The Republican War on Democracy Comes From the Top
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Texas racism — it ain’t just schoolteachers, it goes all the way to the top of the government:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) led the effort to purge thousands of voters from state election rolls, according to electronic correspondence made public on Tuesday.
The revelation comes in the wake of last week’s resignation by Texas Secretary of State David Whitley, who widely was believed to have been responsible for the aggressive voter suppression efforts.
However, the release of the emails revealed that the state began rolling out the program months before Whitley was appointed to office in December, and that the disgraced former secretary of state had “nothing to do with the program,” said Luis Vera, general counsel of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
“This was Gov. Abbott’s program. He started it with [Attorney General] Ken Paxton, and he did this thinking they were going to pull off a stunt and they got caught with their pants down,” Vera told ThinkProgress.
This is a problem that is only going to get worse as the demographic situation for the Republican Party becomes more dire, and the Republican-controlled Supreme Court is an enthusiastic collaborator.