President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in Wednesday, officially marking the close of the Trump presidency. In his inauguration speech, Biden stressed the importance of unity in fighting extremism, joblessness, and the COVID-19 pandemic. “I...
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‘I think Cruz would want us to do this’
On Sunday, The New Yorker published a video of Trump supporters breaking into the Capitol and Senate chamber. The footage is stunning not only because it shows just how easy it was for neo-Nazis to waltz into the “sacredest place” (as one police officer...
Veronica Escobar backs bill to investigate GOP lawmakers
Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso is the only Texas lawmaker so far to co-sponsor a bill to investigate whether House members who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election violated their oath of office and should face sanctions — including removal from...
Dan ‘Georgia Reloaded’ Crenshaw says country must deescalate
One month after starring in a political ad where he jumps out of a plane to beat the shit out of Antifa (other Americans), Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Houston says the country "must tone down the rhetoric and calm tensions.” Crenshaw’s plea for cooler heads came as part of a...
Texas lawmakers vote on impeaching Trump for inciting insurrection
The Democrat-controlled House on Wednesday voted to impeach the president on charges of incitement of insurrection relating to the attack on the Capitol last week. It is the first time in history a president has been impeached twice. The 232-197 vote to impeach...
Texas can mitigate budget pain by ending corporate handouts
State lawmakers entered session on Tuesday facing a $1 billion revenue shortfall inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. One place the legislature could look to begin balancing the budget is the Texas Economic Development Act, better known as Texas Tax Code Chapter...
Texas faces almost $1 billion budget shortfall
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar released the biennial revenue estimate on Monday, informing lawmakers the state is projected to have $112.5 billion in revenue for the 2022-23 budget. That’s a 0.4 percent decrease from 2020-21 biennium, which Hegar is projecting...
New Democrat-led Senate could save Texas from its own gerrymandering
Democrats scooped two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia on Tuesday, giving them a small majority in the upper chamber. That means the legislative blockade by Sen. Mitch McConnell is gone, and the bills he once scuttled upon arrival in the Senate have a real chance of...
AOC calls on Ted Cruz to resign — or face expulsion
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Texas Democrats this morning in calling for Sen. Ted Cruz to resign for his role in helping inspire a pro-Trump attack on the nation’s Capitol on Wednesday. “Sen. Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how...
Sheila Jackson Lee calls on Trump to rein in Proud Boys
Police and the National Guard in Washington D.C. are bracing for violence as pro-Trump and far-right protesters around the U.S. to gather in the nation’s capital to protest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. In a series of tweets Monday, Rep. Sheila Jackson...