Pandemic or not - we’re still fighting for you

Over the last few weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases in Texas has grown dramatically. 

When the virus first started to impact our state, we began calling on our state lawmakers to implement universal vote-by-mail. Since then, we’ve also worked to hold our leaders accountable and promote progress on a number of other issues including abortion access, paid sick leave, economic opportunity, and more. 

Here’s an ongoing list of our content as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic:

Voting Rights 

• PETITION: Gov. Abbott should institute 100% vote-by-mail during the coronavirus pandemic
• Gov. Abbott must protect Texas voters by instituting universal vote-by-mail
• 100% vote-by-mail in Texas is completely possible
• The Secretary of State’s office responded to our vote-by-mail petition, but Texans still need clarity
• Texas is failing college voters, and they deserve better
• 5 reasons why Texas voters would benefit from vote-by-mail
• A victory for vote-by-mail and an election advisory. Now what?
• Voters file age discrimination lawsuit over Texas vote-by-mail law
• Texans shouldn't have to risk death to vote
• Only 7 states limit vote-by-mail access based on age. Texas is one of them. 

Abortion Access & Reproductive Health Care 

• Abbott, Paxton using COVID-19 to push anti-abortion agenda
• The fight continues as conservatives play tug-of-war with Texans’ abortion care
• The dangers of being Black and pregnant during a global health pandemic 

Accountability

• Republicans turn pandemic into fight about racism
• Dan Patrick is wrong: Our neighbors aren’t expendable
• Senator Eddie Lucio Jr. is failing his constituency... again
• Gov. Abbott issued a "stay-at-home” order, but his partisan programming prevents him from saying it
• How many lives is (a possibility of) "boosting" the economy worth? Texas conservatives are misleading the public.
• An ongoing list of Ken Paxton's questionable, and quite possible illegal, actions during the COVID-19 crisis
• VIDEO: Who is John Cornyn really looking out for?

2020 Election

• In times of crisis, progressives show how leadership is done
• VIDEO: Progress Texas Happy Hour with Wendy Davis
• VIDEO: Progress Texas Happy Hour with Gina Ortiz Jones 
• VIDEO: Progress Texas Happy Hour with Chrysta Casteñeda
• VIDEO: Progress Texas Happy Hour with Julie Oliver
• VIDEO: Progress Texas Happy Hour with Sec. Julián Castro

Paid Sick Leave & Affordable Health Care

• We need to talk about paid sick leave in Texas 
• For everyone’s sake, Texas needs paid sick leave
• Medicaid expansion could give insurance to over one million Texans

Economic Opportunity

• America needs a consumer bailout
• Don’t answer the fiscal suffering with even more suffering
• Texas college students are taking care of their communities while navigating COVID-19
• Death and taxes, pandemics and politics
• No one should lose their home for staying at home
• Now is the time for Texas to consider the taxable benefits of marijuana legalization

Immigrant Rights

• Trump Administration capitalizes on COVID-19 lockdowns to accelerate land grabs in Texas
• To help Texans is to help immigrants 

Criminal Justice 

• Being poor in a Texas jail should not be a death sentence

• Texas must do better to protect incarcerated people from COVID-19

Environmental Justice

• This Earth Day, let’s also commit to healing our planet

LGBTQIA+ Rights

• The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on LGBTQIA+ Texans

Community

• 7 things Texans can do to help our state survive and thrive during the coronavirus pandemic
• A pandemic reveals our interdependence
• Let’s defeat the coronavirus with the ‘Dunkirk Spirit’
• Stay-at-home is where the heart is
• It’s not about staying open, it’s about staying safe
• We asked Texans about their concerns over the state reopening. Here's what they told us. 

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