I love a used bookstore. I think it stems from my childhood when my mother would take my brother and me to the one used book emporium in the small town I grew up in and we would explore the stacks and shelves of books on a quest for hidden treasures as exotic and...
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Musings: Please, believe.
My entire life, I’ve been prone to bouts of sentimentality and nostalgia, and while very little that happened during this legislative session was something I’ll remember fondly, seeing Beto O’Rourke back on the road, talking to Texans about the fight for voting rights...
Beto O’Rourke takes fight for voting rights on the road
In news that has set Twitter abuzz, word broke this morning that Beto O’Rourke won’t be sitting idly by and waiting for a special session to be called for Republicans to take up the SB 7 voter suppression bill again. Instead, he’s hitting the road. A flyer...
Beto O’Rourke takes fight for voting rights on the road
In news that has set Twitter abuzz, word broke this morning that Beto O’Rourke won’t be sitting idly by and waiting for a special session to be called for Republicans to take up the SB 7 voter suppression bill again. Instead, he’s hitting the road. A flyer that...
Texas Democrats pull out all the stops, kill voter suppression bill
On May 7th, we published a column in which I opined that one of the only remaining options for Texas Democrats eager to stop the voter suppression bill known as SB 7 was one of the most dramatic at their disposal. I called on Democrats in the House to break quorum but...
Majority of Texas Republicans vote against Jan 6th Commission
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill to create a nonpartisan commission to investigate the attempted insurrection on January 6th of this year, which national and Texas Republicans immediately sought to politicize. The bill, which passed the House...
Musings: Matthew McConaughey, Democrat? Julian Castro, Governor?
With the news over the weekend that Matthew McConaughey had begun making calls to some politically connected folks in Texas to test the temperature of a potential campaign for Governor of Texas in 2022 came a jarring realization. None of them were Democrats....
Musings: Vast Conspiracies
If, like me, you’ve been in the unenviable position of reviewing footage of Briscoe Cain, the Republican state representative who chairs the House Elections Committee and author of one of the most far-reaching voter suppression bills since Jim Crow, you may have been...
Musings: Good Trouble
Before we begin, I would be remiss if I didn’t say that the views below are mine alone, and do not reflect the views of Texas Signal. Now that we got that out of the way… The late and great progressive Paul Wellstone once said “If we don’t fight hard enough for...
Musings: Greg Abbott is beatable
Governors in the United States generally enjoy warmer relationships with voters than their colleagues serving in Congress. There are a number of reasons for that phenomenon, not the least of which is that governors are forced to be doers in ways that senators and...