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If you're able to donate, the Red Cross of Central and South Texas is an effective place to do so. You can also donate your Airbnb to give evacuees a place to stay.  

THINGS TO READ

• Federal Court Finds Texas Political Map Discriminated Against Minorities, Again (Mother Jones)
• 3 Confederate Monuments, 1 Neo-Confederate Group in the Rio Grande Valley (Neta)
• Where's the corporate outrage about restricting women's health care? (Dallas Morning News)
• Interactive: Travel across this gerrymandered Texas district (Texas Tribune)
• Texas effort to replace Planned Parenthood falls short of goal (Politico)
• What's next in Texas' voter ID lawsuit? (Dallas Morning News)

THINGS TO WATCH, LISTEN

• Houston Democrat Lays Out History of Voter Suppression (Progress Texas)
• Judge Blocks Texas Discriminatory Voter ID Law (NowThis)
• The Problem With Confederate Monuments (The Atlantic)
• Texas Lawmakers Denounce White Supremacy Rally (Progress TX )

WAYS TO ACT

• Help us investigate why Texas moms are dying at alarming rates (Survey)
• Statewide Strike & Youth Rally Against Hate (Austin: 09/01)
• Unity Concert & March Against Hate & White Supremacy (Austin: 09/02)
• Fix Texas Political Maps Now! (Progress Texas Petition)