The Texas Senate is expected to meet on June 20th to hash out the rules of procedure for the impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, and while the proceedings always promised plenty of intrigue, the plot has only thickened in recent days. Perhaps the most pressing question...
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The Trial of the Millennium
It seems that after nearly a decade of biding time and dodging legal peril, Ken Paxton’s luck may finally be running out. The long-indicted Attorney General, having recently been impeached by an overwhelming and bipartisan vote in the Texas House, is awaiting his...
Taral Patel Launches Bid for Fort Bend County Commissioner
Much has been said about how rapidly Texas is changing, and perhaps no county reflects that better than Fort Bend. The county neighboring Harris has been among the fastest growing in the nation for years, and for more than a decade it has gradually become younger,...
Sine Die: Impeachment Edition
Today may be Memorial Day 2023, but for the brave souls fighting some of the most extreme policies in the nation at the Texas capitol, it also serves as something of a holiday in its own right: Sine Die, the final day of the legislative session at which point there is...
Update: Texas is still a battleground state
Colin Allred has only officially been a candidate for United States Senate against Ted Cruz for a few weeks, but to say the North Texas congressman has made the most of that time would be a wild understatement. Allred made a massive splash in the race against Ted Cruz...
Rick Perry’s Long Strange Trip
In the run-up to the 1988 presidential election, future Texas Governor Rick Perry assessed the field of candidates and boldly threw his support behind the candidate he felt most closely matched his values. Though he would later claim he voted for a fellow Texan,...
Allred gives Cruz 2 million reasons to worry
On Wednesday, Rep. Colin Allred launched his bid for a promotion from the U.S. House to the U.S. Senate with a powerful launch ad that took the fight directly to incumbent Senator Ted Cruz, and voters and activists responded by propelling Allred to an epic $2 million...
How to Save Pregnant Lives
I’ve been thinking about my mother a lot lately. That isn’t out of the ordinary for me. I was raised by a remarkable woman, a proud single mother who went to work every day in a boat factory and never missed an opportunity to tell me that one day, I wouldn’t have to....
Allred is All-In
Earlier this week we told our readers that we expected Rep. Colin Allred, the former NFL linebacker turned Dallas-area congressman, to officially kick off a campaign for the United States Senate against Ted Cruz in the middle of the week. Well, it’s Wednesday, and...
Musings: Cruz Can Lose
Could this be the week? My Magic 8 Ball seems to think so. For months rumors have swirled that Congressman Colin Allred is considering a challenge to Senator Ted Cruz in 2024. In recent days that speculation has solidified, with sources telling Texas Signal that...