American Priorities is targeting multiple races across the country and spending significantly on congressional primaries in North Carolina and Texas.
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Posted inPolitics
America Sinks Into the Quicksand of Mid-Decade Redistricting
After the Texas-California stalemate, predicting an outcome to this debacle is futile.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Rio Grande Was Once an Inviting River. It’s Now a Militarized Border.
Since Trump returned to office, dozens of environmental, wildlife and public access rules have been waived to make way for the border wall.
Posted inLaw and Justice
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children.
Posted inPolitics
Texas Said the Wrong Magic Words When Rigging Their Maps
California said different magic words when rigging theirs. That’s why Texas’s map might be tossed, while California’s might remain.
Posted inEducation in America
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
Posted inWorking in America
Texan Takes On Corporate Abuse as Trump’s FTC Abandons Workers
Ric Davidson’s motion to defend the federal ban on noncompete clauses would force the FTC to undertake a formal process to roll it back, not just quietly suffocate it in the dead of night.
Posted inPolitics
California Democrats Win Redistricting Measure, Prove That Resistance Works
The win, combined with several mid-cycle surprises, has weakened Trump’s shield against accountability for his unpopular reign, although the Supreme Court really holds the key to whether we’ll have something approaching legitimate elections next year.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Bail Crackdown on Ballot Ignores Mental Health Crisis, Advocates Say
In Texas, Proposition 3 is a constitutional amendment that would require judges to deny bail to defendants accused of certain crimes punishable as a felony. Reformers argue that the state’s criminal justice system already ensnares people struggling with untreated mental illness.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Top AIG Exec Has Major Fossil Fuel Ties
A Center for Media and Democracy investigation shows that John G. Rice, AIG’s lead independent director, holds the same position at Baker Hughes, a global fossil fuel technology company that has received major contracts from companies AIG insures.
