Steve Hotze’s website will tell you he is a “Physician, Radio Host, and Best Selling Author” leading a “wellness revolution”. But politicos know him as a controversial QAnon conservative from Houston who wields considerable influence with top Republicans including...
2020 Elections
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Progressive Texas candidates reflect on 2020
Progressive candidates who defined the 2020 election cycle in Texas sat down recently for a roundtable discussion on election losses in November. The 6-person panel included U.S. Senate candidate Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, congressional candidates Mike Siegel...
Texas Dems Executive Committee calls for staff changes, accountability after disappointing cycle
In a strongly worded letter penned to Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa last week, 38 members of the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee asked for major changes and heads to roll at the state party after election losses in November. “From...
Texas AG Paxton files embarrassing lawsuit against four battleground states
Joe Biden is the President-Elect and will be sworn in January 20. However, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to force the Supreme Court to overthrow the votes of millions of Americans by suing four states in a last-minute attempt to anoint a new presidential...
Joe Moody on abolishing the death penalty, legalizing weed, and Thanksgiving
On Wednesday, the Signal spoke with state Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso, who serves as speaker pro tempore of the Texas House. Now entering his sixth term, Moody has filed 11 bills for the upcoming session, mostly relating to his focus on criminal justice. They...
Ten Reasons We’re Grateful Donald Trump is Fired
We’ve waited so very long to say that — not just for the four years in which you didn’t even try to represent all of America, nor the past year in which you did nothing to save more than 230,000 Americans who died of COVID-19, but also during the long ballot-counting...
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...
Why Texas didn’t flip in 2020
Three weeks after Election Day, Democrats in Texas are still scratching their heads. Not only did Donald Trump win the state on Election Day, but the far-reaching down-ballot offensive Democrats launched following their success in 2018 fizzled out by that same Tuesday...
Moderate Texas lawmakers blame progressive issues for election results
If anyone thought the 2020 election results would put a pin in the 4-year internal strife among Democrats of different ideological stripes, they were wrong. Three weeks after the election, moderate lawmakers in Texas are deadset on warning others that the left-leaning...