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• Texas Seniors Are Developing a Winning Program

  January 09, 2018: A Proposed Program for Texas Seniors Texas activists will gather at 1PM on January 19 at the Downtown Sheraton in Austin for our biennial convention. It is an opportunity to plan a program for the organization’s next two years. Read More >

• THINK BIG FOR THE TARA CONVENTION!

  December 15, 2017: Think Big! Think Even Bigger! If TARA activists are audacious, we can change senior voting patterns in Texas next year. Our biggest and most important state convention is set for 1-4 PM on January 19 in Austin. Activists arou Read More >

• Worse Than We Thought

  December 13, 2017: The House Ways and Means Committee under Chairman Kevin Brady, a Republican whose district is centered on Huntsville, may significantly increase the tax burden of public employees' pensions. While billionaires and corporations ge Read More >

• 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 Propositio Read More >

• Election Choice Couldn’t Be More Clear

  September 02, 2016: Usually, candidates and political parties avoid saying anything about retiree issues, but the 2016 candidates and party platforms are crystal clear! If Texas seniors vote on our basic issues of pensions, health care and So Read More >

• We’re Backing Teamster Retirees

  August 10, 2016: As our anthem goes: "When we seniors stand alone/ Our rights are oft denied/ But the Texas Retired Americans /Will be there by our side..." More than 400,000 Teamster retirees and many other retirees with multi-employer pensi 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 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 Read More >

• Gov. Abbott Puts A Fox to Watch Pension Henhouse!

  December 04, 2015: Retirees across Texas are protesting Governor Abbott's appointment of Josh McGee to the Texas Pension Review Board. McGee has a long record of advocating taking away "defined benefit" pensions from public employees. He is a Vice Read More >