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Texas Trooper That Cavity Searched Women Reinstated

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No one will forget those poignant videos of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers stopping women in their cars, pulling them over, and using the excuse of smelling weed to conduct body searches. These tactics were supposedly not the department policies yet they occurred in two distinctly different parts of the state. The officers involved […]

This Is The Speech That Will Make Wendy Davis Texas Governor (VIDEO)

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I knew Wendy Davis, the Texas State Senator that effected the filibuster on the anti-woman bill that was being rammed through by Republican men in the Texas Senate, was appearing at the National Press Club. I scoured the Internet in order to get information on what she said. Sadly, most of the headlines seemed solely […]

Battleground Texas Holds Neighborhood Team Convention In Houston

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On Sunday July 28th, 2013 Battleground Texas held its first Battleground Texas Neighborhood Team Convention. The convention was led by Field Organizer Adrienne Bell who is leading the field team in Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Chambers, Jefferson, Galveston, and Montgomery counties. More than 200 neighborhood team leaders and members attended the event. They came to […]

Empower The Vote Texas: New Texas Photo Voter ID Requirements

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  New Texas Photo Voter ID Requirements Background: During the 2011 legislative session, the Texas Legislature passed SB 14, a bill implementing a photo identification requirement for Texas voters. The Department of Justice denied preclearance, prohibiting the legislation from going into effect in 2012. The State of Texas then sued the Department of Justice in […]

Off the Kuff: BGTX and Anglo women voters

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Off The Kuff blogger Charles Kuffner has a great analysis on what it will take to turn Texas blue by 2016. Mr. Kuffner’s analysis is spot on. I went to Battleground Texas Neighborhood Team Convention yesterday. There were several hundred people there from Harris and surrounding counties on a Sunday afternoon during a non-election period. […]

US Attorney General To Texas: We Are Taking You To Court

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Immediately after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Texas Attorney General and now Texas Gubernatorial candidate sent out the following tweet. (Full story here.) Texas #VoterID law should go into effect immediately b/c #SCOTUS struck down section 4 of VRA today. #txlege #tcot #txgop — Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) June 25, 2013 Today the […]

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Respond To Texas Attorney General Misinformation On Lawsuit

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Planned Parenthood President and CEO Melaney Linton released the following response to The Texas Attorney General misrepresentation of about the outcome of the Medicaid fraud lawsuit. The attack on this vital organization to thousands of Texas women’s healthcare continue. The original response can be found here. Today, the Texas Attorney General unexpectedly announced that Planned […]

Kingwood Area Democrats, Battleground Texas, & Friends At Tejano Music Festival In Humble

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Many members from Kingwood Area Democrats (KAD) participated in a Battleground Texas (BGTX) voter registration drive at the Tejano Music Festival in Humble, Texas. They were accompanied by Nell Coffee, a BGTX leader from Jersey Village and Amy Goodwin, a leader in the making. Amy Goodwin showed her resolve to ensure Texas will be a […]

Rep. Laubenberg, will be a murderer, no different than some street punk who shoots up a liquor store.

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A friend of mine sent me a link to an article by Texan, Kurt Eichenwald who was having health scare. His wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer during the rancorous debates over a draconian bill that not only takes women’s rights to their own bodies away, but put their health at risk. The bill […]