Author: Chris Chu de León
The complicity of Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Michael McCaul in the mass arrests of ...
On the early morning of July 23, 1999, in Tulia, Texas, nearly 33 percent of the city’s Black male residents were arrested. ...Jessica Cisneros is not done: How taking on a political machine transformed South Texas
Four months after running for Congress, Jessica Cisneros has settled into a different routine. Instead of knocking doors, she is drafting motions ...Progressive groups unite behind challenger Sara Stapleton-Barrera, denounce incumbent Eddie Lucio Jr.
In a remarkable display of support, progressive advocacy groups that work on a broad range of issues from education, to women’s health ...Beto O’Rourke’s ‘Powered by People’ is an organizing powerhouse
I. Turning Texas blue: “This is a campaign of people. All people, all the time. Everywhere. Every single day.” Beto O’Rourke, through ...From Medicare for All to divesting from police funding, Texas Democrats now have the most ...
Every two years at the state convention, the Texas Democratic Party adopts a new platform that articulates the core ideas and beliefs ...Democrats have a plan to turn Texas blue: Latino voters
For the past few decades, Texas Latinos have been frequently referred to as the “sleeping giant” — a group so large that ...Criminal Justice is broken in Texas’ most progressive county: José Garza wants to fix it
Reimagining justice and safety José Garza thinks a lot about the criminal justice system — how it can best keep the public ...How Bernie changed Texas
Stories of struggle Believing in Bernie Sanders in Texas was once — and still can sometimes feel like — a lonely pursuit. ...Lessons learned from the last decade of racial gerrymandering in Texas
Half a century of voter discrimination Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 because of intentional ...Can a progressive beat the most conservative Democrat in the Texas Senate?
On March 3, 2020, in the shadow of a contentious presidential primary election, incumbent legislators and scores of primary challengers ran to ...
