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Voting Rights

July 30, 2025
Trump is taking a hatchet to chop up Austin and our state with the sole objective of maintaining his one-man rule. This is designed to eliminate accessibility, accountability, and a strong voice for our shared values.

October 2, 2024
If you want to cast a ballot in this year’s presidential election, the deadline to register to vote is Monday.

November 4, 2022

Voting rights are still under threat in Texas, with the Texas Legislature creating brand-new barriers to the democratic process. But it was hardly more than 100 years ago that suffragists were rallying at Wooldridge Square for women's right to vote. On Friday, Oct.


July 20, 2021

WASHINGTON — When it comes to breaking quorum in the Legislature, Texas has a history.


July 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — Texas lawmakers traveled down starkly divergent political paths on Tuesday, as Republicans in Austin signaled their intention to push forward with an overhaul of the state’s election system while Democrats who had fled the state a day earlier began lobbying lawmakers in Congress to pass comprehensive federal voting rights legislation.

July 14, 2021
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, knows what it's like to break quorum in Austin.

July 12, 2021
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) issues this statement regarding the Democrats in the Texas Legislature breaking quorum today as he prepares to welcome them to Washington:

The recent elections and efforts to limit ballot access in Texas, Georgia and elsewhere, underscores the urgent need for comprehensive, structural democracy reform.


October 1, 2020
Washington, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) released the following statement regarding Governor Abbott’s order today requiring counties to close multiple locations where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots:

October 1, 2020
In an order billed as a bid to maintain election integrity, Gov. Greg Abbott ruled that Texas counties can only operate one location to collect completed mail ballots, forcing some urban areas to shutter as many as 11.