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...
A new push for justice and accountability at Fort Hood
Last week in Washington, a bipartisan group of Congressmembers unveiled the “I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.” The bill was filed to address the murder of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, who was stationed at Fort Hood, and it provides a new reporting procedure for sexual...
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...
Op-Ed: The West Coast is burning, but Texas doesn’t have to
What’s happening on the West Coast is terrifying: charred towns and neighborhoods, grieving families, hundreds of square miles of pristine habitat and recreational land devastated by fires. These photos hit home particularly hard for those in the Bastrop area who...
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...
Wendy Davis: Congress should investigate ICE immigrant hysterectomies
Democratic congressional candidate Wendy Davis, a veteran of the Texas Senate best known for her staunch defense of women’s health, says she is horrified by a whistleblower complaint this week alleging disturbing hysterectomies at Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Op-Ed: Attorney General’s latest attack on voter access
Protecting our right to vote, and ensuring that all Texans have safe access to the ballot box is one of the most important duties of our government. Unfortunately, our state officials, led by Attorney General Ken Paxton are working hard to do just the opposite. In a...
Immigration activists call out Cornyn for dishonest ad
As John Cornyn has taken to the Spanish-language airwaves for his re-election bid, a number of immigration activists are calling him out for flagrant hypocrisy in his latest ad. The ad called “Tranquilo” shows a scene of Latino children in a classroom with a voiceover...
Joe Biden endorses Texas Democratic candidates for Congress
Presidential candidate Joe Biden began dolling out his Texas endorsements this week, backing four Democratic candidates running for Congress. They include Gina Ortiz Jones in Texas' 23rd congressional district, Wendy Davis in TX-21, Sri Preston Kulkarni in TX-22, and...
20 for ’20: All politics is local. Your action can be too
For today’s installment of 20 for ‘20, we wanted to highlight organizations making a big impact in their specific regions. These organizations, which range from PACs to Democratic clubs, have built a robust infrastructure over the last two years and are poised to help...
Texas reopening still not within WHO guidelines
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the latest phase of Texas' reopening on Thursday. Businesses will be allowed to open at 75 percent capacity so long as COVID-19 patients are only 15 percent or less of total hospital patients within their region. Texas has 22 hospital...
Cornyn blames California fires on “forest management”
The GOP’s battle with facts and science continues. On Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn took to the Senate floor to downplay the effect that climate change has had on the fires raging in the West Coast, instead pointing to forest management. Cornyn accused...