On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced he would call a second special session set to begin on August 7, Saturday. The second special session is set to begin one day after the conclusion of the first, which was derailed when Texas Democrats broke quorum last month...
South Texas immigrant rights attorney Jessica Cisneros is running for Congress in 2022, Federal Election Commission filings show. Cisneros made headlines during the 2020 election cycle after mounting an insurgent campaign against Henry Cuellar, one of the most...
On Aug. 3, 2019, a white supremacist drove more than 600 miles to commit one of the deadliest attack against the Hispanic communiity in modern history. Twenty-three victims lost their lives to racism and gun violence on that day in a Walmart in El Paso and their...
President Joe Biden and Texas lawmakers are among those honoring the memories of the 23 victims lost in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso. “To the families of the 23 souls lost on this day two years ago in El Paso, Jill and I send you our love,” Biden wrote in...
Members of Congress and more than 100 state legislators from across the country will be rallying in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to delay the August recess and pass federal voting rights legislation. The legislators hail from more than 30 states,...
Earlier this year, in the face of a wave of Jim Crow-style voter suppression bills in state legislatures across the country including Texas, AT&T came out with a public statement of apparent disapproval. In April 2021, AT&T CEO John Stankey claimed “We believe...
On Thursday, Texas Congresswoman Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was arrested in D.C. at a voting rights protest outside of the Hart Senate Building on Capitol Hill. Lee tweeted, “I will always stand up to voting rights, democracy, and the American People! #GoodTrouble...
On Thursday morning, Texas House Democrats met with Fair Fight founder Stacey Abrams as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Both meetings occurred virtually. It’s been more than two weeks since Texas Democrats...
It’s been a rough couple of months for Black women in sports and I’m tired of seeing extraordinary Black women being dehumanized for choosing themselves. The world and America needs to understand supporting Black women and normalizing mental health is overdue. It all...