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 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 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...
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...
