Sen. Ted Cruz shared a rightwing article over Labor Day weekend calling for U.S. leftists to be imprisoned in response to ongoing protests against police killings of Black people. “This needs to happen,” Cruz wrote while sharing the article which urged Trump to...
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U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar blasts Trump on Maddow
In a Thursday appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Texas U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar did not mince words about Donald Trump following a bombshell by The Atlantic story that reported the president had called dead American veterans “losers” and “suckers.” Trump made...
ACLU of Texas flags 16 counties with possible Voting Rights Act violations
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas sent letters to 16 counties flagging possible violations of the Voting Rights Act for their failure to provide accurate Spanish language information. In total, the civil rights group discovered 69 counties in possible...
Planned Parenthood Texas Votes issues endorsements for November
On Thursday, the campaign arm of Planned Parenthood in Texas endorsed 28 candidates and incumbents for the 2020 elections. Planned Parenthood Texas Votes endorsed 27 Democrats and one Republican running for the Texas House and Senate, both controlled by...
Pregnancy is not life-threatening, says Cruz in bid to ban abortion pills
Sen. Ted Cruz joined 19 other U.S. Senators on Tuesday in penning a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to ban abortion pills. “As you are surely aware, pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness, and the abortion pill does not cure or...
Equality Texas endorses candidates for Texas House
Equality Texas, a pro-LGBTQ rights advocacy organization, endorsed 14 candidates running for the Texas House on Wednesday. “It is critically important that Equality Texans turn out in mass to vote this November to ensure that Texas continues its’ march toward...
Texas lawmakers pressure GOP Senate to pass police reform
Lawmakers with the Congressional Black Caucus held a press call on Monday to pressure Senate Republicans to pass a House bill on police reform. Democrats in the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act in June. The legislation includes a ban on...
Ken Paxton sues Harris County for trying to deliver mail ballot applications
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins on Monday after the Houston area election chief promised to send more than two million mail ballot applications to voters. The lawsuit, filed in district court on Monday, is...
Don’t trust Abbott’s budget cuts
A report by the Houston Chronicle on Thursday detailed the $1 billion in cuts Republicans are proposing to the state budget in response to the pandemic-driven recession. In a budget document obtained by the paper, $380 million cuts are slated for this fiscal year and...
Democrats ramp up Republican targets in Texas
The campaign arm of House Democrats announced Wednesday they were adding three new Texas congressional districts to their list of offensive targets. The new districts include TX-03 in Plano, where Helane Seikaly is challenging Rep. Van Taylor; TX-06 in Arlington,...