Poor People’s Campaign march to prevent Texas voting restrictions

Marchers set off from Georgetown on Wednesday morning, aiming to reach state capitol in Austin for a voting laws rally on Saturday

A group of civil rights activists from the Poor People's Campaign started their four-day march through Texas on Wednesday morning, seeking to prevent a Republican plan to restrict voting rights in the state.

GOP politicians in Texas are seeking to pass legislation which would make it harder to vote, in a state that saw its highest turnout in decades in 2020 - and little evidence of voter fraud. Texas Democrats abruptly left the state in mid-July in an effort to block the proposed laws. What is happening in Texas is one of the most egregious examples of widespread attack on voting rights in the US following the election in November.