These Organizations Are Working for Progressive Change in Texas

This list was originally published in 2016. Please find our updated list of organizations here. 

If the words “President-elect Donald Trump” send chills down your spine, you are not alone. This election amplified the voice of hate, discrimination, and division, but has also galvanized a much more widely shared voice of love, justice, and activism.

People across our state and country are rightfully afraid for our future, for their families, and for their safety. Now more than ever we must stand together to fight.

Movement building and organized activism are powerful and necessary tools in determining the future of our state, especially in the face of an emboldened right-wing in Texas.

In Texas, we have a wealth of strong, progressive public policy, advocacy, and grassroots organizing groups working every day to fight for a better future for all Texans. Progress Texas regularly works with groups around the state, the following is a list of those groups working for positive change. Look over the list, find an issue that is important to you and join the movement: donate, join lists, volunteer.

Abortion Access, Reproductive Rights

• ACLU: https://www.aclutx.org/

• Afiya Center: http://theafiyacenter.org/

• Jane’s Due Process: http://janesdueprocess.org/

• Lilith Fund: https://www.lilithfund.org

• NARAL Pro-Choice Texas: http://prochoicetexas.org

• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health TX: http://latinainstitute.org/en/texas

• Planned Parenthood Texas Votes: http://pptexasvotes.org

• Progress Texas: progresstexas.org

• Shift: http://www.shiftstigma.org

• Texas Equal Access Fund: http://www.teafund.org

• Texas Freedom Network: http://tfn.org

Campaigns and Elections

• Annie’s List: https://annieslist.com/
   

• Battleground Texas: http://www.battlegroundtexas.com/

• Lone Star Project: http://www.lonestarproject.net/

• MOVE San Antonio: http://movesanantonio.org/
   

• Progress Texas: http://progresstexas.org/

• Texas Democratic Party: http://www.txdemocrats.org/

• Texas Organizing Project: http://organizetexas.org/

• Planned Parenthood Texas Votes: http://pptexasvotes.org

• The Indivisible Project: https://www.indivisible.org

• Our Revolution: https://ourrevolution.com

Civil Rights/Social Justice/Multi-Issue

• ACLU Texas: https://www.aclutx.org

• Austin Justice Coalition http://www.austinjustice.org/

• Houston Justice Coalition http://www.houstonjustice.org/

• MALDEF: http://www.maldef.org/

• NAACP: http://www.texasnaacp.org/

• Texas Freedom Network: http://tfn.org

• Texas Civil Rights Project: https://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/en/

• Texas Organizing Project http://organizetexas.org/

Criminal Justice

• Austin Justice Coalition: http://www.austinjustice.org/

• Houston Justice Coalition: http://www.houstonjustice.org/

• Innocence Project of Texas: http://www.ipoftexas.org/

• Texas Criminal Justice Coalition: http://www.texascjc.org/

• Texas Organizing Project http://organizetexas.org/

Disability

• Disability Rights Texas: https://www.disabilityrightstx.org

Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault

• Texas Advocacy Project: http://www.texasadvocacyproject.org/

Economic Empowerment

• Deeds Not Words: http://deedsnotwords.com/

• Esperanza Peace & Justice Center: http://esperanzacenter.org/

• Texas Organizing Project: http://organizetexas.org/

• Women Power Texas Project: http://womenpowertx.org/

• Workers Defense Project: http://www.workersdefense.org

Education

• Texas Freedom Network: http://tfn.org/

• Save Texas Schools: http://savetxschools.org

Environment

• Alliance for a Clean Texas http://www.acttexas.org/

• Clean Water Action: http://www.cleanwateraction.org/states/texas

• Environmental Defense Fund: http://Edf.org/txcleanenergy

• Environment Texas: http://www.environmenttexas.org

• League of Conservation Voters: http://www.tlcv.org/

• Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/texas/

• Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/texas

• Texas Nature Conservancy: https://www.nature.org/texas

Ethics and Transparency

• Common Cause: http://www.commoncause.org/states/texas/

• Public Citizen: http://www.citizen.org/texas/

• Texans for Public Justice: http://www.tpj.org/

Faith in Politics

• Faith in Texas: http://www.faithintx.org/

• Texas Freedom Network: http://tfn.org

Guns

• Texas Gun Sense: http://www.txgunsense.org

Health Care

• Center for Public Policy Priorities: http://forabettertexas.org

• Children’s Defense Fund: http://www.childrensdefense.org

• Texans Care for Children: http://txchildren.org

• Texas Impact: http://texasimpact.org

• Texas Organizing Project: http://organizetexas.org/

• Young Invincibles: http://younginvincibles.org

Immigration

• Familias Immigrantes y Estudiantes en la Lucha: https://fielhouston.org/

• Grassroots Leadership: http://grassrootsleadership.org/

• JOLT Texas: http://www.jolttx.org/en/

• Texas Civil Rights Project: https://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/en/

• Texas Organizing Project: http://organizetexas.org/

• Workers Defense Project: http://www.workersdefense.org/

LGBTQ Equality

• ACLU Texas: https://www.aclutx.org

• Equality Texas: http://www.equalitytexas.org/

• Esperanza Peace & Justice Center: http://esperanzacenter.org/

• Progress Texas: progresstexas.org

• Texas Freedom Network: http://tfn.org

Marijuana

• Marijuana Policy Project: https://www.mpp.org/

• Texas NORML: https://www.texasnorml.org

• Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy: http://www.texasmarijuanapolicy.org

This list was originally published in 2016. Please find our updated list of organizations here.