The Texas Progressive Alliance says VOTE VOTE VOTE as it brings you this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff published an index to all his interviews and judicial Q&As for the 2014 cycle.
Libby Shaw writing for Texas Kaos and Daily Kos is not going to be quiet about the blatantly discriminatory Voter Photo ID poll tax law. Texas Voter Photo ID Law Disenfranchises 600,000 to 744,980 American citizens.
From WCNews at Eye on Williamson. Proposition 1 will do little if anything to address the neglect of the last 20 plus years. Is it worth voting for? Probably not, but it’s likely to pass anyway. Proposition 1 – The Least They Could Do.
A very powerful statute designed to short-circuit the anti-First Amendment SLAPP suits filed in Texas is explained in this post at PDiddie’s Brains and Eggs.
CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme urges you to vote and support not only women’s health, but the health care for all Texans.
Neil at All People Have Value offered his 2014 ballot for elections in Texas and Harris County. APHV is one of many interesting pages to see at NeilAquino.com.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
BOR offers endorsements in the Austin City Council races.
Hair Balls profiles the outside agitators that are fighting to repeal the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance.
Texans for Public Justice documents just how much the payday lenders love Greg Abbott.
Lone Star Q rounds up Texas candidate endorsements by LGBT groups around the state.
The Texas Election Law Blog makes a valiant effort to calculate the administrative cost of voter ID in Texas.
Robert Rivard wants to know why you’re not voting.
Texas Clean Air Matters calls out the Heartland Institute for misinformation about wind energy.
Nancy Sims explains how voter ID disenfranchised her (straight-GOP-ticket-voting) father.
Mary Flood urges everyone to make informed votes for judicial candidates.