Just-impeached TX AG Paxton sued Dem stronghold in 2020 to block use of universal mail-in ballots

Over Memorial Day weekend, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was

impeached

by an overwhelming majority of Democrats and his fellow Republicans. He now has the special honor of being only the third state official in Texas history and the first in half a century to be temporarily removed from office. Jackson is no stranger to corruption, one could argue it's his thing. He has been under investigation in one form or another for almost a decade. The 20 articles of impeachment include stunning charges of abuse of office, adultery, bribery and unethical behavior for which he will be tried. the state senate where Republicans outnumber Democrats 19 to 12.

And let's not get it twisted. Texas Republicans voted to impeach not because they turned to Jesus about good government, they did it because they were upset that Paxton got caught and was trying to make Texas taxpayers pay for his three million dollar mistake right on cue Donald Trump came to Paxton's rescue by attacking state Republicans for impeaching him Paxton and Trump have had a symbiotic relationship back in

2020

Paxton filed a lawsuit to challenge the results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin before that. successfully

sued

the most populous county in the state, Harris County, which happens to be heavily Democratic, to stop them from using

universal

mail

-in

ballots

and he was very proud of it, we had 12 losses that we had to win and if we lost one of them like we lost Harris County, Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas, the Harris County

mail

-in

ballots

they wanted to send were 2.5 million, they were all illegal and we could have stopped all of them, if we hadn't, we would have been in the same situation on election night.

I was watching election night and I knew, when I saw what was happening in these other states, that that would have been Texas, we would have been in the same boat, we would have been one. from those battleground states that were counting boats in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would have lost the election while Texas House Republicans

impeached

that guy, tell Target, the Democratic county in the state. Governor Abbott is expected to sign several bills that Among other things, many of the Secretaries of State who were hand-picked by the governor to redo any election in Harris County would join me now: Matthew Dowd, political analyst for MSNBC and former candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas.

Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee will be joining us in a moment, but I want to start with you, Matthew, because this Revelation, this braggadocio of Greg Abbott, the corrupt, accused and now accused the Attorney General of Texas and he actually answered me a Question: Why does Texas have a majority minority population? So red Harris County has 4.6 million of the state's 29 million people, it is by far the largest county. Dallas County, the next largest county, has about 2.6 million people, if you control it and suppress their votes, voila, Republicans can't lose your thoughts throughout the state, well, Texas.

I mean, it's

just

one of the many subcases where they've made Texas one of the states. I think it's the hardest to vote in the country when you combine registration with that. That wasn't the case 25 years ago before the Republicans. took power Texas used to be the 14th state in ease of voting and is now 50th in ease of voting. This all has to do with the changing nature of Texas and I'll give you an interesting fact between the 19 between the

2020

census and between the 2010 census and the 2020 census Texas added 4 million people 4 million people were added in Texas 95 of the people who were added were not white 95 of the added population were Hispanic blacks and Asians in Texas understand the demographics and so instead of doing, I refer to the surprising thing about what Ken Paxton said, which is that I want make it harder for people to vote, that's basically what he said.

I don't want to give people the opportunity to vote. I want to make it difficult. is the case in Texas and other states, as you know, because we've had this conversation, they can't win an election that looks like the Republic of Texas, if the election day elected looks like Texas, they can't win , they could attract their acquaintances. They haven't fed the non-white Texans they don't want and so what do they do? They manipulate the system so that the elections don't look like Texas, I mean, and

just

down to the fact that we count Texas today, they did have over 200 different districts, some as small as 89 people in some of these rural districts and then you have these three or four giant districts that have a million or more people, which are the most blue-tinged districts, that's how you build a state where the majority of the districts are formed, these small rural districts, let's just look at the Harris county statewide Trump versus Biden statewide was tight 5.9 million for Trump 5.2 million for Biden but in Harris County Biden beat Trump 900,700,000 back to 2016.

It's also close to 4 .6 million statewide, up from 3.8. I think people don't understand that it's not a huge margin. You know, Democrats are pretty competitive, but in Harris County the Democrats win. Now they are trying to disband the Harris County elections commissioner. These are the Republicans. those who accused Pacs and not Paxton himself empower the Secretary of State to seize election authority from county officials authorize a new election if there are good causes for a recurring pattern of graduation problems can redo elections remove taxes from the center electronic registration information where you can get voting data and increase the penalty for illegal voting, from a misdemeanor to a felony, they are gerrymandering this state, Matthew, well you know what's fascinating, as you know, I used to campaign in Texas years ago and it was common, you know, the thinking is Harris County in Houston is going to vote Republican, so figure out the margins you need there and then the margins you need somewhere else.

Dallas County was the same way as another county, give me, let me give you a prediction of the next legislative session that they're going to have. go after Dallas County, that's the next place they're going to go and what's happened is the changing nature of Texas is that Harris County has now gone from being a red county to being a blue county. Dallas County went from being a red county to being a blue county, and so what are we doing is kind of D, you know, de-emphasizing it or having them give those larger counties less power in the state because if that is correct, if what they voted was the same as the rest of the counties, the small counties would win the Democrats and According to the data he showed from the 2020 elections, when 5.9 million voted for Trump and 5.2, 5.5 million Texans who were registered did not vote, five and a half who are not registered, five and a half million Texans in the 2020 press presidential election registered and did. not voting, that's the problem speaking of Harris County, let me bring in Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who represents Harris County.

I hope you've been able to hear what we've been talking about, Congressman, how does that materially affect the people in Harris County, those 4.6 million? people are essentially disenfranchised and the Attorney General, the Attorney General accused of his state, boasts that he has done so, it is a power of proportions that one cannot imagine and that means that all the fighting that was ever done in the civil rights movement and before the lives we lost, the civil rights soldiers, came to nothing because here we are in 2023 with a notorious denial of voting rights, plus on June 1 the state will take over a junta school duly elected to the Houston Independent School District, they will be expelled and there will be an appointed board of directors that no one knows who they are, so one person, the governor of the state of Texas, will overturn our elections of his own free will, eliminating all of our administrative infrastructure that voters have voted for. the public officials who designed it are basically extinguishing our constitutional rights to vote because I believe that the 15th amendment gives us a framework to vote and I certainly believe that the 13th Amendment indicated to African Americans that they are no longer enslaved and that they have the rights and privileges of a citizen in the United States this includes however Hispanic African American progressive women thank you