluding to?
Cable News showing the water-skiing squirrel. Riveting TV.
We'll look back at this as the moment when Texas began to turn blue.
emptied the gallery. . This can't be legal. It's like a soccer game where they added time back on the clock for interruptions.
People getting arrested.
Just like I said they are railroading this throughh
Texas Legislature proves vote fraud is real!
Hmmm. Looks like they are giving up. Good thing. I'm going to bed so I can get up in 5 hours.
I wish I was this optimistic, but Republicans are expert gerrymanderers.
Republicans ed up. Slow clap for the crowd at the capital.
Good thing we have Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act to..... eh, .
AP is reporting the measure passed, but still no word on the floor
It doesn't matter if it passed or not. This will have larger consequences regardless.
Maybe....I just can't see this issue making enough rickybobbies turn texas blue overnight,...Texas is turning blue anyway over time...
120,000 people watching a stream is not a lot in the grand scheme of things. republicans can get away with this .
It sure is a shame that those mean Republicans didn't let Wendy Davis carry her filibuster to term.
that many watching the live stream of a state legislature doing parliamentary business is a ton. It's enough to make it a national discussion, I would think.
It was over 200k at it's peak... and you would think... until you remember that to make it a national discussion, CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, et al. would have to take a break from discussion what Snowden had for his in-flight snack.
...what kinda discussion? what should happen when our Republic supersedes the will of a majority of the people...its cons uents?
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