带走里克·克莱因
民主党抛弃的立法者在周二的立法会议之前，德克萨斯州将取代华盛顿喜欢说服共和党人改变主意，搁置新的投票限制。
乔·拜登总统也是如此，他将前往费城，对他的白宫认为对民主至关重要的一个问题提出新的主张。
但他们最重要的目标受众仍然是在他们自己的党内。它甚至可能特别针对一两个参议员——一小群议员，他们说没有哪种情况下他们将投票改变阻挠议事规则。
星期二逐渐成为世界上一个重要的日子投票权之争消耗了一年的大部分时间。亚特兰大的一天不会主持棒球美国全明星赛因为格鲁吉亚投票权法除了一场重要的总统演讲外，拜登还计划在德克萨斯州举行立法抵制活动关于最后一个的“大谎言”选举共和党影响未来的努力。
共和党人愤怒了在他们看来，这是德州民主党人放弃责任。这民主信息更有趣的是:他们用“大胆”和“勇敢”这样的词为自己欢呼——并说他们希望州议员的行为比奥斯汀更能成为华盛顿的榜样。
副总统卡玛拉•哈里斯星期一说:“他们是走在许多其他人走过的道路上的领导人。”。
在这一天结束时，或者不管立法者在德州停留了多少天，共和党人仍然会几乎处于有利地位改变该州的投票法。
对民主党人来说，现在更紧迫的问题是，他们能否做出任何改变他们自己的变化在联邦层面，虽然他们在华盛顿有权力如果不一定有足够的选票。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
政府立法机关伯尼·桑德斯，I-Vt。他曾两次竞选总统，将自己塑造成民主党当权派的对手，但这些天来，这位进步的旗手似乎正在引导自己的队伍成为国会山的焦点转向基础设施。
参议院预算委员会主席桑德斯是制定基础设施计划这将是两党谈判中许多“人力基础设施”项目的特色。
他的计划是有望快速推进通过预算和解，这一过程使民主党人能够单干没有共和党的支持。
桑德斯未经宣布会见拜登星期一到讨论他的计划。桑德斯最初的提议带有6万亿美元的高昂价格，似乎不太可能获得温和派民主党人的支持。
桑德斯说:“我将努力使该提案尽可能强大，坦率地说，我认为民主党核心小组的绝大多数成员希望尽可能扩大规模。
但是参议员不需要他说，民主党占“绝大多数”需要每一个人度过难关。它意味着民主社会主义的意志可能不得不妥协就在他的计划有多大。
小费梅格·坎宁安
加州州长加文·纽瑟姆将无法在竞选中自称民主党人即将进行的罢免投票在一名法官周一做出不利于他的裁决后。
他团队里的官员，什么时候回应召回申请去年，他没有说他想加入他的政党。纽森要求他任命的国务卿雪莉·韦伯将其包括在内，但当她拒绝了他的请求时，州长团队将其告上了法庭。
“纽森州长辩称，出席他不合时宜的政党指定的特殊情况支持一项命令，为不服从的行为开脱，”法官在提到纽森的失误时写道，但“法院没有被说服。”
纽森有优势即将进入9月14日的罢免选举，民主党人似乎并没有被这一裁决吓倒，尤其是纽森没有筹款上限。星期五将带来正式提交截止日期对于任何希望出现在选票上的候选人——至少65名充满希望的加州人已经提交了参选声明。
还有一点
前特朗普律师西德尼·鲍威尔和她的法律团队多次冲突周一，一名联邦法官在听证会上决定是否应该对她和其他律师进行制裁，这些律师在密歇根州提起诉讼，指控选举欺诈，试图推翻2020年选举结果，但没有成功。
Texas Democrats, Biden up intra-party pressure on voting rights: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
The Democraticlawmakers who ditchedTexas for Washington in advance of Tuesday's legislative session wouldlove to convince Republicansto change their minds and shelve new voting restrictions.
So would President Joe Biden, who is headed to Philadelphia to stake a fresh claim to an issue his White House is framing as central to democracy.
But their most important intended audience remainsinside their own party. It may even be directed at as few as one or two senators in particular -- a certain very small group of lawmakers who saythere's no scenario under whichthey will vote to change filibuster rules.
Tuesday is shaping up as a momentous day in thebattles over voting rightsthat have consumed so much of the year. A day where Atlantawon't hostbaseball's All-Star Game because ofGeorgia's voting-rights law, features a legislative boycott in Texas in addition to a major presidential speech, where Biden plans to tie the"big lie" about the lastelectionto GOP efforts to influence future ones.
Republicans are lividover what they see as an abdication of responsibility by Texas Democrats. TheDemocratic messagingis more interesting: They are cheering on their own with words like "bold" and "courageous" -- and saying they hope state lawmakers' actions serve as an example heard in Washington even more than Austin.
"They are leaders who are marching in the path that so many others before did," Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday.
At the end of this or however many days the lawmakers stay out of Texas, Republicans will stillalmost be in a positionto change the state's voting laws.
The now-more-urgent question for Democrats is whether they can make anychanges of their ownat the federal level, while they have power in Washington if not necessarily enough votes.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has run for president twice casting himself as an opponent of the Democratic establishment, but these days the progressive standard-bearer appears to be navigating its ranks as the focus on Capitol Hillturns to infrastructure.
Sanders, who is the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, iscrafting the infrastructure planthat will feature many of the "human infrastructure" items that were nonstarters in bipartisan negotiations.
His plan isexpected to be fast-trackedvia budget reconciliation, the process that enables Democrats to go it alonewithout Republican support.
Sanders had an unannouncedmeeting with Bidenon Monday todiscuss his plan. Sanders' initial proposal came with a hefty $6 trillion price tag and seemed unlikely to garner the support of moderate Democrats.
"I'm going to fight to make that proposal as robust as it can be and I think, quite frankly, a strong majority of the members of the Democratic caucus want to go as big as we possibly can," Sanders said.
But thesenator doesn't need "a strong majority" of Democrats, heneeds every single oneto get it through. It means the Democratic socialist willlikely have to compromiseon justhow big his plan will be.
The TIP withMeg Cunningham
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not be able to label himself a Democrat on theupcoming recall ballotafter a judge ruled against him Monday.
Officials on his team, whenresponding to the recall petitionlast year, failed to say that he'd like to include his party affiliation. Newsom asked Secretary of State Shirley Weber, one of his appointees, to include it but when she denied his request, the governor's team took it to court.
"Governor Newsom argues that unique circumstances attending his untimely party designation support an order excusing the noncompliance," the judge wrote in reference to Newsom's slip up, but "the court is not persuaded."
Newsomhas the advantageheading into the Sept. 14 recall election, and Democrats don't seem to be deterred from the ruling, especially since Newsom has no fundraising cap. Friday will bring theofficial filing deadlinefor any candidate wishing to appear on the ballot -- and at least65 hopeful Californianshave filed a statement of intention to run.
ONE MORE THING
Former Trump attorney Sidney Powell and her legal teamclashed repeatedlywith a federal judge Monday during a hearing to determine if sanctions are warranted against her and other attorneys who filed a lawsuit in Michigan based on false claims of election fraud in an unsuccessful attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
