by Scott Atnip | Apr 18, 2025 | Education, Featured Content, Weekly Witness
We jumped right in this week because most of the Texas Impact staff stayed up late Wednesday night to watch SB 2, the Texas Senate’s school voucher bill, be brought before the House. There were some great and no-so-great conversations between legislators about...
by Scott Atnip | Apr 11, 2025 | Religious Freedom, Weekly Witness
Joining Weekly Witness this week is Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, Vice President of Programs & Strategy at Interfaith Alliance, a network of people of diverse faiths and beliefs from across the country working together to build a resilient democracy and fulfill...
by Scott Atnip | Apr 4, 2025 | Health, Weekly Witness
This week, we turn our eyes to DC for a fight that will impact this legislative session and sessions to come as Congress is considering hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts to Medicaid. These cuts would be devastating—not just to the Texans who rely on that...
by Scott Atnip | Mar 28, 2025 | Texas Climate & Energy, Weekly Witness
This week we are recording from the Capitol on a day when many of Texas Impact’s priority bills are being heard or voted on. So, we sat down with a few friends and colleagues who are testifying in the Senate Committee on Business and Commerce on SB 819, a regulatory...
by Scott Atnip | Mar 21, 2025 | Health, Weekly Witness
The Texas Impact team just worked with some incredible faith partners on the Family Matters: Faith Days at the Texas Capitol event. About 300 Texans of Faith gathered at the Texas Capitol and across the street at First United Methodist Church of Austin for three days...
by Scott Atnip | Mar 14, 2025 | Education, Weekly Witness
Y’all, it is getting wild over at the Texas Capitol, and Texans of faith are in the midst of all of it with thousands of phone calls going in every week, members of Texas Impact’s issue teams staying up until all hours of the night giving testimony, and the Texas...
