Texas Hispanic Caucus of the Texas Democratic Party

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Delegates to the Texas State Convention - Hispanic Caucus delegates were notified. You should have a received notification, if not please resubmit registration.

Delegates to the Texas State Convention - Hispanic Caucus delegates were notified. You should have a received notification, if not please resubmit registration and verify the party has your correct email.

Delegates to the Texas State Convention - Hispanic Caucus delegates were notified. You should have a received notification, if not please resubmit registration and verify the party has your correct email.

The pressure is rising as electricity bills climb.

A TEPRI affordability outlook found residential electricity prices in the ERCOT competitive retail market rose by roughly 30% between 2021 and 2025, adding about $35 to $40 a month to a typical low- or moderate-income household’s bill. The group projects another 29% increase from 2025 to 2030, driven largely by transmission and distribution investments.

Those investments are tied in part to Texas’ rapid growth, extreme weather demands, grid hardening after the 2021 winter blackout, and new large electricity users, including data centers, crypto mining and industrial operations.

ERCOT serves about 90% of Texas electric demand, and recent reporting has shown the grid operator is facing a surge of large-load requests as data centers and heavy industry seek power connections.

Texas had more residential electricity shutoffs than any other state in 2024, according to a new federal report that offers one of the clearest national pictures yet of how often households are left in the dark because they cannot pay their bills.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration found that utilities disconnected residential electricity service 13.4 million times nationwide in 2024. Texas accounted for more than 3 million of those disconnections, the highest total in the country.

The report also found Texas had 206,372 residential natural gas disconnections, again the largest state total.

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Since Jan. 15, Texas Medicare patients who need a skin graft, a nerve stimulator, or one of 12 other specific procedures must pass an AI-powered checkpoint. In Texas, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model is a federal program run by a private AI company whose profits are derived from a percentage of the care it helps deny from Medicare patients.

AI Now Decides if Texas Medicare Patients Receive Certain Types of Care • The Austin Chronicle Since Jan. 15, Texas Medicare patients who need a skin graft, a nerve stimulator, or one of 12 other specific procedures must pass an AI-powered checkpoint. In Texas, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model is a federal program run by a private AI company whose profits are der...