by Fernando Ramirez | Aug 31, 2020 | Policy, Voting
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins on Monday after the Houston area election chief promised to send more than two million mail ballot applications to voters. The lawsuit, filed in district court on Monday, is...
by Fernando Ramirez | Aug 10, 2020 | Politics, Voting
The Texas Democratic Party launched a new fund on Monday that will be used to send 1.75 million mail-in ballot applications by November. The party said it will start by sending more than 815,000 vote-by-mail applications to eligible voters in August, according to a...
by Jessica Montoya Coggins | Jul 24, 2020 | Immigration/Border, Policy
At the start of the year, many organizers and campaigns were gearing up for one of the most important undertakings for the country: the decennial census. Now, an operation that is already in flux due to the COVID-19 pandemic is being threatened by the equally...
by Fernando Ramirez | Jun 25, 2020 | Policy, Voting
President Trump intensified his fear-mongering campaign against voting by mail this week, warning in a series of tweets that foreign countries would print millions of mail ballots to rig U.S. elections. It’s the latest fabricated claim from the president about voting...
by Jessica Montoya Coggins | Jun 3, 2020 | Policy, Reproductive Health
In the war against Planned Parenthood, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn have always made their stance well known. In the wake of COVID-19 they are taking that fight even further, encouraging criminal and fraud investigations into a health service provider that is already on...
