Decades of fire suppression causes blazes to burn hotter and under more hostile conditions, destroying once fire resistant forests and a condition made worse by the climate crisis.

Mass incarceration of people of color, prison conditions, polluted water, and an increase in the use of isolation are just some of the reasons for prison reform including in Texas where last summer, people in prison endured temperatures of 110F.

Since Roe V. Wade was overturned, abortion is completely banned in Texas with very limited exceptions.

Texas’ treatment of immigrants ranges from cruel to unusual.

Texas is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.