GREAT editorial from @houstonchronicle.com on Texas history.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

The SAVE Act Could Threaten Voting Access—And Repeat History The 1907 Expatriation Act made it impossible for some women born in the U.S. to vote.

I wrote this op ed for Time Magazine/Made By History when the first version of the Save Act was going around, and this version isn't any better. This is a disfranchising bill. 🗃️
time.com/7280834/save...

This history shaped the world we live in. Many Americans have never heard of it.

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This is the way

More on Chavez, Huerta, and the stakes of recognizing these kinds of grim histories

Operation Epic Fury is a stupid name but also an obvious fumble because it's so easy for the haters (me) to insult them by calling it Operation Epic Fail. it's like naming your kid Holden Cox and sending them to public school

Good point

Can’t make this shit up

Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving ‘timely medical attention’ Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

32 immigrants died in ICE custody in 25, and already in 2026, 9 have died. Immigrant detention becomes a death machine.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Now that Kristi Noem is out of a job she can spend more time at home doing what she loves best. Cheating on her husband and murdering her children’s puppies.

Kamlager-Dove: During you tenure at DHS, have you had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski?

Noem: I am shocked we are peddling tabloid garbage.

This is a good response.

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

Random Texas history. The runoff required when no primary candidate gets at least 50% was out in place to stop impeached former governor James Ferguson (who resigned & argued the Senate’s ban on holding office didn’t apply to him) when he ran against multiple progressive candidates in 1918. 🗃️

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I've argued that Texas has turned the corner in grappling with the dark chapters of its history. I hope that my optimism wasn't misplaced; if you want to support a more pluralistic commemorative landscape, please contribute. /4 @refusing2forget.bsky.social. www.mightycause.com/give/Refusin...

Mansfield School Integration Attempt - Refusing to Forget #OTD in 1956 Texas Rangers under J.E. Banks arrived in Mansfield, TX, to help “keep the peace” during the failed attempt to desegregate Mansfield High School.

this is a big step back. And what Molina et al, deeply involved in whitewashing Ranger history, don't acknowledge here is the model of the statue, JE Banks, and how he came to wide public recognition. /3

refusingtoforget.org/mansfield-sc...

Bragg Williams Lynching - Refusing to Forget #OTD on January 20, 1919, a white mob in Hillsboro, Texas, removed Bragg Williams from the county jail and burned him at the stake at the intersection of Elm

in recent years Texas has made great strides in acknowledging some of the dark chapter of its past, including in places like Waco and Hillsboro that are not exactly bastions of Bolshevism or Sapphic love. /2
refusingtoforget.org/bragg-willia...

A controversial statue removed in 2020 is back and now it’s at the Rangers’ ballpark The 12-foot 'One Riot, One Ranger' statue is back, now installed at Globe Life Field after it was removed from Dallas Love Field in 2020.

on the "everything bad and old is back again" front (KKK, fascism, wars of aggression, megalomaniacal dictators etc) comes this news. /1

www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/...

just read his new Atlantic piece, total trash

Ben Johnson standing next to Porvenir historical marker

Stones left at the base of the marker

Paying my respects

Insane in the membrane

our murderous federal government

Ashes & Solidarity Worshippers at a Chicago-area Ash Wednesday Mass bore witness to atrocities unfolding on U.S. soil. For these Catholics, Trump's cruelty against migrants is nothing less than a spiritual crisis.

"the liturgies unfolding over the past year are different from those predecessors because they bear witness to atrocities unfolding here on U.S. soil, to the authoritarian violence afflicting American cities, neighborhoods, schools, and businesses."

www.commonwealmagazine.org/nickerson-ic...

The UT System's New 'Controversial Topics' Policy Is About Policing Knowledge When politically appointed regents and administrators determine which topics are “germane,” academic freedom quietly shifts into political compliance.

This Texas historian thoroughly agrees with María del Carmen Unda that ". . . You cannot teach Texas history honestly without confronting conquest, segregation, labor exploitation, border regimes, and racialized policymaking."

www.texasobserver.org/ut-system-ne...

See you tomorrow, RGV!
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New Blog Post ➡️ refusingtoforget.org/terror-is-th... Refusing to Forget member @leahlao.bsky.social demonstrates how the violence that the world is witnessing in Minneapolis and the murders that have occured in other cities since Trump resumed office, is horrific....but it is not new.

the 2020s, sadly so much like the 1910s

refusingtoforget.org/terror-is-th...

My governor, learning from history