Monday, June 29, marks the first day of early voting in Texas for this year’s primary runoff elections. That means Texans can head to the polls early and hopefully avoid crowds that might be seen on primary election day, July 14. The early voting period will...
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In Texas, COVID-19 hospitalizations have doubled in past two weeks
A total of 4,389 Texans are currently being treated in hospitals for COVID-19, state data released Wednesday shows. That’s more than double the same figure two weeks ago on June 11, when 2,008 Texans were hospitalized. In general, hospitalizations in the month...
Why are Texas Republicans and Trump afraid of vote-by-mail?
President Trump intensified his fear-mongering campaign against voting by mail this week, warning in a series of tweets that foreign countries would print millions of mail ballots to rig U.S. elections. It’s the latest fabricated claim from the president about voting...
Trump and Cornyn are in trouble in Texas, new poll shows
President Trump and Sen. John Cornyn are facing tight re-election races in Texas this November, new polling released Tuesday shows. Both presidential candidates are about even, according to a survey of 907 Texas voters last week by Progress Texas, a progressive media...
Anti-choice, dark money pours into GOP race against Rep. Lizzie Fletcher
Republican megadonors are pumping thousands of dollars into Texas 7th congressional district, one of two battleground districts flipped by Democrats in 2018. The Houston area district is currently held by Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a moderate Democrat facing off...
Amusement parks in Texas can now open with limited capacity
Amusement parks throughout Texas will be allowed to open up starting Friday with 50 percent normal operating capacity. Prior to June 19, only amusement parks in counties with less than 1,000 confirmed cases could open. Parks will have to open with new health and...
COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas rise for the sixth day in a row
More Texans are currently being treated in hospitals for COVID-19 than at any other point since the pandemic began, the latest state data shows. It’s the sixth day in a row coronavirus hospitalizations have broken previous records. Every day since last Friday has seen...
Supreme Court stops Trump from shutting down DACA — for now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration could not hastily shutdown Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA,, an Obama-era program that protects some 700,000 U.S. residents brought to the country as children from...
Ted Cruz is terrified of Sesame Street
Sen. Ted Cruz was morally outraged on Wednesday when the Twitter account of the PBS kid’s show, Sesame Street, tweeted out a picture of a rainbow-colored heart with the caption, "Love always wins." “Endless propaganda,” Cruz wrote reacting to the image. “This is a...
Mayors of Texas’ largest cities pressure Abbott for final say on COVID-19 face masks
Mayors from nine major Texas cities, including Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio, are asking Gov. Greg Abbott for more authority in determining whether their constituents should be required to wear face masks. In a letter penned to the governor, the mayors...