by Scott Atnip | Feb 21, 2025 | Education, Weekly Witness
This week we are excited to bring you content from Texas Impact’s Public School Defenders’ Lobby Day. We are joined by State Representative Gina Hinojosa, House District 49, while walking back to the Capitol after she addressed the Public School defenders to discuss...
by Scott Atnip | Feb 14, 2025 | Education, Weekly Witness
This week we have an exciting episode for you as we are recording live from the Capitol office of Senator Sarah Eckhardt. Last week, the Senate passed SB 2, a school voucher bill that would give a $10,000 voucher to students to attend private schools. What is not...
by David Vassallo | Jan 31, 2025 | Action Alerts, Civic Engagement, Featured Content, Individual Action, Latest Posts, Spotlight
Ready for your advocacy marching orders? Our popular Monday Zoom is back. Each week of the legislative session, we give Texans of faith an up-to-the-minute briefing on the legislative state-of-play, answer your questions, and hand out homework assignments on priority...
by Scott Atnip | Jan 23, 2025 | Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Weekly Witness
This week, we are excited to welcome Texas Impact’s Climate Action Fellow, Rev. Dr. Becca Edwards, to talk about the President’s recent executive action, once again, removing the US from the Paris Climate Agreement. There has been a lot happening in the last two...
by Becca Edwards | Jan 22, 2025 | Climate Justice, Latest Posts
As promised, just hours after President Trump took office he signed an order to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is the agreement reached at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris in 2015, which set a goal of limiting...
by Scott Atnip | Jan 8, 2025 | Civic Engagement, Weekly Witness
We hope you all had a meaningful and relaxing holiday season and a great start to the new year; it is about to get busy and your advocacy will be critical in the next few months. We know a lot of attention will be paid to what is happening in Washington with the new...
