Angel Viator Smith

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

The Trump Administration Is Making All of Our Jobs More Dangerous That’s very bad news in a country where a worker died on the job every 99 minutes in 2023.

Every worker deserves a safe job and a living wage. But from construction sites to meatpacking plants, Trump is gutting workplace protections.

We need more OSHA inspectors, not fewer. 

We need to empower unions, not attack them.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

I'm Running to be the next Chair of the Texas Progressive Caucus In 2022, I sought the endorsement of the Texas Progressive Caucus for Resolution and Platform Committees.

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I was a labor organizer before I was in Congress.

It’s where I learned how to unite workers from all backgrounds around one simple idea: we might not agree on everything, but we all agree that workers deserve a raise.

Thanks to @KaraSwisher for having me to chat about where Democrats go from here.

TXPC Q2 Meeting Join the TXPC for our quarterly meeting! These meetings take place shortly after the State Democratic Executive Committees (SDEC) meeting, so if you want to learn the latest behind the scenes from the...

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