Texas

Refugees Are Being Stranded in NYC – Both Parties Are to Blame
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been sending buses of refugees to New York City. As the refugee crisis worsens, the Left in the United States needs a clear strategy for solidarity.
Samuel Karlin
August 15, 2022Texas Governor Gregg Abbott Sent Miles of Razor Wire to Help Mexico Stop Immigrants from Reaching the U.S.
Republican Governor of Texas Greg Abbot sent barbed wire to Mexico to be used in Coahuila with the intention of stopping migration. This is just the latest attack in Mexico and the Untied States' coordinated war on immigrants
Diana Bruja Palacios
June 20, 2022The NRA Exists to Keep Weapons Profits Booming and Guns in the Hands of the State and Right Wing
The NRA is holding its annual convention just days after the Uvalde school shooting. The group exists to protect gun industry profits and the state’s monopoly on violence, and keep guns in the hands of right-wingers.
Sybil Davis
May 27, 2022The Supreme Court Will Hear the Texas Abortion Law Today. Where Is the Abortion Rights Movement?
The current leadership of the abortion rights movement has tied the struggle for abortion to the Supreme Court and the Democrats, but that’s a losing strategy.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 1, 2021Texas Voting Rights Battle: All About Power, Not Democracy
Democratic lawmakers from Texas are attempting to prevent a vote on two bills that would restrict voting rights in their state. Republicans’ best shot at maintaining power may well be restricting ballot access, but the purpose of the Democrats’ response is to protect their own party’s power rather than to protect the democratic rights of Texans.
Olivia Wood
July 22, 2021Forget the Alamo (and the White Supremacist History You Learned in School)
School children in Texas are required to learn about the "Heroes of the Alamo." But that is a white supremacist myth that the so-called "Texas Revolution" was fought in defense of slavery.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 30, 2021Texas Bans Abortion
On May 19, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a bill that makes abortion after six weeks of pregnancy illegal in the state of Texas, making Texas the state with the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation.
M.K. Kumar
June 7, 2021ERCOT CEO Paid $883K Salary While Texans Face Crushing Electricity Bills
The deadly electricity fiasco in Texas is yet another example of how capitalism really works. The CEO of the grid is paid close to a million-dollar salary while the “market” generates bills to working-class people that could force them into bankruptcy.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
February 22, 2021Hugs for Killer Cops and Bullets for Black People: Why We Can’t Forgive Our Oppressors.
The trial of Amber Guyger, a Dallas police officer who murdered Botham Jean in his apartment, has sparked protest and controversy—especially after photos surfaced of Guyger being shown compassion and forgiveness by the judge, bailiff, and even Jean's brother. What is behind the overwhelming theme of forgiveness to people who murder Black people?
Julia Wallace
October 9, 2019Migrants on Hunger Strike Are Being Force-Fed at Texas Detention Center
In the El Paso Processing Center in Texas, eleven migrants are on hunger strike against the conditions of the center, the slowness of their legal proceedings, and the verbal abuse they regularly receive from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Ioan Georg
February 1, 2019