Source: Action Network / actionnetwork.org There’s a man in Texas named James Broadnax who has been sitting in prison for almost half of his life, and on April 30, 2026, the state plans to kill him. Broadnax is 37. He’s been tethered to death row since he was 20. When a nearly all-white Dallas County […]
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Source: Klaus Vedfelt / Getty When NeNe Leakes sashayed onto Capitol Hill recently, she wasn’t there to deliver one of her legendary, and often hilarious, “reads.” Instead, the Real Housewives of Atlanta icon joined a contingent of “Bravolebrities” for HIV Advocacy Day to protest proposed budget cuts that threaten to gut prevention and care for […]
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Source: Nadzeya Haroshka / Getty Alexia Moore, a 31-year-old Army veteran and mother of two living in Georgia, decided in late 2025 that she simply did not want to continue her pregnancy. In a nation that mirrors the values of freedom it so loudly proclaims, that choice is one she should have been able to […]
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Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The State of Texas is getting ready to turn its grocery aisles into sites of state surveillance for its most vulnerable residents. Beginning April 1, 2026, new restrictions on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will dictate exactly what families can and can’t place in their shopping carts. The state […]
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Source: Attorney Randall Kallinen / Houston Public Media The $1.25 million check recently approved by the Harris County Commissioners Court to settle a federal lawsuit over the death of Fred Harris is not an act of justice. It is, instead, a receipt that documents the cost of doing business for a rapacious carceral machine that […]
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Source: Scott Olson / Getty The legal challenge against Evanston, Illinois’ Restorative Housing Program is more than a local policy dispute; it’s a clinical attempt to stop a city from taking responsibility for its own history. My DNA doesn’t allow me to see this as just another legislative debate. I’m the granddaughter of sharecroppers from […]
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Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The boarding terminal of a Southwest Airlines flight is its own fresh hell—a cacophony of rolling luggage, grunts, and sharp elbows, where folks are fighting for boarding access like it’s a scene in The Hunger Games. It’s a space where the rules of civil society seem to be suspended in […]
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