Plus: What to Know About How Those ‘Fugitive’ Texas Democrats Will Pay for Stay in DC
July 26 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Texas Democrats flee to avoid a vote on election reforms. Who’s paying for this? Fred Lucas reports. Proponents of critical race theory suddenly claim it’s all about teaching history accurately. Jarrett Stepman has a few questions. On the podcast, a mother recounts her fight against a school that won’t allow the name of Jesus on her 9-year-old’s mask. Plus: Rachel Greszler connects fewer births and runaway spending; Mississippi challenges abortion on demand; and Nikki Haley objects to the Beijing Olympics. On this date in 1948, President Harry Truman orders the end of racial discrimination in the military by halting the practice of segregating black soldiers and assigning them the most menial jobs.
More than 50 Texas Democrats, along with 12 paid staffers, mark the halfway point of a legislative session on election reforms they abandoned to flee to Washington.
Mississippi’s attorney general files a brief in an abortion case to be heard by the high court, slamming its Roe v. Wade ruling as “egregiously wrong.”
“President Biden should make a clear demand that the 2022 Winter Olympics be moved from Beijing unless China comes clean on the origins of COVID-19,” the former U.N. ambassador says.
"I am a black woman who is old enough to see that Robin DiAngelo’s mumbo-jumbo is just repackaged 1960s white liberal pap with a large sprinkling of black nationalist jive," Hessie L. Harris writes.