As national political news remains in a state of oddly arrested development as we wait for Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuits to at last finish their business of getting laughed out of courtrooms for Waukesha to Las Vegas, it was uncomfortably easy to miss the news....
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Abbott focuses on police politics as Texas leads U.S. in COVID-19 cases
Gov. Greg Abbott will be hosting a Texas “Backs The Blue" press conference on Wednesday. He will be joined by Sen. John Cornyn, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Texas Statehouse Speaker Rep. Dennis Bonnen — three fellow Republicans who in recent months have desperately...
Cornyn tweets misleading 2018 image to attack Democrats
Sen. John Cornyn shared a photograph taken in 2018 to attack Senate Democrats for not wearing masks. The image shows Senate Democrats arguing during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing two years ago. A right-wing social media account skeptical of masks...
Texas GOP Protests “King Abbott” over masks same day President Trump is hospitalized
The Republican Party of Texas was just one of the hosts of a “Free Texas” rally to protest mask mandates and the continuing partial lockdown issued by Governor Greg Abbott’s executive orders. The effort is just the latest flare up of turmoil within the Texas...
Texas reopening still not within WHO guidelines
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the latest phase of Texas' reopening on Thursday. Businesses will be allowed to open at 75 percent capacity so long as COVID-19 patients are only 15 percent or less of total hospital patients within their region. Texas has 22 hospital...
What would Herman Cain think?
On Sunday, President Donald Trump hosted his first indoor rally in months, speaking before a bustling and largely maskless crowd in Henderson, Nevada. He did so in defiance of state and local orders against gatherings of more than 50 people, and may well leave the...
Crenshaw defends Trump lying to Americans about COVID-19
Democratic candidate Sima Ladjevardian circulated footage this weekend of Rep. Dan Crenshaw defending Trump for lying to Americans about the deadliness of COVID-19. “You see it with the current debate with the president about whether he downplayed it or not,” Crenshaw...
Op-Ed: From Coronavirus to Hurricane Relief, Trump is leaving Texans in the crosshairs of disaster.
Much like a pandemic, a hurricane is a public health emergency that demands decisive action, strategic planning, and strong federal leadership. Unfortunately, under President Trump, we’ve witnessed a complete abdication of responsibility when it comes to the dual...
Texas sees new peak in COVID-19 infection rate
State coronavirus data reported over the weekend is a mixed bag for Texas. The seven-day moving average for the share of COVID-19 tests that come back positive, also known as the state’s infection rate, reached 20 percent on Saturday. That means out of the tens of...