The 3rd Special Session has adjourned Sine Die and vouchers are dead — again. I’m proud of the bipartisan, pro-public school majority that stood up to ensure all Texas kids are able to receive the education they deserve. We won’t back down. #txlege

A bipartisan majority in the Texas House has successfully defeated Greg Abbott’s voucher scam. But Abbott just called lawmakers back to the Capitol to try again. We will always stand for Texas public schools. #txlege

When abortion is on the ballot, abortion wins. Everywhere. Every time.

Tearing down posters of abducted Israeli children has got to be the sickest, saddest, most sinister form of “protest” I’ve ever seen. This isn’t activism, it’s a heartless display of privilege and ignorance.

This month, we opened Texas’ 1st #TraumaRecovery Center. Through this partnership with City of Austin, Travis County TX & African American Youth Harvest Foundation, the Harvest TRC will provide mental health treatment & legal assistance to survivors of violence. Photos from Office of Vanessa Fuentes 💃🏽 1/2

In light of today’s release of graphic mass shooting images by The Washington Post, my heart is with the families of Uvalde and every surviving family of gun violence. The State of Texas has gone to massive lengths to cover up its abject failure in the response to the Robb

Our fall event, A Safer Texas, was an opportunity to come together to pause, reflect, & celebrate the progress that we’ve made together. Saami Baig, Co-Executive Director of Houston March for Our Lives, spoke from a high school student’s perspective about gun violence prevention.

Tell me again how open carry is great kxan.com/news/local/man… #txlege

The ACLU of Texas will continue to work closely with ACLU National on other critical issues facing our state. Yet, in this moment, we join the NYCLU (Find us on Bluesky) and other affiliates across the country in clearly stating our dissent. The people of Texas come first.

No matter how we got to this place — and I'm sure it was well-intentioned at every turn — no one can credibly argue that a gun owned by 6% of gun owners is "common." Or that the Uvalde gunman should've been able to access it. The Founders wouldn't see this and say "well done!"

A dozen people were selected on Jan. 19 to serve on a special grand jury that is expected to spend at least six months studying the May 24, 2022, Robb school shooting investigation. About 300 people were summoned and 67 appeared. uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/grand…

Another reason to love and respect Council Member Alison Alter. Appointing Acevedo is such a slap in the face to survivors - truly unreal that the City chose this.

There aren’t words for the pain and horror inflicted by police and then by policymakers on Uvalde families. All I offer is to be an advocate by their side as long as it takes.

I just donated to @KimsMom3 campaign for Congress. Rhonda is a gun violence survivor who experienced the unimaginable and has been a fierce advocate for gun safety ever since. She’s so smart and tough - support her today! secure.actblue.com/donate/hart-fo…

Good morning! Saturday Night Live did, in fact, take on Sen. Katie Britt’s all-time awful SOTU response, and they didn’t disappoint.

Forever gonna have nightmares about #KatieBritt sitting at my kitchen table. #SOTU

Amazing! 👏🏼

Really?? But the gun lobby and the lawmakers they pay have been pushing for exactly this since forever.

New: In a Austin Statesman op-ed, the Republican author of Texas' concealed handgun law Jerry Patterson argues the federal agents were wrong to shoot Alex Pretti. "ICE is needed, but not this ICE. This ICE and its leadership need to go — now." #txlege statesman.com/opinion/outloo…