Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop.
Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing.
His crime—asking police for help.
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The San Antonio Justice Charter will amend the City Charter of San Antonio to adopt a justice policy that will reduce unnecessary arrests, mitigate racial bias, and save scarce public resources through a comprehensive set of popular reforms.
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If the San Antonio City Clerk verifies at least 20,000 of those signatures, this charter initiative will be up for a citywide vote in May's municipal election.
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Tuesday afternoon, our friends at and other community partners delivered more than 30,000 petition signatures to San Antonio City Hall in support of adopting a new city charter amendment.
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#ICYMI: San Antonio is one step closer to having a handful of effective, community-based reforms on May's municipal election ballot this year!
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Needing a quick refresher on the legislative process in our state?
has you covered with this handy resource.
#txlege
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An in-depth look at the demographics of Texas' disproportionately white/male legislature:
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The colorism and anti-Blackness in our nation’s immigration policies are not bugs; they’re built-in by design.
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Haiti now has no elected lawmakers, after senate terms expired this week.
Haiti has faced political crisis, gang violence, hunger and cholera since the president's 2021 assassination.
The U.S. just added more restrictions against Haitian asylum seekers using Trump-era Title 42.
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Celebrating with the amazing work to get 37k petition signatures to put important policing reforms on the May 2023 ballot!
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So happy to have been part of the petition campaign 🎉🥳! Crucial policing reforms WILL BE in our May 2023 election, so let’s vote to 🗳
✔️decriminalize marijuana
✔️decriminalize abortions
✔️ban no-knock warrants + chokeholds
✔️codify #citeandrelease
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WE DID IT — and it would not have been possible without YOU! Our coalition collected over 37K signatures in less than 3 months!
Join us Tues, Jan 10 @ 3pm at City Hall as we deliver the signed petitions to secure our place on the May municipal ballot. Thank you for your support!
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Today’s the big day! Join and the coalition of partners as we submit our petition signatures and host a press conference starting at 3:00 PM on the steps of the San Antonio City Hall. We can’t wait to see you there!
#voteforjustice
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Our Executive Director will be on at NOON and at 3PM we will be at the City Clerk’s office turning in the petitions! TUNE IN AND JOIN US! twitter.com/TPRSource/stat
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Welcome to Day 1 of the Texas Legislature.
For 140 days the House and Senate will be trying to figure out how to spend your tax money.
And boy do they have a LOT of it. Huge surplus has big players talking tax cuts.
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TODAY is the LAST DAY to turn in signed SA Justice Charter petitions!! We need every single signature counted to ensure ALL signatures are verified and we can secure our place on the May ballot 🗳️
Deliver all signed petitions to 702 Donaldson today (Sunday, Jan 8) by 6:30pm ✅
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It's a major problem that we don't know the full scope of what McCarthy agreed to in exchange for votes.
The people's House will be overseen by a man beholden to his party's most extreme faction—and the public doesn't know the extent. We need to see the secret rules document.
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Here is with his alphabetical shut down of Republicans and their supposed "values."
"Maturity over Mar-a-Lago" is my fave. 😂
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Any dignity he had left.
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How much did Kevin McCarthy give up to be speaker?
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"The anniversary of January 6 should remind us that the crisis of American democracy isn’t over, and that we should continue to take seriously what a close call we had in January 2021," writes .
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No matter our age, race, or political leanings, all in our country deserve representation from elected leaders who want to preserve democracy, not destroy it. We will not stand idly by as far-right politicians try to minimize the white supremacy we as a nation witnessed Jan. 6.
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We're seeing them in action right now in the halls of Congress, as they seek to extract as many concessions as they can in the House speaker’s race, w/one of their goals being to gaslight Americans about what took place on Jan. 6, & to seek revenge on those who told the truth.
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Some of these same far-right election deniers & insurrectionist sympathizers are still wielding power as officials, & are dead set on dismantling democratic processes, weaponizing the rule of law to attack Black & Latino communities, & stifling opposition to extremist policies.
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The findings of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 over the course of the last year were invaluable, as they exposed just how entrenched & complicit Donald Trump & far-right figures were in an elaborate plot to cling to power by reversing an entire presidential election.
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Our nation’s democracy is still as fragile as ever now two years after the white nationalist violence that transpired at our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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An upsetting move from the Biden admin. that will lead to more exploitation of migrants.
No matter age, race, gender, or nationality, those who seek asylum should be afforded due process & a fair chance to call this country their new home.
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ABC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Marking the 2nd anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. abcn.ws/3Cte3qK
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We are disappointed by & 's speech in El Paso today which proposed the expansion of the Trump-era Title 42 policy.
"Continuing the use of Title 42 was unacceptable, but the Administration expanding it is reprehensible" - 1/4
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#TBT to when Kevin McCarthy was caught in a flat-out lie because he didn’t have the guts to stand up to a disgraced Donald Trump.
Another action-packed state legislative session starts next week! #txlege
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BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy has failed again to secure the votes to be speaker, losing on a *sixth ballot. 20 Republicans voted for someone other than McCarthy.
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UPDATE: He was humiliated again today.
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Will he be humiliated again today? 
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Will he be humiliated again today? 😆
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🎉 Welcome to 2023! 🎉
Together, let’s continue to organize to build the Texas we ALL deserve.
#TexasForAll
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Closing out 2022, TOP Education Fund’s community bail program has now bailed out more than 1,120 Texans in need. A goal of our #Right2Justice campaign is to end mass incarceration, which disproportionately impacts Black and Latino communities by design.
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In 2022, TOP helped secure enhanced library card programs in Harris County as well as the City of Dallas. These alternative, nontraditional IDs are a win for ALL communities, especially our most vulnerable, as the cards can be a lifeline to those most in need.
#TOPFive2022Wins
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Also this year, TOP helped re-elect three progressive district attorneys — , , and — despite well-funded and sustained efforts by Republicans to fear-monger and focus their campaigns on trying to undo humane legal reforms.
#TOPFive2022Wins
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And on a night when many pundits expected a “red wave,” our voter engagement work helped flip a Harris County commissioner seat to elect , giving progressives a 4-1 supermajority on the commissioners court!
#TexasForAll #TOPFive2022Wins
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Despite GOP efforts to suppress Black and Latino voters, TOP PAC’s voter outreach efforts helped re-elect Harris County Judge as well as Commissioner .
#TexasForAll #TOPFive2022Wins
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This year, TOP made more voter engagement inroads in Houston and Harris County, which continue to be key to the path forward to a progressive Texas.
#TexasForAll #TOPFive2022Wins
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In 2022, we made one of the largest investments EVER in Black voters in Texas!
This midterm election cycle, #BlackTOP reached out to a historic 1.4 million Black Texans to get out the vote and win critical races across the state.
#GOTV #TOPFive2022Wins
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