Retirement Security

• Dallas Plans Attack on the Right to Retire

  October 06, 2016: Seniors in Dallas are already receiving their vote-by-mail ballots. The wording for Proposition One is completely unreadable and totally misleading. Fortunately, the Dallas newspaper has provided some insights into what Proposition One would actually...Read more >

• Giant Week for Texas Seniors

  October 03, 2016: Everything is happening this week, and it's all important! [caption id="attachment_1880" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Judy Bryant, champion phone banker[/caption] We're meeting, planning, phone banking, door knocking, fund raising, and ever...Read more >

• Retirees List Favorite Candidates

  September 20, 2016:   Texas Alliance for Retired Americans Endorsements for November 8, 2016 Election Our national Alliance for Retired Americans has endorsed the following candidates for office: President:  Hillary Clinton Candidates for Re-election to Congre...Read more >

• Austin and Corpus Christi Celebrate Social Security

  August 22, 2016: Texas retirees are committed to expanding and strengthening Social Security and all programs that deliver "golden years" for ourselves, our kids, and our grandkids. Our 8th and 9th events for this month are happening on August 25. [caption id="att...Read more >

• We Are Texas Seniors: “Hear Us Roar!”

  August 03, 2016: The Houston Chapter of Texas Alliance for Retired Americans was formed at their July 30 celebration of Medicare/Medicaid. Congresspersons Gene Green and Sheila Jackson Lee helped kick off the Houston Chapter. They had a big photo of President ...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 >

• 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 >

• 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 >

• Retirees Are Meeting

  April 21, 2016: In Texas, retirees are meeting everywhere. In almost any church, there is a group of predominantly retirees meeting. Drop by the Dairy Queen or McDonald's in small Texas towns during mornings, and you'll find retirees meeting over coffee. The Texas A...Read more >

• Texas Issues: Should We Be All Things to All People?

  April 20, 2016: Texas issues: Why We Aren’t “All Things to All People.” When the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans began to rack up some modest success, people started asking us to take on more issues. When an organization only has a few people, nobody c...Read more >