Winter Storm
Activists push for bill offering direct payments to Texans hurt by freeze
Advocacy groups including Workers Defense Action Fund, the ACLU of Texas, and MOVE Texas gathered in a virtual town hall ...“We feel abandoned”: How landlord negligence forced Austin renters into squalid living conditions following February’s ...
On Tuesday, February 16, Eduardo Canul lay in bed in his Northeast Austin apartment huddling for warmth. Like millions of ...Lessons from Harvey survivors for Texans recovering from the snowstorm
As Texans continue to recover from the snowstorm and electrical grid failure, thousands are now looking to the government for ...After Cancún trip, Ted Cruz will probably never see the White House
New polling this week shows that the trip Sen. Ted Cruz took to Cancún amid a catastrophic snowstorm in Texas ...More Texas Republicans, including Ken Paxton, fled during historic crisis
Last week, as millions of Texans suffered through freezing temperatures with no power and water, Ted Cruz took an infamous ...Congress demands answers from Abbott over grid failure
Democrats on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, including Reps. Marc Veasey of Dallas and Lizzie Fletcher of Houston, ...Greg Abbott’s spin on wind turbines isn’t insulating him from conservative criticism
I always tip my hat to Republicans for their ability to tie their brand so closely to the identity of Texas ...Texas Republicans are blaming everything on ERCOT and windmills
On Friday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas finally announced an end to the power outages that left millions of ...Texas Democrats blast Abbott and Republicans who failed the state in a crisis
While the power in Texas is mostly restored, millions of Texans are facing water boil advisories, untold property damage, food ...We should have seen this coming
The word “unprecedented” gets thrown around a lot these days and it’s tempting to apply it to the winter storm ...Beto O’Rourke, AOC step up while Abbott, Cruz fail Texas
Shortly after returning from an overnight trip abroad during a pandemic and deadly weather emergency, Ted Cruz spent his evening ...
