No, Nothing Pat McCrory Says In Defense Of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is...
North Carolina's governor has bent over backwards to misrepresent the state's new anti-LGBT law. The post No, Nothing Pat McCrory Says In Defense Of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is True appeared...
View ArticleAn Atheist And A Christian Review ‘God’s Not Dead 2’
You might surprised who hated this propaganda film about how evangelical Christians are persecuted more. The post An Atheist And A Christian Review ‘God’s Not Dead 2’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.
View ArticleSix States Join TransCanada To Sue Obama Over Rejection Of The Keystone XL...
The right to regulate trans-border commerce is reserved for Congress, the suit says. The post Six States Join TransCanada To Sue Obama Over Rejection Of The Keystone XL Pipeline appeared first on...
View ArticleTexas Republicans: We Really Want To Discriminate Against Transgender People...
Without the legislature in session, Texas Republicans are finding other ways to come out against transgender equality. The post Texas Republicans: We Really Want To Discriminate Against Transgender...
View ArticleTexas Bigots Take Their Religious Anti-Transgender Campaign National
These Texas conservatives want their Houston-tested scare tactics to reach a bigger audience. The post Texas Bigots Take Their Religious Anti-Transgender Campaign National appeared first on...
View ArticleThe Devious New Conservative Plan To Turn LGBT People Against Each Other
A new Change.org petition seeks to capitalize on the defeat of Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance — spurred by fearmongering about transgender women — by driving a new wedge between people who identify...
View ArticleSix States Join TransCanada To Sue Obama Over Rejection Of The Keystone XL...
Six states have joined with TransCanada to sue the Obama administration over its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit application. TransCanada filed the suit in a federal court in Houston in...
View ArticleTexas Bigots Take Their Religious Anti-Transgender Campaign National
Last fall, conservatives used anti-transgender scare tactics to convince the voters of Houston to defeat an ordinance that created nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT community. Now, those Texas...
View ArticleHouston residents breathe in toxic fumes as petrochemical facilities cope...
Officials in the city of Houston, known as the energy capital of the United States, are closely monitoring the region’s oil and gas infrastructure as floodwaters from tropical storm Harvey show no...
View ArticleMassive levee failure near Houston exposes danger of crumbling infrastructure
Government officials have been talking for years about the urgent need to upgrade America’s old and crumbling infrastructure. In many parts of the country, though, infrastructure investment has been...
View ArticleEPA has still yet to inspect nearly a dozen Houston-area hazardous waste sites
The Environmental Protection has been unable to inspect many of the contaminated hazardous waste sites in Texas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, even as kids have reportedly been swimming in waters that...
View ArticleHouston faces class action lawsuit from sexual assault victims
Current and former Houston officials are facing a class action lawsuit from sexual assault victims who said the delay in testing their rape kits damaged their cases. A plaintiff, Dejenay Beckwith, said...
View ArticleArmed, angry men were tricked into converging on Houston, and no one knows...
In June, hundreds of heavily armed, suited-up men appeared in Houston’s Hermann Park. They arrived from across the state, lugging their AR-15s and Dixie insignia, ready to shut down a planned protest...
View ArticleOil and gas industry panel on extreme hurricanes never once mentions climate...
Everyone sitting on an oil and gas panel discussing last year’s devastating storms and how to prepare for future natural disasters could agree on one thing: Hurricane Harvey was unlike any other event...
View ArticleTexas official thinks the mistake in his racist attack on a black quarterback...
On Sunday afternoon, after a frustrating Houston Texans loss to the Tennessee Titans, school superintendent Lynn Redden laid bare his racism in the comments of the Houston Chronicle’s Facebook page....
View ArticleDemocratic candidates address women of color, vow to fight for racial justice
HOUSTON — Some 2,000 women, almost all of them women of color, gathered here Wednesday for the “She the People” forum, where they pressed Democrats running for president on how they propose to help...
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