Democratic super PAC invests millions in Texas as polling shows flippable statehouse
Forward Majority, a national Democratic super PAC, announced this week it would be pumping $6.2 million into Texas House races. The investment comes as recent polling shows the lower chamber is poised to be captured by Democrats. A generic poll of Texas House...
Collin County At The Crossroads
As President Trump attempts to attract last-minute support in his re-election bid, he is making a clear pitch to suburban voters with increasingly erratic, nonsensical, and racist rhetoric. But is that really what suburban voters want to hear? Collin County, just...
Poll shows competitive race in GOP-held Round Rock district
Picking up where then-congressional candidate MJ Hegar left off, Democrat Donna Imam is within striking distance of Republican Rep. John Carter in his Austin area district. A new poll conducted by Public Policy Polling shows Carter leading Imam by six points, 43 to 37...
Breaking: Rebuking Abbott, Texas Democrats release pledge of their own
This week, Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texas candidates to sign a pledge promising not to cut police budgets. Texas Democrats released a pledge of their own on Thursday, the “Texas First Pledge.” “More than 191,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, including nearly...
Voter Suppression in Texas: Examining The Fine Print
When you think of voter suppression, what comes to mind? In the history books it’s poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence. For me, a Gen X-er and fifth-generation Texan, the picture certainly includes long lines of black and brown Americans enduring the elements for...
Mike Siegel on why Texas is ready for progressive politics
Congressional Democratic candidate Mike Siegel, a former educator and attorney for the city of Austin, is confident bold ideas and corporate-free campaigning can flip a Republican district held since 2005. Siegel was dangerously close to proving his theory for change...
Weekly Polling Round-up
Now that Labor Day is in the rearview, things are heating up. Every week, the Signal will bring you a round-up of the latest polling in Texas politics. The Big News All eyes are on the top of the ticket, as the race remains largely static nationally, but tightening at...
Op-Ed: Donald Trump will lose the election
Joe Biden will win the presidential election on November 3 and become the 46th President of the United States. There has been some skepticism offered on this question on social media and from various talking heads and opinion columnists. Many point to the...
Ted Cruz fantasizes about locking up U.S. leftists
Sen. Ted Cruz shared a rightwing article over Labor Day weekend calling for U.S. leftists to be imprisoned in response to ongoing protests against police killings of Black people. “This needs to happen,” Cruz wrote while sharing the article which urged Trump to...
Pro-Trump boat parade meets blue wave
Saturday, September 5th was the type of idyllic day that screams for a trip to the lake. For a group of Donald Trump supporters who had emblazoned their boats with MAGA flags as far as they eye can see, their jubilation this Labor Day weekend would quickly be dampened...
U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar blasts Trump on Maddow
In a Thursday appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Texas U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar did not mince words about Donald Trump following a bombshell by The Atlantic story that reported the president had called dead American veterans “losers” and “suckers.” Trump made...
ACLU of Texas flags 16 counties with possible Voting Rights Act violations
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas sent letters to 16 counties flagging possible violations of the Voting Rights Act for their failure to provide accurate Spanish language information. In total, the civil rights group discovered 69 counties in possible...
Planned Parenthood Texas Votes issues endorsements for November
On Thursday, the campaign arm of Planned Parenthood in Texas endorsed 28 candidates and incumbents for the 2020 elections. Planned Parenthood Texas Votes endorsed 27 Democrats and one Republican running for the Texas House and Senate, both controlled by...
Pregnancy is not life-threatening, says Cruz in bid to ban abortion pills
Sen. Ted Cruz joined 19 other U.S. Senators on Tuesday in penning a letter to the Food and Drug Administration asking the agency to ban abortion pills. “As you are surely aware, pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness, and the abortion pill does not cure or...
Equality Texas endorses candidates for Texas House
Equality Texas, a pro-LGBTQ rights advocacy organization, endorsed 14 candidates running for the Texas House on Wednesday. “It is critically important that Equality Texans turn out in mass to vote this November to ensure that Texas continues its’ march toward...