The Battle Over Expanding Postpartum Care in Texas
By refusing to expand Medicaid, Texas Republicans keep making life harder for poor Texans. Case in point: what’s going on with postpartum coverage. Last week, reports emerged that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would be denying an application from...
CNN Report on Texas Dark Money Renews Push for Reform
Democratic lawmakers and the watchdog group Public Citizen gathered in Austin on Tuesday to push for limits on state-level campaign contributions and modernize the Texas Ethics Commission. It’s a renewed push to curb the influence of dark money on Texas politics...
Biden, Mayor Adams Slam Abbott for Busing Migrants to NYC
Over the weekend, the Biden Administration denounced Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest political stunt, which added New York City to the list of destinations for busing asylum-seeking migrants from the Texas-Mexico border. Over the weekend, the Biden administration...
Cruz, Cornyn Vote Against Major Climate and Health Care Bill
On Sunday, Texas’ two U.S. Senators voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, a major Democratic bill with key focuses on climate change, tax reform and healthcare. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz voted against the bill along party lines with their Republican...
Houston Community Demands Changes to HISD Code of Conduct
The Texas Civil Rights Project, the Organizing Network for Education Houston, and other community members are sounding the alarm on policy changes they want in the Houston Independent School District Code of Conduct. Both organizations expect the board to pass...
Biden Signs New Executive Order for Abortion Access
Yesterday, President Biden convened the first meeting of the interagency task force on reproductive healthcare at the White House. He made a series of proclamations dedicated to increasing abortion access and signed a new executive order. Biden’s executive order...
San Antonio City Council Passes Abortion Rights Resolution
On Tuesday, in a 9-2 vote, the San Antonio City Council passed a resolution supporting abortion access in the city. Like the GRACE act passed in Austin on July 21, the resolution recommends stopping the use of city funds to prosecute, investigate, collect...
Federal Money Funds a Deadly Police State at the Texas Border
Civil rights groups in Texas have filed yet another complaint with the Justice Department against Operation Lone Star, an anti-migrant program kicked off by Gov. Greg Abbott more than one year ago. The operation has seen the Texas Department of Public Safety and Texas...
Beto O’Rourke’s Campaign Finance Report Crashes Texas Ethics Commission Servers
According to reporting from the Dallas Morning News, last month when the Beto O’Rourke campaign submitted their routine campaign finance report to the Texas Ethics Commission, the file size was so large it actually crashed their servers. Now, the Texas Ethics...
Trump Slams U.S. and Russia Exchange Proposal for Brittney Griner
Over the weekend, former President Donald Trump slammed the Biden administration’s plan with Russian officials to exchange WNBA player, Houston native Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. Trump specifically blamed Griner for her arrest and said it...
Senate Republicans From Texas Block Veterans Bill
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans successfully stalled the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act which aims to help provide better healthcare and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals and burn pits. Despite overwhelming support from House Republicans...
Op-Ed: Alexandra Mealer’s Gang of Liars, Bigots, and MAGA Extremists
Harris County GOP candidate Alexandra Mealer claims to be a moderate. On national issues such as abortion, she not only avoids the tough questions, but often dodges discussing the issue entirely. In conservative spaces both online and in-person, she uses rightwing...
Beto’s Campaign Team Files To Unionize
On Thursday, 129 staffers from gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke’s statewide campaign made history as the first Texas campaign to run with a union contract. The Texas AFL-CIO tweeted a celebratory congratulations to the team on their contract through the Office...
Texas Republicans Embrace Viktor Orbán and “Pure Nazi Text”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the far-right politician known around the world for his support of “illiberal democracy” and fervent anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Muslim stances, recently took a big step towards open fascism by declaring his opposition to race-mixing in...
Texas’ Total Abortion Ban Begins Aug. 25
The Supreme Court issued its final judgment on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization on Tuesday, the last procedural step to finalize the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In Texas, the state’s trigger law HB 1280 is set to take effect at the end of next month,...