Texas’s renegade Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat
With the lawmakers in suburban Illinois
VIRGINIA WOOLF wrote in her essay “A Room of One’s Own” that women who want to write fiction need physical space to think. When Christian Manuel, a Democratic lawmaker, left Austin on August 3rd he carried her book with him. He and nearly 40 of his colleagues from the Texas statehouse would soon find themselves holed up in bare hotel rooms in a sleepy suburb of Illinois.
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