Republican officials ram through gerrymandered maps, proving the system is doing what it was built to do: protect white political power and erase Black and Latino Texans from decision-making.

The Texas capitol of Austin saw 5,000 people protesting Trump’s unconstitutional redistricting plan and other issues threatening our democracy.

Trump's claims about crime in the capital city are misleading. Protesters want millions to stand up, saying he's going to go to other cities and do the same if not stopped.

Founder of an Austin justice group speaks about how everyday people jump into dangerous situations to save anybody in weather and other catastrophes while the TX Governor debates who was to blame.

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones addressed Black graduates at Harvard University, telling them that "we are about to see unleashed upon us an America that we have not had to live in. And we have to win this battle."

Millions of people – estimates range from 11 million to 12 million – took to the streets in protests across the U.S. on June 14 in a direct response to President Donald Trump’s regime, unifying under the message that also named the day’s protest movement: No Kings.

From the San Jose CA Frontlines: Stop the sweeps. Unhoused people want a safe place to stay. All people should be respected, shown compassion, understanding.

More families face homelessness as rents rise and food programs aand other social safety nets are cut. With the potential for tens of thousands more people forced onto the streets, could people be forced "far away" from the cities as Trump suggests?

Housing First works. Utah’s program proved it: over 90% of people remained housed, and the state saved money compared to criminalizing poverty. It costs less to help than it does to punish.

“Your Profit Is Our Pain” Count the dollars that you make From each tent that you forsake— Eighty bucks per empty bed While we sleep on concrete, dead. Your...

A long-time resident of the Venice area of Los Angeles, once an affordable haven for free spirits, meditates on the damage done by gentrification, destruction of the area’s character, displacement and homelessness

Homeless Union leader Crystal Sanchez in an open letter to the nation calls out the federal government’s attacks on the most vulnerable – the houseless, immigrants, ‘minority’, poor and working class communities – as violations of the Constitution’s promise of equal protection, and calls for the people to resist its tyranny.

After in ICU and trauma stepdown unit following life threatening accident causing broken ribs, punctured lung, pelvis fractures, fluids in lung lining, and more, patient received insurance denial for air ambulance services of $93,000, declaring it wasn’t medically necessary.

Green Diamond Projects and Poor Magazine announce the Bay Area screening of their powerful movie created by houseless and formerly houseless people, based on a play by tiny gray-garcia

You slash Medicaid, you’re swinging an axe at the heart of our rural hospitals, community clinics, doctors and nurses — and every family that depends on a job for a living. It’s not too late to raise hell.

Over 60 people, including grandmas in wheelchairs, were arrested in the U.S. Senate Rotunda in a nonviolent protest against cuts like Medicaid and the SNAP food program in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Budget Bill.”

"Big Beautiful Bill" robs from the poor to give to the rich. A major frontal attack on all segments of the working class, the bill must be stopped.

The GOP is slashing health care funding at the federal level. Abandoning a public commitment to universal health care didn't help Democrats win the 2024 election and won't help in 2028.

Some lives could have been saved with better local warnings in the recent flood in TX, but federal government cuts to FEMA, National Weather Service and NOAA are leaving communities ill-prepared for disasters.

Local organizations gather and inform community that their federal representatives are planning to sell and develop more of Nevada’s public lands.

Electricity should be a right, free to all.  Yet, for-profit energy companies set prices to maximize profits to shareholders, even when users can’t afford the prices and suffer shutoffs.

Eighty-nine percent of people worldwide want their governments to do more to address the global climate crisis. Conference on tipping points says situation is urgent. Meanwhile U.S. govt does more to boost fossil fuel forms of energy.

Maureen Taylor of Michigan Welfare Rights Organization reflects on her visit to the Vatican in 2016 to discuss Detroit water shut-offs and poverty, which included a special, exclusive audience with the Pope Francis and other activists.

Our elected officials seem unable or unwilling to keep the financial vultures out of Altadena. We can only win if we fight together to ensure our future.

Amidst the siege imposed by Israel, an estimated 690,000 menstruating women in Gaza are prevented from getting sanitary pads. Some women and girls are taking pills to delay periods. This all is creating serious health issues in Gaza.

A Texas woman who had a miscarriage in a restaurant bathroom was jailed for five months. Her story was falsely presented to the public as an act by an uncaring woman who ‘flushed her baby down the toilet.’ The truth is a far different story.

Julia Ward Howe, [a 19th century abolitionist], commenting on the after effects of the Civil War was one of the first to issue a statement about what Mothers really wanted, and that was peace.

Again and again, mothers in Gaza have been forced to gather their children’s broken bodies from beneath the rubble.

Medicaid cuts would disproportionately affect women of reproductive age, threatening access to birth control, maternity care, and other health services.

Ending Title X funding in eight states is just the beginning. Gutting America’s family planning program is an attack on reproductive health care, poor people and an attempt to dismantle public health.

Local unions are taking leadership by negotiating language into their agreements prohibiting ICE from entering workplaces.

Farmers from Neligh, Nebraska speak on Trump’s policy to round up farmworkers, the effect of the tariffs on farmers, and the resistance.

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma joined Florida tribes in protesting "Alligator Alcatraz. The tribe says it insults their ancestral homeland and threatens ecosystem.

The eight-point increase in support for giving immigrants living in the U.S. illegally the chance to become U.S. citizens reflects increased support from all party groups according to Gallop poll.

A farmworker was critically injured during a California ICE raid after he fell from a greenhouse roof where he was hiding.

This planned webinar exploring how people across the country are fighting mass deportations, originally scheduled for July 17, has been postponed. More information will be posted when a new date has been set.

Read letter by Harvard President Alan M. Garner, about the University's stance on the Federal government's illegal actions to force Harvard to give up the school's academic independence and academic freedom.

A 6-second video, recorded by a teacher and reviewed by the Texas Observer, shows an officer grabbing a student’s hair, kneeing her in the face, and knocking the 100-pound girl on her back.

"Higher education is under siege. As faculty, students, and campus workers, we must have the courage to resist."

The privatization drive means dismantling public schools. Money is shifted out of the public school system into exclusionary, discriminatory private school systems. And homeless kids and families are the first to be hit.

Education and real estate may seem like separate topics, but are instead inextricably linked for many reasons.

Cameron Samuels (Center) started a movement against censorship in Katy,Texas and students are standing strong. They honored them for Banned Books Week as Youth Honorary Chair for distributing banned books and packing school board meetings. Young people call on the nation to not be silent and defend their rights because they feel no others will.

UAW President says Trump budget hollows out rights and dignify of labor, shifting power further to billionaire class who get even more tax breaks.

Appalachia has always been more diverse than we realize. Labor history shows Black, white, immigrant, native-born workers finding solidarity in the mines that fought corporate control.

'What happened to David Huerta is not just an attack on a labor leader—it’s an attack on democracy, dignity, and decency in America.'

Highly regarded labor leader was injured and then arrested while witnessing a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

There's lots of noise about “bringing jobs back to America,” especially from Trump and others trying to sell working people a dream that doesn’t hold up to logic.

International Worker’s Day is celebrated on May 1st around the world. Today, the entire U.S. working class, of which immigrants comprise an integral part, is under attack. The defense of immigrants is vital to the defense of the entire working class.

Congress members from Chicago visited the Broadview Holding Center to conduct oversight of victims kidnapped by ICE agents in immigration raids that have been happening in Chicago.

More than two dozen community members formed a human chain to try to stop immigration agents who take the woman and her 16 year old daughter.

Dexter Wade, killed by off-duty officer, was mistakenly buried by Hinds County, Mississippi in a pauper’s field. His mother seeks answers to what happened to her son.

Texas National Guard has repeatedly fired pepper spray projectiles at arriving migrants, including women and children.

The writer is outraged at four more persons killed in a school shooting. She also explains her outrage that the 14 year old child who killed four people and wounded others will be treated as an adult in the criminal justice system.

Mike Brown Sr. releases butterflies after four and a half minutes of silence to honor the four and a half hours Mike Brown Jr.’s body was left on the ground after he was shot on August 9, 2014.