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The upcoming 2022-2023 Sunset review of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, offers a unique opportunity for Texas lawmakers to advance public health in the Lone Star State.
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Texas Impact’s Positions for the Nov. 7 Constitutional Amendment Election
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...
Press Release: Texas Impact Denounces Anti-Immigrant Bills
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...
Membership Mobilizes
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...
Ep.320 Medicaid Reset: Unwinding or Coming Unglued
This week we welcome Stacey Pogue, Senior Policy Analyst with Every Texan, to the program to talk about healthcare as Texas prepares to roll back covid era policies. While there are a lot of important issues in the news right now, to the more…
Faithful Climate Negotiations Depend on Functioning House
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...
Religious Liberty Groups Praise Districts Rejecting Public School Chaplains
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...
Recent Research Expands Risk of Deadly Heat
Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future” opens with the story of an aid worker struggling to escape an extreme heatwave that knocks out the power grid and kills...
Ep. 319 The Next Right Thing: A Conversation with Texas Impact Executive Director Bee Moorhead
This week Scott talks with Texas Impact’s Executive Director Bee Moorhead about the lay of the land in Texas and the role Texans of faith can play in this special session and in this heightened political climate. There is going to be A…
BORDER BILLS ENDANGER TEXANS OF FAITH
This week the Texas Legislature began its third Special session. As expected, border bills were on the agenda. On Tuesday, with short notice, the Senate Border Security Committee...
UNFCC Global Stocktake Report: Adaptation
The Global Stocktake is a United Nations Framework Convention initiative in which each of the Parties to the Paris agreement submits an assessment of their current progress in...