TX Progressives: Remove the monuments and read our roundup!

This Lee statue in Dallas needs to be moved, and the park renamed.

The Texas Progressive Alliance supports the efforts to get rid of Confederate monuments, saluting UT for the four it moved Monday, as it brings you this week's roundup.

(Per James Loewen's detailed "Sundown Towns," I know the perfect place to store all those statues, too. It's a little slice of Texas sundownery called Vidor.) *

Off the Kuff notes a new lawsuit filed to protect spousal benefits for Houston city employees against an assault by anti-LGBT zealots.

SocraticGadfly writes about another personal experience with age discrimination.

Texas (aka Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton) are going to take their chances with a new, conservative Supreme Court rather than have the Lege redraw Congressional and statehouse maps ruled unconstitutional for the umpteenth time, reports PDiddie at Brains and Eggs.

Texas Republican legislator thinks running over protestors should be encouraged.  CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme thinks he and his party are deplorable.

John Coby at Bay Area Houston remembers a time when not all Republicans were, or seemed, racist.

Lewisville Texan Journal notes Amy Manuel will reportedly be the first Democrat in 30 years to run for Denton County Clerk.

As always, Neil at All People Have Value took part in the weekly protest outside the Houston office of wicked-doing Senator John Cornyn. APHV is part of NeilAquino.com.

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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.

Michael Li breaks down the redistricting ruling.

RG Ratcliffe wonders if the Republicans are going to start running the Lege like they do Congress.

Pete Von Der Haar rounds up ten movie scenes in which white supremacists get their butts handed to them.

Better Texas Blog calls the Senate-modified version of HB21 a step in the wrong direction that pits education against health care.

The Texas Living Waters Project calls for proactive drought response plans.

Texas Vox celebrates the end of the special session.

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* = A majority of the public wants them to stay; a moderately strong minority says move them and a smaller minority is unsure, per Reuters.