Texas Politics: Special Session to Consider SB5*
*The special session was supposed to include HB60 and HB16 as well, but both got postponed and SB5 quickly became the focal point of the session. HB60 and HB16 were folded into SB5. Jessica Farrar is a...
View ArticleTexas Politics: Don’t Mess with Texas Women
In the chaos of the last few days, I have gotten a better crash course in House & Senate rules, proceedings, and norms, than I ever could have imagined. At 12:30am last night, I somehow ended up in...
View ArticleTexas Politics: An Open Letter to the Media
Dear News Outlets, I want to clear something up — something that friends and relatives have asked me — and something that I feel has been inaccurately represented by news organizations reporting on the...
View ArticleTexas Politics: Special Session Logistics
History of Special Sessions Historically, special sessions are only called in order to address emergency issues that hadn’t arisen during a regular session. If, for example, a natural disaster, hit...
View ArticleTexas Politics: Women of Color & SB5
This is an incredibly written piece over at La Burquena that voices many of the concerns I had watching media coverage of SB5. Rep. Farrar, along with other women of color in the House, was largely...
View ArticleTexas Politics: Getting Ready for the Second Special
Did y’all think this was all going to die down after the first special? Think again. Lt. Gov. Dewhurst has now made the following threats: He will arrest any members of the media he believes were...
View ArticleRio Grande Valley Media/ Medios de Comunicación en Español
*Post by Nancy Cardenas @nancycardenas91 * La segunda sesión especial comienza en Texas, las mujeres y hombres por igual se reúnen por todo el estado de Texas para oponerse a la nueva legislación que...
View ArticleStand with Texas Women Rally
Stand with Texas Women Rally 7/1 Pro-choice protesters in the Capitol rotunda during rally 7/1 Stand with Texas Women Rally 7/1 Stand with Texas Women Rally 7/1 Lots of Texas mamas at the Stand with...
View ArticleHouse Committee Hearing on HB2 & Diverse Needs of Texan Women
There has been some truly incredible testimony tonight at the Senate committee hearing, and there are many quotes that I would like to honor and remember as the days of the second special tick by, but...
View ArticleThe Impact of HB2* on Women of Color
The national media missed its chance to cover the SB5 debate and filibuster in real time. Despite being contacted by hundreds of pro-choice activists, the cameras didn’t start rolling until after...
View ArticleHB2* y Mujeres de Color
Escrito por Alexis Kostun y traducido por Nancy Cardenas Los medios de comunicación nacional perdieron su oportunidad de cubrir el debate SB5 y el filibustero en tiempo real. A pesar de haber sido...
View ArticleShow Us What Democracy Looks Like
This is what democracy looks like! I’ve spent more time in the Texas Capitol in the last month than in the entire 19 years before that, and though there were times when I was tired or sick or hungry or...
View ArticleVerisimilitude Runs in Rivers
when I was in high school learning to take the tenets of journalism like the sacraments of christ we learned a wealth of rules some that matter more than others but I must have missed the day when we...
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