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Three steps forward, two steps back on campaign finance in Congress today

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged charlie gonzalez, Coffee Party, Coffee Party livestream convention, Congress, DISCLOSE Act, Eric Byler, facebook, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, Lawrence Lessig, Mark McKinnon, politics, United States on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the US House Administration Committee voted the Fair Elections Now Act out of committee. San Antonio Representative Charlie Gonzalez cast a decisive vote in favor of the bill, putting a bill that would give optional public financing to all Congressional candidates for further than it has ever gone before. Tell Charlie Gonzalez how you [...]

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Texas and Dirty Energy Money

Posted in Campaign Finance, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged 111th congress, bp, campaign contributions, Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, Congress, dirty energy, dirty energy money, dirty oil, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, oil companies on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, I learned about a good website that tracks the flow of corporate energy money in Congress. The website is a great tool for someone who is interested in knowing who gets what from who and if you are a Texan you will get to see your state initials in many places in the website. [...]

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Recap: Roll Beyond Coal Tour

Posted in Coal, tagged abilene, Austin, bay city, clean air act, clean economy coalition, coal block, coal plant, college station, corpus christi, dallas, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, federal climate change legislation, flex permits, grandfathering, grassroots, H.R. 2454, houston, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchison, lone star chapter, Multi-County Coalition, no coal coalition, public citizen texas, roll beyond coal, ryan rittenhouse, Sierra Club, sweetwater, T.P.O.W.E.R., TCEQ, Texans Protecting Our Water Environment and Resources, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Waco on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The November/December edition of Public Citizen News, a bi-monthly newsletter distributed to Public Citizen members, featured this article on our statewide “Roll Beyond Coal” Tour. Since not all of you out there get the newsletter, I thought I’d share: ‘Roll Beyond Coal’ Tours Texas By Geena Wardaki It’s not often that you lug a 20-foot-tall [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Global Warming, Uncategorized, tagged Barnett shale, carcinogens, climate change, college station, drilling reform, easter lemming, economy, Energy, farouk shami, glenn beck, hank gilbert, john cornyn, lewisville isd, natural gas, neurotoxins, obama, Rick Perry, texas a&m, texas liberal, tom schieffer on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to another weekly blog roundup. BREAKING NEWS: Natural Gas Development Brings “amazing and very high” Levels of Carcinogens and Neurotoxins to Barnett Shale area! Take a deep breath before you read this study because [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Roundup

Posted in Global Warming, tagged bay area houston, bryan-college station, clear lake hospital, eye on williamson, governor rick perry, health care, john cornyn, mcblogger, mexico, off the kuff, principles of community organising, san jacinto battlefield, sonia soto, sonia sotomayor, south texas chisme, stimulus, Texas, texas kaos, texas progressive alliance, txsharon, unemployment insurance, wcnews on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Time again for the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly blog roundup. Off the Kuff takes closer look at that story about Texas turnout in last year’s election. WCNews at Eye On Williamson adds some context to what’s being said in Texas about Unemployment insurance, the stimulus, and Gov. Perry. This week at McBlogger, Krispy Kreme takes [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, couldbetrue, eye on williamson, health care reform, john cornyn, libby shaw, manuel bañales, mauricio celis, mcblogger, michael jackson, off the kuff, ronnie earle, round up, south texas chisme, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, travis county, u.s. supreme court, wcnews on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. Neil at Texas Liberal says that while people went on about Michael Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court was making it more difficult for black folks to get promoted at [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 81st legislative session, Barnett shale, bay area houston, bluedaze, bosskitty, brains and eggs, castle hill democrats, couldbetrue, denton county, dfw, dos centavos, electricity deregulation, eye on williamson, governor perry, hutchison, john coby, john cornyn, left of college station, leo berman, liberty university democrats, lightseeker, mcblogger, nitrogen oxide, off the kuff, pdiddie, president obama, sonia sotomayor, south texas chisme, TCEQ, texas kaos, texas liberal, texas progressive alliance, toxic burritos, truthhugger, wcnews on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This week from the Texas Progressive Alliance, emission from drilling are more than cars and airports, women are running things in Denton County, Liberty University Democrats lose their recognition, President Obama’s political coalition leaves out the far-right and the poor, and much more on this weeks TPA Roundup. This week’s roundup was compiled by Teddy [...]

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