Author: Chris Chu de León
Texas Republicans quietly ended public hearings for redistricting. Advocacy groups are demanding change.
In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas Republicans have quietly halted plans to hold a series of public input hearings across ...Immigrant leaders living in sanctuary secure major win — and hope — in the national ...
Hilda Ramirez and her son, Ivan, with organizers and supporters at a socially-distanced celebration behind a sanctuary church in Austin. Immigrant leaders ...Progressive reformers won big in Travis County. What’s next for the criminal justice system?
“On day one, we’re going to end the prosecution of low-level drug offenses in Travis County,” said José Garza, the Democratic nominee ...The most important elections you’ve never heard of: Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal ...
Texas is one of just a handful of states in the country with partisan elections for its judges at all levels of ...Activists in the Rio Grande Valley, hardest hit area in Texas, start mutual aid effort ...
Volunteer organizers and community members from the Rio Grande Valley have stepped up to fill in for state inaction by creating a ...Beto O’Rourke and Texas Democrats unite for largest Black voter outreach effort in state history
Beto O’Rourke and Texas Democrats are joining forces to reach every single one of Texas’ 1.5 million Black voters by mid-August. The ...Clayton Tucker’s crusade to bring the populist movement back to Texas
Clayton Tucker starts his days at the farm by feeding his family’s goats. He’ll sometimes need to clear the fields for crops, ...DNC launches first Texas TV ad, signaling a play for Texas’ 38 electoral votes
Today, the Democratic National Committee launched its first TV ad in Texas. The ad hammers President Donald Trump on his mishandling of ...Beto O’Rourke is returning to Texas’ 254 counties
Beto O’Rourke, who famously campaigned across Texas’ 254 counties during his bid for U.S. Senate in 2018, is returning to every single ...AOC and Julián Castro join forces to build America’s progressive bench
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, two of the nation’s most prominent Latinos, joined forces on Tuesday night for ...Beto O’Rourke aims to make 15 million calls to Texas voters, more than half of ...
Beto O’Rourke’s organization, Powered by People, seeks to deliver dozens of decisive Democratic victories at every level of the ballot by making ...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. ...
