"There's something happening here"............................... Updated !!!**#! Goddamn it! [View all]

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I was so Happy this morning, The history we made last night. Unbelievably Sweet. Three States fought the GOP and we won. Damn it we did. Fairly without deception. No smoke and mirrors. We won!

Well lo and behold the GOP rears their ugly dishonorable heads again. They are doing it in Texas again and I want to cry.

Statement by Sen. Wendy Davis on Announcement of Second Special Session

Misplaced priorities of legislative leaders squandered a tremendous opportunity to make much needed improvements in our transportation infrastructure and help create good jobs and bring businesses to Texas. Despite urging by responsible members of the Senate to bring up the matter of transportation, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst derailed as much as much as $1 billion per year in transportation funding by stubbornly pushing divisive, failed legislation attacking women's health care options.

If leaders are serious about using this second called special session to improve the lives of Texans by repairing and expanding our transportation networks, they will find no greater ally than me. If they intend to keep pushing their extreme personal political agenda ahead of the interests of Texas families, I will not back off of my duty to fight on their behalf.


http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13697/rick-perry-calls-second-special-session-to-pass-extreme-abortion-restrictions

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023106964

It's time DU, once again we need to stand up and be heard.

Texas needs us. Women need us and Senator Wendy Davis needs us. Anyone want a Hero, Wendy Davis stood for all of us for Thirteen Hours last night. We need to take her back~

Great OP Tx4Obama, Thank you for letting me share it!

As regular readers here know, I've been talking for awhile now about how what we're witnessing is the white male patriarchy in its death throes. Yesterday 5 Justices on the Supreme Court were the latest to lash out when they basically issued a ruling that guts the Voting Rights Act.

What I've also been suggesting is that we are in the midst of a third wave of a movement to remedy this country's original sin of slavery and racism. Of course the first was the Civil War that ended slavery and the second was the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 60's that ended Jim Crow. In both of those movements white people gave African Americans legal standing. Over the course of the last 50 years, they've used those legal rights to raise themselves up. The challenge white people are facing today is that it is finally time to look African Americans (and other people of color) in the eye - face to face as equals. And even occasionally see them as our leaders. That's not going down real well. And so the dying beast is lashing out.

Last night we saw a wonderful example of what fusion politics looks like in - of all places - the Texas legislature. Senator Wendy Davis - who owes her seat to a VRA Section 5 challenge - launched a real filibuster to stop a bill that would have stripped most women in Texas of their constitutional right to have an abortion. After standing in the senate well for hours without being able to sit or eat or drink, buoyed only by the crowds that had gathered to cheer her on, she put on a back brace - with an assist from a friend...Senator Rodney Ellis. Here's fusion politics in picture form folks.

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For quite a while now President Obama has been trying to light a fire under us - telling us that we need to engage as citizens in this democracy. I'd say its time we started watching the good people of Texas and the folks participating in North Carolina's Moral Monday movement. As the song says..."There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear."

There is more at the Link~ including a Video I have posted before.

Also here are a few other Links from smartypants's article.

http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/09/citizenship.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/02/1212808/-The-Moral-Monday-movement-in-North-Carolina?showAll=yes



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Something special is happening in Austin tonight: http://OFA.BO/CBZ6c7 #StandWithWendy
9:40 PM - 25 Jun 2013