TFN Looks at the Lege Demagogues

New Texas Freedom Network report on the Lege and the religious right

"...the Senate's venerable "two-thirds rule" specifically on bills promoting voter-identification laws (aka voter suppression and, more specifically, Democrat suppression)...."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Chubbing Republicans Over the Head

"...than 200 items to block the contentious "hard photo" voter ID requirements in Senate Bill 362 from reaching the..."

May 29, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Injunction Blocks Abbott Enforcement of Ballot Law

"...prosecuted 13 individuals for possessing the ballots of other voters. The six citizen plaintiffs claim that they were doing..."

Nov. 1, 2006 News Post by Lee Nichols

Opinion: We Must Not Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights

Parties should be competing to win more votes, not working to keep voting down

"...of a legislative session in protest of an extreme anti-voter bill. While this action halted the assault on voting..."

June 18, 2021 Column by Tom Lopach

Opinion: Suffragettes of White Supremacy

Ashley Cheng, co-host of the Rabble podcast, looks at the history of racism in Austin’s suffrage movement

"...first literacy test, with the aim of disenfranchising Black voters. In only 17 days, they registered 5,856 women in..."

March 13, 2020 Column by Ashley Cheng

Cole Springs Defense of May Election

Supports turnout, but not at "expense of violating the Charter”

"...the following statement: “Our great city should absolutely encourage voter participation, but not at the expense of violating the..."

Sept. 30, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

David Whitley Back in Abbott’s Office With Promotion, Raise

Disgraced former secretary of state keeps failing upward

"...David Whitley, fall guy for the ill-fated Great Texas Voter Purge of 2019, has been rehired as a deputy..."

June 7, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

85th Texas Legislature Preview

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

"...with big and clear agendas – budget slashing, gerrymandering, voter suppression, abortion bans – that defined where conflicts would..."

Jan. 13, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Point Austin: The Supremes Bail Out

Court ruling lets Voting Rights Act live for another day

"...as small and unimposing as Canyon Creek – whose voters are registered through Travis County – can seek "bailout"..."

June 26, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Election Ticker: Are We There Yet?

The latest – and last! – news from the campaign trail before Election Day

"...broken state of our voting in Texas, the worst voter suppression" – she said she doesn't pay attention to..."

Oct. 30, 2020 News Feature by the News Staff

Page Two: When “Patriotism” Means Petulance

So much for draining the swamp

"...There is precious little evidence of voter fraud. But in response to an infinitesimal amount of..."

May 26, 2017 Column by Louis Black

New Map Tweaks Local House Seats

Travis Senate map untouched, but House map altered slightly

"...the Texas GOP's effort spent on gerrymandered districts and voter suppression may go to waste as federal judges and..."

Nov. 25, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

More on the Vote Molehill

More on what they Dugg up about absentee voting in the House.

"...session championing what are euphemistically called tighter rules for voter registration. She's down as an author on House Bill..."

Oct. 1, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

One Rule for the Lawmakers

CBS-42 catches reps in voting violations.

"...session championing what are euphemistically called tighter rules for voter registration. She's down as an author on House Bill..."

May 15, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Travis County Democratic and Republican Parties Narrowly Avoid Litigation Over Primary Voting

TCRP will hand-count all Republican ballots, but shared voting locations are intact

"...volunteer poll workers, and mailing out ballots to overseas voters. Last week the TCDP announced that if there was..."

Dec. 22, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin At Large: We Didn’t Demand a Recount

But maybe we should have? How “election integrity” rules could change outcomes

"...Dana DeBeauvoir agreed with her, and now we have voter-­verifiable paper ballots...."

March 11, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Policy Matters

"...opposition. At the state level, despite heroic resistance, a voter suppression bill seems likely to pass in a special..."

June 17, 2021 Postmarks

Voting Debate Turns House Into a History Class

Dems slow SB 7's roll with more than 100 amendments

"...gives to partisan poll watchers, its limits on providing voter assistance, and its criminal penalties for voting violations. The..."

May 14, 2021 News Feature by Benton Graham

Point Austin: Lessons at Election Time

Vote like our lives (and Austin) depend on it

"...total registrations have also spiked (hats off to county voter registrar Bruce Elfant, his team, and hundreds of volunteers),..."

Oct. 26, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Clearing the Chub?

Dunnam proposes way to move bills without moving voter ID

"...say the decision to put Senate Bill 362, the voter ID bill, on Saturday's calendar is to blame. Decrying..."

May 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Well It's About Damned Time

Seriously … we still haven't ratified the 24th Amendment?

"...for next Wednesday, April 15, and SB 362, the voter ID bill, is not on the agenda. However, this..."

April 9, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Res Publica

Events for good citizens, March 5-12

"...STOP VOTER SUPPRESSION RALLY features a film on the disenfranchising power..."

March 6, 2009 News Feature

Point Austin: 'Embrace What Is Right'

On Obama, what it means … and what it doesn't

"...evidence from the current decade that various forms of voter suppression (including the race-bound Texas re-redistricting) remain in use,..."

Jan. 23, 2009 News Column by Michael King

The Hightower Report

Some elections are clean, but the GOP campaigns dirty

"...Florida by first brother Jeb Bush to purge the voter rolls of thousands of eligible African-Americans, but of tactics..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Greg Abbott slaps down DA's effort to question black students' voting rights

"...Back in 1978, several PVAMU students were indicted for voter fraud after registering to vote in Waller Co.; a..."

Feb. 13, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Dump Trump

"...conspiracy after the 2020 election. They spread lies about voter fraud and used those lies to put pressure on..."

Jan. 3, 2024 Postmarks

Point Austin: A Great Time to Be a Republican

Bryan Slaton, Ken Paxton … and the rest of them

"...controls; defending restrictions on voting, and relentlessly pursuing phantom “voter fraud”; tormenting young transgender Texans, their families, and their..."

June 30, 2023 News Post by Michael King

Once Again, Redistricting Looms in Texas

Republicans hold all the power to draw new lines, but there's more attention on the process than ever before

"...injustice of this all, and how redistricting should allow voters to choose their reps and not the other way..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: A Strong-Mayor Sweet Spot?

Advocates throw some salt on the pleasant-tasting "pro-democracy" reform plan

"...The latest petition drive to ask Austin voters to amend the city charter – not Save Austin..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Ten Key Moments in a Year of Endless Texas Election Drama

Vote Early and Often

"...to vote by mail, typically exercised sparingly by Texas voters who met narrow criteria for eligibility, to the broader..."

Dec. 18, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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