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03/09/2026

Patient Safety Awareness Week reminds us to protect ourselves as patients. This video shows you how.

03/05/2026

"Allstate, opens new tab must ‌face a privacy lawsuit accusing the home and auto insurer of illegally tracking drivers through their cellphones without consent, using their data to raise premiums or deny coverage, and selling ​the data to other insurers."

Allstate must ‌face a privacy lawsuit accusing the home and auto insurer of illegally tracking drivers through their cellphones without consent, using their data to raise premiums or deny coverage, and selling ​the data to other insurers.

03/05/2026

Texans pay a ton.

03/02/2026

A healthy democracy depends on all Texans making their voices heard. Get out and vote this election! For more information, visit: https://www.votetexas.gov/index.html

02/27/2026

After an outcry from families last year, the Texas Legislature rejected bills that would have gutted the legal rights of Texans.

The big corporate lobbyists who pushed those radical bills are back, trying to lay the groundwork for another push at the Capitol.

You can tell your state lawmakers to pass real insurance reforms by signing the petition on our website. The link is below.

Leg. Adv. paid for by Texas Watch, Ware Wendell, Executive Director, P.O. Box 42198, Austin, TX 78704.

02/25/2026

Take one minute to tell Texas lawmakers to lower your insurance rates. Texas families can’t afford more rate hikes!

Homeowners and drivers are paying a lot more for less insurance coverage. Insurance companies have hiked our rates in Texas over the last five years. Our state laws give too much power to the insurance industry. We need lawmakers to make sure regulators have all of the tools they need to protect pol...

02/24/2026

"But over 230,000 Texans die each year, and for some families, the funeral itself becomes another source of pain. An urn arrives on a doorstep cemented shut with no way of knowing what’s inside; a grandmother meant to be pristine in her best church suit is discovered abandoned in the back room of a mortuary, askew on a metal gurney."

The Texas Funeral Service Commission imploded this summer. This is what happened behind the scenes at the agency meant to regulate death care.

02/23/2026

We need lawmakers to make sure regulators have all of the tools they need to protect policyholders’ pocketbooks from insurer profiteering.

Homeowners and drivers are paying a lot more for less insurance coverage. Insurance companies have hiked our rates in Texas over the last five years. Our state laws give too much power to the insurance industry. We need lawmakers to make sure regulators have all of the tools they need to protect pol...

02/20/2026

Tell federal lawmakers to protect us from dangerous pesticides. Sign our petition here.

Texans deserve straight answers about chemicals used in our fields and neighborhoods. Washington overturned critical health protections, stopping our right to know about the pesticide glyphosate, a dangerous chemical that juries and courts have determined causes cancer. Our health must be put before...

02/20/2026

"A jury found Funtime 'negligent in the manufacturing, design, construction, and supervision of the subject Free Fall drop tower ride where Tyre Sampson fell to his death,' according to Florida court records."

A KXAN investigation found a foreign ride maker — found negligent in the 2022 death of a teen in Florida — is producing a new drop tower ride at COTALAND in Austin. COTALAND said its drop tower wil…

02/19/2026

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02/18/2026

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