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Civic Engagement
Know Your Voting Rights
Voting and Volunteering in Texas Elections
Texas Impact Advocacy Director, attorney Josh Houston, walks through a detailed explanation of recent changes in Texas election law through Senate Bill 1 and potential problems the changes pose for voters and volunteers.
Getting Up to Speed on Redistricting
Soon, the redistricting committees of the Texas Legislature will begin the process of redrawing Texas’ state and federal electoral district boundaries. The maps the Legislature ultimately approves will color state and national public policy decisions for the next...
Climate Justice
OPEC Head Pushes Members to Derail Climate Negotiations
In a twist pulled from the plot of a dystopian movie, news broke that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, known as OPEC, had distributed a letter instructing its member states to vote against any attempt to limit the production and use of fossil fuels...
Migration Put in Perspective
One of the interesting aspects of COP is its ability to put certain issues into perspective. Often US and Texas officials characterize migration as a foreign phenomenon, where political fragility or economic strife causes residents of the Global South to migrate to...
Urgent and Faithful Action Needed on Methane
There have been two big announcements about methane during COP28 in Dubai, UAE (see here for a detailed explanation of the climate impacts of methane emissions). First, a coalition of oil and gas producers announced at COP28 a pledge to stop methane leaks from...
Economic Justice
COVID and Faith: Prayers for Community Health
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Cara Cook on Climate Change and Health
Registered nurse Cara Cook, Program Director for the National Association of Nurses for Healthy Environments, explains how climate change is hurting human health—and jeopardizing our health care infrastructure just when we need it most. Recorded at the 35th Annual...
Dr. Peter Hotez: Texas COVID Update
National infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, in a frank, informal lunchtime conversation with Texas United Methodist Women about where Texas and the U.S. stand...
Human Rights
Vidas Robadas Memorializes Harris County Victims
Earlier this month, Bering Church became the first congregation in Houston to participate in Texas Impact’s gun violence prevention campaign, Vidas Robadas/Stolen Lives. Bering Church, headed by Rev Diane McGehee, is a long-time Texas Impact member with a history in...
Texas Public Schools Are Still Safe for Every Faith
Since last summer, our members have been urging their local school boards not to create a “new school chaplain program” as required by SB 763. Overwhelmingly, Texas school boards have agreed. Today is the deadline for school boards to vote, and we are pleased to...
SB4 Reality: “Stuck Against Competing Interests Between the State and Government”
The U.S. Department of Justice and the ACLU Texas have filed lawsuits against SB4. The ACLU TX and Texas Civil Rights Project also filed a motion for preliminary injunction to stop SB4 from taking effect on March 5, 2024. The preliminary injunction hearing was...