Early voting kicks off in special election for San Antonio statehouse district
Early voting began Monday in San Antonio to see who will replace former state Rep. Leo Pacheco, a two-term Democrat who resigned from Texas’ 118th district in August to teach public administration at San Antonio College. The special election to replace Pacheco has...
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Texas Republicans finish their gerrymander, adjourn special session
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The Texas college student fighting for immigration reform
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Early voting kicks off in special election for San Antonio statehouse district
Early voting began Monday in San Antonio to see who will replace former state Rep. Leo Pacheco, a two-term Democrat who resigned from Texas’ 118th district in August to teach public administration at San Antonio College. The special election to replace Pacheco has...
The Texas college student fighting for immigration reform
Katia Escobar is in her first year at the University of Houston studying pre-med. Earlier this year she applied for DACA for the first time. But because of a ruling in Texas, her application was cancelled. Katia joined several other undocumented activists in...
Outspoken Republican Lyle Larson says he’s leaving Texas House
Throughout 2021, State Rep. Lyle Larson has done what he does best: Speak his mind. Known for bucking the Texas GOP’s top brass throughout the past several years, the San Antonio Republican was easily the harshest intraparty critic of Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration...
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I just want to state for the record up top that this is an opinion piece, and I’m speaking for myself. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my career in politics everything you have to give up to help people get elected to do big things for people, and I can...
Texas: a confederacy of COVID dunces
Last Sunday, my fiancée and I were celebrating our recent engagement with a weekend stay out in the Texas Hill Country. It was a special moment for us: Despite nixing plans to visit her family (where I’d originally planned to propose) due to the surging Delta variant,...
The border stunt and Abbott’s authoritarian hypocrisy
Earlier today, Greg Abbott held an event with Donald Trump billed as a border security visit. Abbott’s stunt, a way to flex his conservative credentials ahead of a potential run for president, is also another reminder of how Abbot’s fear mongering about the border has...