CETex Board of Directors and Officers

David Jones (Dallas), President

Cody Meador (Dallas), Vice-President

Annie McCormick (Fort Worth), Secretary

Andrea Davis (Dallas), Treasurer

Veronica Davis (Dallas), Board Member

Millie Domenech (Dallas), Board Member

Joel Page (Dallas), Board Member

Ex Officio: Liz Wally (Dallas), Executive Director

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There’s Bipartisan Support for Election Security. Mitch McConnell Won’t Let It Happen. | Brennan Center for Justice ... See MoreSee Less

There’s Bipartisan Support for Election Security. Mitch McConnell Won’t Let It Happen. | Brennan Center for Justice

Congress is not doing enough to prevent foreign interference from happening again, despite ongoing attempts to sound the alarm by cybersecurity experts, intelligence agencies, and Robert Mueller himse...

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Voting Machines at Risk: Where We Stand Today | Brennan Center for Justice ... See MoreSee Less

Voting Machines at Risk: Where We Stand Today | Brennan Center for Justice

While significant progress has been made in shoring up this country’s electoral infrastructure in recent years, local election officials maintain that much still needs to be done ahead of the 2020 e...

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Red-tape voter suppression: How new, draconian voter registration rules undermine voting rights ... See MoreSee Less

Red-tape voter suppression: How new, draconian voter registration rules undermine voting rights

In light of new proposed restrictions on voter registration in Tennessee, Vanessa Williamson and Jackson Gode describe the difficulty of piloting a voter registration program in Texas, where the proce...

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Solving the climate crises presupposes elected officials who we VOTE in who will change the current campaign finance system and then create laws to protect the country from special interest money and lobbyists trying to maintain the status quo.
"...He's just one of many 2020 candidates tying legislative action they want to take on climate change with the need to overhaul how money is spent on electoral campaigns and lobbying. Their thinking goes: As the oil, gas and coal industries pump money into political campaigns, these fossil-fuel interests have been able to forestall meaningful legislation to slow climate change.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is, similarly, putting campaign finance reform at the center of his presidential bid in part to address the rising temperatures that are contributing to wildfires in his home state. “Tackling money in politics is the first step toward addressing climate change, skyrocketing health care costs, income inequality — and all of the biggest crises of our time,” Bullock wrote on Twitter shortly after announcing his candidacy.

And in interviews, speeches and social media posts, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Kamala D. Harris (Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), as well as former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas and Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., have also lamented the increased role rich donors are playing in politics and how it is forestalling action on climate change.

“You want a government that’s going to be responsive on climate change, fast, now, see it as urgent?” yet another Democratic candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, said at the “We the People Summit” summit in April. “Not so long as the oil industry is calling the shots in this town.”..." ... See MoreSee Less

Analysis | The Energy 202: Want to address climate change? Fix campaign finance first, 2020 Democrats say.

They say fossil-fuel interests have been able to forestall meaningful legislation.

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"...But there is at least one subject that members of both parties — and independents, too — consistently cite as a serious problem: corruption.
When an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll asked voters last year what issue would influence their vote for Congress, corruption was in a virtual tie for first place with the economy. When a recent Hart Research poll, done for the Center for American ProgressAction Fund, asked people to name their biggest concerns with the federal government, corruption came out on top, with more than 50 percent of both Republicans and Democrats naming it. More specifically, respondents said that the federal government did a lot to help politicians, big corporations, the wealthy and campaign donors...

Why has corruption become such a big issue in voters’ minds? The main reason is economic. Most Americans are struggling with slow-growing incomes and stagnant net worth — while the affluent continue to do very well. Americans have come to think government is corrupt because the economy’s outcomes look decidedly corrupt.." ... See MoreSee Less

Opinion | Throw the Crooks Out

Democrats and Republicans agree: Corruption ails the country.

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