This Week in Statehouse Action: Spring It On edition

It’s good to be back, folks. Missed y’all!

But you know what I didn't miss?

The terrible things Republican lawmakers have been doing in statehouses.

I may have stepped away from this newsletter for a couple of weeks, but GOP legislatures took no such break from their awful antics.

And yeah, there was some good news this week, and I’ll get to that, but mostly everything continues to burn.

• Just yesterday, Republicans in the Tennessee House voted on resolutions to expel three of their Democratic colleagues for having the temerity to protest the GOP’s continued inaction on gun safety in the wake of the murder of six people in a Nashville school shooting less than two weeks ago.

  • In the days following the shooting, hundreds of teachers, parents, kids, and other concerned citizens flocked to the state capitol to push lawmakers to actually do something to protect children from guns.

  • The pro…