Every Texas citizen aged 65 or older may vote by mail. Many under 65 during this pandemic with any physical condition creating a likelihood of injuring their health at the polls may vote too. With COVID-19 infections and deaths surging, stay-at-home orders, and a fall flu season ahead, you should not have to choose between your vote and your health.

Thank you, John Lewis, for your years of service and friendship. Leading our country to a better place, and leading us in making “good trouble.”

As millions of Americans have lost jobs, stood in long lines for food and desperately needed federal relief to pay bills, thousands of other wealthy Americans stand to gain from a massive tax break.

Let’s join with compassion and thoughtful actions to soften the blows of coronavirus. Working together to overcome this catastrophe requires understanding how we got here.

The chairman of a key congressional health subcommittee is demanding to see the formula used by the federal government to ration remdesivir, an experimental drug shown to speed the recovery of coronavirus patients. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a Texas Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, said on Tuesday that the government’s “distribution of remdesivir seems akin to winning the lottery — a random stroke of luck rather than a medically-informed decision.”

I sat down with Fox 7 News Austin to discuss the immediate action we are taking to: overcome this Administration’s failures and get free testing for everyone, create an economic stimulus to address the economic suffering from this crisis, and press this Administration to finally supply our health care professionals with crucial protective gear and medical supplies. #COVID19