As the misery in Texas continues — price gouging, no water, empty pantries, tragic deaths — TX is a case study of what happens after decades of Republican rule (climate-crisis deniers, small government demagogues, and politicians more interested in culture wars than solutions).

IMPT: Water service has been restored for the City of Kyle. A water boil order is still in effect. cityofkyle.com/winter

We're doing what we can at the Millennium, but frankly it's just not enough. That's why I joined Vanessa Fuentes 💃🏽, Sabino Pio Renteria and Greg Casar to demand that Spencer Cronk deploy a citywide food operation immediately. Our people are going hungry and we refuse to accept it.

Currently in this line! ❤

A water truck just arrived, btw! The line hasn't started to move quite yet, but it's here ❤ @SergioTrist10

Hey Austin! Have reusable bags? I’m at the Travis County Expo Center (7311 Decker Lane — Gate 1), and they need bags donated to get hygiene supplies donated to the community! Can you help them out ASAP?! KVUE News

📢 Texas HHSC received federal approval to allow SNAP recipients to apply for replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed due to the severe winter weather by dialing 2-1-1. gov.texas.gov/news/post/gove…

One last update (I think!): We just hit $5 million raised for Texans across the state. Thank you ALL for your collective action when people need it most. Charity can’t replace policy, but solidarity is how we’ll face climate change and build a better world. 💪🏽🌎 Thank you 🙏🏽

There is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Texas and we must address it with everything we’ve got. These apartments in my district haven’t had water for over a week, almost no one knew about city water available so we had to truck it to them.

This crisis is abt ERCOT, PUC, Railroad Comm, #txlege, market and cost structure, & requires multi-pronged solutions focused on people, not profits, to ensure infrastructure is in place for electric reliability, including during extreme climate events. fox7austin.com/video/903289

As we work to resolve the technical difficulties with the interactive map. The Green area(s) in the Central Zone indicates water is safe to drink without boiling.

THREAD on ERCOT developments: Out-of-state resignations cannot distract us from unconscionable in-state GOP failures. "Be prepared" is definitely not their motto.

by the way - if you’re bilingual/speak Spanish I highly recommend volunteering. I think I might’ve been one of (if not the only) Spanish speaker at the location I was at today & there were lots of people picking up supplies that did not speak English Natasha Harper-Madison Greg Casar

In the name of the “free market,” Texans paid $28 billion more for electricity in a deregulated system. Texans lined the pockets of big energy corporations and got left in the cold. Texas should re-regulate to save families money and improve reliability. google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.…

Champ and Major look like great examples of “Presidential dogs” to me. 🇺🇸

At just over 5% of our county fully vaccinated, this is not the time to say this pandemic is over. Travis County — keep wearing your mask to keep each other safe.

From the same Abbott who could not get TX PPE when needed, couldn’t get testing when needed, couldn’t get vaccine when promised, today we got an Abbott who still cannot follow medical science. With 44,000 TX COVID deaths already under his “leadership,” Abbott assures more to come

Imagine having the ganas to go home and ask minimum wage workers to support you after going back on your own documented stance to help crush their biggest chance at a wage hike during their longest drought of wage increases since the law’s very inception. Sin vergüenza.