Filed Under: “Texas”
Christian supremacist group targets Houston-area school board elections, aims for national effort
By Peter Montgomery
Extremist group leader Rick Scarborough hopes to take over Texas school boards to ban ‘critical race theory’ teaching
The Texas abortion law’s vigilante enforcement mechanism is exactly how Jim Crow worked
By Stefanie Lindquist
Deputizing citizens to enforce legally suspect laws is how Texas suppressed black citizens’ rights to vote
Texas abortion bill inspired by radical Christianist activist Janet Porter
By Kristen Doerer
After decades on the fringe of Republican politics, the far-right former birther has become an inspiration for many states’ anti-abortion laws
Abortion opponents vow to pass abortion bills similar to Texas law
By Shefali Luthra and Candice Norwood
After SCOTUS temporarily upholds Texas abortion restrictions law, activists say they will copy its controversial measure
In their obsession over Afghanistan, the media ignored Texas’s far-reaching abortion law
By Eric Boehlert
Eager to aid supporters of the occupation, America’s elite journalists ignored authoritarianism much closer to home
Analysis: Here’s what Texas’s new abortion law does
By Orion Rummler
Texas’ law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy took effect. Here’s what you need to know now.
Susan Collins was sure that a Justice Kavanaugh wouldn’t gut Roe, she was wrong
By Jake Johnson
The Maine senator insisted that the future Supreme Court justice considered Roe v. Wade settled law
As Covid cases continue spiking, GOP governors are punishing local officials who disagree
By Mark Sumner
Hospitals are filling up with Covid patients across multiple Republican-dominated states as local leaders refuse to change
Critics slam South Dakota allowing GOP donor to pay to send troops to U.S. southern border
By Jessica Corbett
Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has raised questions about private armies in the U.S. after she allowed a used car dealer from Tennessee to finance expenses of South Dakota National Guard soldiers
Texas bill will make anyone who ‘aids or abets’ an abortion vulnerable to private lawsuits
By Jessica Corbett
Conservative Texas politicians are aiming to severely restrict access to abortion while also turning loose ‘vigilante’ lawsuits filed by private citizens