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Stories we're following this morning:
A lawsuit filed by a Texas man against three women who helped his ex-wife acquire abortion medication, backed by notorious anti-abortion activist attorney Jonathan Mitchell, has been dropped: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/us/texas-lawsuit-friends-abortion-pills.html
A longstanding effort by an Andrews County nuclear waste storage facility to ship even more highly toxic waste into Texas from long distances has made it to the U.S. Supreme Court: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/09/us-supreme-court-west-texas-nuclear-waste-plan/
At the behest of Governor Abbott, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has removed a federal judge from a class action lawsuit that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has failed to abide for almost a decade: https://lawandcrime.com/judiciary/must-be-removed-fifth-circuit-bounces-clinton-appointed-judge-from-long-running-texas-foster-care-system-abuse-case-after-greg-abbott-asks-for-her-removal/
Thomas Saenz, president of MALDEF, compares Ken Paxton's voter suppression tactics in South Texas to similar moves made by foreign authoritarian dictators: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2024/10/14/paxtons-tactics-in-texas-undermine-our-electoral-democracy/
...Even right-leaning experts agree that non-citizen voting, the latest boogeyman of the Trump Party, is a largely non-existent problem: https://abcnews.go.com/US/protecting-vote-south-texas-myth-noncitizen-voting-takes/story?id=114729639
The documentary Zurawski V Texas has won the inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons Film Festival: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/zurawski-v-texas-abortion-documentary-artemis-rising-foundation-award-hamptons-film-festival-1236175574/
The Ted Cruz/Colin Allred debate on Tuesday night will be carried by TEGNA-owned TV stations across Texas, and also via the WFAA app: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/ted-cruz-colin-allred-debate-texas-us-senate-election-tv-wfaa/287-7e425e4a-0ccb-49b8-a817-8e9205960212
Our annual holiday fundraising parties approach! We'll be gathering both in Dallas and Austin this December, and there are sponsorship opportunities available: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/progress-texas-holiday-parties-2024
See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025
...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration
...Please pitch in to help fund our recent expansion of that important voting resource with Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese translation: https://progresstexas.org/blog/coming-soon-govotetexasorg-adds-commonly-spoken-languages-increase-ballot-access
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