Gov. Abbott should stop campaigning against public safety reforms and address the spread of COVID-19
Texas has become the first state to reach 1,000,000 positive COVID-19 cases but Gov. Greg Abbott’s chief focus is his campaign against public safety reforms. For a brief period, it appeared as if Abbott was going to aggressively take on the spread of COVID-19...
Kendrick Sampson, star of HBO’s Insecure, campaigns with Tarsha Jackson
Voters in Houston’s City Council District B are finally getting the moment they’ve been waiting for, with a dose of star power to boot. On Monday, candidate Tarsha Jackson will be joined by Houston native Kendrick Sampson, well known to television fans for his...
Joe Moody on abolishing the death penalty, legalizing weed, and Thanksgiving
On Wednesday, the Signal spoke with state Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso, who serves as speaker pro tempore of the Texas House. Now entering his sixth term, Moody has filed 11 bills for the upcoming session, mostly relating to his focus on criminal justice. They...
Podcast Spotlight: Three Righteous Mamas
If you haven’t yet, please subscribe to Texas Signal’s podcast Three Righteous Mamas. You’ll meet a trio of pissed-off moms who are looking to make the world a better place for ALL of us. Cristina. Muna. Martha. These are the Three Righteous Mamas, and they are on a...
Ten Reasons We’re Grateful Donald Trump is Fired
We’ve waited so very long to say that — not just for the four years in which you didn’t even try to represent all of America, nor the past year in which you did nothing to save more than 230,000 Americans who died of COVID-19, but also during the long ballot-counting...
Our Texas Signal Holiday Book Recommendations
Thanksgiving is different this year. For many of us, we’re going to be celebrating Thanksgiving via Zoom. And at the Texas Signal, we want to keep y’all safe, which is why we are encouraging the very safe activity of reading! Here are some recommendations from our...
No lockdown or pandemic relief as Texas braces for second wave
Gov. Greg Abbott held a press conference on Thursday updating Texans on the second wave of coronavirus cases in the state. No lockdown is coming this time around, Abbott said during his press conference in Lubbock. The governor said a new antibody...
Here we go again
As we waited for the results of the 2020 elections to become clear on election night, one thing became unmistakable as the hours wore on and Democrats lost ground in Texas and a slew of seats in Congress across the country. A reckoning was coming. After a...
Will Congress act to help Texas before Christmas?
This week, a video showing thousands of Texans lining up to receive food went viral. Dallasites reportedly waited up to 12 hours to receive food in time for Thanksgiving. It’s a stark reminder for the president (preoccupied with overturning the election results) and...
The FBI is allegedly looking into allegations against Ken Paxton
While Ken Paxton may be digging in his heels and refusing to resign over accusations of bribery and abuse of office, federal law enforcement is apparently moving forward into an investigation against the Texas Attorney General. According to the Associated Press, the...
Matthew McConaughey teases run for Texas governor
Texas' very own Matthew McConaughey recently said he just might be considering running for governor. "I don’t know. I mean, that wouldn’t be up to me. It would be up to the people more than it would [be] me," McConaughey said on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" on...
Why Texas didn’t flip in 2020
Three weeks after Election Day, Democrats in Texas are still scratching their heads. Not only did Donald Trump win the state on Election Day, but the far-reaching down-ballot offensive Democrats launched following their success in 2018 fizzled out by that same Tuesday...
5 Tips for a Zoom Thanksgiving
I’m sure like many of y’all, in our house, we had to take a good, hard look at whether it was safe to gather as a family this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 cases surge across the country. As of this writing, more than one million of our neighbors have battled COVID-19...
Transition update: Rep. Filemon Vela floated as possible cabinet pick
President-elect Joe Biden has yet to announce any Cabinet picks but plenty of names have been buzzing in policy circles. There is at least one Texan among the possible picks: Rep. Filemon Vela. The four-term congressman currently represents Texas’ 34th congressional...
Where Things Stand for Ken Paxton
If you didn’t know any better, it would seem Ken Paxton’s life as Attorney General of Texas was churning along normally. A casual observer of the attorney general’s latest activities, which includes asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act...