Tea Party Versus Black Voters

Right wing activist claims GOP doesn't want minority voters

"...of Texas is in trouble when it comes to minority support. So it doesn't help when one of their..."

June 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Voting Rights Groups, Voters Sue Gov. Abbott Over Order Closing Ballot Delivery Sites

One location per county is unconstitutional, suit argues

"...of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), League of Women Voters of Texas, and two Texas voters struck back at..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Post by Beth Sullivan

ID Law One More Hurdle for Trans Voters

Requirements lead to less civic participation

"...community – it's created additional obstacles for poor and minority voters – he says the law was "written without..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

League of Women Voters Finds New Map Flawed

"...editor of the Austin Chronicle: The League of Women Voters of the Austin Area is very concerned about the..."

Oct. 20, 2003 Postmarks

Abbott Maps Meet Minority Opposition

AG throws oppressive interim maps into the ring to meet Feb. 6 deadline

"...which critics say are as gerrymandered and oppressive to minority voting rights as any proposed to date. With no..."

Feb. 10, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Voters Are Happy and Clueless

"...because I get the feeling that the majority of voters would just as happily, and cluelessly, have pulled the..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Postmarks

Texas' Big, Bad Week for Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering

Within two days, courts reject second election map, voter ID bill

"...the courts have now found discriminate against the state‘s minority voters...."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights Act

Roberts court rules that VRA so successful, no longer necessary

"...prevent burdensome rules designed to suppress turnout, especially among minority voters...."

June 25, 2013 News Post by Michael King

Brothers Rise in the East

Newly formed "Hermanos de East Austin" targets voter registration

"...Much of the news on minority voters in Texas over the last couple of years..."

Feb. 16, 2012 News Post by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

Beneath the partisan rancor over re-redistricting boils a fight over minority rights.

"...-- send more Republicans to Congress -- without disenfranchising minority voters all across the state." -- Rep. Ruth Jones..."

July 11, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Riding the Pinwheel

The GOP redraws the map of Texas – brazenly sidestepping most of the state's newest voters

"...(It's worth emphasizing that the VRA choice is about voters, not candidates: the "candidate of the voters' choice," not..."

Aug. 26, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Single-Member Situation

Movement afoot – once again – to ask voters to endorse City Council districts

"...Six times previously, the city has put before Austin voters the question of single-member districts – a change to..."

Feb. 25, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: Supreme Confusion

The Supreme Court ratifies the Texas GOP majority with a shrug

"...Besides, Carter said, we should go back to requiring voters to submit to literacy tests (i.e., proficiency in English)...."

July 7, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Court: Texas House Districts Unlawful, Unconstitutional

Panel of judges rules 2-1 against drawing of 2011 maps

"...that the state’s congressional districts were drawn to suppress minority votes, but left unresolved the companion ruling on state..."

April 20, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Re-Re-Redrawing the Delegation

Federal panel split on how to cut Travis House seats

"...Texas voters may not know what their Congressional districts look like,..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Federal Judge Legalizes Texas Vote-by-Mail

Broad ruling says all Texas voters can request mail ballots

"...Biery ruled Tuesday that "under pandemic circumstances" all state voters are eligible to request mail ballots and have those..."

May 22, 2020 News Feature by Michael King

Voter Purge Leader David Whitley Resigns

Embattled SoS calls it quits after discriminatory voter purge

"...effort in January that targeted thousands of supposed non-citizen voters and led to three separate lawsuits from voting rights..."

May 27, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Sad Stories for Christmas

Foster care unconstitutional; voting rights rolled back; and more

"...News Roundup, Texas' foster care system is broken, its voters are disenfranchised, its bankers are anxious, and more...."

Dec. 21, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Rights and Consequences

The Redistricting trial pits "partisan gerrymandering" against the Voting Rights Act.

"...a transparent attempt to make it more difficult for minority voters to reach the polls. "If a Republican banker..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Supremes v. Texas

The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"

"...map of Texas should reflect the preferences of the voters of Texas."..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Dred Scott, Revisited

The federal court decision on re-redistricting opens an old wound in Texas politics

"...And minority Texans, in the consequence of a bipartisan tradition dating..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Maps, Balls, and Testifying

The testimony gets mighty strange at the re-redistricting trial.

"...Anglo Democrats as "beggin'-at-the-table, Stepin Fetchit districts," wherein African-American voters are confined to begging white Congress members for favors...."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Legal Challenges to Redistricting Maps Begin

Rep. Garnet Coleman files complaint to Justice Department

"...of effective districts where Hispanic, African American and Asian voters can elect the candidate of choice by systematically packing..."

April 29, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

Postmarks

"...were copping out big time in the article on minority recruitment by alternative newspapers ["Needs More Color," Vol.17, No.13]...."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column

How the Filibuster Has Already Undermined Democracy

The recent attacks on reproductive rights reveal another reason to let the filibuster burn

"...Rule 22 – first enacted in 1917 – a minority of senators can indefinitely obstruct the majority from taking..."

May 6, 2022 News Feature by Michael King

Chartering a Course

A preview of the Charter Revisions Proposals

"...time we amended the charter was in 1997, when voters approved the city's current campaign-finance regulations; before that, in..."

Feb. 15, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Circle the Firing Squad

When you look for villains, look in the right direction

"...presidential candidate who "lost." As for the working class: Voters who annually earn less than $50,000 broke for Clinton..."

Nov. 18, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Albuquerque or Bust!

The Texas Senate Democrats make a stand in New Mexico against congressional redistricting.

"...plan after plan that disenfranchises more than a million minority voters and discards the choices of Texas voters." On..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Mapping 'Political Apartheid'

The new map gives DeLay more R's, but perhaps fewer than he wanted.

"...carried by GOP statewide candidates in 2002 and 11 majority-minority districts. The map passed on Tuesday by the full..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

It Ain't Over Yet

City and Circle C Wait for Justice

"...of Jose Garza, the attorney representing a group of minority plaintiffs who are trying to shut down the city's..."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

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