But in lawsuit after lawsuit, testimony after testimony, in too many phone videos marked by terrified screams of women and children, their brutality is unmasked. This is an update on those legal orders, lawsuits, and letters, from Illinois, to Florida, to Texas.
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
DILLEY, Texas—‘Unify to Dilley’ attendees gathered on the side of the road just outside of this small South Texas community on April 18, 2026, with three key demands: shut
‘Every state a border state’ has shown the U.S. interior MAGA’s anti-immigrant furor, but on the actual southern boundary, border residents—and the Rio Grande they share—are bearing the fuller price of ever expanding militarization.
Deceleration speaks with Amite Dominick, founder & president of Texas Prisons Community Advocates, about efforts to force the state to install potentially life-saving air conditioning.
Republican state leaders stripped cities of the ability to require water breaks for workers, but Texas cities are still fighting to create more habitable conditions for their residents as dangerous heatwaves continue to expand.
