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Rep. Bill Flores’s Campaign Just Endorsed State-Sanctioned Execution of Political Opponents

Last night, the @flores4congress Twitter handle retweeted this tweet by Dinesh D’Souza. To get the obvious out of the way: Dinesh D’Souza is a convicted felon and the “uranium deal” has been debunked. (Yawn.) The biggest problem in this tweet is the photo comparison. On the right: Hillary and Bill Clinton. On the left: Julius and …

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Demand Answers for Young Woman in the Federal Government’s Care

A heartbreaking case making its way through the court system has raised extremely troubling questions on how the U.S. Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement is treating young women in need of medical care. A 17-year-old undocumented young woman under the government’s custody was given permission by a Texas judge to choose an abortion–but the …

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Texans Have a Moral Obligation to Help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

The outpouring of support for Texans affected by Hurricane Harvey demonstrates how functional institutions can help people in dire situations. Sen. John Cornyn is even holding up a cabinet nominee to demand additional Harvey aid. Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have no such representation in Congress. To put things into perspective, Puerto Rico has 300 people working …

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How Your Voices Made a Difference: Half-Baked, Spurious Nationalism

Congress is stepping up to fill the gap of leadership in Donald’s abdication of responsibility regarding Americans’ health care with a bipartisan plan to fund the critical government subsidies to insurance companies that will keep Americans covered and stabilize the health insurance market in the wake of Donny’s attempts to sabotage it, regardless of the effect on …

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Keep Calling: CHIP Is Still Not Funded

Congress failed to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Plan by the September 30 deadline. CHIP gives modest-income families that earn too much for Medicaid an affordable coverage option. What does this mean for the 400,000 Texas children covered by CHIP? According to the Dallas Morning News, a lot of uncertainty, especially for Harvey survivors: “As…the system …

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Call Cruz, Cornyn & Paxton Today About Trump’s Decision to End CSR Payments

A worst-case scenario came true: the administration has announced that it will end the cost-sharing reduction payments, or CSRs, that lower out-of-pocket costs for low income enrollees. This may take effect immediately. The elimination of CSRs is expected to cause premiums to rise on average at least 20% for ALL marketplace consumers, and some insurers …

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Tell John Cornyn to Withdraw Support for Judicial Nominee Jeff Mateer

We call upon Senator John Cornyn to publicly withdraw support from Jeff Mateer, who is nominated for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. We request that the senator vote against his confirmation both in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate Floor. Mateer has called a first …

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