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Recently the Carroll ISD school board members voted to break away from the nonpartisan Texas Association of School Boards – claiming the group was promoting “divisive political ideologies” largely related to its support for diversity and inclusion.The move comes two months after nine Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Texas school districts urging them to abandon the association.

As local news outlets shrink and news deserts expand, pink slime news is creeping in. Pink slime news is dark money-funded, rightwing slanted news that is disguised as local news. How does this hurt local civic engagement? What is the political agenda behind pink slime news?

As the national conversation around climate crisis, gun violence, and police brutality creates a new call for a lower voting age, how did the voting age come to be lowered to 18? What impact did that have on national politics and how could the voting age be lowered again?

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Texas lawmakers are debating whether to block transgender kids’ access to transition-related health care, classify businesses that host drag shows as sexually oriented establishments and limit public school lessons on sexuality and gender identity.

The Republican led Texas legislature is moving forward with a bill that would create a new border protection unit that critics say will lead to vigilante justice against migrants – and anyone who looks like a migrant from Mexico. Supporters say the anti-migrant militia is needed because Texans are in "imminent danger."

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How can the United States, one of the wealthiest nations on earth, have the highest rates of poverty among industrialized nations? In The Poverty Paradox author Mark Rank argues that this is due to how the American economy is set up to ensure that poverty will exist and will persist.