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Would it surprise you to hear that there’s a single legislative reform that will set us on course to solve our health care, school funding, energy, and environmental problems?
If so, you haven’t heard about Clean Elections.
Clean Elections, an opt-in system of publicly funded campaigns, is a way for average citizens to run for […]

Watch the Senate debate here.
This will be a great place to learn the sound bites we can expect in Texas as our own Clean Elections campaign gets traction.
Clean Elections is a way to run without having to court corporate interests. Candidates qualify by getting a reasonable number of small donations. Once qualified, they get […]

Thanks in large part to YOUR actions, we can count some real victories during this legislative session. No, we didn’t get all the things we hoped and worked for in the areas of ethics reform, campaign finance reform, redistricting reform, and election reform, but we got considerably more than almost anyone expected. Most importantly, […]

We heard Friday (May 18) morning that Senator Mario Gallegos had to return to Houston because of his health (he underwent a liver transplant earlier this year). His intention was to remain at the capitol until the end of the session and in fact he stayed in Austin much longer than he probably should […]

Yesterday the long-awaited hearing of the House Redistricting Committee was held to discuss several proposals for reforming the Texas Incumbent Protection Plan, more commonly known as Redistricting.
Most of us are acutely aware of the redistricting fiascos that Texas has experienced over the past few years and believe things must change. As some of you […]

*quote from Rep. Dunnam on the House floor over the debate on voter ID
The underlying motivation behind the Voter ID Bills, HB 218 and HB 626, is to intimidate minority and elderly voters who typically vote differently from the way the sponsors of these bills want them to. If you have been following our website […]

House Bill 626, part 2 of what we unfondly call the Voter Roadblock legislation, passed the House on second reading this evening after the bill’s author, Rep. Phil King, offered a couple of amendments that made it a little more palatable to undecided legislators under pressure from House leadership.
The amendments did not, however, solve […]

We may have lost the battle in the House on HB 218 (voter ID), but we seem to be winning on the media front — which means we have a better chance of defeating HB 626 (proof of citizenship to register to vote) and of defeating any such measure in the Senate. Here are […]

The skies over Austin are overcast with dreary clouds today but not as dark as those that have hung over the Texas House on Monday and Tuesday. The Texas House of Representatives has voted (nearly along partisan lines) to reinstitute voting processes that have been banished from Texas for nearly 40 years.
Today the House […]

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Call your Representatives today and ask them to vote “No” on HB218 and HB626 on Monday.
Not sure who represents you? Find out here.
Download a talking points factsheet for these bills, endorsed by various organizations opposed to these two bills.