Tag: Texas

Thursday, the city of San Antonio, Texas took a stand for civil rights and voted to extend its non-discrimination ordinance to cover both Veterans and the LGBT community.

A grand jury is now being assembled to investigate and consider charges against Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg,...

Last month, after receiving a memorandum from Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the Department of Defense issued a press release stating their intent to...

Newly released audio now shows that councilwoman Elisa Chan also targeted a transgender former city council member with her hate speech.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sabotaged the only reliable check on unbridled, one-party Republican rule in his state. When will the national media report it?

'I think it's just disgusting' - Just one of many appalling anti-gay comments uttered by San Antonio, Texas Councilwoman Elisa Chan. THAT's free speech?

Republicans across the country are being confronted by the 'birther' fringe and other far-out conspiracies GOP strategists have created.

The DOJ reminds Texas that Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act is still in place.

Texas Governor Rick Perry's?job poaching?campaign has reached New York state ?and caught the attention of comedian Lewis Black ?- and Mr. Black is not...

Thanks to the phenomenon of social media, images of State Senator Wendy Davis' emotion-packed filibuster in Austin, Texas last month quickly ricocheted around the...

In the wake of Wendy Davis' filibuster against Texas' abortion bill, conservatives have been grasping at straws for reasons to justify this latest abortion...

On June 26, the death penalty in Texas reached a milestone - the ?500th inmate was executed since reinstating capital punishment in 1982.?Kimberly McCarthy,...

Unemployment recipients already face a mountain of worries. Besides overcoming the trauma of having lost their jobs, many of them struggle to make rent...

Gotta love Texas. Even someone who has been a justice of the peace is violent -- allegedly. On April 13th, Eric Williams was arrested in...

My esteemed senator, Ted ?Mouth of the South? Cruz (R-TX), in his first two months as a freshman senator, is really?embarrassing the heck out...