On Wednesday, in a 51-49 vote the United States Senate failed to pass the Women’s Health Protection with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) voting with Republicans. “They're trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade,” Manchin said...
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Texas voters want abortion access, despite Republican rhetoric
On Monday, May 2, Texas Republicans had an uncanny reaction to the leak of a Supreme Court of the United States draft opinion which plans to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case which guarantees a federal right to an abortion. Not surprisingly, Texas Republicans...
How to access abortion in a post-Roe world
Monday night, a draft opinion leaked by POLITICO showed the Supreme Court of the United States is set to overturn Roe v. Wade. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito writes: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and...
Mothers protest their children’s unsolved cases at HPD HQ
On Wednesday, April 27, families of unsolved cases protested outside of Houston Police Department headquarters, demanding justice, accountability, and answers in the deaths of Tailor Clark, Alexander “AJ” Silva, Aliyah Wilson, Diamond Alvarez, Xavier Degollado and...
Staci Childs on her run for Texas Board of Education District 4
A former educator and now defense attorney Staci Childs is transitioning into politics as she prepares for the runoff election race for the Texas Board of Education District 4 seat. In addition to her practice, she is also the founder of the non-profit...
The Latest on the Fort Bend County Commissioner race
All eyes are on the Fort Bend County Commissioner Precinct 4 race after incumbent Ken DeMerchant was unseated from his position after getting 14 percent of the vote in the March primary. Only 148 votes led candidate Neeta Sane to a first-place standing in the race,...
Four Black Women who made the path for KBJ’s confirmation
403 years after the first enslaved people stepped foot on American soil, the United States has officially nominated the first Black female justice to the Supreme Court. Now Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson represents not only a minority female breaking out of...
Black women working to end Texas’ high maternal mortality/morbidity rate
April 11-17th marks the week spotlighting Black Maternal Health in a time where Black pregnant people nationwide are still disproportionately dying in childbirth and postpartum at three times the rate of other races. The numbers are even scarier for Texas, with...
“If its white, its right” RAICES speaks on Title 42 hypocrisy
By May 23, the Biden Administration is said to scrap Title 42, a controversial Trump-era policy that expels asylum seekers in the United States based on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For context, on March 11, the same day President Biden announced an end to Title 42,...
Alexandra Guio on her runoff race in HD-114
Attorney Alexandra Guio said she experienced her American Dream in 2013 after officially becoming a United States citizen, passing the Texas bar exam, and earning a job in the Dallas County District Attorney’s office. After finishing college at the University of...