North Texas got a political jolt today when Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson, a Republican, announced she was not seeking reelection in 2022. Wilson’s surprise announcement comes as the Republican grip on the North Texas county has been waning. Wilson...
Throughout 2021, Save Austin Now founder and Travis County GOP Chairman Matt Mackowiak has jockeyed to make himself the face of a new political movement in Texas’ capital city — one fueled by fear-mongering, misinformation, and thinly-veiled dog whistles. Armed with...
El Paso Democrat Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez announced this week she would be running against fellow Democrat Rep. Art Fierro in Texas House District 79. In a news release, Perez said she was running in district 79 because her own 76th district was gerrymandered under...
Texans are voting on eight proposed constitutional amendments on Tuesday. Among them, a constitutional amendment allowing charitable raffles at rodeos and another allowing counties to issue bonds to improve underserved areas. A description of the amendments can...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two challenges related to Senate Bill 8, the extreme anti-abortion bill that went into effect over two months ago in Texas. Arguments lasted over three hours and it appears that the unique structure of SB 8, which...
My grandparents immigrated from India 55 years ago so that I could get a good education and be anything I wanted. Today I’m just a freshman at George Washington University skipping class to freeze my ass off on the steps of the Supreme Court. On May 19th, Governor...
Rochelle Garza, a former staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, announced this week she is jumping into the race for Texas Attorney General. The statewide office is already pursued by two other Democratic candidates, civil rights attorney Lee Merritt...
A poll released this week by the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation shows Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke are in a “dead heat” for the top executive office in Texas. Abbott leads O'Rourke 44% to 43% among 2020 voters, according to the poll that surveyed 1,400...
The Signal recently spoke with Jessica Cisneros, an immigration and human rights attorney running for Congress in Texas’ 28th congressional district. In 2020, Cisneros made headlines when she came within less than 2,700 votes of defeating Rep. Henry Cuellar, a...