The Austin Sanctuary Network Needs Your Help Memorial Day Today we honor the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. As the Trump administration yet again rattles its sabers in the Middle East, it’s worth reading the responses from military veterans to this tweet from the official U.S. Army account. …
Delicious Ironies | How your voices are making a difference
Breaking: Texas Senate Bill 9, the voter-suppression bill that would turn honest mistakes into felonies, is DEAD! Activism works, y'all. Thanks to everyone who called and wrote their reps to defeat this awful bill. https://twitter.com/TFN/status/1132783040726470660 Fighting the Attack on Women Bill Nye the Science Guy wants anti-choice activists to know exactly how scientifically ignorant their …
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The Rights of Women and Girls; Zombie SB 9; End the “Dead Suspects” loophole | Take Action Newsletter
Take Action The Rights of Women and Girls While the Texas legislature is no friend to comprehensive health care, this past week the state of Alabama’s new, near total ban on abortion dominated headlines. The law is so extreme that it would force a 12-year-old rape survivor to carry a pregnancy to term—and this in …
Don’t lose sight of progress | How your voices are making a difference
First off, don’t panic. In the recent wave of anti-choice legislation—in Alabama, where 25 white male Republicans decided the issue; legislation in Georgia that criminalizes abortion for residents in or out of the state, and the GOP lawmaker in Missouri who voted along with the rest of his party to criminalize abortion, citing “consensual rape”—it’s easy to …
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Last chance to stop SB 9; Demand that Barr be held in contempt of Congress | Take Action Newsletter
2020 Central Texas Election Resources Happy (belated) Mother’s Day! ❤️ Every day thousands of mothers languish in jail simply because they cannot afford bail. Make a donation today to the National Bail Out Collective, the force behind the #FreeBlackMamas Mother’s Day bail-outs. Throughout the year, the collective also provides fellowship and employment opportunities for those …
“What happens now will redefine the future of our democracy” | How your voices are making a difference
Donald’s Taxes Ten years of tax returns (1985-1994) obtained by the New York Times show Donny Boy sustained business losses of more than $1 billion—this during the time "Art of the Deal" was published (which clearly should have been in the fiction category); “In fact, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money …
Anti-Voter bill SB 9 turns the clock back on Democracy
Courtesy of Move Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project What is SB 9? SB 9 seeks to make voting much more difficult, confusing, and scary for voters, all while creating more red-tape and bureaucracy for county election administrators. In 2018, a record number of Texans showed up to the polls to participate in our …
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Support the #txlege children’s health coverage bill; Guess who’s not running against Cornyn; Run Wendy Run | Take Action Newsletter
Take Action Help Children’s Health bill HB342 get a vote in the Texas House! Texas has the nation’s highest uninsured rate for kids and it is getting worse. When kids get enrolled in Medicaid, they would get six uninterrupted months of coverage at a time. The current process gives children month to month coverage for …
“Unlawful, defenseless and condemnable” | How your voices are making a difference
Mueller Time Donny admitted he talked to his lord and master, Vladimir Putin, about Mueller's investigation. You know, the one that was top-secret and investigating election interference FROM RUSSIA. Turns out Robert Mueller wrote a personal letter to AG William Barr after the latter’s sanitized four-page Cliff’s Notes version of Mueller’s 400+-page heavily annotated report, …
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Last chance to #PurgeWhitley; Say YES to Civics Education; Cornyn vs. Twitter comedians; Defend Paid Sick Leave | Take Action Newsletter
Early Voting runs through Tuesday in Williamson, Bexar, and parts of Travis County. Election Day is on May 4. Take Action Say no to David Whitley for Texas Secretary of State We won! Civil rights groups—and you—successfully pressured state elections officials into rescinding the attempted purge of almost 100,000 voters. Now it’s time to double …