TEXAS
‘Women are afraid to get pregnant’: How the Texas abortion ban denies life-saving care
| September 27, 2024
Two women filed federal complaints against two Texas hospitals, alleging they failed to provide care for the troubled pregnancies endangering their lives.
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.