Texas Issues

• Vote “Yes” on May 7

  April 09, 2022: Texas seniors and other eligibles are already getting their mail-in ballots! Different parts of the state will get different candidates and issues, but all ballots will include two propositions designed to lower property taxes for seniors. The Tex...Read more >

• Voting Lessons Learned in Primaries: What’s Next?

  March 21, 2022: Texas Alliance for Retired Americans experts will lead a webinar at 6PM on Thursday, March 24. Please join us: Topic: Voting Rights Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://aflcio.zoom.us/j/83659570879 Or Telephone: 816 423...Read more >

• What Happened on March 1? What’s Next?

  March 14, 2022: How Many Tried and Failed? In the March 1 election, around 27,000 Texans had trouble voting by mail. Newspersons said they were “rejected,” but around 9,000 of them were eventually able to get their ballots to count. That leaves about 18,000 Tex...Read more >

• You Are Not Beaten on Vote-By-Mail

  February 20, 2022: Just because the first deadline for vote-by-mail applications has passed, you can still win this key battle against the voter suppressors! There's plenty of time to apply to VBM in the runoff! And there are months between now and the deadline for the...Read more >

• Tips for Your Mail-In Ballot

  February 15, 2022: The voter suppressors made it harder to mail in ballots. Here are tips from Kenneth Williams, the President of the Dallas Chapter of TARA: There are a number of key items to remember when you are completing your mail in ballot: 1. You have to i...Read more >

• Vote-By-Mail Is Best in 2024

  January 17, 2022: For eligible Texas voters, which includes all of us over 65,  Vote-by-Mail is STILL the best option.  News headlines have it wrong; they are saying that large numbers of VBM applications are being "rejected for good," but they are only delayed. The...Read more >

• TARA Convention, January 19, 2022

  January 10, 2022:   Call to Order..................................................... Gene Lantz, TARA President Introduction....................... Tony Padilla, IAM TARA  E-Board Member    and former TARA President Building Retiree Power:  ...........Read more >

• Changes in Texas Election Law

  January 04, 2022: New Texas Election Laws—What They Mean for Voters, Those Who Assist Voters, and Election Workers (1/4/2022 TARA update) Voting Hours and Locations:  Overnight voting banned. Drive-through voting banned. New minimum and maximum hours for early v...Read more >

• Our Vote Is Our Voice

  December 29, 2021: We Will Not Be Silenced! Texans over 65 and certain others should apply to vote by mail early in 2022. One application can make voting easy in every election throughout the year! The easy way is to go to http://register2vote.org. The web site ask...Read more >

• We’re Ready

  December 22, 2021: Texas candidates who would like retiree recommendations may answer our on-line questionnaire at https://forms.gle/cjgURiszgFpZMcaB7 . [caption id="attachment_3020" align="aligncenter" width="474"] Our new chapter[/caption] The December 22 Execu...Read more >