The fight for fair maps is on🥊 and we need you! Our time to speak to the Texas House is THIS Monday, 10/4, at 9AM.
🙋 In-person testimony is allowed!
💻 Virtual testimony is allowed!
📝 Written testimony is allowed!
🙋 To testify in person, you can register and speak at the Capitol Extension Auditorium, E1.004.
💻To testify over Zoom, register at the link below.
‼️ YOU MUST REGISTER 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE if you want to testify virtually! The cutoff is 9AM Central on Sunday, 10/3. zoom.us/meeting/regist…
📝 To testify in writing, submit up to 3000 characters of your redistricting-related frustration at the link below! comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c080
🤷 Wondering what to say? You don't have to be an expert! Let's talk about the map.
📈 You know how people of color made up 95% of the TX population growth last decade?
😠 This new map creates *fewer* districts where Black and Latinx people make up a majority of eligible voters.
🗣️ You can say that you think the maps should represent Texans of color, and this one doesn't.
🗣️ You can zoom in on your district on the map. If the map breaks up your community, talk about that!
🗣️ You can even call for a more transparent mapping process.
To fight gerrymandering with us:
📢 Testify in person, by Zoom, or in writing
🗓️ Sign up for Zoom testimony by 9AM on Sunday 10/3 (link below)
🗺️ Let the House know that this map doesn't represent Texas communities! zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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🚨BREAKING: we just sent a letter to the Texas Secretary of State demanding answers to some basic questions re: this "audit." We request a response by close of business on September 28th. 🧵👇
1. What is the legal & factual basis for this review? The Press Release claims “existing Texas laws” grant Secretary of State “the authority to conduct a full & comprehensive forensic audit of any election,” yet the Press Release noticeably fails to cite any source of law.
2. What procedures will govern the review? The Press Release fails to describe any of the standards that the Secretary of State will use to conduct the review. Please lay out all of the procedures that your office will use to conduct this “audit.”
HAPPENING NOW: Senate Redistricting hearings! Click here to watch your fellow Texans speak out against gerrymandering: tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
Right now, @Domingotexas of @LULAC speaks on the intentional discrimination that Latinx Texans have faced through voter purges, literacy tests, and—you guessed it—redistricting maps.
Today's hearing is the first of two Texas Senate hearings on the Senate map (SB4) and the State Board of Education map (SB7). Photos below are from 9/18 and 9/20 respectively.
We got a win! This Tuesday, a federal judge ordered that Pamela Rivas be given back her land, which was seized for the border wall in Los Ebanos, TX. This is the end of a condemnation fight that began under Pres. Bush in 2008.
Rivas said that "going up against all the power of the federal government was intimidating, but this land has been in my family for generations." Before he died, she promised her father that she would "fight to keep the land that belongs to us." texarkanagazette.com/news/texas/sto…
Over THIRTEEN YEARS after Pres. Bush condemned her land for construction (and nearly a year into the Biden Administration), our client's land has finally been returned, along with payment for the years the federal government took her land without compensation.
‼️ TODAY ‼️ TCRP and members of the Rio Grande Valley Welcoming Committee will meet with Department of Homeland Security Secretary @SecMayorkas at 3 pm.
The Committee issued the following statement in advance of the meeting:
“Today, we are sitting down with @SecMayorkas so that he hears what people in the Valley actually need. Leaders from our communities are the ones doing the work day-in-and-day-out to build back better, as @POTUS has promised to do after the cruelty Trump left at our border."
"We hope that Secretary Mayorkas sees today’s meeting as the beginning of a partnership and two-way dialogue in which DHS...meaningfully consults with us to develop policies that accurately reflect the vision and needs of migrants and border communities."
After more than five years of court battles, a settlement has been reached in our litigation against the state of Texas for violation of the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as the ‘motor voter’ law.
With this settlement, current & future Texans now have permanent protections safeguarding their right to register to vote any time they renew or update their driver's license ONLINE. This is an important step toward chipping away at the state's effort to suppress the vote.
In just ten months since the lawsuit forced a fix in September, over one million voters in Texas have taken advantage of this new option and registered online while updating their driver's licenses. That's an average of 100,000 Texans per month using this method to register.
We're working with partners and allies to monitor things on the ground. Check out this thread from @FairDefense for a full update on where things stand 👇