I proudly served 6 years, including 2-year-long tours in Baghdad, Iraq. Not once did the gender or sexual identity of my brothers and sisters-in-arms decrease military readiness.

In case you missed it, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times Editorial Board condemned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid to rescind DACA as a “counter to the values of Texas” with “cruel and unjustifiable consequences.”

In case you missed it, Texas Senate Democratic Chair Jose Rodríguez published an op-ed blasting Texas Republicans for “sacrificing good public policy and the democratic process” for “divisive primary election fodder.”

Maternal mortality rates in Texas are some of the highest in the developed world. Fortunately, this special session, Texas Democrats were instrumental in providing real solutions for Texas moms.

“Austin, stop meddling and get to fixing — the state's school finance system, that is.” - Dallas Morning News Editorial Board

Today, as reported by the Washington Post, “Senate Republican leaders secured the votes they needed on Tuesday to begin debating health-care legislation, in a dramatic reversal of fortune for their beleaguered health-care effort."

Austin, TX -- Today, the Texas Republican Senate passed the bathroom bill. Despite hundreds of Texans calling for a halt to cruel legislation, the Republican Senate is frantically racing to deliver Gov. Abbott’s wish list.

Austin, TX -- Today, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s Republican Senate begins committee hearings on legislation targeting public schools, maternal mortality, abortion access, and the rights of transgender Texans.

Austin, TX – The One Texas Coalition, made up of Texas’s leading progressive organizations, stood strong at the Texas Capitol against Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s dangerous agenda.

Gov. Greg Abbott made his first reelection visit to the Valley last week and the Latino families of South Texas were also greeted by Abbott’s friends, the so-called Texas state militia, “a private group that has patrolled the state’s border with Mexico.”