Sen. John Cornyn is joining the GOP chorus of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. “No one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus,” Cornyn said in an interview on Thursday. “We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to...
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VIDEO: Behind the Curve: Greg Abbott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_tnHlWqVA Escalating case numbers. Mounting deaths. Hospitals running out of capacity. It didn't have to be this way, but Governor Greg Abbott's pandemic response has been woefully Behind the Curve. This is a new series from Texas...
Texas braces for surge in COVID-19 deaths after weeks of rising cases
Texas saw two record-breaking figures in the battle against COVID-19 on Tuesday; 10,000 new cases and 60 fatalities in a single day. Confirmed cases in Texas have already been mounting for weeks; the total number of confirmed cases in the state has doubled from...
Eddie Lucio’s shady ties with the private prison industry
A recently resurfaced transcript shows State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. admitting to making money from the prison industry. Lucio, a Democrat who has represented Brownsville for nearly 30 years has frequently come under fire from progressives for his right-wing stances on a...
Texas followed White House guidelines for reopening. It saw a spike in cases anyway.
In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist who under a vacuum of leadership from President Trump, has somewhat unwillingly become the country’s most sobering voice on...
Texas Pride Events Commemorate Stonewall Day
This weekend, Texas Pride events set to commemorate Stonewall Day In a normal year June would be a month full of festive gatherings for Pride Months: parades, bar-hops, voter registration drives, and many more fun festivities. Now with COVID-19 accelerating in...
Mike Pence to visit Dallas for “Celebrate Freedom” event at megachurch
Officials say that Vice President Mike Pence will visit Dallas for First Baptist Church’s “Celebrate Freedom Sunday” on June 28. Pence’s appearance will come eight days after Trump’s rally in Tulsa, the first such rally since March, where Pence is also scheduled to...
Voter registration in Texas is taking a nosedive, new data shows
Texas and other states are suffering from a decline in newly registered voters, data collected by the Center for Election Innovation & Research finds. Researchers compiled official new voter registration numbers for the spring of 2020, between January and April....
An Update on the Texas Senate Race
If the Democrats want to achieve anything after taking back the White House they’ll need to take back the Senate as well. A Democratic presidency facing a GOP-controlled Senate would lead to a repeat of what happened after 2014, when Mitch McConnell repeatedly blocked...
A note to our readers
George Floyd, a proud son of Third Ward in Houston, Texas, was murdered in broad daylight and on camera by a police officer seven days ago. We, like you, were mortified to see yet another Black man have their life senselessly deprived of them. We, like you, were...