POLITICS
Senate passes GOP’s tax and spending bill with Cornyn, Cruz priorities included
ECONOMY | EDUCATION | greg abbott | lawmakers | laws | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story
(Op-ed) Kids don’t vote: How the media, public talks about Texas, Camp Mystic flood matters
| July 7, 2025
climate | CLIMATE CHANGE | national politics | natural disaster | OPINION | TEXAS | TEXAS POLITICS | weather
While natural disasters can often be tied to politics, is it appropriate to have that conversation immediately after tragedy strikes?
What to know about the flash floods in Texas that killed more than 80 people
| July 7, 2025
Flash floods in Texas killed at least 82 people over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and left others still missing, including girls attending a summer camp. The devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, has drawn a massive search effort as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions.
How to fight Texas’ ‘trash’ school library censorship policies
| July 3, 2025
bannedbooks | EXCO-Player | old texas | public education | public school | TEXAS | TEXAS LEGISLATURE | TEXAS POLITICS | TEXAS SENATE | youtube
Senate Bill 13, which literacy advocates say will destroy public school libraries and make book banning easier in Texas, takes power away from public school librarians and gives it to school boards and parents instead.
But local advocates like Laney Hawes, co-director of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, are fighting back.
SB 13 creates an advisory committee made up of parents that school boards can delegate decision making to, but there’s an option in the new law that allows districts to not adopt the council.
“ Our recommendation is, to districts, do not approve the library council in your school districts because it doesn't work,” Hawes told COURIER Texas. “It wasn't written to work. Don't do it. It's too many steps, and it’s going to destroy your school library.”
Senate passes GOP’s tax and spending bill with Cornyn, Cruz priorities included
| July 2, 2025
ECONOMY | EDUCATION | greg abbott | lawmakers | laws | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | TEXAS | Texas Lead Story
Following a 26-hour marathon voting session and lengthy, late-night negotiations, the U.S. Senate has passed its version of Republicans’ landmark tax and spending bill with both Texas senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, voting for the legislation.
Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
| June 27, 2025
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | CIVIL RIGHTS | Donald Trump | EQUALITY | EXTREMISM | Federal Cuts | HEALTH | IMMIGRATION | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | Supreme Court
A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.
Here’s a running list of upcoming protests across Texas
| June 26, 2025
CIVIL RIGHTS | Community | DALLAS | DFW EVENTS | FORT WORTH | HTX | laws | local | politics | protests | TEXAS | THINGS TO DO
Look to this list of upcoming events and protests happening in the DFW area.
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules
| June 26, 2025
A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
Rural Texas could lose dozens of hospitals under Republican budget bill
| June 25, 2025
Already struggling rural hospitals in Texas could be forced to close due to healthcare spending cuts under a Republican-backed bill in Congress.
‘An all-out assault:’ Texas educators stand up to Trump, Abbott attacks on public education
| June 23, 2025
From President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the US Education Department to school voucher plans from Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas educators are standing up to a Republican war on public education.
Dan Patrick Wins Big With THC Ban But Stays Angry With His Own ‘Crazy Talk’
| June 13, 2025
Lt. Dan Patrick stays mad. He helped ban consumable T💨C products in Texas and is still angry at the media.
‘The uncertainty has been debilitating’: DFW business owners react to THC ban
| June 12, 2025
If Gov. Greg Abbott — who signed a bill in 2019 that legalized the sale of products with less than 0.3% of THC — does not veto SB 3, an $8 billion industry that includes over 8,000 small businesses and employs over 50,000 people throughout the state will be wiped out.
Book Banning in Texas Public Schools Just Got Easier
| June 11, 2025
bannedbooks | book ban | EXCO-Player | old texas | public education | public school | TEXAS | TEXAS LEGISLATURE | youtube
From taking power away from school librarians to requiring age verification in public libraries, book banning was top-of-mind for Republican lawmakers in Texas this legislative session.
To see which bills passed, check the link in bio.