TCRP Files Amended Complaint Against Prison Officials for Civil Rights Violations
Dennis Hope was subjected to multiple violations of the Constitution during his decades of solitary confinement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
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Jan 303 min read
TCRP Files Lawsuit to Stop Enforcement of Houston Anti-Food Sharing Ordinance
The ordinance has resulted in egregious fines and prosecutions of local Food Not Bombs volunteers, simply for feeding homeless community...
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Jan 262 min read
Immigration Advocates Criticize Gov. Abbott's Statement Claiming Texas has the Right to Defend itself by Creating Illegal and Racist Immigration Laws
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2024 Contact: media@texascivilrightsproject.org AUSTIN, TEXAS - This week, Governor Greg Abbott issued...
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Jan 122 min read
Civil Rights Groups File Preliminary Injunction to Block Texas’ Anti-Immigrant Law S.B. 4 From Taking Effect
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2024 CONTACT: Kristi Gross, ACLU of Texas, media@aclutx.org Gabby Arias, ACLU, media@aclu.org Savannah...
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Dec 19, 20233 min read
Civil Rights Groups Sue to Block Texas from Enacting Extremist Immigration Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2023 CONTACT: Savannah Tarbet, Texas Civil Rights Project, media@texascivilrightsproject.org Gabby...
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Oct 4, 20223 min read
Election Protection at Work: Improving Voting Access for People With Disabilities
Our Election Protection team often says that if you have any issues voting, you should call 866-OUR-VOTE. But how does a phone call help...
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Sep 19, 20222 min read
Young People Getting Fired Up To Vote in Texas
New analysis from political data from the polling firm TargetSmart found that while Texas’ new voter registrants are evenly split between...
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Sep 19, 20221 min read
What’s The Difference Between Poll Workers, Poll Watchers, and Poll Monitors?
We hear a lot about various groups related to the polling place, and it can get confusing to distinguish between them. Let’s break down...
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Sep 8, 20222 min read
Carl Blair Reflects on His Time as an Election Protection Legal Volunteer
My parents were both born in the early 1950s, well over a decade before the Voting Rights Act changed the very fabric of our democracy. ...
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Sep 7, 20222 min read
Luke Freedman Reaffirms His Passion for Public Interest Law as a Summer Law Clerk for TCRP
Earlier this summer, as a Summer Law Clerk for TCRP, I was in a meeting with TCRP Attorney’s discussing legal strategy for a suit against...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
The Facts on Senate Bill 1: Changes in Texas Election Law since 2020
In the aftermath of a persistent myth regarding a stolen 2020 presidential election, partisan policymakers trumpeted measures to reshape,...
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Sep 1, 20222 min read
The Facts on Senate Bill 1: Changes in Texas Election Law since 2020
In the aftermath of a persistent myth regarding a stolen 2020 presidential election, partisan policymakers trumpeted measures to reshape,...
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Aug 31, 20222 min read
Kaylie Hidalgo Discovers Hope for Texas as a TCRP Law Clerk
As a law student aspiring to pursue civil rights law and contribute to progressive change, it was difficult to find my footing in the...
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Aug 29, 20221 min read
New: TCRP Election Protection CLE Trainings
Early voting in the 2022 Election starts in two months! Are you prepared to cast your ballot? Our Election Protection team spent this...
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Aug 24, 20222 min read
Dustin Rynders Returns to TCRP to Lead Criminal Injustice Team
As a native Texan, I first interned at TCRP almost 20 years ago. Even then, I felt immediately at home among like-minded justice...
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Aug 24, 20222 min read
Dustin Rynders Returns to TCRP to Lead Criminal Injustice Team
As a native Texan, I first interned at TCRP almost 20 years ago. Even then, I felt immediately at home among like-minded justice...
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Aug 16, 20222 min read
Gabby Camilleri Defends Immigrants Rights As A Summer Law Clerk At TCRP
I was in my sophomore year of college when Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) was rescinded. At that moment, I became committed...
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Aug 11, 20223 min read
Zoe Farkas Reflects on Criminal Injustice Reform as a Summer Law Clerk at TCRP
The first time I truly grappled with the pervasive problem of police brutality was as a high school freshman in 2012, after the murder of...
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Aug 4, 20224 min read
How TCRP Continues to Fight Family Separation
By Kassandra Gonzalez and Georgina Guzman Many people came to know about family separations through our work in South Texas in 2018....
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Jul 28, 20223 min read
Concerning School Policing In Pasadena ISD Requires New Community Action
After several years working in education, I decided to go to law school to use my passion for teaching to be a lawyer for the kids the...
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