Texans Fighting For Communities In District Maps + More
#TXLege Action Alerts - We’re Not Done Fighting
Texas Deserves Fair Districts
Lawmakers are moving at top speed to pass damaging redistricting maps that target voting strength of Black, Latinx and AAPI Texans. We need you to join us in continuing to speak out against a process that is keeping people out once again.
On Monday, the House Redistricting Committee will take up SB 4 (Senate map) and SB 7 (State Board of Education).
Virtual testimony will be available!
If you’d like to sign up to testify, please follow the directions on the hearing notice HERE. Please note that the cutoff time for registering to testify via Zoom will be this Sunday, October 10th at 9am. Watch your email after registering for important follow-up emails with specific instructions. In-person testimony will also be permitted.
Are these maps still bad for Texas? YES.
And we need to be saying so loudly and often. If you haven’t yet, take a minute to leave public comments on the maps via the House Redistricting portal HERE but take a minute to write your representative too.
Write A Letter To The Editor Calling Out This Backroom, Rushed Process Also!
We’ve put together a sample letter to the editor template for you to use or modify and submit because we need to be letting everyone know that the district drawing happening in the legislature right now is an attack on the power of our vote and an effort to silence whole communities across Texas. Yet again.
Check out the template HERE.
Some places below to send your letter but keep in mind that your local publication is just as crucial in informing readers!
Austin American Statesman
San Antonio Express News
Houston Chronicle
Galveston County Daily News
Fort Worth Star Telegram
SB 10 Increases Criminal Penalties For Election Officials
We’re amplifying this action alert from the League of Women Voters of Texas on SB 10 - please see below:
SB 10 targets election officials by increasing criminal penalties - from a Class A misdemeanor to a state jail felony. Non-election officials accused of those offenses would continue to face a Class A misdemeanor.
Passing an omnibus election bill took all of the 2021 Regular Session, the first Special Session and almost all of the Second Special Session. Now the Senate is attempting to pass SB 10 that reverses a provision in the bill, with the author claiming he did not realize it was in the bill set to become law in December.
Tell your House Representative to reject this change!