Beginning on October 19 and running through the final weeks of the midterm election cycle, Texas Rising Action will conduct an extensive paid field program to turn out young voters across Texas and ensure their voices are heard in November. […]
Recent Press Releases
Texas Board of Education Fails to Update Standards From A Dozen Years Ago During Special Meeting
AUSTIN, Texas – The State Board of Education held a special meeting yesterday to revise current social studies standards to include requirements called for by the law passed under SB3 during the last legislative session. The State Board of Education had the opportunity to vote on amendments that would help improve the standards, but instead, […]
Campaign of Falsehoods and Misinformation Helps Derail Texas Social Studies Overhaul
Far-Right Groups Poison Overhaul with Culture War Objections, Demands to Sanitize History and Reject Inclusive Standards AUSTIN, Texas – An array of far-right groups today helped derail months of work on the first major overhaul of Texas social studies standards in a dozen years with a misleading and poisonous culture war campaign. After the State […]
Texas Rising Delivers Letter Demanding El Paso’s District Attorney Make Abortion Cases the Lowest Priority in Her Jurisdiction
EL PASO, Texas – Texas Freedom Network’s youth organizing project, Texas Rising, along with community leaders, organizers, professors, elected officials, and health care professionals, are sending a letter to El Paso’s District Attorney Yvonne Rosales in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturn to demand the following: That DA Rosales makes abortion cases the lowest […]
Democracy From the Ground up Announces Launch of 2022 Campaign
Coalition seeks to pass 15 pro-voter reforms in 15 counties Austin, TEXAS – Democracy From The Ground Up announced the launch of the 2022 campaign to increase voter participation across Texas ahead of the midterm election. Democracy From The Ground Up is an advocacy campaign done in coalition with Common Cause Texas, MOVE Texas, Texas […]
