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...
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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...
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...
Uvalde School Board Votes To Push Abbott To Call a Special Session on Guns
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District trustees unanimously voted to send a request to Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session on gun violence. The school board wants the governor and legislatures to pass a bill to change the legal age to buy...
Austin City Council Passes Resolution To Decriminalize Abortion
In a 10-0 vote, Austin City Council passed a resolution to decriminalize abortion in the state capital. The resolution also asks law enforcement to make prosecuting abortion seekers and abortion providers their lowest priority. And stops agencies from...
Texas Non-Profits Launch Statewide Voter Access Campaign
The Democracy from the Ground Up Coalition launched its campaign on Wednesday to pass 15 voting reforms in 15 counties across the state to increase voter access amidst the November midterm elections. According to the coalition, which includes Move Texas, Common...
Will Houston’s First Openly Gay Mayor Support an Anti-LGBTQ Republican?
Former Houston Mayor Annise Parker made waves in Harris County politics this week when she found herself at the center of the increasingly dramatic feud between Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and District Attorney Kim Ogg. Parker, a longtime supporter of Ogg who has...
AOC, Lieu pressure Senate to clarify if Kavanaugh, Gorsuch lied under oath
Last week, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Rep. Ted Lieu (CA-36) sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer requesting the Senate investigate whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch lied under oath on their viewpoints of Roe v. Wade. ...
President Biden Signs Underwhelming Executive Order on Reproductive Healthcare
Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to an abortion, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect access to abortion and reproductive healthcare after pressure from Democratic lawmakers and constituents to act. ...
Abortion Provider Whole Women’s Health Plans to Move to New Mexico
The Whole Women’s Health Organization, one of Texas’s biggest independent abortion providers, plans to relocate to a border city in New Mexico. This move comes after the Texas Supreme Court ruled in favor of a 1925 Texas law which banned all abortions in the state...