All On The Line - Houston

04/28/2022

There will be a rally in front of Houston's City Hall Thursday to bring awareness to Felicia's disappearance.

12/03/2019

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11/25/2019

David Daley writes that gerrymandering, the dark art of drawing political maps to favor one party, has helped create an epidemic of minority rule nationwide, driving state politics to extremes not supported by voters who find themselves unable to do anything about it.

11/22/2019

Ohio’s 4th Congressional District isn’t the longest in the state nor the most convoluted. Nor does it have the most disenfranchised voters. It’s near the

11/13/2019

Barack Obama said: ‘We’re the only advanced democracy that deliberately discourages people from voting.’ In a year-long series, the Guardian will be charting the assault on the most fundamental democratic right

11/04/2019

We want to thank each and every one of you that came out and provided testimony at the House Committee's public input hearings in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. We were so excited to see so many people speak up about their community!

Check out this compilation of testimony from the hearings below👇

Here's a video compliation of testimony from the 2019 public input hearings to date, and the impact of our Fair & Open Campaign.

11/02/2019

Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * New York Public LibraryFrom the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of...

10/29/2019

10/21/2019

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE: Redistricting
TIME & DATE: 3:00 PM, Tuesday, October 22, 2019
PLACE: Houston, TX (See details below)
CHAIR: Rep. Phil King

The Committee will meet to hear invited and public testimony at Lone Star College-North Harris, Student Services Building Conference Center in Room 208 located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, Houston, Texas 77073.

The purpose of the interim field hearings is to solicit public input on the 2021 legislative redistricting process and provide context to the official 2020 Census data that the 87th Legislature will receive by April 2021. Since the Legislature will not receive official data from the U.S. Census Bureau until the 87th session is underway, these interim field hearings seek to maximize the opportunities for Texans to share information they believe relevant to the upcoming redistricting process, including information about communities of interest within our state.

Invited testimony: Texas Demographic Center & Texas Legislative Council, Mapping and Redistricting Section

The chair may limit individual public testimony time in consideration of all participants.

Interpretation assistance can be provided by request made at least 72 hours in advance of the hearing. Please contact committee staff at 512-463-9948 or [email protected].











HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Redistricting
TIME & DATE: 11:30 AM, Wednesday, October 23, 2019
PLACE: Houston, TX (See details below)
CHAIR: Rep. Phil King

The Committee will meet to hear invited and public testimony at Texas Southern University, Roderick R. Paige School of Education, Education Auditorium, located at 3100 Cleburne St, Houston, TX 77004.

The purpose of the interim field hearings is to solicit public input on the 2021 legislative redistricting process and provide context to the official 2020 Census data that the 87th Legislature will receive by April 2021. Since the Legislature will not receive official data from the U.S. Census Bureau until the 87th session is underway, these interim field hearings seek to maximize the opportunities for Texans to share information they believe relevant to the upcoming redistricting process, including information about communities of interest within our state.

Invited testimony: Texas Demographic Center and Texas Legislative Council, Mapping and Redistricting Section

The chair may limit individual public testimony time in consideration of all participants.

Interpretation assistance can be provided by request made at least 72 hours in advance of the hearing. Please contact committee staff at 512-463-9948 or [email protected].

10/21/2019

Made possible by In the early August heat, nearly 200 Republican lawmakers gathered in an Austin, Texas, hotel to learn...

10/21/2019

Ugh 🙄

The Supreme Court has tossed out a Michigan gerrymandering ruling that the court deemed too "partisan" because state voters would not be accurately represented.