A new survey released this week shows that Democratic women voters are crucial to winning elections in 2020. A poll by American University's Women & Politics Institute and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation found 39% of likely Democratic women voters say they will...
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MJ Hegar calls for greater focus on renewable energy
Texas may be an oil state, but that hasn’t stopped Senate candidates from speaking about the need for change. In a wide ranging interview last week, the Signal spoke with U.S. Senate candidate and Air Force pilot MJ Hegar about the nexus between energy, climate...
John Cornyn, biased juror in Trump impeachment trial
Sen. John Cornyn is arguing new evidence that could potentially impact the impeachment case -- which begins Tuesday- against Donald Trump is irrelevant. Although he admits that there is a “a series of grifters” (referring to multiple Trump associates who have...
National Democrats have a new Texas target: Dan Crenshaw
On Thursday, the Democratic campaign arm in the U.S. House added the second congressional district, currently represented by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, to its 2020 target list. The new development signals the increasing competitiveness of the district. In a memo first...
House sends articles of impeachment to Senate
On Wednesday, the House voted to send articles of impeachment to the Senate and approved seven impeachment managers who will lead the prosecution in the trial. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston will serve on the prosecution team. “I’m humbled to be one of the...
As Democrats descend on Texas, Trump telegraphs trouble
If you needed any more proof that Texas is a permanent fixture in the klieg lights of presidential politics in 2020, look at what’s happening in these first weeks of January. Last weekend, Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s most prominent climate change...
Republicans have been pushing for war with Iran for years
On Tuesday night, Iran fired a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq. Early assessments indicate no Americans were killed; it’s unclear if there were other casualties. President Trump, who ordered the killing of Iran’s top general last week, Quds Force...
Cornyn is jumping at the chance of war with Iran
The U.S. military is currently fighting wars in seven different countries, but that hasn’t stopped Sen. John Cornyn from embracing the chance to start yet another war, this time with Iran. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump authorized the fatal bombing of Maj....
The Texas GOP spent the past two decades building a firearm-obsessed state. No one is safer for it.
After a string of deadly back-to-back mass shootings in recent years, Texas Republicans continued their argument —give guns to more people—following the weekend shooting in a White Settlement church in North Texas. So far, praise has been rightfully heaped onto Jack...
IMPEACHED
On Wednesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The two crucial votes to impeach the president on both charges fell mostly along party lines after hours of debate that...