TX Observer: “When Chrishelle Palay inherited her great-aunt’s home in Kashmere Gardens, a flood-prone neighborhood in northeast Houston, there was still damage from Hurricane Harvey. Water had seeped into the kitchen and family room floors; the roof was leaky. The house was insured by Allstate, but Palay discovered her aunt’s policy didn’t cover water damage….

HuffPo: “Members of a “Trump train” of drivers who chased down a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign caravan on a Texas highway last year are being sued in federal court by the campaign workers they terrorized. One complaint accuses the Trump supporters of violating the anti-Ku Klux Klan Act protecting voters from intimidation. A second complaint accuses…

Inequality.org: ““I stand here representing the 770,000 poor and low-income workers in my state of West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the country,” said Pam Garrison, a retired retail cashier and current member of the Poor People’s Campaign West Virginia chapter. “We are the people. Why is it that the only time compromise…

The New Yorker: “In the raft of voting legislation that we’ve seen in the past few months, what has most concerned you in terms of voter suppression, and what has most concerned you in terms of subversion? There was, first of all, an expected tightening of the rules that allow people to easily cast a…

The Progressive Pulse: “The Poor People’s Campaign held a rally in Raleigh on Monday to demand an end to poverty, kicking off a year-long activism campaign that will culminate in a march on Washington in 2022.  Attendees heard testimony from speakers across the country, both in-person and via Zoom, as well as several live music…

The Progressive Pulse: [This article was billed as an exclusive by The Progressive Pulse; we are simply re-posting it here. Give them credit where credit is due.] “Nikole Hannah-Jones will not join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill without tenure, according to a letter from her legal team to the university this week. According to the…

WUNC 91.5: “Durham is showing what providing reparations for slavery could look like by actually trying to do it. The city’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $6 million that will go toward green and equitable infrastructure in historically Black neighborhoods. Durham intends to allocate money every year going forward. Mayor Steve Schewel says…

Politico: “In the span of a week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed bills restricting the teaching of critical race theory and allowing Texans to carry handguns without a license. He’s preparing to order state lawmakers back into a special session to pass legislation restricting voting access, a GOP priority. And in the most pugilistic…

NPR: “Over the weekend, there was a celebration of sorts on the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso. Some 200 families separated by their legal status reunited in the middle of the Rio Grande. It’s an annual event called Hugs Not Walls. Organizers coordinate with immigration officials to create a space where families can briefly reconnect…

Political Wire: “In the pushback to the For the People Act, the National Senatorial Campaign Committee released a series of ads hitting Democratic senators for voting for the bill,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “But it was the ad against Sen. Raphael Warnock that raised some eyebrows, since it framed Warnock’s support for the elections bill as ‘welfare…