Throughout 2021, State Rep. Lyle Larson has done what he does best: Speak his mind. Known for bucking the Texas GOP’s top brass throughout the past several years, the San Antonio Republican was easily the harshest intraparty critic of Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration...
It was no coincidence the Texas Progressive Caucus formed days after a string of Democrats suddenly returned to Austin to restore quorum in the House. Although a press release announcing its formation made no mention of quorum, its founding members remained in...
The Texas Legislature may be back for its second special session, but hundreds of new Texas laws — 666, to be exact — will go into effect tomorrow. Many of the new statutes focus on somewhat frivolous topics, like allowing beer and wine sales on Sundays. However, the...
I’m a proud quorum breaker. By leaving Texas, my 56 Democratic colleagues and I shined a national spotlight on Greg Abbott’s voter suppression bill and pushed Congress closer to passing a new federal voting rights act to override it. We did it by staying focused,...
Congregating at midnight much like vampires would, Texas House Republicans voted Monday to advance Senate Bill 1, a bill that threatens to reduce polling hours and make it more difficult to vote by mail. Republicans are pushing the legislation as a solution to...
Ana-Maria Ramos was speechless. It was last Monday, August 9, and the Texas State Representative (D-102) was in a meeting with several House Democrats in Washington, D.C., when the news broke: Four of their peers had, without warning, abandoned their posts and...
It’s been nearly two weeks since Gov. Greg Abbott called a second special session and, thus far, Texas House Democrats have managed to stay away from the State Capitol. But unlike the first month of their quorum break, during which more than 50 members of the minority...
The Republican-controlled Texas Supreme Court tossed out a lower court ruling on Tuesday that prevented Democrats from being arrested by Gov. Greg Abbott. More than a dozen Texas House Democrats filed the lawsuit over the weekend as the second special session began....
On Monday, the Texas Supreme Court denied a petition filed by Texas Democrats that would have forced Gov. Greg Abbott to restore funding to the legislative branch. The governor vetoed funding for the legislative branch after Democrats first broke quorum during the...