Texas’ newest abortion law allows $100,000 rewards for snitching on pregnant women
A new bill in Texas is designed to pit family members against each other at a time when they need one another most.
By Bonnie Fuller - September 10, 2025
A new bill in Texas is designed to pit family members against each other at a time when they need one another most.
By Bonnie Fuller - September 10, 2025
The White House has pressured Texas, Ohio, Florida, and Indiana to draw new congressional maps
By Jesse Valentine - July 30, 2025
Will a new bill in Texas stop the shocking number of deaths of pregnant women in the Lone Star State? That’s the hope of both Democratic and Republican supporters of SB31, also known as the “Life of the Mother Act.” The bill is headed to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott for signature and there is a strong expectation that he will sign it.
By Bonnie Fuller - June 03, 2025
Abbott’s critics say he could have postponed the trip until the storm had passed, or at least cut it short once he saw the scale of the disaster.
By Jasper Scherer, Texas Tribune - July 16, 2024
It’s not the first time Abbott has engaged in Civil War adjacent rhetoric.
By Jesse Valentine - February 22, 2024
Recent state and local legal maneuvers signal that Texas’ conservative movement could be wading into a complicated Constitutional morass the country hasn’t dealt with since before the Civil War.
By Eleanor Klibanoff, Texas Tribune and William Melhado, Texas Tribune - February 09, 2024
Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023
Lawsuits based on false claims about voting equipment could delay millions of dollars in cost of living increases for retired teachers expected to arrive in January. The lawsuits also threaten to hold up state property tax cuts for homeowners — arguably Republicans’ signature policy achievement this year. Voters widely approved both policies this fall. Now Texas lawmakers are scrambling in hopes of preventing further delays
By Natalia Contreras - December 04, 2023
The latest news impacting reproductive rights around the country.
By Rebekah Sager - August 25, 2023
The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states.
By Associated Press - July 25, 2023
Democrats said the Schools Not Shelters Act would do ‘nothing to protect resources for students and schools or address physical safety.’
By Josh Israel - July 20, 2023
Several Republican officials have encourage the public to support Daniel Penny, who has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely.
By Emily Singer - May 15, 2023
Five people in a Texas town, including a 9-year-old boy, were shot to death in their home by a neighbor with an AR-15 on Friday.
By Emily Singer - May 01, 2023
Daniel Perry compared Black Lives Matter supporters to 'a bunch of monkeys flinging shit at a zoo' and mused about wanting to murder protesters before he shot and killed a man.
By Emily Singer - April 14, 2023
The White House condemned the ‘cruel’ and ‘dangerous’ action to leave more than 100 migrants, including children, outside the vice president’s residence on Christmas Eve.
By Oliver Willis - December 29, 2022
A 10-year-old placed on a bus transporting migrants from Texas to Pennsylvania needed treatment at a hospital after reportedly suffering from dehydration and a high fever.
By Associated Press - November 16, 2022
Dozens of asylum seekers say they were lured into boarding buses or planes headed to Washington, DC and Martha’s Vineyard with promises of jobs and housing.
By Oliver Willis - September 16, 2022
‘The governor doesn’t make the law,’ said Shelly Skeen of Lambda Legal. ‘The family code in fact says that parents should be providing medically necessary care to their kids.’
By Casey Quinlan - July 07, 2022
‘They don’t really believe these things will solve the problem, the point is to distract us,’ said Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA).
By Emily Singer - June 03, 2022
GOP lawmakers are politicizing the baby formula shortage with false accusations as President Joe Biden works to ease the problem.
By Emily Singer - May 13, 2022
A bus carrying asylum-seekers from Texas arrived Wednesday outside Fox News headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By Emily Singer - April 13, 2022
‘I am relieved that we are moving out of state and filled with anxiety for everyone who can’t escape this nightmare,’ one parent said.
By Casey Quinlan - March 03, 2022
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are targeting trans kids and their families.
By Casey Quinlan - February 28, 2022
Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021
The candidate, Allen West, recently resigned as Texas GOP chair after he was accused of using the post to promote himself.
By Josh Israel - November 23, 2021
A Texas health program that offered mental health care and hormone treatments to trans kids has dissolved following attacks from anti-trans protesters who falsely claimed the program was ‘child abuse.’
By Casey Quinlan - November 22, 2021
Advocates called the ruling a victory for students with disabilities and noted it could have implications beyond the Lone Star State.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 11, 2021
New analysis shows non-Hispanic Black people will be disproportionately impacted if activists and legislators succeed at banning abortion entirely.
By Lisa Needham - November 03, 2021
The lawsuit says Republicans passed an ‘absurd’ congressional map that gives white voters more power.
By Emily Singer - October 26, 2021
Texas Democrats say the bill is cruel to transgender students and would lead to bullying.
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