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Retirees Fight the Food Crisis

The Dallas Chapter of Texas Alliance for Retired Americans voted to set up a virtual food bank with the North Texas Food Bank. Donors can paste the following link into their browser: https://give.ntfb.orgDi/site/TR/Badges/General?pg=team&team_id=6734&fr_id=1251 The ... Read more

Retirees Make the Difference in Elections

Retirees turn out better than any age group. The difference is especially felt in low-turnout races in off years and in special elections such as the upcoming Texas runoffs. Our Texas Executive Committee has endorsed Taylor Rehmet in Senate District 9. It covers the northern h... Read more

Fight Dictatorship With Texas Retirees

Texas retirees are fully participating in ongoing battles for democracy: Fight unfair redistricting Stand up for health care, nutrition, and Social Security Stop ageism by defending diversity, equity and inclusion It's Nationwide Battles like the redistricting figh... Read more

Why Retirees Support Public Workers in Their Hour of Need

The Musk/Trump aspiring dictatorship is attacking all working families, but their special early target is public employees. Federal employees are seeing their legal union contracts torn up, being fired, getting their budgets cut, and being thrown into an administrative quagmire t... Read more

Gather Info, Gather Strength

TARA activists carry tables and chairs to events. It's relatively easy to gather people's names, emails, zip codes, and phone numbers if we just set up a table. For seniors like us, it is sometimes difficult to carry a table and a chair around. I found a solution recently ... Read more

Retirees Are In the Fight

Texas retirees are fighting in the courts, in Washington, in Austin, and on the streets of Texas cities! Austin TARA will rally February 12. Dallas rallies Feb 15 along with major labor leaders. Alliance Sues Treasury Department Over Illegal DOGE Data Access Represented ... Read more

Good News!

Even though we have much to celebrate and a lot to talk about, we can’t do our regular statewide ZOOM meeting from Dallas on Wednesday. We’ll do it Thursday at 11AM, register here. We’re all celebrating the success of the Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed in... Read more

Help Us Help Texas Seniors

Dear Texan, Your support for Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is vital to protecting the rights of seniors into 2025. Please consider making your first donation or increasing the level of support you already established. We ask all members for $10/year. The more members... Read more

Strengthening Gulf Coast Retirees

Gulf Coast retirees have several opportunities to create a strong movement around Houston. Retiree table at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic on Saturday On-Line Meeting Saturday afternoon "All Hands" special meeting and news conference at 10Am on September 13 Another me... Read more