Jessica Cisneros files for a second congressional run
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...
Gun safety activists react to somber El Paso anniversary
On Tuesday, mourners gathered in El Paso to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the shooting that took place on August 3rd. The shooting at a Walmart was the deadliest attack on Latinos in U.S. history. For many in Texas, the tragedy in El Paso is another stark...
Texas and Florida are leading the nation’s COVID surge
Hopes for a summer of normalcy have been dashed by a new wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. In spite of vaccines being widely available and effective, the highly contagious Delta variant is raging through the large segment of the population that refuses to...
El Paso families and organizers honor victims of the Aug. 3 massacre
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...
Biden, Veronica Escobar speak on two-year anniversary of El Paso shooting
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...
More than 100 state legislators gather in Washington for voting rights
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,...
Op-Ed: AT&T Claims to Support Voting Rights as Its PAC Undermines Democracy
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...
Justice Department sues Texas over Abbott’s executive order
After sparring statements regarding a new executive order, the Biden Justice Department, led by Attorney General Merrick Garland, officially sued the state of Texas. Last week Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order (also known as GA -37) attempting to restrict the...
Musings: President Biden, Senator Manchin, come on down
Few United States Senators have ever, or perhaps will ever, operate from a position of privilege quite like Bobby Kennedy had when he was elected to represent the state of New York in 1964. The son of one of the wealthiest families in American history, the youngest...
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee arrested in voting rights protest
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...
How Harris County’s top lawyer keeps polluters in check
In July alone, the Houston area suffered at least three chemical disasters. Most recently, a deadly leak at a LyondellBasell chemical plant in La Porte released 100,000 pounds of acetic acid, killing two workers and sending thirty people to the hospital. Less...
“The Disconnect” explores the Texas grid’s February failure in stunning fashion
On the evening of February 14, Mose Buchele stepped outside of his Austin home to take in the first wave of heavy snowfall that night. An energy and environment reporter for KUT (Austin’s NPR station), Buchele instinctively began recording a video of the...
Texas Democrats meet with Stacey Abrams, Clintons
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...
Black women don’t owe you a damn thing
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...
With COVID cases rising, Abbott digs in against safety measures
This week, for the first time since February, Texas logged 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a day. That’s nearly a 150 percent increase from just a few weeks ago. And thanks to Republican leadership in the state, there’s no telling how bad things will get. The surge is...