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Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

Volunteer- and anarchist-led groups are working overtime to keep their communities safe from COVID-19 even as Texas lawmakers debate a ban on masks and a warming planet promises more pandemics on the way.

By Kit O’Connell

/ 9 Apr 2025

Texas ‘Mask Blocs’ Struggle to Fill COVID-19 Health Gaps as Federal and State Attacks Ramp Up

Hands Off! Protest Floods San Antonio Downtown Streets Decrying Trump, Musk Abuses

Deceleration stumbled into former and current Republicans at the Hands Off! march in San Antonio joining millions worldwide rallying against recent Trump actions, including the dismantling of federal agencies and social services, and in favor of fundamental human rights.

By Greg Harman

/ 8 Apr 2025

Hands Off! Protest Floods San Antonio Downtown Streets Decrying Trump, Musk Abuses

Trump and the Insurrection Act: What You Need to Know Right Now

With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including refusal, resistance, and ridicule.

By Daniel Hunter

/ 4 Apr 2025

Trump and the Insurrection Act: What You Need to Know Right Now

The Climate Movement Needs to Move Beyond Billionaire-Backed Philanthropies

As the super-rich bend the knee to MAGA’s demands, the empowerment of local climate and environmental justice struggles will require grassroots funding networks to survive and continue to notch wins for their communities.

By Syris Valentine

/ 4 Apr 2025

The Climate Movement Needs to Move Beyond Billionaire-Backed Philanthropies

Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

Protests are being planned in cities across the U.S.—and clear across Texas, from El Paso to Houston and many small towns in between.

By Greg Harman

/ 3 Apr 2025

Hands Off! April 5 Mass Mobilization to Stop Trump and Musk

Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons ‘Plainly Unconstitutional,’ But Judge Stops Short of Requiring A/C

About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.

By Texas Tribune

/ 2 Apr 2025

Extreme Heat in Texas Prisons ‘Plainly Unconstitutional,’ But Judge Stops Short of Requiring A/C

Cleaning Fracking’s Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States

One company, Natura Resources, wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry.

By Dylan Baddour and Inside Climate News

/ 31 Mar 2025

Cleaning Fracking’s Waste Stream in Texas Could Require More Power Than Most U.S. States

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 24 Mar 2025

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

Why the U.S. Left Needs to Get Ukraine’s History Correct and Deepen Its Solidarity with the Victims of Russian Violence

More than ten years after Ukraine’s Maidan Revolution and an estimated million lives lost to Russia’s war on Ukraine, mischaracterizations continue.

By Truthout

/ 18 Mar 2025

Why the U.S. Left Needs to Get Ukraine’s History Correct and Deepen Its Solidarity with the Victims of Russian Violence

The Fight for Mahmoud Khalil Is a Fight for Us All

If we don’t successfully challenge the government’s unconstitutional seizure of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, this behavior will become the model for repressing labor organizers, racial justice advocates, reproductive justice efforts, climate activists, and more, the authors write.

By Sajida Jalalzai

/ 15 Mar 2025

The Fight for Mahmoud Khalil Is a Fight for Us All

CERAWeek: Eight Arrests Outside Houston’s ‘Super Bowl’ of Energy as Hundreds Convene to Imagine a Future Free of Fossil Fuels

As calls for ‘Drill Baby Drill’ and ‘Mine Baby Mine’ filled the conference rooms at Hilton Americas in Houston, hundreds gathered outside to imagine what many described as the more just, sustainable, and inevitable world we all actually need.

By Greg Harman

/ 14 Mar 2025

CERAWeek: Eight Arrests Outside Houston’s ‘Super Bowl’ of Energy as Hundreds Convene to Imagine a Future Free of Fossil Fuels

Beyond the ‘Swasticar’: A Barrio Renewables Conversation About Electric Vehicles

In spite of Trump threatening renewables and Tesla’s Elon Musk driving for global fascism, electric transportation remains part of the solution for working-class communities under assault, as this Deceleration conversation with EV enthusiast Jim Royston shows.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 12 Mar 2025

Beyond the ‘Swasticar’: A Barrio Renewables Conversation About Electric Vehicles