This was originally posted two years ago. Now, as attacks on LGBTQ+ Texans have intensified to dangerous and frightening levels from the rightwing, we wanted to re-share the long and mighty history of Pride in the Lone Star State. With many cities kicking off their...
Across Texas, activists and community members protested after video emerged showing a brutal (and fatal) act of violence by the police against a young Black man in Memphis. On Friday evening, the Memphis Police Department released a video that they were warning was a...
Around 400 protesters gathered outside the University of Houston’s Student Center to protest against conservative commentator Matt Walsh’s public speaking event on Oct. 13. In addition to speaking, Walsh also previewed his latest Daily Wire documentary, “What is a...
Construction workers Omar Zuniga and Bolivar Pineda Ortiz (right) protest wage theft at the University of Houston, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. Workers Defense Project. A year after more than a dozen construction workers accused a contractor employed by the University of...
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...
Sen. Ted Cruz has been busy touting his most recent legislation, the RECLAIM Act. The bill allows business owners to hold state and local officials liable for the destruction of property inside “law enforcement free zones.” Cruz is referring to the six city blocks...
As protests continue around the country following the death of George Floyd, many sports figures and teams around Texas are taking action and making it clear they are not going to “stick to sports.” Yesterday, the football team from the University of Texas marched arm...
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is known for feeding his nearly 1 million Facebook followers a healthy dose of red meat, fake news and conspiracy theories. Over the past week the controversial conservative accused, without evidence, billionaire Holocaust...