Sniping tweets. Public critiques and blistering feuds. And the leader of one chamber of the Legislature being denied entry to another. The tension between top Texas Republicans has been impossible to ignore over the past week, a stretch that’s proven to be one of the...
George P. Bush made it official this week: he is challenging Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican primary next year. It’s sure to be a barn burner of a race, with widespread implications for Texas and the country. Paxton, currently under investigation...
Texas Republican Party Chairman Texas Allen West announced Friday he would be resigning from his leading role in the state party. West, a right-wing Republican who was elected to the position only last year, did not say where he was going next. “Lt. Col....
In news that has set Twitter abuzz, word broke this morning that Beto O’Rourke won’t be sitting idly by and waiting for a special session to be called for Republicans to take up the SB 7 voter suppression bill again. Instead, he’s hitting the road. A flyer...
In news that has set Twitter abuzz, word broke this morning that Beto O’Rourke won’t be sitting idly by and waiting for a special session to be called for Republicans to take up the SB 7 voter suppression bill again. Instead, he’s hitting the road. A flyer that...
Local progressive leaders met virtually on Friday to tout the launch of Our Future Texas, a new nonprofit political action group that will work to elect and support grassroots activists and community leaders. Lawmakers and officials backing the new organization...
Battleground Texas, one of the largest organizations dedicated to flipping the state blue, recently announced they hired a new Executive Director: Terry Bermea. A native of the Rio Grande Valley, Bermea is poised to bring a new energy to the group as it prepares for a...
The following is a transcript of the Tex Mix podcast with host Jessica Montoya Coggins and Deborah Peoples, who is currently in a runoff election for Mayor of Fort Worth. A longtime advocate and activist in Fort Worth, Deborah is also the former chair of the Tarrant...
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill to create a nonpartisan commission to investigate the attempted insurrection on January 6th of this year, which national and Texas Republicans immediately sought to politicize. The bill, which passed the House...