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WATCH: Wendy Davis reflects on 4 years of Texas reproduction rights restrictions

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It’s been nearly four years since Texas enacted the statewide ban, and former state senator and reproductive rights activist Wendy Davis is reminding Texans what’s at stake.
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WATCH: Beto O’Rourke: Texans don’t bend the knee to Trump

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Former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke rallied with hundreds of people in Fort Worth on Saturday against the GOP’s redistricting plan that would flip five congressional seats currently held by Democrats.
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WATCH: Houston pastor reflects on Hurricane Katrina

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Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, Houston pastor Shannon Verrett reflected on the devastating storm, the choas of evacuating and the heartbreak of personal loss. “Most of the time when you're going through traumatic experiences in your life, you don't even know how strong your faith is. But when you weather the storm—when you're on the other side of through you begin to see: He had me back then. I was stronger than I knew,” Verrett, a pastor at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, told COURIER Texas. Katrina struck Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, killing 1,392 people and causing $125 billion in damages. Tens of thousands of New Orleans residents, like Verrett, evacuated to Houston.
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WATCH: Texas Republicans are trying to ‘cheat in the middle of the game’ with gerrymandering maps

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US Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Fort Worth) spoke at Greater Saint Stephen First Church, which currently sits in the diverse congressional district he has represented since 2012, on the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
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Op-Ed: Redistricting bigotry is a tradition deep in the heart of Texas

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Texas redistricting is a GOP power grab and an effort to blunt the political power of Black and brown Texans.