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Dec
13
The Texas Progressive Alliance is stocking up on figgy pudding as it brings you this week’s blog roundup.
Off the Kuff covered a shoddy attempt by new Harris County Tax Assessor Don Sumners to disallow voter registration efforts at naturalization ceremonies.
Letters From Texas projected out the grim possibilities for state representative Aaron Peña as he [...]
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Jan
27
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Texas Progressive Bloggers Withdraw Support from Proposed Spending Freeze
TEXAS – January 27, 2010: Top progressive bloggers from across Texas issued a statement today in advance of President Obama’s State of the Union address cautioning the President to avoid calling for a spending freeze. While these bloggers maintain their support of their [...]
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Dec
22
The Texas Progressive Alliance brings you the highlights from the blogs.
As the deadline to file for a place on the 2010 March primary ballot drew near, there was lots of activity on the Democratic side: Kinky Friedman followed Hank Gilbert over to the race for agriculture commissioner, Linda Chavez-Thompson was rumored to be running for [...]
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Oct
05
The Texas Political Alliance hopes that everyone reading this today has ensured they are registered to vote in the November election, as the deadline for doing so is Monday, October 5.
The Texas Cloverleaf reviews proposed changes to the city of Denton’s charter that will be on the November ballot.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme notices Rick [...]
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Aug
14
It’s another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s Weekly Round-Up. The weekly round-up is complied from submissions made by TPA member blogs. This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
The Truth About Texas Republicans, a new blogger-powered website designed to expose the real truth about GOP Texas legislators looks at the stuff [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
