Sponsored by Indivisible Austin, Beyond the Bomb Austin Chapter, and TX10 Indivisible President Trump is attempting to normalize the idea of a nuclear war with North Korea. Such a war would have devastating human, and environmental consequences. Senator John Cornyn is the second ranking member in the Senate and sits on the Senate Intelligence committee. On …
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What We’re Reading This Week: First Charges Filed in Mueller Investigation (CNN) Early voting goes through November 3: Here’s a guide to the Texas Constitutional Amendments (TXLEGE Indivisible) Rep. Bill Flores’s Campaign Just Endorsed State-Sanctioned Execution of Political Opponents (Indivisible Austin) Burning Down the House: Joe Straus and the End of the Moderate Texas Republican …
The big news…Despite the GOP attempting to deflect the investigation onto Hillary Clinton (in light of the revelation of her funding the infamous Steele dossier), the two are not a zero-sum proposition, and special investigator Robert Mueller continues digging into the campaign, business dealings, finances, and potential collusion of Donald and his cohorts. News broke …
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On October 19, we were proud to host writer Sarah Kendzior in Austin at the Asian-American Resource Center. You can watch and listen below. (The sound quality on the audio file is better than on the video.) Audio from KOOP Radio: https://archive.org/details/PeopleUnited20171027 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4cy0Zg5E3w
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 …
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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Quick Links: Keep Calling: CHIP is Still not Funded Keep Calling: For a clean DREAM Act Read: How your voices made a difference last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4cy0Zg5E3w&feature=youtu.be Calls to Make This Week 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 …
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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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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Spanish Translation by Jasmain Rodriguez Why that matters, and how you can help Alirio Gámez entered sanctuary at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin in August of this year, and has been living within the church since. During a press conference in September, Alirio commented "I entered sanctuary because I have a right to live, …