Contributed by Felicia Miyakawa, Special Education Advocate On Tuesday, Feb. 19, The House Public Education Committee will hear meet for the first time to discuss proposed bills hear public testimony about those bills. The hearing will start around 11:30 (or whenever the house adjourns) and it's going to be LONG: there are 12 bills on …
Write Your Reps! Say NO to David Whitley for Secretary of State
Take action today and tell your State Senator that voter suppression has no place in Texas, and that they must vote NO on the confirmation of Secretary of State David Whitley. In January the Texas Secretary of State — who is a nominee and NOT confirmed yet — issued an advisory that drove Ken Paxton, …
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Write Your Reps! Tell your reps to end the #FakeEmergency
The House PASSED Rep. Joaquin Castro's resolution to end the Fake National Emergency. Now it goes to the Senate. Ultimately it will need a veto-proof majority. So write your senators now! Trump declared a national emergency to build his vanity wall after signing the funding bill that will lead to even more detention, deportation, and …
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Take Action Newsletter: Tell Cruz and Cornyn: No new wall money. Keep the government open; #TXLEGE roundup; Indivisible Austin general body meeting
Tuesday! Indivisible Austin General Body Meeting! Sign Up! Take Action Tell Cruz and Cornyn: No new wall money. Keep the government open. If Republicans try to back Trump’s demands for wall funding, we will be right back where we started, with another government shutdown on February 16. Tell them to keep the government open and …
Take Action at #txlege: Week of Feb. 11
Contributed by Felicia Miyakawa, Special Education Advocate For those of you trying to keep up with #txlege, here are some action items regarding special education and medically fragile kids/adults. This week there will be several hearings about funding and appropriations. For those of you who have less familiarity with these issues, please know that we …
And the world was filled with awe | How your voices are making a difference
NM governor Michelle Lujan Grisham pulled the majority of National Guard forces Donald sent to the U.S.-Mexico border in that state, stating, “New Mexico will not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering by misusing our diligent National Guard troops.” Republicans Against the Law The Supreme Court blocked (5-4 along ideological lines, except for Justice …
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Take Action Newsletter: End the voter purge; prevent #TrumpShutdown 2.0; #TXLEGE committee action
General Body Meeting. Register here! Take Action End the purge: Tell SOS David Whitley to rescind the phony “voter fraud” letter A lot has changed since last week, when the Texas Secretary of State issued an advisory that drove Ken Paxton, Greg Abbott and even Donald Trump into a froth of voter-fraud-conspiracy theorizing. To recap: …
Donald’s usual word salad of lies and empty boasting | How your voices are making a difference
After the speaker of the House engineered the reopening of the government shutdown by Donald’s tantrum over his compensatory wall, Nancy Pelosi’s opening bid in the renewed wall negotiations is…zero. 😀 Meanwhile, perhaps anticipating another tantrum by the toddler-in-chief, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation that would withhold salary from the president, vice president, and …
Healthcare Issues at the 86th Texas Legislature – VIDEO
On Thursday, January 24, we hosted a briefing with Laura Guerra-Cardus from Children's Defense Fund-Texas and the Cover Texas Now coalition to hear about a host of healthcare issues at the #txlege. If you want to catch up on these issues, the slides and video of the presentation are available. We're planning a mid-session catch-up …
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Take Action Newsletter: What the SOS actually said about noncitizen voting; John Cornyn’s shutdown flipflop; #TXLEGE committee assignments
Poll: When can you join our general body meetings? Take Action No, the Texas Secretary of State did not say that thousands of people voted illegally The Texas secretary of state's office flagged 95,000 registered voters who the state says counties should consider checking to see whether they are U.S. citizens. This set off a …