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03/19/2026

Today, alongside 25+ major community orgs, we introduced a Prop A ordinance to keep Houston police focused on solving crime — not doing the job of ICE. Across Houston, too many families are living in fear. Afraid to call 911, report crimes, or even take their kids to school. When trust breaks down between law enforcement and the community, Houston is less safe.

This ordinance makes 3 changes:
• HPD won't be required to contact ICE for civil administrative warrants
• Traffic stops end when their lawful purpose ends — not when ICE arrives
• Transparency reports on HPD's contact with ICE

These lawful policies align us with Dallas, Austin, and Bexar County, and ensure we're not doing beyond what state law requires.

This is about public safety. This is about trust.

Houston is strongest when everyone feels safe.

Join us this Wednesday 3/4 for a special post-election call with Natalia Contreras, a reporter with Votebeat Texas. Nata...
03/02/2026

Join us this Wednesday 3/4 for a special post-election call with Natalia Contreras, a reporter with Votebeat Texas. Natalia will discuss what we saw in the primary elections and how this could impact the November midterm elections.

Link to register and more info on our Events page in bio

Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, the state’s oldest and largest interfaith advocacy network, released t...
12/05/2025

Bee Moorhead, executive director of Texas Impact, the state’s oldest and largest interfaith advocacy network, released the following statement following the
United States Supreme Court decision to allow new Texas congressional maps to proceed:

“As expected, the court sided with the Texas majority. Now it will be incumbent on the institutions of civil society to educate Texas voters about the mechanics of the upcoming elections. Many Texans will look to their faith communities for information about how to participate in the elections and ensure their voices are heard, as is their right. Texas Impact is already deeply engaged through our Texas Faith Votes initiative in resourcing faith communities for effective civic leadership. We will redouble our efforts.”

11/21/2025

Beaman Floyd, a policy consultant for Texas Impact, discusses how a meeting about wildfire response at COP30 in Belém, Brasil mirrored the conversations in our own Texas Legislature.

Follow our coverage of COP30 in Belém, Brasil on Substack and YouTube through the link in our bio!

ICYMI: Check out our coverage of COP30, the United Nations climate negotiations, in Belém, Brasil. You can read blogs fr...
11/20/2025

ICYMI: Check out our coverage of COP30, the United Nations climate negotiations, in Belém, Brasil.

You can read blogs from our team and special guests on Substack and get more conversations and analysis on YouTube through the link in our bio!

11/20/2025

Climate litigation can be as complex and varied as the issue of carbon pollution itself. Litigation can seek to change government structures; punish polluters; regulate industries; or compensate for damages to health and property, among other goals. As precedents like those set by the International Court of Justice opinion become part of the global climate policy foundation, climate litigation is expected to become more influential in the policy decisions at the UNFCCC and other international policymaking bodies.

As Joy Reyes of the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment explains, climate litigation is an increasingly valuable tool in the climate justice toolbox.

11/20/2025

Ean Thomas Tafoya, GreenLatinos’ vice president of state programs, talks to Texas Impact Policy Fellow Dylan Le about his first COP this year in Belém, Brazil.

This year’s COP has been called by many the “Indigenous COP,” which has made Latin America, home to countless indigenous communities, a fitting location. For Ean, as a person with Indigenous roots from New Mexico, the continuity of Latino and Indigenous communities across the world is evident by their understanding of the importance of protecting the earth. From Ean’s home in New Mexico all the way to the vast waters of the Amazon, Indigenous and Latino communities are at greater and greater risk of environmental pollution and climate crisis.

Follow our coverage of COP30 on Substack and YouTube through the link in our bio!

11/19/2025

Every policymaking body—from the city hall to the halls of Congress—navigates a tension between inclusivity and productivity. Policymakers face intense pressure to include all stakeholders in their deliberations. At the same time, they face both real and manufactured time constraints. Nowhere is this tension more evident than in the United Nations climate negotiations, where the decisions must reflect a global consensus and the stakeholders include every person on the planet.

Regina Banks, Lutheran Office of Public Policy CA, ELCA, interviews Sriram Madhusoodanan, Director of Climate Advocacy & Policy at US Climate Action Network (USCAN), about what makes this COP different.

11/18/2025

Being the first COP hosted in the Amazon, the question for many has been: What will become of the Amazonian people?

The deforestation and destruction of the Amazon is a perfect representation of the gaping hole that climate disaster will leave in the fabric of humanity. Much of indigenous philosophy is grounded in the belief that nature and humanity are inextricably linked. If the Amazon were to disappear, how could a culture built upon generations of environmental knowledge continue to thrive?

Follow our coverage of COP30 on Substack and YouTube through the link in our bio!

11/17/2025

The Global Ethical Stocktake is a worldwide shared examination of conscience. Organized by Brazil’s Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva and the COP30 Presidency, the Global Ethical Stocktake calls the world to reflect morally and ethically about the current state of climate action.

The idea for the Global Ethical Stocktake was born at COP28 in Dubai, where the results of the first Global Stocktake were announced. The first Global Stocktake was a scientific and technical assessment of each party’s progress on climate mitigation and adaptation.

In the two years since, the idea to do a similar process for global moral and ethical thinking on climate change took shape.

Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics, sits down with Texas Impact’s Executive Director Bee Moorhead to discuss the Global Ethical Stocktake.

Follow our coverage of COP30 on YouTube and Substack through the link in our bio!

11/17/2025

Last Monday was Earth Information Day at COP30. Earth Information Day is a plenary briefing where all the UNFCCC science groups, including the World Meteorological Organization, the World Climate Research Programme, and others brief the COP delegates on the state of climate science. As a highlight of COP30, which is being dubbed “the COP of Truth,” Earth Information Day 2025 delivered some hard truths. It featured scary science, even scarier policy, and interesting takeaways for state and local governments.

Follow our coverage of COP30 on Substack and YouTube through the link in our bio!

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