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• Retiree Convention Coming

  November 26, 2019: We wish all of our TARA members and their families a very Happy Thanksgiving.  Please mark your calendars for Friday, January 24, 2020, as we will hold our Texas Alliance for Retired Americans Biennial Convention that day at the Texas AFL-CIO in Aus...Read more >

• Retirees March!

  November 19, 2019: The Fort Worth and Austin TARA chapters meet this week. If you live in these areas, you will receive a separate email about the meeting. TARA MEMBERS MARCH AND RALLY WITH DACA YOUTH TARA Austin members, including state President Tony Padilla, A...Read more >

• TARA Celebrates Veterans

  November 12, 2019: The Coastal Bend TARA Chapter meets on Thursday, November 14. If you live in this area, you’ll receive a separate email about the meeting.  Alliance /TARA Celebrates the Nation’s 101st Veterans Day Today is Veterans Day, originally observed ...Read more >

• Retirees Vote!

  November 05, 2019: If you didn’t get to Early Vote, please make sure to do so tomorrow on Election Day, Tuesday November 5th. Polls are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. The TARA Houston and Dallas chapters meet on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. If you live in these areas, you will ...Read more >

• Savvy Seniors Vote

  October 28, 2019: TARA President Tony Padilla    reminds everyone to please Go Vote during Early Voting from now   until November 1  or   on November 5    Election Day. There are 10 Constitutional Amendments on the ballot and many areas have Municipal Elec...Read more >

• Go Vote!

  October 22, 2019: TARA President Tony Padilla reminds everyone to please Go Vote during Early Voting from now until November 1 or on November 5 Election Day. There are 10 Constitutional Amendments on the ballot and many areas have Municipal Elections, plus there are S...Read more >

• Medicare Fraudsters Now Tap Telemedicine In Medical Equipment Scams

  October 18, 2019: By Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News  OCTOBER 9, 2019 (Hannah Norman/KHN illustration; Getty Images) Dean Ernest had been living in a nursing home about a year when his son, John, got a call last winter asking if his father was experien...Read more >

• Lower Prescription Drug Prices Now!

  October 14, 2019: The Fort Worth TARA Chapter meets on Wednesday. If you live in this area, you will receive a separate email about the meeting. TARA MEMBERS SAY LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES NOW! TARA members in Houston, Austin and Dallas took part in a Natio...Read more >

• Retiree Endorsements Prized

  October 07, 2019: The Golden Triangle and Coastal Bend TARA Chapters meet this week. If you live in these areas, you will receive a separate email about the meetings. TARA SUPPORTS TEACHERS! Dallas TARA/Alliance AFT Activists (l-r) Norene Flaherty, Hobie Hukill...Read more >

• The Deep Divide: State Borders Create Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

  October 03, 2019: By Laura Ungar, Kaiser Health News A few years ago, Patricia Powers briefly thought about moving from her home in St. Louis County, Mo., across the river into Illinois ― for Medicaid. “You ask yourself: Where do you go? What do you do?” Aft...Read more >