At ten this morning temperatures in Dallas were already hitting ninety degrees, but that didn’t stop a group of dedicated gun safety activists from the local Moms Demand Action chapter from staging a press conference to call out Texas’s newest extreme gun legislation,...
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back to archiveBiden announces executive orders on guns
In a press conference last week, Joe Biden announced six executive orders on gun policies. The six orders include an annual report on gun trafficking from the Department of Justice, filing “ghost guns” and pistols with modifiers under the National Firearms Act,...
How much money do Ted Cruz and John Cornyn receive from the NRA?
No matter how many mass shootings afflict the country, the GOP has largely refused to budge on even modest gun safety reforms. Texas’ Republican Senators are no exception, with Ted Cruz already lashing out at Democrats in the aftermath of shootings in Colorado and...
What you need to know about the NRA moving to Texas
Now that the NRA is filing for (financial) bankruptcy and facing litigation from the state of New York, they’ve decided to move to Texas. Here’s what you need to know about the NRA coming to the Lone Star State. The NRA is in serious trouble As mentioned...
The El Paso Massacre, one year later
A year ago, it was an ordinary Saturday in El Paso. At least, that’s how the day started. After a gunman entered a Walmart and started firing at everyone he thought was Latino, it turned into the largest attack against Latinos in American history, with 23 people...
Op-Ed: It’s been one year since the shooting in El Paso and nearly one year since the tragedy in Midland-Odessa and Texas Republicans are no closer to taking measurable steps to end gun violence and stop the spread of white supremacy.
On August 3, 2019, a gunman motivated by xenophobia and white supremacy traveled more than 11 hours through the state of Texas to open fire in an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 people. The shooter posted a manifesto shortly before committing the massacre in which he...
Gun safety group to invest $8 million in ousting Texas Republicans
Fresh from a victory in Virginia where Republicans lost the statehouse for the first time in decades, Everytown for Gun Safety is planning on investing at least $8 million in Texas to flip the state House next. The money will go to defend Democrats and pressure...
The Texas GOP spent the past two decades building a firearm-obsessed state. No one is safer for it.
After a string of deadly back-to-back mass shootings in recent years, Texas Republicans continued their argument —give guns to more people—following the weekend shooting in a White Settlement church in North Texas. So far, praise has been rightfully heaped onto Jack...
Police chief lambasted John Cornyn on Violence Against Women Act
At a news conference on Monday, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo made national headlines for calling out Sen. John Cornyn and other Republicans for not passing the Violence Against Women Act. Days prior, one of Acevedo’s men, Sgt. Christopher Brewster, was...