AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans and one of its members filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas to protect the rights of older Texas voters during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Alliance was joined in the suit by Voto Latino, the Texas Conference of the
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Read moreFor Immediate Release The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding a Washington Post report of the White House’s serious consideration of a plan to ask Americans to cut their future Social Security benefits for some cash today: “Asking working Americans to give up even one
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Read moreST. PAUL, MN – Today, the Minnesota Alliance for Retired Americans Educational Fund and three of its members, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, filed a lawsuit in the Ramsey County District Court to protect the rights of older Minnesota voters during the COVID-19 pandemic. They were joined by one other individual plaintiff. The plaintiffs
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