Jules · [email protected]

May 11, 2021 at 10:02 PM

Let's put an end to these bills now

John, As the Texas legislative session draws closer to the end, we have an opportunity this week to kill some harmful bills. If a House bill does not get heard on second reading on the House floor by the end of Thursday, it will be dead in the water. Now…

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  Josh Gonzalez - Tx Rising · [email protected]

May 7, 2021 at 8:00 PM

Fighting voter suppression 24/7

It has been a wild week at your Texas Capitol. John, It has been a wild week at your Texas Capitol. And we should know, because we've been there, in some cases for pretty much 24-hour stretches. The Texas Rising Action team is a little bit tired, but sti…

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  Rev. Erika Forbes - TFN · [email protected]

May 6, 2021 at 8:48 PM

A prophetic, progressive and powerful voice of faith

We are Just Texas, and we are changing the narrative Dear John, For too long, a highly vocal, extremist minority in Texas has claimed to represent the only faith-based position on reproductive rights and choice: attacking policies that ensure safe and af…

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  Josh · [email protected]

May 4, 2021 at 10:29 PM

Rally for democracy

John, Last week, the chair of the House Elections Committee, without notice and without letting Texans speak at a public hearing, rammed through a voter suppression bill and moved it closer to becoming law. It was a shameless step with little precedent, …

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  Jules · [email protected]

May 3, 2021 at 9:49 PM

This week's legislative actions

John, Here is your latest email previewing upcoming legislative actions as we head into the final month of this year's session of the Texas Legislature. Similar to last week, we are in a holding pattern waiting for when, and if, the next round of bad bil…

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  Josh · [email protected]

May 1, 2021 at 11:45 AM

It's Election Day. Go vote!

John, Today is Election Day across Texas as cities hold their local elections to decide mayoral races, city council races, the fate of ballot initiatives, and more. We believe that every election, from municipal and all the way up to the presidential, is…

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  Jules · [email protected]

April 27, 2021 at 9:44 PM

A legislative actions preview for the final sprint

John, The Texas Legislature has a little more than a month left before the final gavel falls on the regular session and there are lots of things happening in this final stretch. Starting today, we’ll send a periodic preview email near the start of each w…

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  Josh · [email protected]

April 24, 2021 at 1:00 PM

It's the (voting) weekend!

John, Early voting for the May 1 municipal elections is going on right now and this will be your first, and last, chance to vote during a weekend before the early vote period ends on Tuesday, April 27. If you have some free time this weekend, it will be …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

April 22, 2021 at 11:51 PM

An obstacle course to the ballot box

John, Yesterday was a big day in our fight against voter suppression efforts at the Texas Legislature. Across the state in multiple cities, members of TFN's youth organizing arm, Texas Rising Action, staged public events that included obstacle courses as…

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  Josh · [email protected]

April 20, 2021 at 4:43 PM

Join us virtually, or in person, for Voting Shouldn't Be An Obstacle

John, Texas already has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. This obstacle course to the ballot box will only get worse under several bills moving at the Texas Legislature, especially bills like HB 6. Let's do something about it. Join…

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  Jules with TFN · [email protected]

April 19, 2021 at 10:17 PM

Texas deserves better

John, The attacks on transgender kids and their families continues at the Legislature. Last week, a bill banning transgender young people from playing school sports (SB 29) passed in Dan Patrick's Senate. Over in the House, a similar sports ban (HB 4042)…

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  Sonja · [email protected]

April 13, 2021 at 10:29 PM

It's not a license to discriminate

John, The right's cruel legislative attack on transgender Texans is picking up steam, and this week anti-equality lawmakers are using a familiar tactic: pushing a bill that tries to twist religious freedom into a license to disciminate. On Wednesday the …

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  Jules with TFN · [email protected]

April 9, 2021 at 2:00 PM

What even is a ballot initiatve?

John, Have you heard? May 1 is municipal election day for several cities across the state.  Because every election -- big or small -- is important, we are running a get-out-the-vote campaign to help defeat two harmful ballot initiatives, and we need your…

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  Osmara, Tx Rising Action Deputy Director · [email protected]

April 8, 2021 at 1:31 PM

Texas Rising Action speaks truth to power

Dear John, While this Legislative session may be unlike anything we’ve ever seen, one thing remains constant: Texas Freedom Network’s commitment to building, empowering and training the next generation of Texas leaders. Make a gift today to support Texas…

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  Jules with TFN · [email protected]

April 6, 2021 at 2:33 PM

Fight for abortion access

John, Politicians like Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and his anti-abortion allies are doing everything they can to impose even more restrictions on abortion or outright ban the procedure. Just this week, six anti-abortion bills will be considered in a legislative…

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  Carisa, TFN Political Director · [email protected]

March 31, 2021 at 1:05 PM

Different week, same voter suppression

John, Let's be blunt: Last week's hearing on the voter suppression House Bill 6 was a train wreck thanks to House Elections Committee chair and the bill's author, Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park. First, Cain refused to take questions from the chair of the…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

March 26, 2021 at 10:11 PM

The end of voter suppression week is only the beginning

Two bills, House Bill 6 and Senate Bill 7, saw their first committee hearings this week. If passed they represent a wholesale attack on your voting rights. John, We're concluding a difficult week in which the right's divisive and hateful agenda kicked int…

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  Josh · [email protected]

March 23, 2021 at 7:05 PM

Suppress the virus, not the vote

John, The pandemic is still ongoing. Texans are still recovering from a winter storm blackout and nothing has been done to prevent another one. And yet, Republican lawmakers will spend this week working to suppress the votes of eligible Texas voters at t…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

March 17, 2021 at 10:34 PM

JUST IN: Here's how we turned TX into a battleground

TFN's youth organizing program, Texas Rising, helped lead the way in the ongoing effort to flip the state and bring with it a more progressive Texas. John, Last November we had the closest presidential election in Texas in decades. And an analysis we just…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

March 15, 2021 at 1:00 PM

Showing you how misguided they are, one bill at a time

We’re still reviewing the torrent of right-wing legislation filed for the session, but we have already identified dozens of misguided and hateful bills that will take Texas backward. John, The rush to file legislation at the Capitol before Friday’s deadl…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

March 10, 2021 at 9:05 PM

Keep them accountable

Hi John, We are just weeks into the 87th Texas Legislative Session and it’s already shaping up to be unlike anything we’ve seen before.  Simply put, the failed leadership of Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov Dan Patrick is putting the lives of Texans at ris…

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  Jules Mandel · [email protected]

February 26, 2021 at 5:48 PM

I'm just a bill

Join us Thursday, March 4 @ 5 pm CT for our “Bill Preview: What to Expect at the Lege” virtual training. Hi John, Join us Thursday, March 4 @ 5 pm CT for our “Bill Preview: What to Expect at the Lege” virtual training. The Texas Legislature only meets eve…

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  Val, TFN President · [email protected]

February 25, 2021 at 10:49 PM

Telling the truth about the #AbbottBlackout

John, There was Cerena, a Texas Rising member, who abandoned her home and made a dangerous trek on snowy, icy roads to her partner's dorm room. There was Pablo, a San Antonian who lost heat in his home and tried to keep warm in a closet. And there was Ta…

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  Jules, TFN Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator · [email protected]

February 23, 2021 at 4:49 PM

The people of Texas need power

John, This past week, we as Texans went through a collective trauma together, and our most marginalized communities were most deeply impacted. Now, we need you to use your voice to ensure that Texas officials provide much needed relief to affected Texans…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

February 22, 2021 at 7:32 PM

Supporting the recovery effort

John, We hope that you and your loved ones are safe today. Last week was distressing and painful, to say the least. Across Texas, millions of us were plunged into darkness as our power grid failed. Then we saw lives lost, freezing temperatures inside our…

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  Val, TFN President · [email protected]

February 5, 2021 at 10:36 PM

This week at the Legislature

John, Nearly 40,000 Texans have died from COVID so far, but Republican leaders who run the state don’t seem to care much about bringing us together in this crisis. This week at the Capitol we saw that they remain intensely focused on dividing Texans to p…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

January 21, 2021 at 3:13 PM

One more thing about 2020

John, 2020 was, for sure, a challenging year. But across this state and country we got through it, together, and it helped us prepare for the obstacles and opportunities ahead in 2021. Today I want to bring you one more look back at our 2020 with TFN's A…

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  The TFN Team · [email protected]

January 14, 2021 at 4:49 PM

Join our team

The Texas Freedom Network is looking for a new communications director. John, Are you a communications professional who wants to work for a progressive champion that has spent more than 25 years building a movement for equality and social justice in Texas…

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  Carisa, TFN Political Director · [email protected]

January 11, 2021 at 2:17 PM

The Legislature meets tomorrow. Here’s what to expect.

We might not be there in person, at least for now, but rest assured, we’ll still be hard at work advocating for progressive policies. John, State lawmakers will gather tomorrow at the Capitol in Austin for the official start of the 87th session of the Tex…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 10:00 PM

Our last email of 2020

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match Wow John – there are just hours left in what has been an undeniably challenging year for us all. Can you believe that? Thank you for working alongside TFN to defend progressive values in Texas through it all.…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Are you a generous procrastinator?

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match John – I’ll keep this note short and sweet. Today is the last day to double the impact of your tax-deductible year-end gift to the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund. We have so much work to do to protect…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 6:00 PM

Here are some steps forward that happened this year

John, Let’s be clear up front: This has been a tough year. Twelve months ago, we could not have imagined the pain, death and sorrow a pandemic would bring our nation and the rest of the world. Nor did we expect the shocking level of incompetence and deni…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 5:55 PM

36 hours left to maximize your year-end gift

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match John – Tomorrow is the last day in 2020, which means it's also the last opportunity for you to double the impact of your year-end giving to the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund. But you don't have to wa…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 28, 2020 at 3:31 PM

Matching Gift Offer Expires Soon

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match John, Before we ring in the New Year and officially leave 2020 behind, I want to take this opportunity to recognize our grassroots network of over 150,000 passionate and engaged individuals whose commitment t…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 1:00 PM

A reflection on 25 years of speaking truth to power

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match John, As we close out 2020, I want to take a few moments to spotlight TFN’s rich history of organizing clergy and faith leaders to speak truth to power. Throughout its entire 25-year existence, the Texas Fre…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 3:08 PM

Did you see my email?

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match John, I'm following up on the email I sent you last week sharing that we have no time to waste – the far-right extremists who control our state are already preparing to push their hateful and backward agenda …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 10, 2020 at 3:31 PM

Make 2X the difference with our year-end match

John, Some years serve as powerful reminders that we are all in this together. This year – marked especially by a worldwide pandemic, an inspiring wave of grassroots activism, and a historic election – has been one of them. Although this wasn’t what we e…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 2, 2020 at 2:00 AM

Now more than ever, your support is needed

Today is Giving Tuesday! Double your impact and get a head start on your year-end giving with a generous gift today. John – With just a few hours before midnight, time is almost up to participate in Giving Tuesday. By donating today, your selfless gift …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 1, 2020 at 9:02 PM

You are what grassroots power looks like, John

Will you stand with TFN on #GivingTuesday? On this day of solidarity, we invite our community to come together to celebrate the strength and resilience of our TFN movement in this time of uncertainty. One $5 donation, John. That’s the donation I’m asking …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 1, 2020 at 1:01 PM

John, let's make today count!

Today is Giving Tuesday! Double your impact and get a head start on your year-end giving with a generous gift today. John, So much has changed this year, but one thing has remained steadfast: Your support of TFN. Because of you, TFN has been able to face …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

December 1, 2020 at 1:01 AM

John, will you be one of the first to double your gift?

Giving Tuesday begins at midnight! Double your impact and get a head start on your year-end giving with an early bird gift today. Hi John, I hope you had a safe and healthy Thanksgiving holiday. As we wrap up this challenging year and set our sights firmly…

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  The TFN Team · [email protected]

November 25, 2020 at 9:00 PM

Thank You!

Thank you for standing with TFN during this challenging year. Your support has truly meant the world to us. Wishing you and yours a safe and healthy holiday season!   Support Our Work …

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

November 24, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Embrace the power of generosity this #GivingTuesday

It's the Tuesday before #GivingTuesday. Double your impact and get a head start on your year-end giving with an early bird gift today. Hi John, With the holiday season fast approaching, it is a busy time for all of us. So, let me cut to the chase. Today i…

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  Val, TFN President · [email protected]

November 21, 2020 at 3:00 PM

What happened at the SBOE and what comes next

John, Friday’s final votes on new health and science curriculum standards for Texas public schools prove that strong, ongoing activism can lead to progress. But they also make clear that a majority of the State Board of Education remains trapped in the …

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  Jules Mandel · [email protected]

November 10, 2020 at 6:51 PM

Urgent - Testify at the State Board of Education

Deadline to register is Friday at 5 p.m. CT John, We wanted to make sure you knew that the final vote on the Health and Science curriculum standards at the State Board of Education is being taken at the upcoming meeting on November 17-20.  This is our la…

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  Val Benavidez, TFN President · [email protected]

November 7, 2020 at 4:57 PM

Every vote matters: Our fight for a new Texas goes on

The ballot counting in key states has served as an important reminder: Every vote matters. Now we know that change is coming for our nation after four long years of darkness and division. Dear John, The ballot counting in key states has served as an impor…

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  Rae · [email protected]

November 3, 2020 at 8:18 PM

Only a few hours left to vote

This is the last chance to make your voice heard in the most critical election of our lives. Hi John, There are only a few hours left to vote. Don’t wake up Wednesday morning wishing you had done more this election cycle. If you haven’t yet cast your bal…

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  Kathy Miller, TFN President · [email protected]

October 29, 2020 at 8:28 PM

Thank you for an incredible evening!

What an incredible evening celebrating the Texas Freedom Network's 25th Anniversary! As our amazing host TFN Board Member Stephanie Chiarello proclaimed: “It was the best party on the internet!”   Dear John, What an incredible evening celebrating the Texas Freedom…

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  Rae with Texas Rising Action · [email protected]

October 28, 2020 at 9:12 PM

On our way to 2 million voter contacts!

Dear John, Yesterday, we announced that Texas Rising Action activists have already reached out to more than 1.5 million young voters, including more than 1 million young voters of color, to get them to the polls for this historic election! This is our la…

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  Texas Freedom Network · [email protected]

October 27, 2020 at 5:38 PM

Cheers to 25 Years: Last Chance to Register!

TFN's (Virtual) 25th Anniversary Celebration is happening on October 28 and registration closes tonight! Purchase your ticker today and help ensure 25 more years of grassroots power! The countdown is on for Cheers to 25 Years, TFN’s special virtual anniv…

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