Latest poll: Abbott’s approval rating hits two-year low, Biden even with Trump
A new poll released Tuesday spells trouble for Republicans in Texas in November. Not only is Vice President Joe Biden polling evenly with President Trump in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott is also facing historically low approval ratings due to his COVID-19 response. The...
State officials provide little instruction to school districts during reopenings
As the coronavirus pandemic continues on, the Texas Education Agency is providing conflicting instructions on reopening Texas schools next month, which is leaving many teachers, students and parents worried about school accommodations during the pandemic. The...
Democrats launch new Hindi, Chinese ads in Texas swing district
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats, has begun pumping money into Texas. The campaign committee announced Tuesday it had paid for 5 new digital ads in Republican swing districts. Among them were the DCCC’s...
Clayton Tucker’s crusade to bring the populist movement back to Texas
Clayton Tucker starts his days at the farm by feeding his family’s goats. He’ll sometimes need to clear the fields for crops, but after his farmwork, he’ll always start making phone calls to let voters know that he is running to deliver progressive policies to rural...
As Texas reaches 4,000 deaths, Abbott advisor says Trump ‘bored’ by pandemic
Trump is facing a timid revolt within his own party due to his absent or misguided handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to one scathing New York Times report that was published over the weekend. “They appear to be spurred by several overlapping forces,...
More forecasters spotlight Texas as a battleground state
As the dust settled from Tuesday’s primary runoff election, a number of races solidified into toss-ups in Texas, with the highest potential to flip in November. However, as the numbers were crunched and filing reports scrutinized, a new tier of races around Texas also...
Op-Ed: Beware the Lincoln Project, The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not to Be Trusted
The dramatic music kicks in, playing over clips of Nazis at Charlottesville throwing rocks and carrying tiki torches. Footage rolls of Donald Trump saying “There were very fine people on both sides”. The narrator points out that the Confederate flag is one...
Weekend wrap-up: Texas GOP convention flops, unclear if COVID cases stabilize
Technical difficulties marred the Texas GOP’s virtual convention over the weekend. The convention, which shifted from in-person to online last week after Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled the event citing a worsening pandemic, was supposed to begin on...
Will Dan Patrick challenge Greg Abbott for governor?
Rumors regarding the political ambitions of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are constantly swirling about. It’s widely believed that the lieutenant governor has his eye on the top spot and dropping the “Lieutenant” from his title. The one obstacle in his way is Gov. Greg Abbott...
Democratic incumbents in competitive races hold large cash lead
Two Democratic freshmen who flipped U.S. House seats in 2018 are rapidly expanding their war chest as they play defense against Republican challengers. Reps. Colin Allred from Dallas and Lizzie Fletcher from Houston each outraised their GOP opponents who are trying to...
DNC launches first Texas TV ad, signaling a play for Texas’ 38 electoral votes
Today, the Democratic National Committee launched its first TV ad in Texas. The ad hammers President Donald Trump on his mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis that has led to over 100,000 deaths for older Americans, who are the most vulnerable. Eighty percent of COVID-19...
The Texas Democrats most likely to flip GOP seats in 2020
With the dust settled in primary runoff elections and the latest congressional campaign finance reports filed, Texans now have a better idea of where the bloodiest battles will take place this November. In 2018, Democrats picked up two congressional seats in Houston...
A Surprise Win, and Another Notch for Progressives in Texas
Around north Texas, the buzz surrounding the runoff election was mostly focused on the high-profile wins of MJ Hegar and Candace Valenzuela, however, later into election night, a curious development occurred with an upset in House District 100. Jasmine Crockett, an...
Beto O’Rourke is returning to Texas’ 254 counties
Beto O’Rourke, who famously campaigned across Texas’ 254 counties during his bid for U.S. Senate in 2018, is returning to every single county in the state. Not as a candidate, but with his organization, Powered by People, which is directing the organizing muscle...
AOC and Julián Castro join forces to build America’s progressive bench
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, two of the nation’s most prominent Latinos, joined forces on Tuesday night for a virtual grassroots fundraiser. Together, they laid out their plan to work shoulder-to-shoulder in building a national...