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Teachers and parents face record-breaking back-to-school costs in 2025
| August 12, 2025
Another back-to-school season has arrived, bringing with it the familiar scramble of supply lists, clothes shopping, and, of course, financial stress. But this year hits different. There's an elephant in the classroom that's becoming impossible to ignore, and its crushing financial pressure is squeezing teachers and parents alike.
WATCH: Rep. Jolanda Jones speaks out on why Texas Democrats took a stand
| August 9, 2025
Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones joined fellow Texas Democrats in leaving the state on Sunday to break quorum and block the GOP’s redistricting blitz.
WATCH: Texas lawmaker explains why she left the state to block redistricting
| August 9, 2025
Rep. Linda Garcia (D-Mesquite) is one of nearly 60 Texas House members that left the state on Aug. 3 to stop Gov. Gregg Abbott’s special session, and in turn, a Republican plan to flip five US House seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
WATCH: ‘This is not a Texas map, it is a Trump map’
| August 8, 2025
Several Texas Democrats—including US Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Dallas), Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin), Greg Casar (D-Austin), and Al Green (D-Houston)—made their way to Austin earlier this month to testify against redistricting plans.
WATCH: Colin Allred urges Texans to ‘build a backlash’ against GOP gerrymandering
| August 8, 2025
Collin Allred and US Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) joined hundreds of Democrats in Fort Worth on Wednesday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and protest a plan from President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott to redraw the state’s congressional districts in an effort to flip five US House seats.
WATCH: Houston Dem says GOP is trying to ‘erase’ Black voters
| August 8, 2025
Houston Democrat Jolanda Jones calls out GOP redistricting efforts as a direct attempt to erase Black voters.
‘Texas law forced me to choose: Watch my baby die or flee my home for medical help’
| August 7, 2025
With two devastating diagnoses and zero choices to end the suffering, an eighth generation Texan had to leave the state to get the care she needed.
WATCH: Texas House Speaker signs arrest warrants for Democrats who left
| August 7, 2025
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows signed arrest warrants for dozens of Democrats on Monday, pledging to use state law enforcement officers to bring the lawmakers back to the State Capitol.
‘I did it for democracy—and I did it with my son’: The human cost behind Texas Democrats’ walkout
| August 7, 2025
In an effort to block Republican redistricting plans, more than 50 Texas House Democrats fled the state this week—a bold political act that comes with personal consequences.
WATCH: Jasmine Crockett calls on Texans to support ‘hero’ Democrats fighting GOP gerrymandering
| August 7, 2025
As Gov. Greg Abbott called for arresting Democratic state lawmakers and removing them from office, US Rep. Jasmine Crockett said they are "heroes" who need the public's support.
WATCH: Abbott threatened House Democrats who left the state. This North Texan is fighting back.
| August 7, 2025
Rep. Linda Garcia (D-Mesquite) has a response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s threats: She did not take on her position to appease the governor.
WATCH: Houston lawmaker on the cost of leaving Texas to block GOP redistricting plan
| August 7, 2025
State Rep. Ron Reynolds (D-Missouri City) is among over 50 Democratic lawmakers facing arrest warrants for leaving the state.