Op-Ed: Socialism isn’t scaring away Latinos, it’s uniting us.
Another election has passed with another Republican victory in South Texas. Political pundits and the media are convinced that the once Democratic stronghold of South Texas is turning more and more Republican because of socialism. That couldn’t be further from the...
Houston Palestinian organizers speak out
“We View Our Bodies as a Form of Resistance.” Even as thousands of Houstonians take to the streets in solidarity with Palestine, media coverage is sparse. Around 15,000 Houstonians took to the streets in solidarity with Palestine over the last three weeks. One rally...
DCCC begins funding organizers in Texas
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of House Democrats, announced Monday they would kick off a seven-figure organizing effort in battleground congressional districts around the country, including in Texas. The money slated for Texas will...
Musings: Please, believe.
My entire life, I’ve been prone to bouts of sentimentality and nostalgia, and while very little that happened during this legislative session was something I’ll remember fondly, seeing Beto O’Rourke back on the road, talking to Texans about the fight for voting rights...
Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick failed — again
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...
Who exactly is George P. Bush again?
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...
The war over the future of Democracy in Texas is just beginning
When Governor Abbott declared voter suppression legislation to be an “emergency” priority item earlier this year, the smart money said that anti-voter bills were on a fast track to passage. Instead, the 87th Legislative Session ended in triumph for supporters of...
Texas GOP Chairman Allen West resigns
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....
Texans deserve better than the ERCOT reform they got
After Winter Storm Uri and the subsequent blackout killed as many as 700 Texans, one would expect that preventing another such tragedy would be a top priority for the state legislature. Yet the 87th legislative session was largely defined by right-wing red meat issues...
87th session ends with few victories for GOP, Texans
The walkout by Democratic lawmakers on Sunday night to kill Gov. Greg Abbott’s favorite voter suppression bill was a fitting end to a dramatic legislative session that had no business being dramatic. Entering session amid a pandemic, economic recession, recovering oil...
Gov. Greg Abbott sign bills that ‘Back the Blue’
In a press conference on Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott signed four bills into law that he said would penalize rioting and stop cities from defunding the police. “In Texas we support the men and women in law enforcement,” Abbott said. “We don’t demonize or defund...
Trey Martinez Fischer on the walkout, and what’s next in the fight against voter suppression
For the moment, Senate Bill 7, the controversial voter suppression bill that Texas Republicans were attempting to pass before a midnight deadline, has been stopped. The current defeat came after Democrats in the Texas House walked off the floor and broke quorum. Texas...
Beto O’Rourke takes fight for voting rights on the road
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...
Beto O’Rourke takes fight for voting rights on the road
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...
The other bill that was stopped by the Democratic walk-out
Much attention has been given to Democrats blocking the passage of SB 7, a Republican “election integrity” bill, by staging a dramatic walkout late Sunday night to break quorum. SB 7 has received quite a bit of attention nationwide as part of a wave of GOP efforts to...