Voting Rights

• We Are For Voting Rights!

  April 19, 2021: The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) needs you.  We want you to help us fight Texas voter suppression. We oppose legislation (as in SB 7 and HB 6) that limits early-voting hours, creates new obstacles to voting by mail andÂ...Read more >

• “Free the Vote” Rally on Facebook

  April 05, 2021: Seniors Oppose Voter Suppression. TARA "Free the Vote" Rally on Facebook Leaders of the Texas retiree movement and voter rights experts will speak on the Texas Retired Americans Facebook Page at 6 PM Friday, April 9. Texas has been called the ver...Read more >

• Texas Retirees Stand with Voters

  April 01, 2021:   NEWS RELEASE April 1, 2021 Contacts: Tony Padilla, 512-552-8703 or tonypadillatcuiam@austin.rr.com Judy Bryant, 214-729-0063 or Judy4TARA@aol.com Texas Retirees Stand Against Voter Suppression Legislation  Seniors Demand that st...Read more >

• Countering Voter Purges

  March 20, 2021: One of the major tools of voter suppression is the voter purge. This voter suppression tactic takes advantage of the fact that there are many voters who are apartment dwellers. People who live in apartments move more often. If a voter does not res...Read more >

• TARA’s Free the Vote Campaign

  March 15, 2021: The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) needs you. In 2021, we want you to help us fight Texas voter suppression so that we can use our power at the polls to make breakthroughs on key issues. [caption id="attachment_2876" align="alignnone"...Read more >

• Fight for Democracy Underway

  March 02, 2021: We have to fight once more for the right to vote. White southerners were outraged when other people won the vote after the Civil War. Eventually, through outright violence and reactionary local laws, white southerners prevailed from roughly 1876 t...Read more >

• Vote by Mail All Year!

  January 02, 2021: Vote By Mail — Apply Now! Texas seniors over 65 and certain others are empowered to vote safely by mail. Even better, we only have to ask once for an application that applies to every election in a given year. So, apply now and vote by mail all y...Read more >

• Oppose Voter Suppression

  October 03, 2020: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 3, 2020 Contact: Lisa Cutler - 202/674-2052 or lcutler@retiredamericans.org Texas Alliance for Retired Americans Sues State of Texas  Says Abbott Proclamation Limiting Ballot Return Locations Creates Undue Burde...Read more >

• Victory and Further Battle

  September 27, 2020: The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans joined a successful lawsuit to restore straight ticket voting! I believe our plaintiff in the suit was Reverend Harmon Dent of Beaumont. [caption id="attachment_1990" align="aligncenter" width="1874"] Rever...Read more >