Writing Tips Make it personal: Tell Greg Abbott how COVID-19 has impacted you. Express your concerns about voting during a pandemic. Tell Greg Abbott that prohibiting counties from providing multiple ballot drop-offs is voter suppression. Commend Greg Abbott for extending the Early Voting period and insist that those dates remain in place The COVID-19 pandemic …
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On July 30, Trump tweeted, “Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” Trump does not have the power to delay elections. He is trying to distract people from abysmal economic numbers and the funeral of voting rights legend Rep. John Lewis. However, Trump’s suggestion is still incredibly dangerous because it undermines …
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“I think the president can’t single-handedly remember everything, I’m sure, that he’s briefed on” —US Senator John Cornyn, on the news that Russia is paying a bounty on the lives of US soldiers According to reporting from multiple sources, Russian intelligence units put a bounty on the lives of US soldiers in Afghanistan, paying them …
Updated August 22, 2020 We’ve come to normalize social distancing, mask wearing, and for those of us with the privilege to do so, working from home. But let’s not forget how utterly preventable all of this was—and that Gov. Greg Abbott, who follows Trump’s lead at every opportunity, is responsible. Whether it was reopening the …
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Sen. John Cornyn is taking it upon himself to single-handedly shift blame for the US death toll from COVID-19 away from Donald Trump and onto…China. Cornyn’s shameless sycophancy will get people killed. It will also likely raise millions of dollars for John Cornyn. Regardless of the source of the virus, or whatever missteps China made …
The Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 epidemic hasn’t done nearly enough to help working people. We’re calling on members of Congress to vote against the next coronavirus relief package (COVID 4) unless it is a true People’s Agenda for relief. That means the next relief package must: Keep people on payrolls: Stop mass layoffs, and preserve …
After initially appearing to take the coronavirus seriously, Gov. Abbott met with Trump and then immediately decided to reopen Texas despite mountains of evidence demonstrating that this will put many people at grave risk of death. Reopening the Texas economy is important. But people won’t stop dying preventable deaths just because politicians are impatient and in denial. …
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Updated August 23, 2020. This letter will go to your US senators. The House passed the bipartisan Delivering for America Act, which—if passed in the Senate and signed into law—would give $25 billion to USPS, restore overtime to USPS workers, prohibit removal of mail sorting machines & mailboxes, and require all election mail be treated as …
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We’re asking Governor Abbott to allow all Texas voters to vote by mail during the primary runoff election on July 14 and the general election on November 3.
Statement by League of Women Voters of Texas President Grace Chimene on Election Changes Needed Needed to Deal with COVID-19: We are all very concerned about the growing COVID-19 health threat to our local communities, all of Texas, the nation, and all the nations of the world. The Leagues of Women Voters across the country …