Former President Barack Obama issued his latest wave of endorsements on Friday. Among them, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and Air Force helicopter pilot MJ Hegar. Hegar is facing off against Sen. John Cornyn, who has held the office since 2002. “I’m proud to...
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back to archiveDemocratic candidate for Texas Railroad Commission makes major ad buy
Chrysta Castañeda, the Democratic candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, is investing in six figures worth of television ads in the Houston area starting Friday. Castañeda is facing off against Republican Jim Wright, best known for his campaign's glaring...
Ted Cruz blocks resolution honoring RBG
On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cuz blocked a resolution in the U.S. Senate honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The bipartisan resolution to commemorate Ginsberg was amended by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to include her last dying wish, that her...
Texas Democrats announce Hasan Minhaj as a guest for Johnson-Jordan Dinner
The Texas Democratic Party announced Wednesday that Hasan Minhaj, best known for the Netflix comedy and talk show “Patriot Act,” will be featured as a guest at the Johnson-Jordan fundraising dinner. Minhaj will join Hillary Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Senate...
Weekly polling roundup
With only 42 days left until election day, here’s another update on the latest polls coming out of the Lone Star State. A tight race between Biden and Trump The polls show a very close race in Texas at the presidential level, and there is a serious possibility...
Podcast: Alex Simon of the Texas Democratic Party discusses voter registration
For National Voter Registration Day, our very own contributing writer Joe Deshotel spoke with Alex Simon from the TDP about their three target voter groups, and the groundbreaking efforts to drive voters to the polls, including vote by mail. Photo: Robert Daemmrich...
A key group mobilizes the AAPI community in Texas
In the past decade, Texas has seen extraordinary demographic changes that have transformed the voting electorate. One group that is fueling those changes, and is often overlooked and seldom discussed, is the Asian American constituency. The AAPI (Asian American...
Cornyn flip-flops on supporting Supreme Court nominees during election years
With less than fifty days until Election Day, Sen. John Cornyn is signaling his intent to quickly fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away over the weekend. It marks a change in Cornyn’s position from 2016 when he was...
For Ruth
The news on Friday night that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away after a heroic battle with pancreatic cancer hit us and millions of Americans hard. While the timing and circumstance of the 2020 elections added an additional, confusing layer to...