Texas Progressives watch the Lege

The Texas Progressive Alliance is rooting for the Daisetta Sinkhole to migrate to the Capitol as it brings you this week's roundup. 

Will the Lege listen to Uvalde parents and raise the age to buy semi-auto weapons to 21? Probably not. (And we haven't even touched on the issue of minors, as well as adults, being able to shoot on rental machine guns.)

But, the Texas Senate, at least, WILL mandate the Ten Commandments in schools; end tenure at universities; tell schools to upgrade school security without paying enough for it.

The Senate, also showing how ideology trumps helping its own constituents, would end countywide voting on election day, a practice begun in rural, and of course, wingnut, counties.

Republican Legiscritters aren't the only ones with inappropriate office relationship problems. Right, Jolanda Jones?

Off the Kuff writes about the apparently imminent 2024 Senate campaign for State Sen. Roland Gutierrez.

Jeff Leach is being sued for calling secession backers "traitorous."

ConservaDem Royce West got kicked in the nads by constituents and withdrew his original support for an anti-drag bill. He was the only Senate Dem to originally support it.

Twenty years before the Trail of Tears, American Indians already faced forced assimilation.

SocraticGadfly has an update on the PRO Gainesville movement.

Houston Landing reports on a project to transplant reeds from ancient Iraqi marsh culture to Rice University.

The Austin Chronicle provides an overview of the criminal justice reform referendum on its May ballot.

The San Antonio Report provides arguments for and against that city's broad and controversial referendum for marijuana and criminal justice reform.

Raise Your Hand Texas has a public education legislative update.

Emily Eby documented the House election bill atrocities so you didn't have to.

The Texas Tribune tells you how to find their actual reporters (as well as elected officials) on Twitter now that blue checks don't mean anything any more.