On Wednesday, the Department of Defense a scathing review of Rep. Ronny Jackson’s conduct when he was the top White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations. Jackson, a staunch Trump ally, currently represents Texas 13th Congressional District which...
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back to archiveHouse passes George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
Democrats in the U.S. House voted to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday. The legislation includes reform for qualified immunity, a ban on chokeholds and no-knock warrants, a grant program for state attorney generals to investigate police...
Texas Dems announce candidate training program
Texas Democrats and the National Democratic Training Committee announced Tuesday the arrival of a new candidate training program. The four-week training program will teach candidates about campaign finance, messaging, and managing grassroots support in preparation for...
Joe Biden visits Houston as snowstorm recovery continues
President Joe Biden visited Houston with First Lady Jill Biden on Friday to meet with officials and aid workers following last week's devastating snowstorm. During his visit, Biden stopped by the Houston Food Bank and traveled to the Harris County Emergency Operations...
Orlando isn’t as nice as Cancún, Cruz tells CPAC crowd
"I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It's not as nice as Cancún. But it's nice,” Sen. Ted Cruz told a crowd of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. Cruz’s opening remarks were referring to his flight to Cancún to escape last week’s...
Multiple candidates emerge for a special congressional election
Governor Greg Abbott officially slated May 1 as the primary date for a special election in TX-06, and there are currently three democratic women vying in the jungle primary. If no candidate gets above fifty percent a run-off will occur with the top two finishers. The...
After Cancún trip, Ted Cruz will probably never see the White House
New polling this week shows that the trip Sen. Ted Cruz took to Cancún amid a catastrophic snowstorm in Texas may be the political blunder that ends his dream of becoming president. The recent national survey of registered voters by Morning Consult and Politico found...
Five takeaways from Texas Democrat’s big post-mortem 2020 report
This week, Texas Democrats released a detailed analysis of their performance in 2020, a post-mortem report of sorts requested by party officials after suffering losses in November that saw Democrats gain few statehouse seats and no congressional districts. The 29-page...
More Texas Republicans, including Ken Paxton, fled during historic crisis
Last week, as millions of Texans suffered through freezing temperatures with no power and water, Ted Cruz took an infamous vacation to Cancún, Mexico (and initially blamed his daughter for the trip). It turns out, Cruz wasn’t the only Texas Republican who abandoned...