On Friday, the Houston Chronicle posted a bombshell report regarding Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from central Texas. Williams allegedly used his position on the House Financial Services Committee to try to assist one of his top donors deal with a bank. According...
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back to archiveTexas reports highest-ever peak in daily COVID-19 deaths, new cases
On Thursday, 58 Texans died from COVID-19, the state’s new record for daily deaths. The same day, 1,448 new coronavirus cases were confirmed throughout Texas, also the state’s highest-ever. A 7-day moving average of new fatalities and cases shows both continue...
Texas Republican running for Congress compares open borders to sexual assault
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Congressional candidate Jamie Berryhill compared open borders to sexual assault. "A nation without borders is like a woman raped and defiled, her precious value pillaged and taken," Berryhill wrote on Tuesday according to CBS 7. When...
Trump gives Rush Limbaugh medal of freedom as Texas Democrat highlights policy wins
In the State of the Union address Tuesday, an impeached President Trump again made promises on health care he and his GOP colleagues have been unable to deliver on — the same promises made in 2016 about lowering the cost of prescription drugs. Democrats in the House...
Preview of tonight’s State of the Union and the Dem response
An impeached Donald Trump will give his third State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, and holy hell only knows what he says, beyond what the White House has released. America, he will say, is making a “comeback” on his watch. It’s more like a permanent flashback...
Rep. Escobar and Democratic Women’s Caucus send letter condemning Trump’s degradation of women
On Friday, 50 members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus sent a scathing letter condemning President Trump’s actions toward women. The Democratic Women’s Caucus is composed of all women in the House of Representatives. Its Vice Chair is Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso,...
Signal Q&A with Candace Valenzuela
The Signal’s political reporter Fernando Ramirez talked to Democratic congressional candidate Candace Valenzuela, who’s running in Texas’ 24th District between Dallas and Fort Worth. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Texas Signal (Fernando...
Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher on a jam-packed first year in Washington
After flipping a congressional seat that once belonged to a lengthy lineage of Republican incumbents, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher has kept busy in Washington representing her Houston constituents. One of two Texas Democrats to flip congressional districts in 2018, Fletcher...