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View In: Texas“We flip Texas,” said the progressive Democrat from New York at a rally in San Antonio, “we flip the country.“

The Guardian
View In: TexasMany of the rejected ballots fail a new requirement to provide an identification number inside the return envelopeElection supervisors in Texas have warned that new stricter voter ID requirements ahead of next month’s state governor’s primary have already resulted in an uncharacteristically high numbe...

Alternet.org
View In: Texas“Stricter voting rules enacted by Republican lawmakers last year continue to foil Texans trying to vote by mail in the upcoming primary, with hundreds of completed ballots being initially rejected for not meeting the state’s new identification requirements. The bulk of mail-in ballots have yet to arriv...

The Guardian
View In: TexasState data showed procedures went from 5,400 to 2,200 in the month after the near-total ban was enacted in SeptemberAbortions performed by registered providers in Texas fell by 60% in the first month after the state passed the most restrictive abortion law in the US in decades, according to new figures.Nearl...

Popular Resistance
View In: TexasWhen a Canadian company started drilling for oil and gas near Jim and Sue Franklin’s ranch in a small Permian Basin town called Verhalen, Texas, it didn’t bother the couple too much at first. But Sue suspects that it was the third well that started causing problems. “They put up these big signs tha...