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Action Alert: Week of February 24, 2025
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Marching Order Mondays: Your Weekly Call to Action
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...
Ep. 418 New Year, New Resolve
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...
Climate Justice
Ep.429 Don’t Fence in the Future: SB 819 Would Hurt Renewables Just When We Need Them Most
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...
Ep. 420 (Don’t) Forget Paris
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...
Two Steps Back: US Initiates Process to Withdraw from Paris Agreement
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...
Economic Justice
Ep. 432 The Beloved Community—in Case We Forgot…
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 the...
Ep. 430 From Bad to Worse: Looming Medicaid Cuts in Congress
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...
Ep. 428 This Bill Will Save Lives: Faithful Support for the Life of the Mother Act
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...
Human Rights
Ep. 433 Don’t Hide Your Faith
The Texas Legislature is now entering the final third when bills make it to the floor for a vote or begin to die. Last week, Bee Moorhead joined the program to talk about the House passing the Voucher bill, and it seemed like immediately after, we began to see a TON...
Ep. 431 Faith Flourishes Independent from the Government
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...
The Texas Senate Debates Anti-Red Flag Law
Earlier this week, the Senate State Affairs Committee heard a bill by Chairman Hughs that would make it a crime in Texas to enforce an Extreme Risk Protective Order (ERPO), more commonly referred to as a red flag law. Currently, Texas does not have a red flag law, yet...