Dozens on Sunday gathered in front of the Texas Governor Manor to launch a week of protests and public comments against the Texas Special Session.
The group gathered to hear speakers in dealing with various issues that will be raised in a special session, including: layered redistribution of the State Congress; Transgender use of bathtubs; and access to abortion tablets. However, their most important requirement was legislators to “focus on the flood” – a phrase that the band sang several times throughout the evening.
‘[Abbott] Returns people to Capitol to RAM through the agenda, which attacks women’s rights that attaches LGBTQIA+ Texanss and attacks various color communities that are still drying from a storm, ”said Zohasib Qadri, a spokesman for Austin City Council.
In the Sethi language, protesting, contrary to Texas redistribution at Texas Governor’s Manor, Sunday, 2025. July 20, Austine. Redistribution is one of the 18 points that Texas Governor Greg Abbott included the agenda of the upcoming special session.
Last month, Greg Abbott, head of government, called a special session, using his authority to return the lawmakers to Austin to deal with conservative priorities that were suspended earlier this year. In Texas, only the governor can call such a session and set his agenda.
It was the first line of protests and gatherings held this week before a special session. Monday in the Capitol building from noon to 2 p.m. Central disaster prevention is a protest. On Wednesday, the organizers are hosting a Pack the House event, where they encourage citizens to watch home processes from the public gallery. The organizers also encouraged protesters to speak with their state representatives and publicly in the comments during hearing during a special session.
Many of the about 100 groups of protests focused on the remodeling of the Congress districts. This basic item of the Abbott agenda, added after the White House pressure, can increase the number of Republican most places, potentially expand the slender edge of the US house after 2026. Election.
The rapporteur compared questions such as redistribution, taking into account the state’s reaction to the Flash Floods, which blown through the central Texas this month. Questions related to preparation for emergencies and flood relief are dedicated to the Governor’s Document for a special session, but the speakers said political issues overshadow the flood.
Although redistribution is legal, most speakers painted it as unfair and selfish use of power. Posoja Sethi, a former chairman and candidate of the Texas Representatives, called “dishonest”, “hasty” and “deceived”, chairman and candidate of the Democratic Democratic Democratic Party.
“Don’t say special sessions for your personal gain,” said Pam King, Vice President of the Black Austin Democrats.
Linas Tozser visits a protest contrary to Texas redistribution at the Texas Governor’s Manor, Sunday, 2025. July 20 Austine. Redistribution is one of the 18 points that Texas Governor Greg Abbott included the agenda of the upcoming special session.
Austin’s reproductive rights defender Amanda Jaroski urged legislators to “concentrate their efforts by adopting laws that will help and will facilitate people’s devastating statements” from the central floods of Texas. It encouraged them not to examine the drugs for abortion, which is “most commonly used to rescue critical mothers’ health.”
Protesters have shown that they contradict various questions. Lynne Lively, a permanent participant of Capitol protests, said she believed that redistribution was a attraction of the Republican power. She said it was so unfair that the first class could understand it. Ayaann Moledina, a 16-year-old director of political students engaged in Texas, has shown that she has criticized the special session’s attention to the abolition of a Staar test, calling it a political step to avoid school funding. Those who support this step say that the evaluation is little improvement in student results.
Other speakers were Nancy Thompson, founder of mothers against Greg Abbott; Javi Andrade, a candidate for the Democratic Congress for the 10th Congress area; Kristin Hook, a former Congress candidate for the 21st Congress area; And the president of the Hands Off Central Texas, who is a coalition of people and organizations, “defends democracy and incorporates people’s civic power”.
Sunday’s protest was organized by Sethi and Idona Griffith, along with lawying groups, and the mother’s democracy.
This article initially appeared at Austin American-Statesman: Texas protesters demand that Abbott pay more attention to floods during session