Democracy Now! 2021-07-09 Friday

We get the latest on the fight to protect voting rights as Republicans in Texas unveil a host of new restrictive measures during a special session; In the southern African nation of Eswatini, the government is cracking down on the country's largest protests since it became independent from Britain 53 years ago; Lebanon confronts what the World Bank has described as one of the worst economic depressions in modern history.

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