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Texas passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and Royce Brooks and Wendy Davis join Jennifer on the show to make sense of it all. Royce is the executive director of Annie's List, an organization that aims to elect progressive women to statewide office in Texas. Wendy was a former Texas state senator, most known for filibustering a previous restrictive abortion bill in 2013 for 11+ hours. Royce, Wendy, and Jennifer discuss how unpopular the Texas law is, why lawmakers seem to have created it with blatant disregard for the Constitution, and how Republicans are skirting accountability by enacting voting bills that keep women and people of color out of power. Plus, will one of our guests run for Texas governor? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Texas passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, and Royce Brooks and Wendy Davis join Jennifer on the show to make sense of it all. Royce is the executive director of Annie's List, an organization that aims to elect progressive women to statewide office in Texas. Wendy was a former Texas state senator, most known for filibustering a previous restrictive abortion bill in 2013 for 11+ hours. Royce, Wendy, and Jennifer discuss how unpopular the Texas law is, why lawmakers seem to have created it with blatant disregard for the Constitution, and how Republicans are skirting accountability by enacting voting bills that keep women and people of color out of power. Plus, will one of our guests run for Texas governor? Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

A "Battle of the Bulge" in Texas with Royce Brooks & Wendy Davis

Emily Ramshaw

Gina Hinojosa

WHEW, y'all. This is our fav (&amp; final!) episode of season one. By some Texas-sized miracle, we got to talk with Emily Ramshaw mere hours after she announced she'll be leaving her post as editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune to create a new non-profit media venture at the intersection of women, politics and policy right here in Austin, TX. It's a don't-miss conversation. We put political F-M-K in the capable hands of some of our sheroes and paid them back with The Rabble's first ever awards. Plus, Ashley hooked us up with a "sh*t to do" so epic, it's guaranteed to hold you over 'til 2020. Catch ya next year! PRESENTING SPONSOR - THE RIVETER CO-WORKING The Riveter is a co-working space built by women for everyone. Rouser has been officing at The Riveter for the past couple months, and we literally cannot say enough nice things about it. The space is great, we love having events there, we love the free mentoring sessions they offer, and we love all the incredible folks we've gotten to meet at neighboring desks, from campaign staffers to entrepreneurs to innovators of every sort. If you're looking for an office or co-working space, check them out! https://theriveter.co/coworking-locations/austin/ ADDITIONAL SPONSORS If you need a little extra help prepping for those hard holiday conversations…. Lucky you! Citizen Discourse offers trainings that help folks grow listening skills, develop more self awareness and  engage in authentic conversations.   AND their restorative workshops support a more connected and trusting community. Check them out: https://www.citizendiscourse.org Circle Brewing Company, local beer that’s tasty, clean and progressive. No chemicals, stabilizing or clarifying agents, cheap additives or gimmicky flavors. https://www.circlebrewing.com/ The Austin Chapter of APAPA (Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs), who are doing a lot of work for the 2020 Census. https://www.apapa.org/chapters/austin-texas/ Margaret Chen Kercher for Judge in Travis County Court at Law #4 https://margaretforjudge.com/ Pritesh Gandhi for Congress in Texas’s 10th district https://www.gandhifortexas.com/ Maria Cantú Hexsel for Judge in Travis County’s 53rd District Court https://www.mariaforjudge.com/ Flip the Texas House: 17&lt;10 - A Blue Action Democrats statewide initiative https://bit.ly/37u1vye Ann Howard for Travis County Commissioner Pct 3 https://www.annforcommissioner.com/ José Garza for Travis County District Attorney https://www.joseforda.com/ The Blue Squad app, which you can download now to do all the https://www.bluesquad.co Julie Oliver for Congress in Texas’s 25th district https://www.julieoliver.org/ Annie's List,  a nonprofit Electing Progressive Women in Texas. https://annieslist.com/ Casey Chapman Ross Photography and her I am an Activist Coloring Book, available at a live show near you on Nov. 19 https://www.caseychapmanrossphotography.com/product-page/i-am-an-activist-coloring-book Valinda Bolton for Travis County Commissioner Pct 3 http://voteforvalinda.com/ Amy Meredith for Judge in the 460th District Court https://www.amymeredithforjudge.com/ Wendy Davis for Congress in Texas’s 21st district http://wendyforcongress.com/ Texas Civil Rights Project, legal advocates for the rising social justice movement https://texascivilrightsproject.org/ Progress Texas, media and digital strategy company promoting progressive ideals while pushing back on the Texas right wing. https://progresstexas.org/ Heidi Sloan for Congress in Texas's 25th district https://heidisloan.com/ Judge Tamara Needles for Judge in Travis County’s 427th District http://www.needlesforjudge.com/ SUPPORT ROUSER'S PATREON PAGE! Want to make sure The Rabble pod keeps coming? Help us pay for it! (We are making zero dollars on the pod and need your help to keep going.) ALSO, you get super fun perks when you pitch in to help us cover our costs (secret parties, GIF chats, even a prayer candle with your face on it!). Go to https://www.patreon.com/rousertx NOW NOW NOW NOW! Also, spread the joy of Ann Richards and The Rabble all across Texas on T-shirts, stickers, mugs, or whatevs: https://rouser.threadless.com/ THIS WEEK’S GUESTS: Emily Ramshaw, Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tribune (and about to launch something BIG come January) https://twitter.com/eramshaw Texas State Representative Gina Hinojosa https://twitter.com/GinaForAustin Dyana Limon-Mercado, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes and Chair of the Travis County Democratic Party https://twitter.com/DyanaforChair Royce Brooks, Executive Director of Annie's List https://twitter.com/RoyceBrooksTX FOLLOW ROUSER:   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RouserTX   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rousertx/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/RouserTX?lang=en   Subscribe to our Friday newsletter, T-GIF: https://www.rousertx.com/tgif/   SH*T TO DO: “How To Do Thanksgiving Makeup That Has Nothing To Do With The 566 Federally Recognized Tribes.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWt2mnalP8&amp;fbclid=IwAR2Hjgjm1wicqJwk5s6wXX0bOPbSym5RFXSaAN5kklDo_NhmrT0hZ4vld4c&amp;app=desktop “Native Land” app https://native-land.ca/ The Tonkawa Trail of Tears http://www.tonkawatribe.com/trailoftears.html Support Native businesses http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html The Indigenous Solidarity Networks’ “Rethinking Thanksgiving Toolkit” from Showing Up For Racial Justice https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Me3v2fdjIPBQVkzALHhge2K8q4bCBe7cCBvVAZ11UQc/edit Native American Rights Fund, which is working on voter protections for indigenous populations and promoting native humans rights https://www.narf.org/ The Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance also just released an online toolkit to make it easier to understand community resisting around the environment, like discussing the problems with carbon pricing. http://co2colonialism.org/?fbclid=IwAR2wP6wkAUL-1Q-yRxwfCPtEOGU-wMri-D7piqW40qjMFAKTVf2baR4eGqg Society of Native Nations, which is a TX-based nonprofit dedicated to advocating for native people and the earth by helping to protect and preserve native culture, spirituality, teachings, medicine, and way of life. http://societyofnativenations.org Help stop the largest ethane cracker plant in the world from being built on the gulf of Corpus Christi by calling or emailing the contacts below with the following script, provided by the Society of Native Nations. CALL: Mayor McComb of Corpus Christi 361-826-3100 Email: joe.mccomb@cctexas.com CALL: Environmental Protection Agency, in Houston 281-983-2100 Sample script: “My name is ____ I am calling to voice my concern with the approval of the ExxonMobil petrochemical plant being built in Corpus Christi that will hurt the local neighborhoods surrounding the plant with health issues and pollution to our air, land, and water. It will also hurt the billion-dollar tourism, of which 50% was ecotourism. I also feel concerned about children attending Corpus Christi Universities with such a higher risk of pollution to the local environment and beaches that will carry the pollution to other parts of the world. I ask you to please consider stopping the construction of the Cracker Plant and consider other economic choices for Corpus Christi that are more environmentally friendly that will ensure our children have a healthy environment in the future.” Find unregistered voters in your area https://mapthe.vote/ Help register voters https://register2vote.org/ MOVE Texas https://movetexas.org/ Texas Rising https://txrising.org/ Jolt https://jolttx.org/ Blue Action Democrats https://www.blueactiondems.com/ Blue Squad https://www.bluesquad.co/ She the People https://www.shethepeople.org/ Swing Left https://swingleft.org/ Common Cause https://www.commoncause.org/ Battleground Texas https://www.battlegroundtexas.com/ 17&lt;10 Flip The TX House https://flipthetxhouse.com/ League of Women Voters of Texas https://my.lwv.org/texas The Census: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aheRpmurAo#action=share 2020 Complete Count Committees https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-complete-count-committees.html Fair Maps Texas https://www.facebook.com/groups/FairMapsTexas/ Contact Senator John Cornyn about ending Migrant Protection Protocol, or the "Remain in Mexico" policy with the following sample script, provided by the Children’s Defense Fund. https://www.tfaforms.com/4720928 https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact Southeast Texas: 713-572-3337 South Texas: 956-423-0162 West Texas: 806-472-7533 South Central Texas: 210-224-7485 Central Texas: 512-469-6034 East Texas: 903-593-0902 North Texas: 972-239-1310 Or use resist bot to fax or email. https://resist.bot/ Text RESIST to 50409. Sample Script: "My name is ____ and I am a constituent from zip code ____. I urge Senator Cornyn to defund and terminate the harmful Migrant Protection Protocol policy.  MPP is a violation of U.S. Immigration law and international humanitarian law. The Department of Homeland Security must be held accountable for violations of the rights of migrants due to their policies. Asylum seekers should be allowed to wait for their asylum hearings in safety within the United States, not be sent to harm in Mexico to wait for months. I am alarmed that they are being returned to dangerous Mexican cities where they are at risk for kidnapping and extortion. I implore you to speak out against these policies. My community welcomes and values immigrants &amp; refugees, and as someone who represents my community, I urge you to do the same." LINKS WE MENTIONED: WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us Saying ‘Enough’ to Lousy, Vulnerable Voting Technology (Dana DeBeauvoir, County Clerk, Travis County, Texas) https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/ T-Squared: Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora launching a national news organization for women https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/19/emily-ramshaw-amanda-zamora-t-squared/ Emily Ramshaw https://twitter.com/eramshaw

WHEW, y'all. This is our fav (&amp; final!) episode of season one. By some Texas-sized miracle, we got to talk with Emily Ramshaw mere hours after she announced she'll be leaving her post as editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune to create a new non-profit media venture at the intersection of women, politics and policy right here in Austin, TX. It's a don't-miss conversation. We put political F-M-K in the capable hands of some of our sheroes and paid them back with The Rabble's first ever awards. Plus, Ashley hooked us up with a "sh*t to do" so epic, it's guaranteed to hold you over 'til 2020. Catch ya next year! <h2>PRESENTING SPONSOR - THE RIVETER CO-WORKING</h2> The Riveter is a co-working space built by women for everyone. Rouser has been officing at The Riveter for the past couple months, and we literally cannot say enough nice things about it. The space is great, we love having events there, we love the free mentoring sessions they offer, and we love all the incredible folks we've gotten to meet at neighboring desks, from campaign staffers to entrepreneurs to innovators of every sort. If you're looking for an office or co-working space, check them out! <a href="https://theriveter.co/coworking-locations/austin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theriveter.co/coworking-locations/austin/</a> ADDITIONAL SPONSORS If you need a little extra help prepping for those hard holiday conversations…. Lucky you! Citizen Discourse offers trainings that help folks grow listening skills, develop more self awareness and engage in authentic conversations. AND their restorative workshops support a more connected and trusting community. Check them out: <a href="https://www.citizendiscourse.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.citizendiscourse.org</a> Circle Brewing Company, local beer that’s tasty, clean and progressive. No chemicals, stabilizing or clarifying agents, cheap additives or gimmicky flavors. <a href="https://www.circlebrewing.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.circlebrewing.com/</a> The Austin Chapter of APAPA (Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs), who are doing a lot of work for the 2020 Census. <a href="https://www.apapa.org/chapters/austin-texas/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.apapa.org/chapters/austin-texas/</a> Margaret Chen Kercher for Judge in Travis County Court at Law #4 <a href="https://margaretforjudge.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://margaretforjudge.com/</a> Pritesh Gandhi for Congress in Texas’s 10th district <a href="https://www.gandhifortexas.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.gandhifortexas.com/</a> Maria Cantú Hexsel for Judge in Travis County’s 53rd District Court <a href="https://www.mariaforjudge.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mariaforjudge.com/</a> Flip the Texas House: 17&lt;10 - A Blue Action Democrats statewide initiative <a href="https://bit.ly/37u1vye" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/37u1vye</a> Ann Howard for Travis County Commissioner Pct 3 <a href="https://www.annforcommissioner.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.annforcommissioner.com/</a> José Garza for Travis County District Attorney <a href="https://www.joseforda.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.joseforda.com/</a> The Blue Squad app, which you can download now to do all the <a href="https://www.bluesquad.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bluesquad.co</a> Julie Oliver for Congress in Texas’s 25th district <a href="https://www.julieoliver.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.julieoliver.org/</a> Annie's List, a nonprofit Electing Progressive Women in Texas. <a href="https://annieslist.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://annieslist.com/</a> Casey Chapman Ross Photography and her I am an Activist Coloring Book, available at a live show near you on Nov. 19 <a href="https://www.caseychapmanrossphotography.com/product-page/i-am-an-activist-coloring-book" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.caseychapmanrossphotography.com/product-page/i-am-an-activist-coloring-book</a> Valinda Bolton for Travis County Commissioner Pct 3 <a href="http://voteforvalinda.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://voteforvalinda.com/</a> Amy Meredith for Judge in the 460th District Court <a href="https://www.amymeredithforjudge.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amymeredithforjudge.com/</a> Wendy Davis for Congress in Texas’s 21st district <a href="http://wendyforcongress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wendyforcongress.com/</a> Texas Civil Rights Project, legal advocates for the rising social justice movement <a href="https://texascivilrightsproject.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://texascivilrightsproject.org/</a> Progress Texas, media and digital strategy company promoting progressive ideals while pushing back on the Texas right wing. <a href="https://progresstexas.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://progresstexas.org/</a> Heidi Sloan for Congress in Texas's 25th district <a href="https://heidisloan.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://heidisloan.com/</a> Judge Tamara Needles for Judge in Travis County’s 427th District <a href="http://www.needlesforjudge.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.needlesforjudge.com/</a> <h2>SUPPORT ROUSER'S PATREON PAGE!</h2> Want to make sure The Rabble pod keeps coming? Help us pay for it! (We are making zero dollars on the pod and need your help to keep going.) ALSO, you get super fun perks when you pitch in to help us cover our costs (secret parties, GIF chats, even a prayer candle with your face on it!). Go to <a href="https://www.patreon.com/rousertx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/rousertx</a> NOW NOW NOW NOW! Also, spread the joy of Ann Richards and The Rabble all across Texas on T-shirts, stickers, mugs, or whatevs: <a href="https://rouser.threadless.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rouser.threadless.com/</a> <h2>THIS WEEK’S GUESTS:</h2> Emily Ramshaw, Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tribune (and about to launch something BIG come January) <a href="https://twitter.com/eramshaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eramshaw</a> Texas State Representative Gina Hinojosa <a href="https://twitter.com/GinaForAustin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/GinaForAustin</a> Dyana Limon-Mercado, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes and Chair of the Travis County Democratic Party <a href="https://twitter.com/DyanaforChair" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DyanaforChair</a> Royce Brooks, Executive Director of Annie's List <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyceBrooksTX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RoyceBrooksTX</a> <h2>FOLLOW ROUSER:</h2> <ul> <li> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RouserTX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/RouserTX</a> </li> <li> Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rousertx/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/rousertx/</a> </li> <li> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/RouserTX?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RouserTX?lang=en</a> </li> <li> Subscribe to our Friday newsletter, T-GIF: <a href="https://www.rousertx.com/tgif/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rousertx.com/tgif/</a> </li> </ul> <h2>SH*T TO DO:</h2> “How To Do Thanksgiving Makeup That Has Nothing To Do With The 566 Federally Recognized Tribes.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWt2mnalP8&amp;fbclid=IwAR2Hjgjm1wicqJwk5s6wXX0bOPbSym5RFXSaAN5kklDo_NhmrT0hZ4vld4c&amp;app=desktop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWt2mnalP8&amp;fbclid=IwAR2Hjgjm1wicqJwk5s6wXX0bOPbSym5RFXSaAN5kklDo_NhmrT0hZ4vld4c&amp;app=desktop</a> “Native Land” app <a href="https://native-land.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://native-land.ca/</a> The Tonkawa Trail of Tears <a href="http://www.tonkawatribe.com/trailoftears.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.tonkawatribe.com/trailoftears.html</a> Support Native businesses <a href="http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html</a> The Indigenous Solidarity Networks’ “Rethinking Thanksgiving Toolkit” from Showing Up For Racial Justice <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Me3v2fdjIPBQVkzALHhge2K8q4bCBe7cCBvVAZ11UQc/edit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Me3v2fdjIPBQVkzALHhge2K8q4bCBe7cCBvVAZ11UQc/edit</a> Native American Rights Fund, which is working on voter protections for indigenous populations and promoting native humans rights <a href="https://www.narf.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.narf.org/</a> The Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance also just released an online toolkit to make it easier to understand community resisting around the environment, like discussing the problems with carbon pricing. <a href="http://co2colonialism.org/?fbclid=IwAR2wP6wkAUL-1Q-yRxwfCPtEOGU-wMri-D7piqW40qjMFAKTVf2baR4eGqg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://co2colonialism.org/?fbclid=IwAR2wP6wkAUL-1Q-yRxwfCPtEOGU-wMri-D7piqW40qjMFAKTVf2baR4eGqg</a> Society of Native Nations, which is a TX-based nonprofit dedicated to advocating for native people and the earth by helping to protect and preserve native culture, spirituality, teachings, medicine, and way of life. <a href="http://societyofnativenations.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://societyofnativenations.org</a> Help stop the largest ethane cracker plant in the world from being built on the gulf of Corpus Christi by calling or emailing the contacts below with the following script, provided by the Society of Native Nations. CALL: Mayor McComb of Corpus Christi 361-826-3100 Email: joe.mccomb@cctexas.com CALL: Environmental Protection Agency, in Houston 281-983-2100 Sample script: “My name is ____ I am calling to voice my concern with the approval of the ExxonMobil petrochemical plant being built in Corpus Christi that will hurt the local neighborhoods surrounding the plant with health issues and pollution to our air, land, and water. It will also hurt the billion-dollar tourism, of which 50% was ecotourism. I also feel concerned about children attending Corpus Christi Universities with such a higher risk of pollution to the local environment and beaches that will carry the pollution to other parts of the world. I ask you to please consider stopping the construction of the Cracker Plant and consider other economic choices for Corpus Christi that are more environmentally friendly that will ensure our children have a healthy environment in the future.” Find unregistered voters in your area https://mapthe.vote/ Help register voters <a href="https://register2vote.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://register2vote.org/</a> MOVE Texas <a href="https://movetexas.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://movetexas.org/</a> Texas Rising <a href="https://txrising.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://txrising.org/</a> Jolt <a href="https://jolttx.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://jolttx.org/</a> Blue Action Democrats <a href="https://www.blueactiondems.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.blueactiondems.com/</a> Blue Squad <a href="https://www.bluesquad.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bluesquad.co/</a> She the People <a href="https://www.shethepeople.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.shethepeople.org/</a> Swing Left <a href="https://swingleft.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://swingleft.org/</a> Common Cause <a href="https://www.commoncause.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.commoncause.org/</a> Battleground Texas <a href="https://www.battlegroundtexas.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.battlegroundtexas.com/</a> 17&lt;10 Flip The TX House <a href="https://flipthetxhouse.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://flipthetxhouse.com/</a> League of Women Voters of Texas <a href="https://my.lwv.org/texas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://my.lwv.org/texas</a> The Census: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aheRpmurAo#action=share" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aheRpmurAo#action=share</a> 2020 Complete Count Committees <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-complete-count-committees.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/2020-complete-count-committees.html</a> Fair Maps Texas <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FairMapsTexas/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/FairMapsTexas/</a> Contact Senator John Cornyn about ending Migrant Protection Protocol, or the "Remain in Mexico" policy with the following sample script, provided by the Children’s Defense Fund. <a href="https://www.tfaforms.com/4720928" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tfaforms.com/4720928</a> <a href="https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact</a> Southeast Texas: 713-572-3337 South Texas: 956-423-0162 West Texas: 806-472-7533 South Central Texas: 210-224-7485 Central Texas: 512-469-6034 East Texas: 903-593-0902 North Texas: 972-239-1310 Or use resist bot to fax or email. https://resist.bot/ Text RESIST to 50409. Sample Script: "My name is ____ and I am a constituent from zip code ____. I urge Senator Cornyn to defund and terminate the harmful Migrant Protection Protocol policy. MPP is a violation of U.S. Immigration law and international humanitarian law. The Department of Homeland Security must be held accountable for violations of the rights of migrants due to their policies. Asylum seekers should be allowed to wait for their asylum hearings in safety within the United States, not be sent to harm in Mexico to wait for months. I am alarmed that they are being returned to dangerous Mexican cities where they are at risk for kidnapping and extortion. I implore you to speak out against these policies. My community welcomes and values immigrants &amp; refugees, and as someone who represents my community, I urge you to do the same." <h2>LINKS WE MENTIONED:</h2> WIRED25: Stories of People Who Are Racing to Save Us Saying ‘Enough’ to Lousy, Vulnerable Voting Technology (Dana DeBeauvoir, County Clerk, Travis County, Texas) <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/wired25-stories-people-racing-to-save-us/</a> T-Squared: Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora launching a national news organization for women <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/19/emily-ramshaw-amanda-zamora-t-squared/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/19/emily-ramshaw-amanda-zamora-t-squared/</a> Emily Ramshaw <a href="https://twitter.com/eramshaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/eramshaw</a>

Season 1 Finale! LIVE with Emily Ramshaw, Editor-in-Chief (for now) of the Texas Tribune, TX State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, Royce Brooks of Annie's List & Dyana Limon-Mercado of Planned Parenthood & the Travis County Dems

The executive director of Annie’s List discusses representational democracy in Texas and the debate over how progressive is too progressive.

#72 Royce Brooks: “Our Priority Is Making The Biggest, Best Run At Flipping Control Of The State House”

In 2018 Royce Brooks became executive director of Annie's List, an organization started in 2003 to recruit, train and support progressive women running for office at both the state and local levels in Texas. Over the past 15 years, the organization has raised more than $15 million to support these candidates and has helped them win more than 100 races, canvassing, holding training sessions, phone banking and driving voters to the polls.  Before joining Annie’s List, Brooks worked with city leaders, researchers and community members to develop a policy agenda addressing inequality in Atlanta as the city’s first-ever chief equity officer. She served as the policy director for Sylvester Turner’s successful campaign for mayor of Houston and as the statewide policy director for Wendy Davis’s 2014 Texas gubernatorial campaign. Brooks has worked in both houses of Congress, including as a legislative counsel and subcommittee staff director in the United States Senate, and has been a policy analyst with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and was a legislative assistant for Rep. Martin Frost (D–TX), the former chairman of the U.S. House Democratic Caucus. 

In 2018 <a href="https://annieslist.com/team/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Royce Brooks</a> became executive director of <a href="https://annieslist.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Annie's List</a>, an organization started in 2003 to recruit, train and support progressive women running for office at both the state and local levels in Texas. Over the past 15 years, the organization has raised more than $15 million to support these candidates and has helped them win more than 100 races, canvassing, holding training sessions, phone banking and driving voters to the polls.  Before joining Annie’s List, Brooks worked with city leaders, researchers and community members to develop a policy agenda addressing inequality in Atlanta as the city’s first-ever chief equity officer. She served as the policy director for Sylvester Turner’s successful campaign for mayor of Houston and as the statewide policy director for Wendy Davis’s 2014 Texas gubernatorial campaign. Brooks has worked in both houses of Congress, including as a legislative counsel and subcommittee staff director in the United States Senate, and has been a policy analyst with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and was a legislative assistant for Rep. Martin Frost (D–TX), the former chairman of the U.S. House Democratic Caucus.

Episode 16 – Royce Brooks, Executive Director of Annie’s List, on changing the faces of power in Texas politics