Maggie Quinlan

1 week ago | austinchronicle.com | Maggie Quinlan

Despite the threat of assassination, lawmakers and locals showed up An estimated 10,000 people came to the Texas Capitol grounds to protest Trump and his military parade. Hours before the No Kings protest in Austin was scheduled to begin, state police evacuated the Capitol. Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota had been shot Saturday morning, and Texas state police informed local lawmakers that there was a “credible threat” to their lives at the protest.

2 weeks ago | austinchronicle.com | Maggie Quinlan

After state police tear gassed anti-ICE protesters, National Guard deployed for Saturday Anti-ICE protesters in solidarity with demonstrators in Los Angeles flee burning gas and powder Monday, June 9 In Los Angeles, U.S. Marines have been deployed amid anti-ICE protests. It’s the first time marines have been deployed in the U.S. without a request from a governor since the civil rights era in 1965.

3 weeks ago | austinchronicle.com | Maggie Quinlan

A Q&A with Austin’s progressive state senator State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, at her desk on the floor of the Texas Senate At about the halfway point of the 140-day legislative session, the Chronicle sat down with Sarah Eckhardt, Austin’s progressive state senator, for an in-depth discussion of the session and the national political moment.

3 weeks ago | austinchronicle.com | Maggie Quinlan

The state didn’t fill all our federal funding gaps This year, the Texas Legislature’s 140-day session lined up almost exactly with the Trump administration’s first stretch. Texas legislators gaveled in January 14, and six days later, Donald Trump began his second term as U.S. president. Republicans at the national and state level have described Trump’s win as a mandate from the American people: to crack down on immigration on the southern border and to wage war on DEI.

3 weeks ago | austinchronicle.com | Maggie Quinlan

A slew of abortion-related bills seek to entrench pro-life culture and add barriers for abortion-seekers in Texas Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Texas has enforced some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, and therefore in the Western world. By enacting a near-total ban that only allows abortions to save the life of the mother, Texas joined ranks with about 30 generally volatile countries worldwide including Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, and Myanmar.