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Op-Ed: I asked Ted Cruz to help free my son Trevor Reed. He did nothing
| September 26, 2024
Trevor Reed was held in Russia for three years. His father, Joey, says Ted Cruz didn’t do enough to free him. That’s why he’s voting for Colin Allred in the Texas Senate race.
Harris wants to cap child care costs and expand the child tax credit. Trump’s solution? Tariffs.
| September 26, 2024
Harris has proposed capping families’ child care costs to 7% of their income and offering families of newborns up to $6,000 in the first year of the child's life. Trump, on the other hand, has focused on tariffs as a solution to the child care crisis, despite evidence showing they would only raise costs for families.
Kamala Harris wants to end the Senate filibuster to restore national abortion rights
| September 25, 2024
The Senate filibuster rule requires a 60-vote threshold for most legislation to pass, making it virtually impossible to pass abortion rights legislation due to Republican opposition. Without the filibuster, a law restoring Roe v. Wade could pass with a simple majority, or 51 Senate votes.
The bigger the mum, the closer to God: How homecoming mums became important to Texas culture
| September 24, 2024
Here's the story of how homecoming mums came to be and what the tradition looks like today.
Harris wants to lower grocery prices by taking on price gouging. Trump’s plan would increase prices.
| September 24, 2024
Kamala Harris has said that she will call on Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging and give the federal government more authority to prevent consolidation in the food industry, if elected. Donald Trump, on the other hand, wants to impose tariffs and reduce food imports, a plan that would cause food prices to increase.