Opinion: Greg Abbott Likes to Use COVID Emergency Powers, Except for Fighting COVID
Governor Greg Abbott loves to play a neat executive power game. On one hand, he has spent most of the last two years downplaying...
Opinion: How Conservative Evangelicals Got Where They Are Politically, and What To Do
With many waiting to see if 2020 will be the year Texas turns blue, Republicans — and particularly those connected to the far right...
Is It Reckoning Time For Texas Democrats?
In 2024, it will be 30 years since a Democrat was last elected to a statewide office in Texas.
Much has changed during those intervening...
Opinion: Medicaid Expansion Good for Business
Say you were told that every dollar you contribute toward a cause would be matched with $9. Sounds like a pretty good deal, doesn’t...
Abbott Disgracefully Buses More Asylum Seekers To D.C. Neighborhood In Dark Of Night
In a pre-dawn political stunt, Gov. Greg Abbott once again ordered two buses of asylum seekers at Texas taxpayer expense, this time to a...
There’s No Voter Suppression!
Republicans vehemently deny that they engage in voter suppression, but the evidence tells a different story. All the things I listed in this cartoon...
Opinion: It’s Time to Replace Texas’ Racist Icons With Monuments Honoring Our African American...
Every day for the last two weeks, Texans have taken to the streets to protest police brutality and systemic racism in our country. On...
How I’m Voting on Those Pesky Propositions
As I said yesterday, Texas' constitution is an antiquated mess, so often the teensiest of problems can't be fixed without a constitutional amendment put...
The Jewish Case For Harris As President
Across the globe, Jews are heading to synagogues for Yom Kippur and praying thattheir names be entered into the Book of Life for another...
Climate Change, the Texas Railroad Commission, and the Election
If you care about climate change, look down ballot. Keep going after you make your pick for president and the Senate. Down in the...
