D.A. Smith

Katy Jewett Organizer Boot Camp · Mobilize The Organizer Bootcamp is a day-long training designed to provide participants with the skills needed to organize for power. Participants will map their community, make a plan for reaching people who ...

For anyone in the greater Houston/Southeast Texas area interested in learning how to organize your community—and potentially make a career out of it—the Katy Jewett Organizer Apprenticeship is having two boot camps this month. It's a fantastic program!

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Republicans Issue Arrest Warrants for Texas Democrats, But They Likely Aren’t Enforceable Read more here.

can TX republicans actually arrest democrats who left the state? can abbott really remove them from office and fill their vacant seats? can he extradite them to texas from another state?

answers to your questions here:

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

All Americans should be thanking the Texas Democrats who are leaving the state to break quorum and deny a vote on Trump's redistricting scheme. We have to do everything we can to fight back against this administration.

The labor movement is in full solidarity with this necessary quorum break!

Texas may be the beginning of this redistricting battle, but workers across this country will win the war. Sign the card: bit.ly/thankyoudems

White text on a red background reads: "As this process unfolds, we enter new territory for The Baffler but not for our industry: in unionizing, we will be joining our peers at outlets like Harpers, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, The Nation, The New Republic, The American Prospect, and New York Focus. We undertake this effort with optimism and in the spirit of consensus and solidarity."

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“The Kashmere Garden Community and surrounding areas are suffering; the denial of claims made to FEMA is disappointing.” - Host of this Roundtable Huey German-Wilson stated. Climate change can be confusing especially in underserved communities. #climatejustice #roundtable #FEMA

🌀 Houston knows hurricanes and floods. Disaster relief isn’t a luxury—it’s a lifeline.
This week Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is hosting a roundtable in Kashmere Gardens to discuss community recovery and affordable flood insurance for affected neighborhoods.

I stand with my House colleagues in their courageous decision to break quorum. More to come.

#txlege #Houston #Texas

@mollyfortexas.bsky.social break quorum!

-constituent

It's not from any of her books, but from the conference where the National Writers Union was founded in 1981: “We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writers’ movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.”

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

President Trump & Republicans in Texas are rolling out a plan to redraw majority-minority districts and gerrymander them in their favor ahead of the midterm elections.

Tahis redrawing of our electoral maps is an attempt to disenfranchise voters and take us back to a Jim Crow America.

Sounds like Texas House Democrats are gonna break quorum. Godspeed, and here's hoping there are no Quitmires in their midst this time around.

Laura Palmer’s House Jeffrey Epstein, Twin Peaks, and dreams of justice.

"You have to surrender yourself to belong, and he gave of himself instead."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...

If you're in Houston and want to do something awesome to get your mind off how fucked things are, Conan the Barbarian is playing at the River Oaks Theatre at 10:15 tonight.

The proposed TX maps are horse 💩

The second week of the special session is wrapping up, so here is a recap of what happened this week!

#txlege #texas

Top two Kerr County emergency officials say they were asleep as July 4 floods struck Their statements to state legislators marked the first time county officials have spoken publicly about what they were doing the morning of the disaster that killed more than 100 people in the county.

As a former first responder, I'm really tired of this pattern of the people in charge doing nothing, being unprepared, waiting to be told what to do. Uvalde, now this?

Do your job or get out of the way for people who can. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/31/t...

Among the things that the BLS produces are America’s annual union membership statistics. If that agency’s work is not trustworthy, it’s a Big Fucking Deal for the labor movement.

Last Week in Labor: July 25-31, 2025 United Airlines’ flight attendants reject TA, AFL-CIO continues Better in a Union tour across U.S., railroad workers say Hell No! to merger, and more headlines you may have missed.

New LWIL is up! United Airlines’ flight attendants reject TA, AFL-CIO continues Better in a Union tour across U.S., railroad workers say Hell No! to merger, and more headlines you may have missed.

Vale a pena escutar.

This Day in Labor History: July 29, 1987. Jobs with Justice was created in Miami at the AFL-CIO convention. An attempt to bring labor into coalition with other groups for broader social change, Jobs with Justice engaged in critical work connecting organized labor to other progressive groups!

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Pieces like this are why I'm a paid subscriber to Words About Work, and why I think you should be, too.

still finding my niche as a writer, but if you're a texan, what cultural going ons / thoughts / vibes would you like to see me covering? Would love to hear from you and have your input shaping my work.

(with the caveat that i'm based in houston and im not a straight politics writer)

Meow Wolf Workers Collective Houston logo. An armadillo is centered in a pink circle against a black background. The words "Meow Wolf Workers Collecting Houston" are around the armadillo. Below the logo the text reads "Meow Wolf Houston is unionizing".

The workers of @meowwolf.com Radio Tave have announced they will join the MWWC!

Full statement from Radio Tave workers in the thread below.

#SolidarityForTheMultiverse #workersrights

Nearly 70 workers at Meow Wolf’s Houston location have announced their intent to form a union with CWA!

In 15+ years of photographing small & rural communities across Texas, I've been fortunate to visit and document several Freedom Colonies. To honor Juneteenth, here are some of those images and stories in an effort to help preserve and share their history: katswansey.substack.com/p/honoring-j...

Greg Casar Is Organizing to Win The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.

"We need more congressmen and -women who feel more comfortable marching into a fancy D.C. restaurant with a union than mingling inside of one with lobbyists.”

And that's why @gregcasar.bsky.social is a Working Families Party champion. prospect.org/politics/202...