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Texas Impact's Weekly Witness

Mar 24, 2022

This week we turn our focus to state agencies and vulnerable kids. Scott speaks Elisa O'Callaghan, Chair of the Board of Justice For Our Neighbors (JFON), and Bobby Watson, Texas Impact's Immigration Advocacy Fellow. Elisa and Bobby provide updates on the situation at the border, including recent changes to Title 42...


Mar 16, 2022

Spring is here and it's time to start planning for the 2023 legislative session! This week, we discuss the release of Texas Impact's primer on the Public Utilities Commission of Texas' Sunset review. Scott talks with our own Isa Peterson, who is the lead author of our new policy primer Light and Life: Using the...


Mar 10, 2022

The Texas 2022 primary elections are over, so Scott sits down with two policy pros to parse out the highlights heading in to the runoffs. Bonnie Bruce is long-time Capitol insider who has recently founded her own government affairs practice, Mesquite Strategies. Texas Impact Foundation Board President Beaman Floyd also...


Mar 3, 2022

This week we address the recent attacks on transgender youth and their parents by the Texas Governor and Attorney General. Scott speaks with Shelly Skeen, an attorney with Lambda Legal, about the impact of these attacks, and with TX UU Justice Ministry executive director Rev. Erin Walter, who speaks passionately about...