CHEcast Ep 38: What's happening in the Texas Special Session? w/ Ric Galvan

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While we thought the 87th Texas Legislative Session had reached it's end on May 31st, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he would be holding a 30-day Special Session with 11 items on the agenda in July. In a call to fight for our democracy, 59 Democrats fled the House floor and headed to Washington, D.C., effectively breaking quorum and preventing Gov. Abbott from passing the bills he intended to prioritize this session. While House Dems have temporarily blocked the progression of this session, the governor is entitled to call as many special sessions as he deems fit. Confused as to how this impacts the Texas Lege?? Let's have Ric Galvan from Texas Rising explain!!
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Featuring: Ric Galvan (click here for twitter), Texas Rising

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Center for Health Empowerment
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CHE Relief
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Chapters

1. Center for Health Empowerment (00:00:04)

2. AVITA Pharmacy (00:00:10)

3. Welcome back (00:01:01)

4. Welcome to the show Ric (00:01:07)

5. Texas Rising (00:01:25)

6. Texas Special Session (00:03:08)

7. TeleCHE (00:03:20)

8. We're Back (00:04:01)

9. UT (00:04:12)

10. Talking about the special session (00:05:10)

11. Elevenn (11) Items... on the special session (00:07:32)

12. Texas- Abortion Ban (00:08:11)

13. Critical Race theory (00:08:47)

14. Racism (00:08:50)

15. Abbott- Banning- Native American History (00:09:08)

16. Native American history Texas (00:09:09)

17. writings of Fredrick Douglas (00:09:12)

18. Documents from the Civil Rights Movement (00:09:14)

19. Voter Suppression (00:09:32)

20. Anti Trans (gender) (00:09:35)

21. Bail reform bill (00:09:41)

22. Testifying (00:10:03)

23. texas legislature committees (00:10:22)

24. Elections Committee (00:10:44)

25. Texas Rising- Instagram (00:14:42)

26. Texas Rising UT (00:14:49)

27. Texas Rising St. Edwards (00:14:55)

28. [e-mail] (00:14:58)

29. CHE Relief (00:15:20)

30. Nice Little Break (00:16:06)

31. Capital Grill (00:16:18)

32. break quorum (00:16:43)

33. Why (00:17:38)

34. Rep. Ray Lopez (00:17:49)

35. Senator Jose Mendendez (00:17:55)

36. For the People Act (00:18:12)

37. John Lewis Voting Rights Act (00:18:14)

38. Texas History Voter suppression (00:18:27)

39. Texas- Jim Crow Laws (00:18:31)

40. Gerrymandering (00:21:13)

41. Redistricting Texas (00:21:15)

42. Census (00:21:30)

43. marijuana reform bills Texas (00:24:02)

44. Ground Game Texas (00:25:06)

45. another question (00:25:37)

46. Against Gerrymandering (00:25:44)

47. On redistricting (00:26:42)

48. Purple Noodle marketing (00:27:27)

49. That was a fast break (00:28:28)

50. Final Thoughts (00:28:41)

51. PNM (00:30:20)

52. Stay Awesome (00:30:43)