This past week, three Seminary students, a priest, and a writer joined me in the Rio Grande Valley for our Courts and Ports Border Witness program. In less than 24 hours from their arrival, they found themselves sitting in front of an Immigration Judge witnessing...
Early Voting is underway and ends Friday, November 3. Election Day is Tuesday, November 7. The Texas Constitution limits what our state government can do. Therefore, after each legislative session, there are usually a number of items that require a constitutional...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 25, 2023 Contact Bee Moorhead: bee@texasimpact.org Texas Impact, the oldest and largest interfaith advocacy group in the state, joined allies and advocates in denouncing the anti-immigration bills under consideration in the House. ...
When I started as Texas Impact’s executive director, I could have imagined many of the policy challenges Texas would face over the coming decades. It’s not hard to imagine conflicts over resource allocation, or over how we educate our kids. It’s no surprise that...
Scientists continue to sound the alarm that deadly climate change has arrived, and that the impacts will continue to worsen if we as a global community cannot find a way to stop emitting greenhouse gasses by producing and burning fossil fuels. This summer, the hottest...
Texas chaplains are leading the fight against “chaplains” replacing counselors in public schools. AUSTIN—More than ten Texas school districts already rejected the option to replace public school counselors with “chaplains.” These districts stretch across the state,...
