Texas has decided that Georgia shouldn’t be alone.

The Texas Senate just voted to limit Texans' voting options. Senate Bill 7, a GOP priority, would limit early voting hours, prohibit drive-thru voting and bar local election officials from proactively sending vote-by-mail applications. https://t.co/TVMHYE3yOD

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) April 1, 2021

Under the voter suppression bill passed by the Texas Senate, candidates could handpick poll watchers to read over the shoulder of voters and even film them voting.

That’s not getting enough attention.

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) April 6, 2021

JUST IN: Texas Senate passes restrictive new voting bill.

The final version of the Senate Bill 7 is not yet online for review, but the original version banned overnight early voting hours and drive-thru early voting.

Bill now heads to the Texas House.https://t.co/4vLlKqpDbC

— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 1, 2021

Republicans controlling the Texas Senate just passed SB 7 today, a bill restricting Texans’ access to the vote by imposing new limits on early voting, a prohibition on drive-in voting, and making it illegal for officials to send out voter applications, among other restrictions.

— Frank – 'Love, Children, Planet' – Schaeffer (@Frank_Schaeffer) April 1, 2021

This is nuts: Texas GOP voter suppression bill HB6 would make it a felony for an election official to give a mail ballot application to a voter who didn’t request one. That is ridiculously punitive via @LarryNorden @BrennanCenter https://t.co/R1h1ZnsZaa pic.twitter.com/l70KVfnv3r

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 7, 2021

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This is exact same argument South Carolina made when it led effort to challenge Voting Rights Act in 1965 & preserve Jim Crow https://t.co/D6G3Gyj414

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 7, 2021

More Republicans saying quiet part out loud

This rhetoric used to justify Jim Crow & by National Review to oppose Voting Rights Act

"Over most of this century the great bulk of Southern Negroes have been genuinely unqualified for the franchise" James Kilpatrick wrote in 1965 https://t.co/BuscMzunmh

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 7, 2021

When your party tries & fails to steal an election so you change the rules to make it easier to steal the next one that’s the textbook example of voter suppression

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 6, 2021

Just a reminder:

Georgia Republicans wrote every aspect of state’s voting system

They only changed it after Black voters formed majority of Joe Biden’s winning coalition & turned out in record numbers to elect first Black & Jewish senators in state history

This is what racism looks like

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) April 2, 2021