Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who earlier this week ignominiously signed onto Ken Paxton’s seditious lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election, faces renewed criticism for his role in a scandal roiling the Department of Veterans Affairs and its...
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Giuliani Outbreak raises TX Lege questions
In unfortunate news no one could have possibly seen coming, outgoing President Donald Trump’s resident provocateur and attorney Rudy Giuliani was admitted to Georgetown University hospital this weekend after testing positive with COVID-19. At the age of 76, the...
COVID Quagmire Deepens for Texas Elected Officials
It has been yet another rough week for Governor Greg Abbott and his response to the novel coronavirus. Despite boasting that Texas is ready to distribute vaccines within days, news surfaced this week of a report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force imploring...
“Full resurgence,” “silent spreaders”: Abbott’s failed Covid response put to the test
Despite his bombastic public proclamations that Texas will enforce no new COVID-19 restrictions, Governor Greg Abbott was greeted by unwelcome news from a building he hopes to one day occupy last week. In a new report issued by the White House citing a “full...
Kendrick Sampson, star of HBO’s Insecure, campaigns with Tarsha Jackson
Voters in Houston’s City Council District B are finally getting the moment they’ve been waiting for, with a dose of star power to boot. On Monday, candidate Tarsha Jackson will be joined by Houston native Kendrick Sampson, well known to television fans for his...
Here we go again
As we waited for the results of the 2020 elections to become clear on election night, one thing became unmistakable as the hours wore on and Democrats lost ground in Texas and a slew of seats in Congress across the country. A reckoning was coming. After a...
5 Tips for a Zoom Thanksgiving
I’m sure like many of y’all, in our house, we had to take a good, hard look at whether it was safe to gather as a family this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 cases surge across the country. As of this writing, more than one million of our neighbors have battled COVID-19...
Rona isn’t done with us yet
As national political news remains in a state of oddly arrested development as we wait for Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuits to at last finish their business of getting laughed out of courtrooms for Waukesha to Las Vegas, it was uncomfortably easy to miss the news....
Nine words that haunt me
From the moment Texas was called for Donald Trump I’ve been haunted by nine words echoing in my mind like a rock climber’s calls for help cascading off cliff walls. I was at a bar on Rainey Street with Reed Galen, who would go on to found The Lincoln Project. It...
Don’t Buy the Great White Hype
So, hey, I called it wrong. In the final weeks of the 2020 election, friends of mine working on races around the country would periodically text me to ask if it was real. Could it be? Are y’all about to flip Texas? I fielded the same texts in the final days of the...