TCAN

Over the previous seven weeks, John Courage, chair of TCAN’s board of directors, and Teri Sperry, our executive director, have been meeting with members of the Lege—both House members and senators, Republicans and Democrats—discussing and reviewing proposed legislation.
As we have outlined in our organizational mission statement, we are advocating for ethics reform, campaign finance reform, […]

Ethics—honesty, accountability, and disclosure issues—have become a major subject of concern in our nation. Numerous public elected and appointed officials from several states and from the federal government recently have been found guilty of criminal offenses stemming from violations of state and federal ethics laws and regulations.
When people who hold the public trust, […]

Texas
Currently, in the early weeks of this 80th Texas Legislative Session, more than twenty bills relating to elections have been filed and referred to committees. They cover such election and voting issues as changing polling locations, election day as a holiday, “super-polling sites,” same-day voter registration, voter ID, poll taxes (ratifying the 24th Amendment), […]

Bills We Support in Texas’s 80th Legislature

Note: This is an evolving list that we update as new bills are filed and amendments or substitutes are submitted. Email us at info@TrueCourageAction.net to let us know what you think!

Campaign Finance Reform
HB 110 (Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin, and Rep. Elliott Naishtat, D-Austin)
—limits on political contributions and expenditures […]

“Participatory Democracy,” or civic involvement, is a major component of the True Courage Action Network’s empowerment program.
TCAN’s goal is to educate, inform, motivate, and thus empower people to make government responsive to the needs and desires of the people and concerned with the common good, rather than catering to private and special interests. TCAN does […]