Lone Star Blues
In this week’s episode of Showtime’s “The Circus” entitled “Lone Star Blues,” Joe Straus, former speaker of the Texas House, placed most of the...
Republicans Turning Their Backs on Business in Favor of Culture Wars
In the grand kickball game of American two-party politics, it’s widely understood that Republicans picked big business as part of their team. However, the...
CPAC Dallas To Host Trump, Cruz, Abbott and Hungarian Autocrat, Viktor Orbán
Viktor Orbán, the far-right Hungarian prime minister who last week denounced “race mixing,” is slated to speak today at the GOP conference in Dallas....
Abbott Tries to Hide Voucher Defeat With Trump Appearance on the Border
Stinging from a remarkable rebuke from his own party, Governor Greg Abbott tried to save face by hanging out with former President Donald Trump...
Conservatives Hope Llano County Book Ban Case Will Open Up Chances to Censor Libraries
One of the most important First Amendment cases in America is happening in Texas right now. At oral arguments before the 5th Circuit Court...
Texas Republicans Assault On Personal Liberty Puts State In National Spotlight
In 2011, a Houston filmmaker and photographer named Gary Watson released a six-issue comic called After Twilight that portrayed Texas as a theocratic secessionist...
Milton is the Climate Change Bill Coming Due
As Hurricane Milton buries the needle on our current hurricane severity scale, no exchange on the internet better sums up the way we got...
How White Supremacists Use Natural Disasters to Recruit
Hurricanes are frightening, and frightened people are easy to recruit into extremist sects. White supremacist groups are using Hurricanes Helene and Milton to do...
Is GLO Commissioner George P. Bush Determined to Stiff the City of Houston over...
The feud between Houston-area government officials and the Texas General Land Office continued this week following months of acrimony.
On Wednesday, Mayor Sylvester Turner and...
The Texas Case That Could Change Reproductive Choice Forever
A Texas “wrongful death” case could radically alter the concept of reproductive choice if it makes its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, who...
