‘We use what tools we have’: Democrats take drastic action in bid to resist Republican rule

Across the US, in Republican-controlled states Democrats are being forced to get creative to oppose a conservative agenda

When a group of Texas Democratic legislators fled their state this month to prevent Republicans from enacting controversial voting restrictions, the incident became somewhat of a Rorschach test for lawmakers in Washington.

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