UPDATE: some of this week’s events have been cancelled or postponed due to Harvey recovery efforts. Please see below for updates. We’re writing this on Sunday morning, as rain continues to drench Austin and the news out of Houston is very grim. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo (formerly of Austin) is instructing people not to go …
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Over the past week, communities from Austin to Houston to Dallas to Boston have shown that Americans will not tolerate white supremacist hate groups. Let’s keep that momentum going by pressuring our MoCs to censure the President for his vile “both sides” comments on the domestic terror Charlottesville. Censure is nothing more than a formal …
We are deeply saddened about the white supremacist-fueled violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. It was an act of domestic terrorism, plain and simple. On Saturday, Heather Heyer was murdered on the streets of Charlottesville when a man who identified with neo-Nazis used his vehicle as a weapon. Many others were injured, and people still …
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Congress is in recess this month, which means… TOWN HALLS! Democrats Lloyd Doggett and Joaquin Castro are doing a joint Town Hall in San Antonio on Saturday. (Details below.) As of this writing, not one of our five Austin-area Republican representatives has scheduled a Town Hall during the August recess, nor have either of our …
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Early Friday morning, with three key Republican NO votes, the Senate’s latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid failed decisively. That victory was a testament to constituent power. Groups from all over the country banded together to protect our care — and it worked! Back in January, we heard daily that the …
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Week of July 3, 2017 Have you shared your ACA story at protectourcare.us? We’ve collected more than 500 stories and are almost to our stretch goal of 1,000. We’ve emailed hundreds of them to Senate staffers and will deliver a hand-tied bundle this week. Thank you to everyone who has contributed. Monday, July 3 Today you should …
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Week of July 24, 2017 Early Friday morning, with three key Republican NO votes, the Senate’s latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid failed decisively. That victory was a testament to constituent power. Groups from all over the country banded together to protect our care — and it worked! Back in January, …
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Monday, July 17 All day. Call Sen. Ted Cruz and ask how weakening protections for pre-existing conditions helps Texans Virtually everyone except a handful of Republican senators thinks the Cruz Amendment to the BCRA is a terrible idea. From the CPPP: His amendment would set up two parallel health insurance markets – one with popular …
Week of July 10, 2017 That said, the Russian affair will continue to unravel slowly, while Senators get back to work on Trumpcare this week. Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn would love to ram through the BCRA while we’re all looking towards Moscow. Ted Cruz would love to be adding amendments to make the bill worse. …
Four ways to stop Trumpcare this week (j/k, we added even MORE ways to stop Trumpcare–check out Wednesday and Thursday) A Senate vote on Trumpcare could happen as soon as Thursday. Here are four ways to help kill the bill. Visit protectourcare.us and share your story. We’re more than halfway toward our goal of 500 …
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