Op-Ed: Trans Teenagers In Texas Deserve So Much Better
I’m a therapist with almost a decade of experience working with transgender youth. Texas recently joined more than 15 other states that are restricting the rights of transgender youth to access medically necessary care. These laws unequivocally cause harm, as well as...
A Brief History Of Pride In Texas
This was originally posted two years ago. Now, as attacks on LGBTQ+ Texans have intensified to dangerous and frightening levels from the rightwing, we wanted to re-share the long and mighty history of Pride in the Lone Star State. With many cities kicking off their...
DACA Back In The Courts
The long and winding legal wrangling over DACA continues tomorrow in Texas. However, it's most notable antagonist, Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t be there after he was impeached and suspended from duties. On June 1, Judge Andrew Hanen will hear oral arguments in...
Op-Ed: Targeting Young Texas Voters Is A Threat To Fair And Free Elections
Ever since I voted for the first time in 2018, my rights to do so have been under fire. Students like myself have been continuously targeted by our elected representatives, especially in states like Texas, where I have lived for the last 8 years. This includes...
Taral Patel Launches Bid for Fort Bend County Commissioner
Much has been said about how rapidly Texas is changing, and perhaps no county reflects that better than Fort Bend. The county neighboring Harris has been among the fastest growing in the nation for years, and for more than a decade it has gradually become younger,...
Op-Ed: Put Texas Kids First
There are more than 73 million children under 18 living in the U.S. and over seven million of them call Texas home. The biennial Texas Kids Count report brings together data across five categories of child well-being including health, education, economic...
Sine Die: Impeachment Edition
Today may be Memorial Day 2023, but for the brave souls fighting some of the most extreme policies in the nation at the Texas capitol, it also serves as something of a holiday in its own right: Sine Die, the final day of the legislative session at which point there is...
The Texas House Votes to Impeach Republican AG Ken Paxton
Texas House debated and voted on 20 articles of impeachment including bribery and obstruction of justice. The issue now goes to the upper chamber where the Texas Senate will hold a trial. Today, the Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Republican Attorney...
Has time run out for Ken Paxton?
No matter what else we can say about Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General has a peculiar set of survival skills. Despite indictments, sex scandals, and federal investigations, Paxton has continued to get re-elected to one of the top posts in Texas government,...
Update: Texas is still a battleground state
Colin Allred has only officially been a candidate for United States Senate against Ted Cruz for a few weeks, but to say the North Texas congressman has made the most of that time would be a wild understatement. Allred made a massive splash in the race against Ted Cruz...
Texas Attorney General Accuses Fellow Republican House Speaker of Being Drunk on the Job
Paxton’s comment follows the surfacing of a video showing Phelan slurring his words while leading the Texas House. Texas Republican infighting has reached new heights as we approach the end of the legislative session. In a statement posted to twitter on Tuesday,...
Op-Ed: The Threat Of Family Detention And A Lack Of Action
When President Biden took office in January 2021, immigration advocates breathed a tentative sigh of relief. Biden’s campaign rhetoric signaled the possibility for a more compassionate approach. For migrant families, that promise has not come to bear. Instead, the...
Mifepristone Case Lands Back At Fifth Circuit
Yesterday an all-Republican-appointed three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard the mifepristone case, and the likely outcome appears bleak. Last year, a rightwing organization and several anti-choice OB-GYN’s sued the FDA in Amarillo to reverse...
Safe Democrat Splits From Party on Key Votes
State Representative Shawn Thierry has been censured after voting with Republicans on multiple issues including on anti-LGBTQ+ priorities bills. In our last legislative roundup we noted that Texas Republicans would offer crumbs of power to any Democrat willing to...
Rick Perry’s Long Strange Trip
In the run-up to the 1988 presidential election, future Texas Governor Rick Perry assessed the field of candidates and boldly threw his support behind the candidate he felt most closely matched his values. Though he would later claim he voted for a fellow Texan,...