We're going to experiment with an impeachment-focused newsletter this week, highlighting the many Texans on both sides of the aisle involved in the process. Our goal is simplicity, giving you the lay of the land with a little analysis all in one place. Let's get the...
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State agency says Fort Worth teacher’s derogatory tweets on “illegal students” are protected as free speech
A Fort Worth teacher who was fired over tweets she sent to President Trump won her appeal to the Texas Education Agency last week. The agency ordered her job to be reinstated with back pay and benefits, or a full year’s salary. The tweets in question focused on...
Young Democrats sue Texas over voting rights
On Tuesday, former Austin Assistant City Manager Terrell Blodgett, the Texas College Democrats, and the Texas Young Democrats filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State over the state ending the use of mobile polling locations. This is the second lawsuit...
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TEXAS SIGNAL’s mission is to be a megaphone for the progressive voice in Texas politics. We are a political operation fueled by journalistic principles, meaning we are guided by facts and data-driven opinion but everything is seen through a left-leaning political...
Texas GOP memo calls for negative campaign to distract from its diversity problem
A draft memo, obtained by Texas Signal and first reported by the Dallas Morning News on Monday, calls for a negative campaign targeting 12 Democratic state House candidates in 2020. The goal of the effort, the Republican document said, was to “highlight the diversity...
As he leaves the White House, Rick Perry calls Trump the “chosen one”
On Monday, former Governor of Texas Rick Perry chronicled his exit from the Trump White House, tweeting his tenure as energy secretary was a “great ride.” But Perry really cemented his legacy as a loyal soldier in the Trump era over the weekend. His boss, he said, is...
Rep. Joaquin Castro calls on Rick Perry to testify
Rep. Joaquin Castro is calling on Secretary of Energy Rick Perry to testify in the congressional impeachment hearings. Perry, the former governor of Texas, has been increasingly implicated in the Trump-Ukraine scandal as testimonies from key Trump administration...
Impeachment Update: Republican talking points continue to crumble
The past couple days of impeachment hearings have not been good for Republican talking points. On Wednesday afternoon, Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, gave her first public testimony. In her testimony,...
Trump says he opened a plant in Austin. But Apple opened it – years ago.
On Wednesday, amid the dark cloud of an impeachment investigation, President Trump visited Austin to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook. He was there, he said, to open a new Apple plant—all by himself. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1197293250115014656?s=21 Not...