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Mobilize | Organize | Vote | Empower | We are MOVE Texas Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization working to build the political power of young Texans! 🤠 linktr.ee/movetexas

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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Texas WYA?! 🦇 This is your bat signal to be the hero your community needs (cape optional). Early voting in Texas ends this FRIDAY! So don’t ghost on your ballot, go vote!
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Common Cause Texas @commoncausetexas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Don't be tricked, voting is a treat!! Have you voted yet? Find your nearest early voting polling location here: www.commoncause.org/resources/find-…
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 20/10/2025
In special election for Houston congressional seat, candidates confront a bewildered electorate
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Houston Democrats try to ease confusion in special election
Voters in the heavily Democratic district have expressed confusion about who can vote — after the boundaries were upended by a GOP gerrymander — and what November’s special election is for.
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ACLU of Texas @aclutx.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🚨EARLY VOTING BEGINS TODAY IN TEXAS!🚨 There are 17 constitutional amendments on the ballot this election — and Texans should weigh in by casting our votes. Don’t miss the chance to make positive change in our communities by heading to the polls. For more info call 866-OUR-VOTE.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Early voting starts TODAY in Texas 🗳️ Before you head out, don’t forget the big 3: keys, wallet, and ID.
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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A new Democracy.News Q&A just dropped! This week, we spoke with Stephanie Gómez, the political director of @movetexas.bsky.social, about the importance of fighting back as Texas Republicans try to silence voters at Trump's request.
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Q&A: "You Can't Just Give Up. That's How the Authoritarians Win." A Texas Organizer on Fighting Back
"It's not just about getting power, it's about holding on to it."
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This isn’t just our survey: it’s YOUR Texas, YOUR say 🫶 What matters to you matters to us! Share your priorities & help us build the Texas we deserve. Take the survey now and enter to win an ACL ticket🎸 Start here! www.yourtxyoursay.org?fbclid=PARlR...
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Your Texas, Your Say!
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION‼️ Extremist lawmakers are rushing the new version of the racially gerrymandered map with zero public input.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
‼️Breaking: The Texas House passes a racially gerrymandered congressional map designed to silence Black and Brown Texans and cement power for Trump-aligned extremists. This bill now heads to the Senate and inches dangerously closer to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨URGENT: THERE IS STILL TIME TO JOIN Folks in Austin leaving from work, we are calling on you, TEXANS ARE COUNTING ON YOU! Come through! #txlege #texas #redistricting
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨URGENT Calling on Texans to pack the chamber at the Capitol, 2:30 PM, ahead of floor vote! THIS IS THE TIME YA’LL, PEOPLE POWER, LET’S GO! 📷: @texasaflcio.org
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
That’s our girl!🔥 MC’ing the fight rn, Political Director Steph Gomez is leading chants and bringing the heat to the Capitol 👏
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Rep. Christina Morales @repmorales145.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Happening Now: Texas House debate on HB4, Trump's rigged redistricting maps This process has been expedited by Texas Republicans and is designed to keep voters in the dark. Check out a few key terms and concepts to know as you tune in to the debate. #txlege
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SATX Indivisible @satx-indivisible.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Out here in #SanAntonio from 3pm-6pm today! #FreeTXDems #VisibilityBrigade #Epstein #RushHourResistance @bexardems.bsky.social @50501satx.bsky.social @50501texas.bsky.social @indivisible.org @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 20/08/2025
New: An El Paso judge temporarily stopped AG Ken Paxton from prosecuting former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, after Paxton moved to block the organization from financially supporting Texas Democrats who left the state.
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El Paso judge blocks Ken Paxton from taking legal action against Beto O’Rourke’s political group
The order bars Paxton from prosecuting O’Rourke’s nonprofit or otherwise bringing legal action aimed at revoking Powered by People’s charter.
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Texas AFL-CIO @texasaflcio.org · 20/08/2025
Pure people power at the Texas Capitol today! ✊ We’re demanding that Greg Abbott and state lawmakers pass flood relief NOW and reject this redistricting scheme. Send a letter to your representative: bit.ly/txlegecutthebs #txlege
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Texas Standard @texasstandard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Fierce debate is expected over the legislation, which led Texas House Democrats to leave the state earlier this month, bringing the House to a standstill. If passed by the House today, the legislation attached to the map will still need one more procedural vote before proceeding to the Senate.
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With Democrats’ walkout over, Texas House begins debate on controversial redistricting bill today
On Wednesday, the Texas House will finally debate a new map for the state’s congressional districts that could give Republicans as many as five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🔥Scenes from the Capitol as Texans resist and continue to push back on a racist and gerrymandered redistricting map #txlege #redistricting #maps
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Can’t join us at the Capitol this morning? Take action from your phone! 📲 Share your story and community needs! Your voice matters and we will make sure your message gets delivered 📨⬇️ www.mobilize.us/movetexas/ev... #txlege #redistricting #cta
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Tell Your Legislator: My Community Needs ___ · MOVE Texas
Legislators are making decisions that affect our everyday lives — from healthcare and education to climate and voting rights. Too often, they don’t hear from the people most impacted. That’s where YOU...
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Progress Texas @progresstexas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We are beyond proud of Fort Worth State Rep. Nicole Collier for standing up to ridiculous GOP bullying! Full talk: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
‼BREAKING: Texas lawmakers pass racially gerrymandered congressional map without public input
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our demands remain the same: Voters pick their leaders, NOT the other way around! Submit an online public comment now to call out this undemocratic attempt to cling to power and DEMAND the legislature draw maps that are truly reflective of the diversity of our state. www.mobilize.us/movetexas/ev...
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Submit Online Public Comments on TX Congressional Redistricting · MOVE Texas
Texas already redrew its congressional maps in 2021, but now Donald Trump and national Republicans are demanding a second redraw, not because of new Census data, but to protect their grip on power as ...
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
How many times do we have to tell Governor Abbott Texans HATE this redistricting nonsense? Sign the petition and let 'em know: Put Texans over Rigged Maps and Restrictions #texas #redistricting #chopped
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Progress Texas @progresstexas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Abbott is threatening the LARGEST removal of representatives in Texas HISTORY if Democrats don’t return to the Capitol and bend the knee to Donald Trump. When’s the last time he fought for Texans like this?
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
just stop lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2025
Casar as CNN presses him about running against Doggett: "We aren't accepting these illegal maps. We're not going to just stand by and be pit against one another... this fight is about something much bigger than the horserace... it's about voters being able to choose their member of Congress"
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 04/08/2025
The Texas Senate State Affairs committee on Monday approved a proposal that would restrict transgender people from using bathrooms in government and school buildings that match their gender.
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Senate panel OKs latest bill restricting use of government and school bathrooms by transgender people
Over 100 people provided at times emotional testimony Monday for and against Senate Bill 7, which would require people to use restrooms that match their birth gender.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Governor Abbott and Trump loyalists tried to silence us with rigged lines and racist congressional maps. But Texans showed up 🔥 📷: Texas AFL-CIO
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 04/08/2025
Breaking: Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state.
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Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state
The governor also alleged absconding Democrats may have committed felonies by fundraising to cover the $500-a-day fines they will face under House rules.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 03/08/2025
Texas House Democrats fled the state Sunday in a bid to block a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year from passing. bit.ly/4ooW2R2
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Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map
The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨Over 2,000 Texans, from Austin to Arlington, showed up to shut this redistricting scam down. Texans don’t want this rigged mess. ❤️‍🔥Respect to everyone who braved the heat, held the line, and testified anyway. We made it clear: we’re not backing down.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
ACTION ALERT: Greg Abbott & Donald Trump’s new congressional map just dropped, and it’s everything we feared: gerrymandered, racist, and deeply corrupt. They’re trying to silence Texas workers and rig the outcomes before we even get to the ballot box. So we’re fighting back at the #txlege!
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump and his allies are setting their eyes on Texas and trying to mess with our representation by redrawing our congressional maps! Here’s what’s happening and why we won’t let this BS slide by
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“This isn’t redistricting, it’s rigging” Our very own, Mia Balderas addressed a crowd of about 200 Texans on Friday, standing outside the Capitol in Austin, united in the same demand: Leave our maps alone! NO to the Trump Takeover! For more, check out the article ➡️ bit.ly/3UFh67X
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'We will not let Trump take over': Texans rally as state lawmakers begin redistricting hearings
Democratic lawmakers and advocates rallied outside the Texas Capitol Thursday, just before the state legislature kicked the first in a series of hearings on a rare mid-decade push from top Republicans...
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Progress Texas @progresstexas.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
U.S. Senate Democrats are calling for a probe into whether or not Homeland Security Kristi Noem's cost-cutting measures caused a delay in FEMA response that may have needlessly cost lives. Pod: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x Story: tinyurl.com/yc624732
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Planned Parenthood Texas Votes @pptexasvotes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
FYI: An abortion ban is an abortion ban is an abortion ban. #healthcare #politics #imforpp
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 09/07/2025
From Molly Ivins in 1997: Three strikes and you’re out? Watch Texas spend more on prisons than it does on schools. Thinking of making your tax structure more regressive? Come to the Lone Star State and see how it’s done.
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Molly Ivins on School Vouchers (1997)
Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It's time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in you...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/07/2025
The IRS said clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements, a potential move away from a 71-year-old policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.
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IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 09/07/2025
A quarter of Texas' land carries some degree of severe flood risk, leaving an estimated 5 million Texans in possible jeopardy. Local governments — especially counties — have limited policy tools to regulate building in areas most prone to flooding.
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“Disasters are a human choice”: Texas counties have little power to stop building in flood-prone areas
Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
In the face of disaster, it's mutual aid that sustain us. It's neighbors, local orgs, and small businesses that respond with urgency, care and no strings attached. Kerrville is counting on all of us and every act of care matters Let’s show up for our neighbors, the Texas way🧡 #texasfloods #mutualaid
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
✨Doomscrolling break✨ 🌈Pride in TX = protest, power & presence. From SA to Houston, we wrapped up pride by facilitating voter reg, sharing resources & building community! Pride isn’t just a party, it’s organizing for a future where we all thrive.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 01/07/2025
17 million people will lose their healthcare if Trump’s budget bill passes the House. All to pay for a tax cut for Trump and Vance’s billionaire donors.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Republicans pulled an all-nighter to: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national debt -raise health care premiums for seniors
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/07/2025
As President Trump and his allies pushed his tax and domestic policy bill, which passed in the Senate on Tuesday, they have insisted that the legislation would be a boon for seniors and the middle class. But some of their most repeated talking points have not been accurate. trib.al/7SYzlwD
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Texas AFL-CIO @texasaflcio.org · 01/07/2025
If Trump's multi-trillion-dollar tax bill is passed: ❌ 17M people will lose health care ❌ Millions will lose food assistance ❌ Public service jobs will be cut All to give billionaires more tax breaks. ☎️ Call your representative NOW & tell them to vote NO:
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Call Congress: NO Budget Cuts
Take action & tell Congress: Stop the billionaire tax breaks. Save public services and fully fund Medicaid and other programs we all depend on.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 01/07/2025
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 01/07/2025
The Supreme Court ruling against nationwide injunctions is one more example of the justices enabling executive overreach at a time when checks and balances are profoundly strained.
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The Wrong Moment to Reduce Judicial Power
The Supreme Court has given a lawbreaking president an even longer leash.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 01/07/2025
After passing the Senate this morning, Trump's budget bill, which cuts healthcare for 17 million people, heads to the House of Representatives.
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Movement meetings are popping off across central TX + the frontera 🗣️ And guess what? This Texas heat isn’t slowing us down! Our local chapters are building power all summer long.  Wanna get in on it? tap movetexas.org/events or pull up to pride this saturday 🌈
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MOVE Texas @movetexas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Aw are we supposed to feel bad? That’s politics Mr. Patrick
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