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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t pulling punches. He called Donald Trump a “cheater” and blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a “joke” for their bizarre attempts to redistrict Texas in a way that would unfairly give Republicans more seats in Congress as the GOP tries to stave off a blue …

Democratic lawmakers in Texas are leaving the state in a last-ditch bid to prevent Republicans from further gerrymandering their congressional map at the request of President Donald Trump. If successful, the GOP’s redistricting effort could potentially give the party an additional five seats in the 2026 midterms. Facing the possibility …

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to remove Democratic members of the state legislature from their offices and charge them with felonies after they fled the state. Two dozen Texas Democrats traveled to Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday to deny the Republican–controlled legislature the quorum it needs to pass an off-cycle …

Texas is poised to make it easier for residents in the state to own short-barreled shotguns and rifles, rolling back yet another firearm regulation in a state that has experienced some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country in the last decade. Texas Senate Bill 1596 would decriminalize short-barreled …

Texas is poised to make it easier for residents in the state to own short-barreled shotguns and rifles, rolling back yet another firearm regulation in a state that has experienced some of the deadliest mass shootings in the country in the last decade. Texas Senate Bill 1596 would decriminalize short-barreled …

A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows. The recording is part of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s federal lawsuit, which was filed last …

JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …

This article was originally published by In These Times, a magazine about labor and social movements. From his new studio apartment in Austin, Texas, Barry Jones, 62, finds it easy to keep up with doctors’ appointments and pick up the medications he relies on. In the month since he was …

A former U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering Garrett Foster, a Black Lives Matter protester, in Austin in 2020 will be set free after Texas Governor Greg Abbott pardoned him. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended the release of Daniel Perry on Thursday, according to USA …

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that he wants to end transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from expressing their gender while teaching in the state. At a speech delivered Friday at the Young Conservatives of Texas convention, Abbott described a report of a high school teacher who wore feminine clothing rather …