U.S. District Judge Alan Albright issued a written order stopping the state from implementing HB 900, which sought to completely ban or restrict materials in public school libraries by creating a vague and undefined rating system with multiple levels of
Why Sierra Club Opposes Statewide Prop 7, and Why You Should Too September 22, 2023, by Matt Johnson Polluting special interests are counting on you not showing up in this off-year election, because that would result in them tapping billions of
Senator Laphonza Butler was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, who served as the second Black female senator until she resigned in 2021 to join President Joe Biden in the White House. The first was Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley
The 3rd special legislative session began on Oct. 9, to consider Abbott’s school vouchers bill. The proposal would give families who exit the state’s public education system $8,000 of taxpayer money each year to pay for their children’s private schooling.
On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Democratic members of Congress reintroduced the Freedom to Vote Act, a comprehensive voting rights bill that would establish national voting standards, end partisan gerrymandering, tackle felony disenfranchisement, require the disclosure of top donors and create
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After a monthslong standoff among Texas’ top Republicans, state GOP lawmakers finally struck a deal on how to cut Texans’ property taxes. The $18 billion compromise between the Texas House and Senate — which includes more than $5 billion approved
There’s too much money in politics.American Promise has a solution. End the flood of money drowning out our voices in our own elections. Special guest speaker, Ann Drumm, of American Promise North Texas. American Promise is a national, non-profit, non-partisan,
An unlikely provocateur, Miss Texas, takes on the state’s GOP leaders. The fact that Averie Bishop has professed her liberal views on race, abortion, immigration, voting, same-sex marriage, school shootings and comprehensive sex education — which Texas public schools don’t require
A Special Election has been called for November 7, 2023, to fill the vacancy created by scandalized former Texas House District 2 Representative Bryan Slaton. The Democratic candidate is Kristen Washington. There are multiple Republican candidates, and there will be
President Biden’s plan to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up marks a fundamental break with trickle-down economics — a failed theory that has failed the middle class. “Folks, let me say as clearly as I can,
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