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• Congresspersons Are Available

  July 15, 2016: The U.S. Congress has taken a break. Many of them will be available for visits in their home offices. That's when seniors can easily form delegations and present our issues to them. Even if they don't agree with us, just making sure they know we're a...Read more >

• Events Set for Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security Celebrations

  July 11, 2016: The July 30 anniversary of Medicare/Medicaid and the August 13 anniversary of Social Security are coming up. Texas retirees have set an ambitious program of celebrating our past accomplishments and committing ourselves to continue fighting. We have s...Read more >

• Retirees Endorse in Texas Races

  July 08, 2016: Following the national endorsement of Hillary Clinton for President, Texas retirees have chosen a number of other important races to work on this year. [caption id="attachment_1859" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Terry Meza's District 105 is the...Read more >

• Texans Strategize in San Antonio

  June 18, 2016: The Texas AFL-CIO allowed the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans to use their meeting room at the Texas Democratic Party convention at the Alamodome in San Antonio on June 17. Over 100 activists put off their lunch time to discuss strategies for fi...Read more >

• Teamster Retirees Need Help

  June 11, 2016: Our new friends in the North Texas Committee to Protect Pensions  are fighting to save the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of seniors from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). Gary Standard, a retired UPS truck driver from IBT 767...Read more >

• Let’s Build Texas Membership

  June 02, 2016: On June 2, Patricia Budak called our first-ever Membership Meeting together. The telephone conference included activists from Austin, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Ft Worth, and Houston. All of us had good ideas to share. Budak has been soliciting and ...Read more >

• Good News for Texas

  June 02, 2016: Good news aplenty came on June 1. The Texas Democrats have assigned our room for the convention in San Antonio:  It's Club Level 4, Meeting Room 209. All our friends and interested parties will join together there at 12:30PM on June 17. [caption ...Read more >

• Texas Retirees Gather in San Antonio

  May 18, 2016: On June 17 at 12:30PM, Texas retirees will gather at the Alamodome. Our retiree caucus comes right after the Labor Caucus during the Democratic Party convention. Everybody invited! You don't have to be a delegate to get in. We want you! We'll publ...Read more >

• What’s Our Strategy?

  May 17, 2016: What's Our Strategy? Here are some ideas to start a statewide discussion on our strategy for building a statewide grassroots movement of organizations within Texas that represents retired union members, their families, and other senior community a...Read more >

• Democracy Under Siege in Texas

  May 06, 2016: Retirees Join Democracy Forum Labor leaders met with the Lone Star Project on May 5 in Grand Prairie on the topic of democracy in Texas. As usual, a good number of the participants were active in the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans. National ...Read more >